The Penn Game
The Penn game was a classic. Picture it, if you please; a perfect day for a game, Walter Masters, Pennsylvania's great athlete, hurling nicely for his team, and the Red and Blue batters picking away at Hollstrom so that in the third inning they had a 4-0 advantage. Dartmouth's solitary ran was the result of a tremendous homer by Red Rolfe in the first inning.
Then Dartmouth bobbed up in the fourth with two runs, and in the following inning Myllykangas clouted a double, one of his four hits for the day, to score two more. Out went Mr. Masters, and in came old Jim Petersen, who has been pitching for Pennsylvania for the last three years. With his blinding speed and baffling curves he held Dartmouth momentarily safe, and his team pounded out three runs in the seventh to give him a 7-5 working advantage. Hollstrom was lifted at this point, and Lauri Myllykangas put in the box. Penn added another run in the ninth to lengthen the advantage to 8-5, and the customers streamed out of the ball park, not waiting to see Dartmouth take its last raps.
Bart McDonough was directing the Green team, as he was in all of the league games. What he did probably caused Jeff Tesreau to go into contortions in the stands, but what he did made baseball history! Bill Mack was sent in to bat. He laced out a pretty hit. Then McDonough lifted himself out of the lineup, sending in Joe Clough, who made his one and only official appearance of the year in a league baseball game. Clough sent a stinging double to right field, and Mack moved on to third. Joe Dwyer was the next pinch hitter, and he enjoyed the unusual record of never having been in a varsity baseball game at Dartmouth in his life. Peterson passed him to fill the bases.
The Penn team, which had been playing fine ball, completely blew up, and errors combined with a hit batsman and Myllykangas' last minute double accounted for four runs, and the Green had won by a 9-8 score.
Columbia came the next day, and Myllykangas was sent right back into the box. And what that boy who used to play for Fitchburg High did not do is not worth putting down. He hit a home run, triple and single, and was the winning pitcher by a 5-3 score. For five innings the ball game was scoreless, with Columbia's Bill Wilkins pitching nicely. But the blow off came in the form of four runs in the sixth, and a Lion flurry in the ninth proved fruitless.
Dartmouth players then hitched up their belts and prepared for Princeton. As was expected, Gunnar Hollstrom was sent back against the Tigers, and he won by a 10-3 score with no worries along the route. Princeton's six foot six hurler, Bowman, provided the only amusement during the game, and neither side connected for anything more startling than a double.
