Myllykangas Injured
Myllykangas pitched Dartmouth to a championship last season with four victories and no defeats, and this season he developed a pulled tendon in his arm by curve throwing and has been useless on the mound. Jeff Tesreau converted him into a regular second baseman, and at that position he has been playing heads up ball, but this afternoon Lauri received an ugly smash in the head by a thrown ball and his nose is broken. It seems that misfortune has dogged the steps of this fine athlete who has been handicapped off and on through three years of baseball and basketball.
Going back a ways, we trace the development of this year's baseball team from the Cornell game, and at the same time note the rise of a new sophomore sensation on the mound in young Mr. Arthur Boisseau. Boisseau, pitching his first year of varsity ball, shut out Yale and Harvard on successive Saturdays, and also won from Cornell and Princeton.
The Cornell game was a walkaway, as Dartmouth won 10-5, and Red Rolfe got away to a fine start as the 1931 captain and manager of the team. Rolfe, constantly being looked over by Big League scouts, batted out four hits and scored as many runs. Boisseau retired the Cornell batters in succession for six of the nine innings and was never in trouble.
His real test came the following Saturday when Harvard came to Hanover. Previously the team has had an easy game against Princeton, winning 12-1 behind the steady pitching of another sophomore, Way Thompson, who gave the Tigers six hits.
The Harvard game was a thriller, and the capacity crowd stuck the contest out to the bitter end. Dartmouth won, 2-0, the Crimson getting only three hits and Charley Devens holding the Dartmouth team to a pair of safeties. If that is not a tight game, this author does not expect to see one.
In the very first inning, Devens issued three passes, and Wilbur Mack came through
with a two-base hit, and there the story of the scoring ends. Devens was pitching for the third time against Dartmouth, and it was incidentally the Harvard hurler's last game for the Crimson, for he was put on the ineligible list directly after the contest for scholastic difficulties.
Harvard's football stars, Barry Wood, Eddie Mays and Ben Ticknor, were silenced at bat by Boisseau, and Devens had the only extra base hit of the day, a double.
The game showed the two teams at their best. Previously Harvard had been playing uncertain baseball, and Dartmouth had had free hitting games, and yet on this afternoon if the first inning had not been played the teams could have gone on indefinitely.
Following this game, Pennsylvania came to Hanover, and Dartmouth was the victim of one of the peculiar baseball rules which applies to the Eastern Intercollegiate League, The game was played in a steady drizzle which increased to a downpour in the third inning with Penn at bat In this inning the field became a mire, and Penn scored two runs, but the game was eventually called.
Yet the three innings of the game will stand as legal, and in Philadelphia on June 13 this game will be resumed under the ruling which states that any game, not having gone the legal limit, will be resumed at the point where it was called, so it appears as though Dartmouth were to be a party to one of the longest baseball games on record. Over a month will have transpired when Martens of Penn steps to the plate in Philadelphia with two strikes on him!
TiATTRT MYLLYKANGAS, '31 Star pitcher of Fitchburg, Mass., whose brilliant athletic career was halted when he suffered a broken nose in the Princeton game.
