Freshman Baseball

Led by Raymond Ratajczak, captain and shortstop, the freshman baseball team has bowled over six successive opponents, and bids fair to finish its season with an undefeated record. Heavy hitting and a smooth-functioning infield feature Sid Hazelton's 1934 outfit.

The yearlings opened their season on May 1 against Clark School and won easily, 9-1. Ted Bruce, leading pitcher, was airtight, and home runs were contributed by Don Ross and Ed Casey, the latter a nephew of the Harvard football coach. The Hanover High School fell victim to the freshman attack, 19-1, on May 5, and on May 11 the 1937 nine journeyed to Boston to defeat the Boston College freshmen, 4-3. Ted Bruce allowed the Bostonians only two hits and won his own game with a homer in the ninth.

Roy Curtis, No. 2 pitcher, set back the Maine School o£ Commerce, 16-5, on May 15, and on the following day Bruce returned to the mound and gave out three scattered hits as the freshmen won over New Hampton, 11-2. The Dartmouth yearlings garnered 14 hits against the prep school nine, and were led at bat by Captain Ratajczak.

The freshmen's sixth straight victory was won on May 19 against Austin Cate Academy, 7-3. A triple by Lester Barrett and a double by Ed Casey featured a fiverun uprising in the second inning. Dartmouth was outhit, 10 to 7, but bunched its safeties.

The freshman nine's scintillating infield is made up of Henry Broadbent, lb, Lester Barrett, ab, Captain Ratajczak, ss, and Don Ross, 3b. The outfield consists of Howard Longley, Ed Casey, and Tom Johnson, while Joe Kiernan and John Devlin take care of the catching department. In addition to Bruce and Curtis, the pitching corps includes George Cook and Seymour Ochsner.