FOLLOWING THE BIG GREEN TEAMS
While the Memorial Field diamond steamed under an early April sun, Dartmouth's trained-in-the-cage baseball team went to New Haven on April 14 to open its Eastern Intercollegiate League campaign against Yale—and did pretty well until the end of the eighth, when the Elis batted around for five runs and a decisive 9-3 victory. Rain fell heavily during the latter part of the game.
Bob Miller started on the mound for Dartmouth, but he was bested by Captain George Parker of Yale, who allowed the Indians only three scattered hits. The Eli batters nicked Dartmouth's ace for six hits in as many innings before Ted Olson. Green sophomore, took over the pitching job.
Only one of Dartmouth's three hits figured in the run-making, Buster Snow's single sending in Smitty O'Brien with the Green's last tally in the seventh. The Indians' other two runs were manufactured in the sixth inning, when Parker's wild streak, his own error, and another by third baseman Walker enabled Walt Ready and Rollie Morton to score without a hit.
The game was a hitless affair until Yale's half of the fifth. In that frame, singles by McDonald, McKenzie, and Curtin produced two runs. A pair of gift runs enabled Dartmouth to knot the count in the sixth, but the Elis again went ahead in their half of the inning when successive doubles by Gengarelly, McDonald and Parker added two more tallies. The Indians cut this lead to one run on Snow's single, but five scores in the eighth clinched the result.
In this disastrous inning, two passes by Olson, three hits and a couple of bad throws by Bob Bennett, Green catcher, were involved in the run-making. In the field, Captain Jake Edwards and Frankie Spain starred for Dartmouth with spectacular plays.
The box score: YALE 9 DARTMOUTH 3 ab h po a ab h po a McKenzie,cf.. 5 2 5 0 O'Brien,If.... 2 0 5 0 Curtin,2b.... 3 1 2 0 *W. Clark.... 1 0 0 0 Woodlock,ss... 3 12 2 Keady, If 0 0 0 0 Williamson,rf .4120 Spain,2b 5 0 3 4 Klein,c 4 1 7 0 Edwards,cf... 4 0 1 0 Gengarelly,lb .4141 Snow,3b 2 1 '2 1 McDonald,If .4 2 3 0 Morton,lb.... 4 1 6 0 Walker,3b.... 3 0 2 2 Allen,ss 4 0 2 2 Parker,p 3 1 0 3 P. Clark, rf. . . 4 1 0 0 Bennett,c. ... 3 0 4 1 Totals 33 10 27 8 Miller,p 3 0 10 Olson,p 1 0 0 2 Totals 33 3 24 10 *Batted for O'Brien in eighth inning. Dartmouth 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0—3 yale 0 0002205 x— 9
Runs McKenzie 2, McDonald 3, Curtin, Woodjock, Gengarelly, Walker, O'Brien, Keady, Morton. &rrors Curtin, Walker 3, Parker 2, Bennett 2. Runs batted in McKenzie 3, Curtin, Klein 2, McDonald, marker, Snow. Two base hits Gengarelly, McDonald, Sacrifices Walker, Woodlock. Stolen basesMcKenzie, Allen, Keady. Double play Spain and Norton. Left on bases Dartmouth 10, Yale 9. Bases on balls off Miller 4, off Olson 2, off Parker 5. Struck out by Miller 4, by Parker 4. Hits off Miller 6 in 6 innings, off Olson 4 in 2 innings. Hit by pitcher by Olson (Curtin), by Parker (Snow, Bennett). Wild pitch Miller. Passed ball Bennett. Losing pitcher Miller. Umpires—Skelly and Schroeder. Time 2h. 25m.
The day before facing Yale, the Green nine opened its regular season against Wesleyan at Middletown and pounded out a 14-2 victory. Dartmouth garnered 14 hits off two Wesleyan twirlers, every regular but Snow connecting safely, and took full advantage of eight errors by the Cardinal infield.
Chuck Barnish and Joe Jayne, both sophomores, pitched for the Indians, the former allowing two hits in five innings and the latter blanking the home batters with no hits in four innings. In addition to his sparkling pitching, Jayne poked out two hits in three attempts. Triples by Jake Edwards and Bob Bennett featured the Big Green offensive.
In two practice games played during the spring recess, Dartmouth defeated Princeton, 12-6, and Swarthmore, 13-1. A third game, with Gettysburg, was cancelled on account of rain. In the Princeton encounter, the Indians put on a 6-run rally in the eighth inning to break a 6-6 deadlock. The Green batters made 16 hits, Captain Edwards having a perfect day with five safeties in five trips to the plate. Olson and Jayne divided the hurling duties, with Bill Clark and Bob Bennett as catchers. Princeton used 24 players and Dartmouth 15-
At Swarthmore the next day, Bob Miller and Bob Roundey pitched for Dartmouth and struck out 12 men between them in seven innings. Jake Edwards again had a perfect day at bat, this time with two hits in as many tries. Smitty O'Brien and Rollie Morton also played prominent roles in the production of Dartmouth's 13 runs.
Jeff Tesreau's 1934 ball club is largely a veteran outfit. With the exception of two sophomores, all the regulars were in the line-up last season. Phil Clark has replaced Hafey Arthur in right field, and Junie Allen has taken over the shortstop job, but O'Brien, Spain, Edwards, Snow, Morton, and Bennett are names that have been on the tongues of Green baseball fans for a year or two. Bob Miller is Dartmouth's only pitching veteran, and he will bear the brunt of the league campaign. Bob Roundey, junior twirler, who chose tennis rather than baseball last spring, and the trio of sophomores, Barnish, Olson and Jayne, round out the Green pitching corps. Olson is looked upon as the most promising of the newcomers.
Jeff Tesreau expects Dartmouth to have a successful season, and is of the opinion that Yale and Columbia are the teams to beat this year.
Diamond Leader Jake Edwards, captain and center-fielder o£ the Green nine, whose hard hitting is ex- pected to figure prominently in the league race.
