SOUTHERN BASEBALL TRIP

The first lineup showed only one veteran in the infield, and Red Rolfe at shortstop held the unusual position of being the only man in the quartet who had even been in a varsity baseball game at all! He was flanked by Tom Eagan at third base and Bill Walker at second base.

From all appearances, this young fellow Eagan is a real find, and he possesses the best throwing arm since Bob Stevens used to be on third. On the trip he batted for .304 sharing with two of his mates the honor of being the only players on the team in.that select circle. At first base was Joe Clough, another newcomer, but both Clough and Walker were replaced at the start of the regular season by the veterans, Ed Stokes and Ed Jeremiah, who did not make the trip.

The general impression of this year's Dartmouth baseball team, which will start for the first time since the early '80's in an Eastern Intercollegiate League numbering among its members, Yale and Princeton, is just this: They possess the best battery combinations in the league. They possess the best shortstop and leading hitter in the league. They are undoubtedly the weakest batting team in the league.

The two main facts, the battery and the batting, unfortunately do not balance each other. In Gunnar Hollstrom and Lauri Myllykangas as pitchers and Capt. Bart McDonough as a catcher they have the finest talent imaginable, but Hollstrom and Myllykangas in their best of form cannot turn in a win with a team which is consistently held to a three and four hit average.