The Revamped Team

Lauri Myllykangas, the ace of pitchers, has gone berserk at bat, and was too valuable a man to leave on the bench, so he has been holding down the centerfield job, giving it over to Howard Harvey only when he is working on the mound. Harold Andres continues in left field.

So it can be seen that the only men who have held their positions are Red Rolfe, the incomparable, at shortstop and Tommy Eagan at third base. We are assuming that at this time Bart McDonough is to be regarded as an institution behind the plate.

Now let's see what this new combination did.

They went down to New York and met Columbia, and with Myllykangas in the box, the Lions were turned back by a 10-3 score. Andy Coakley must have wept bitter tears to see his Columbia ball team fail in the pinches and crack wide open after all the fine advances they had had at the beginning of the season. Myllykangas, who (not only) pitched a seven hit victory, also larruped the ball over the right field fence in the seventh inning with three men on base, which just about finished the Lions.

Two days later they went down into Jungletown and met Princeton. In this game, which Dartmouth won by a 13-4 score, Gunnar Hollstrom went the distance and although being on the short end of a 2-0 score for five innings, saw his mates bat around in the sixth to pull the game out of the fire. From then on it was a parade with Princeton's relieving pitchers being freely hit as the game drew to a close. Dick Hendey, Princeton pitcher, held Dartmouth helpless for five innings, giving the Green only one hit during this time, so the defeat was rather bitter for him.

Dartmouth then came to Hanover to open its home season. Brown was the opponent, and Myllykangas let the Bruin batters down with five hits to handily win the ball game by a 6-3 score. The game was a slow affair and devoid of the spectacular, and the Green hitters only got the puny total of four hits off Brown's young sophomore, Bowie.

Then came the big blow off. The house party week-end loomed for the future, and the prospect of playing three league ball games in four days did not look so inviting, inasmuch as Dartmouth had only two pitchers. Pennsylvania, Columbia and Princeton were slated to be in Hanover on Friday, Saturday and Monday, respectively, and the dopesters were for once up in the air over pitching selections, which they had been able to freely predict up to this point.

Gunnar Hollstrom was nominated to face Pennsylvania, a team which was leading the league in batting, a veteran outfit from the top to the bottom of the batting order. It was no easy assignment, although Holstrom had beaten them last year in Hanover by a 3-1 score.