Harvard Takes Close One

We had an alternative the following Saturday: to either follow the ball team to Harvard or to stay and watch the Crimson engage Dartmouth in a Hanover track meet, but being a baseball follower, we chose the former.

Probably the most unfortunate base on balls meted out by Gunnar Hollstrom was given to Capt. Frank Nugent of Harvard in the very first inning, for following this slip Ben Ticknor hit a Gargantuan home run far over the head of his rival football captainelect, Harold Andres, in left field, and those two runs spelled the difference between a defeat and possible victory, for the final score was 2-1. Hollstrom was immense for the remainder of the game, but Dartmouth could not produce runs from the offerings of Charley Devens, and the two runs loomed as large as balloons. Harvard's Charley had ample revenge, for his only defeat as a freshman was handed to him by Sid Hazelton's yearlings last year, when Hank Barber went berserk. Perhaps his two intentional passes, so unusual in college games, to Barber, were in a sort of reminiscing way.

Then Yale came to Hanover. It was the first appearance of a Blue outfit here, for in the olden days all of the Dartmouth games with Yale were played away. The presence of Little Albie, a colorful performer in any sport, drew a large crowd who stuck out the contest to the bitter end even though it rained continually from the fifth inning on.

Dartmouth won behind the fine pitching of Myllykangas by an 8-4 score, and perhaps by now some of the readers can begin to understand just what kind of a baseball player this man really is. At present he is the leading pitcher of the league, the leading batter with a .550 average, leads in home runs and leads in runs batted in.

Dartmouth fell on the offerings of Ned Jennison, their New Haven nemesis, early in the game, and soon had piled up a 7-0 lead, continuing the attack at the expense of southpaw Macdonald. Only in one inning, the seventh, did Yale threaten, and at that time the customers had near heart failure and Myllykangas lost control in a pouring rain and six Yale batters singled sharply in succession, accounting for four runs. But that, was the only worry, and here is Jeff's team sitting on top of the league with a 6-1 advantage over the next team, Pennsylvania, which has compiled a 4-2 score.