The Current Baseball Situation

When it was announced last June that Dartmouth had definitely lost Bill Breckinridge, as well as those heavy sluggers, Myles Lane and Al Fusonie, prospects for this year were not so bright. Breckinridge is now with the Philadelphia Athletics, and from last reports is pitching some good ball. Lane and Fusonie led the batting attack with averages around .500 over the course of a season, and Myles has signed a contract to play with Tris Speaker's Newark Internationals.

But Jeff Tesreau went to work and built a ball team which at this writing is ready to take the measure of any other nine in the East. A certain young man by the name of Gunnar Hollstrom, who finds himself the dean of the Green pitching staff although he is only a Junior, was somewhat overlooked when the prospects were laid out on paper.

Dartmouth practices indoors all Spring, and the outfielders were chosen on their hitting ability alone, for they had no chance to catch flies. Easter vacation came, and the players scattered to their homes. At the fag end of the recess they assembled on a Princeton field and faced the Tigers in the opening game of the season. Hollstrom started on the mound, limited Princeton to five hits and won his game 5-1. He pitched ably and was caught by Hal Andres, who has made a name for himself in hockey and football.

The second game with Princeton was dropped by a 9-7 score on the following day, mainly because the Tigers piled up five runs in the opening inning, drove the Dartmouth pitcher, Liberty, from the box before he could retire the side, and then won in the eighth inning by breaking a tie at the expense of Shep Wolff, another well-known footballer, who was pitching at the time.

On April 13, the Dartmouth team left Hanover which was blanketed with a foot of snow, and faced Yale. Hollstrom went the route, held Yale to five hits, and turned in another marvelous performance. This time his old freshman battery mate, Bart McDonough, caught him, as he has been doing for three years. McDonough was unable to make the Princeton trip on account of examinations.

So far Dartmouth has been playing a nineman team during the whole game, and the positions seem to have been clinched by their occupants. The Green has one of the defensively tightest and fastest combinations in the East around second base. Capt. Bob Walsh has been stationed at second, with Red Rolfe, a brilliant sophomore, at short. A very small gentleman named Dabrowski plays third and makes an ideal lead-off man. Old timer Chick Shea is on first, but alternates with Ed Stokes, formerly a catcher. The outfield of Parker, Downey and Booma has remained intact.

Did you know that . . . Heinie Swarthout . . . brilliant three sport star . . . will play no more for Dartmouth ... he joined the Army Air Service. Bob Leigh . . . diver on the swimming team . . . went with him. They have formed a cross country club at Dartmouth . . . Rick, Huckins and Butterworth . . . star runners . . . are officers. Red Rolfe . . . played a saxaphone in the orchestra ... of "Double Trouble" . . . and played baseball the next afternoon ... at Princeton. John Marsh . . . leader of the Glee Club . . . was given a new baseball by Jeff Tesreau . . . and told to practice during the Musical Clubs Easter trip . . . because he is a star player. Robert E. Lee, Jr. . . . threw the discus indoors . . . 136'8" . . . which broke a Dartmouth record . . . which has stood for 16 years. West Point cadets . . . and Annapolis midshipmen . . . mingled on the Dartmouth campus . . . for the first time . . . when their teams were here together. Capt. Dick Black ... of the football team . . . is an undefeated boxer . . . his only opponent defaulted to him. Jeff Tesreau's name is not Jeff . . . it's Charles.