With PHIL SHERMAN

This should be the month of baseball; the month when ball hits glove and shirtless fans sit in the bleachers sizing up another combination on the field, but somehow at this writing we have the players, the spirit and the interest but not the weather.

This little piece is being written in mid-April and it is a fact that the team has not had one official outdoor practice and one League game has already been played. No team in recent memory has started out with such a handicap, and while the snow still swirls down on Memorial Field, Jeff Tesreau has been trying to size up a very uncertain squad in the narrow confines of the gymnasium.

It just couldn't be done. When outfielders have not had an opportunity to catch a fly ball and batters have not taken a single swing in the open one cannot pass serious judgment on what the team did in the first game of the season.

As a matter of fact, Dartmouth lost to Princeton by a 12-9 score, the closeness coming as a pleasant surprise for several reasons. One was the presence of Capt. Shorty Bowman, Princeton's ace, on the mound for Nassau, for he was hammered out of the picture before the game was half along and the Green sliowed a barrage of 13 safeties, which was a pleasant departure from the weak hitting teams of other years.

The Dartmouth pitching was wild, which was expected, and Tesreau crossed the dope by starting a sophomore battery of Jim McHugh, catcher, and Bob Miller, pitcher, against the Tigers. Art Boisseau was called in before the game was over and Ken Weeman took over the catching duties.

THE PITCHING STAFF Coach Jeff Tesreau giving pointers to Bob Miller, Way Thompson, Red Aiken, and Art Boisseau