FRESHMAN BASEBALL

The 1930 baseball team opened its season by winning a 6 to 4 victory from the Clark School team on Memorial Field May 2. Swarthout, of the freshmen featured the attack with a home run. Breckenridge, pitching for the freshmen held the school boys to a single run and struck out nine men during the six innings he was on the mound.

Cushing Academy's baseball team gave strenuous battle to the freshmen on Memorial Field May 7, the Dartmouth team scoring the decisive run at last of the seventh inning. The fielding of the fresfiman players was erratic and kept Hollstrom in difficulty throughout the time he was pitching. Breckenridge, who replaced Hollstrom on the mound for Dartmouth in the eighth inning struck out five of the six batters who faced him.

The freshmen went on a rampage May 13 in a game played against the Huntington School, in Boston, and scored 22 runs while Hollstrom the 1930 pitcher held the school team well in check and permitted them but two runs.

At Andover May 14 the freshmen were badly beaten by a score of 7 to 1, being unable to solve the delivery of Murphy the Andover pitcher, while the Academy team starting the first inning with two runs amassed its total of scores before the one Green counter was produced. The freshman run was scored by Longnecker in the eighth inning.

St. Anselm's college was defeated by the freshmen by a score of 5 to 4 in a game that went to 13 innings on Memorial Field May 17. St. Anselm's tallied two runs in the first inning and maintained that lead for three innings before the freshmen were able to score. The 1930 men then evened the count and kept abreast of the visitors to bring the score to three all at the end of the ninth inning. Jordan scored the winning run for the freshmen when in the 13th inning, after stealing third base, he raced home on a wild throw. Breckenridge, who pitched throughout the first eight innings for the freshmen struck-out 11 merr.