Following the Big Green Teams
I think it was Lewis Carroll who once wrote a poem which spoke about "ships and shoes and sealing wax; cabbages and kings," but anyway, it was just a hodge-podge of articles. That is what this article will be this month, for there has been coming into this department so many things which are not interrelated that the best I can do is to throw them all into the melting pot.
The baseball team continues to hold the spotlight during the month with a succession of marvelous exhibitions, and the great share of the credit goes to Gunnar Hollstrom, who at this writing has defeated every team in the informal Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League—Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania. This fellow Hollstrom was practically a second string man last year, as he pitched only a few games, and was used to finish up several more. But some new vitality has come into his arm, and he has turned out to be as efficient a hurler as has graced the box in the last few years.
On April 15, the team won from Northeastern by a 10-8 score, with Wolff and Myllykangas pitching. Then followed a general shifting of the batting order, which brought very pleasant results. A little fellow named Harvey was put in center field, and given the lead-off position; Capt. Bob Walsh was shifted to third base, and Ed Picken put on second. This move gave Dartmouth one of the strongest combinations on the left side of the diamond in college baseball—Capt. Walsh and Red Rolfe.
Hollstrom hurled Dartmouth to a win over Columbia 2-1 in 13 innings, a game in which the team played very well. A defeat by Temple followed, due to the initial wildness of Wolff, who was pitching. The revamped Dartmouth team then took the field, and with Hollstrom pitching, won from Cornell, Brown and Pennsylvania. Hollstrom was getting to be quite an iron man, although in the Brown game he did not pitch the distance, relieving the faltering Johnny Marsh midway in the game, with Dartmouth three runs behind. He pitched a classic against Pennsylvania, and received perfect support in the field. That was on house party weekend, and Columbia came to Hanover the next day.
Lauri Myllykangas was the pitching choice against the Lions. The first thing he did was to strike out the first three men who faced him, usually a bad omen. He retired Columbia batters in order until the fourth inning and visions of a perfect game came to the fore, as not a man had reached first. A small bobbler down to third base was the first hit of the game, but Myllykangas went on to gain a four hit victory by a 3-1 score.
The baseball team looks at present to be one of the strongest ever developed by Jeff Tesreau, and the hitting ability is distributed all along the line, a good feature. Downey, Parker and Rolfe have all been hitting hard, and the pitchers outside of Hollstrom have been coming along.
CAPT. GERARD SWOPE, JR. '29, OF THE DARTMOUTH TRACK TEAM
GUNNAR HOLLSTROM '30 One of the best pitchers in College baseball. He has defeated every team in the informal Eastern League.
FOUR INFIELD MEN ON THE BASEBALL TEAMLeft to right—E. P. Stokes '31, first base; Capt. R. M. Walsh '29, third base; R. A. Rolfe '31, short stop; T. Dabrowski '31, substitute.
