With Phil Sherman

It looks like a discussion of personalities rather than baseball games this month, for so far the Dartmouth team has not played enough games to say so and the whole sport is still in the formative stage.

I planned to take the Southern trip with the team this year, but at the last minute New York city called more than the sunny South, and it was just as well, for only three games were played and the rest washed out. And as is always the case, the team which makes the training trip is usually far different from the team which goes through the league season.

Dartmouth, as will be remembered, is the defending champion of the Eastern Intercollegiate League, but a brief survey of the member teams indicates that the Green will have very hard sledding this year to retain the title. Other teams, notably Pennsylvania and Columbia, have been strengthened to a perceptible degree, and Yale is now in the throes of a winning streak which has carried the Blue through two league victories. Only Cornell and Princeton appear to be definitely out of the race before it starts.

The casual announcement that Dartmouth lost only three veterans through graduation last June is not to be accepted on its face value, for as the days roll along and the batters and pitchers work out under Jeff Tesreau, it has become more and more apparent just how valuable Capt. Bart McDonough, Eddie Jeremiah and Gunnar Hollstrom, the trio of departees, were to the team. They are still trying to fill their places.