FOLLOWING THE BIG GREEN TEAMS
VISIONS OF THE league championship have stirred up more baseball fever in Hanover than has existed since the spring of 1930, when Bart McDonough led the Dartmouth nine to its first title. Jeff Tesreau's current ball club has maintained a firm hold on first place in the standings from the very start, and seven victories in eight league contests have convinced the skeptical that the team's April showing was no mere flash in the pan.
The story behind Dartmouth's diamond success is made up of the good right arm of Ted Olson, the Green pitching ace; the hitpacked bats of Eddie Casey, Ray Ratajczak and Captain Bill Clark; the neatest fielding in the league; and, in general, the heads-up baseball which Jeff Tesreau has taught his charges to pay. Through the league schedule which Dartmouth drew, Olson has been able to pitch and win six full games. The seventh victory is credited to Joe Jayne, who turned in a beautiful three-hit job in' the second game of the Princeton doubleheader. Ted Bruce, the third member of the Green hurling corps, got his chance in the second Yale game, played at New Haven, but Jayne was rushed to the rescue and then Olson, who was credited with the loss when an Eli uprising in the ninth inning sent across the tying and winning runs.
TEAM HITTING IMPROVES
Following its opening triumphs over Pennsylvania and Cornell, the Green nine turned back Yale, Penn, and Princeton twice, all at Hanover, before dropping its first league encounter at New Haven. The Indians resumed their winning ways, however, by downing Harvard's second-place club, 7 to 6, in a thrilling, 11-inning battle at Hanover on May 18. Dubbed the "hitless wonders" on the basis of their early league games, the Indians have steadily added to their batting punch. The offensive dynamite is concentrated in the upper half of the batting order, which contains Phil Clark, Ratajczak, Casey and Bill Clark in a row, but Ray, Allen and Conathan have also begun to produce timely safeties. With two first-rate pitchers, brilliant fielding, and increasing power at bat, the Dartmouth nine seems to be the class of the league.
In making its bow to the home fans on May 4, the Green varsity set down Yale, 4 to 3, in an exciting 10-inning contest before an appreciative Green Key week-end audience. Ted Olson chalked up his third league victory, allowing nine hits and fanning ten. With the score standing 3-all at the end of the tenth, Ratajczak opened with a single, advanced to second on Casey's safe bunt, went to third on Bill Clark's sacrifice, and counted the winning run when Ray beat the throw to first on Yale's attempted double play. Dartmouth opened the scoring in the second on Allen's single and Conathan's triple, but Yale went ahead with two runs in the third on a walk, an error and singles by Cummins and Curtin. The Indians tied the count in the following inning on hits by Hart and Allen, an error and Conathan's sacrifice fly, and again took the lead in the fifth when Phil Clark walked, advanced to third on Ratajczak's single, and scored on Casey's long fly. Neither side tallied again until the ninth, when Yale added a run on Klimczak's single, a sacrifice, and Horton's safety to center, and necessitated an extra inning. The box score:
DARTMOUTH 4 YALE 3 ab h po a ab h po a P. Clark,rf... 4 0 3 0 Cummins,cf.. . 5 1 1 0 Ratajczak,ss. . 5 4 3 0 Horton,lf 4 £ 5 £ Casey,cf 5 33 1 Dugan,rf 4 1 0 0 W. Clark,c. . . 4 0 10 1 Curtin,£b 4 2 33 Hart,lf 4 1 0 0 Woodlock,ss. . 4 1 £ 5 Ray,3b 4 0 £ 2 Klein, c 1 0 4 1 Allen,£b 4 £ £ 3 Kelley,lb 5 1 13 1 Conathan,lb.. 4 17 0 Klimczak,3b. . 3 1 0 £ Olson,p 4 0 0 4 Rankin,p 1 0 0 1 - Armstrong,lf. . 1 0 1 0 Totals 38 11 30 11 —. Totals 3£ 9 £9 15 Yale 0 0 £ 0 0 0 0 0 1 o—3 Dartmouth 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 4
Runs—Clark, Allen, Hart, Ratajczak, Cummins, Horton, Klimczak. Errors—W. Clark, Olson, Dupcan, Klein. Runs batted in—Conathan 2. Casey, Ray, Cur- tin 2, Horton. Three-base hits—Conathan. Sacrifice hits—Klein 8, Rankin, Clark. Sacrifice flies—Conathan Casey. Hits—Off Rankin, 5 in five innings, off Horton, 5 in five innings. Bases on balls—Off Olson 7, off Rankin, off Horton. Losing pitcher—Horton. Stolen bases— Ratajczak 2. Casey, Dugan, Woodlock, Klein, Klem- czak.
Against Pennsylvania on May 9, Olson got off to a wobbly start when three hits, a walk, an error and a passed ball gave the Quakers four runs in the opening inning. He settled down, however, to allow only five hits for the remainder of the game, while the Dartmouth batters drove Barton out of the box and went into the lead during the third inning. The Indians got one run back in the first on Bill Clark's double and Ratajczak's sacrifice fly, and in the second they evened matters with a trio of runs manufactured on an error and singles by Hart, Ray and Phil Clark. Eddie Casey poled a homer in the third to give Dartmouth a 5-4 lead, and an additional run was made in the fourth when Phil Clark made his third hit of the afternoon, stole second, and scampered home on Casey's single. Penn scored its fifth run in the sixth inning on an infield error and Lees' double, but Olson was invincible for the remainder of the game.
The double-header with Princeton served to dispel any notion that Dartmouth has a one-man pitching staff. Duplicating the first-game performance of Olson, Joe Jayne allowed three scattered hits in the nightcap and showed worlds of speed and control in his league debut.
The opening game, which went to Dartmouth, 4 to 2, saw Princeton get away to a two-run lead in the first inning on two hits, a walk, and a wild pitch. The Indians picked up a single run in the fourth when Hart walked, took third on Ray's single to center, and scored as Chubet boggled a throw at second. They salted away the game in the following inning with a trio of runs, produced on a pass to Ratajczak, Bill Clark's double, Hart's grounder which went through French's legs, and Ray's single to center. In winning his fifth straight league victory, Olson struck out
ten men during the seven-inning contest. A home run by Ratajczak started the Green fireworks in the third inning of the nightcap, which ended 4 to 1, and a second run was produced in the same frame when Casey beat out a bunt, took third on a wild pitch, and came home on Chubet's fumble of Ray's grounder. Dartmouth scored two more runs in the fourth. Phil Clark reached first on a fielder's choice and came home as Ratajczak's triple sent Morris to the showers. Lauritzen, the second Tiger moundsman, was greeted with a single by Casey sending the Green shortstop in with the final Dartmouth run. Princeton tallied its lone run in the last of the fourth when Sandbach walked and scored on French's triple to deep right. The Indians played errorless ball throughout the double-header, with Ratajczak contributing one brilliant play after another at shortstop.
FALL SHORT OF LEAGUE RECORD
Two days later Dartmouth went to New .Haven for a return engagement with Yale and fell short of tying the league record of seven straight victories when a two-run rally in the ninth gave the Elis an 8-7 decision. Walt Klinczak, who sent the Dartmouth-Yale game into an extra inning at Hanover, again proved to be a Green nemesis with five hits in five times at bat, one of which scored Klein with the winning run after two were out in the last inning. Ted Bruce started on the mound for Dartmouth but was replaced by Jayne in the third after he had walked two men in a row. Jayne lasted until Kelley's homer and Klimczak's fourth hit in the eighth, at which point Olson took over the pitching and subsequently was charged with the loss. Yale also used three hurlers, with Dillingham, the third, receiving credit for the victory. Bill Clark, Dartmouth's catcher-captain, tied the league record for total bases in a single game as he clouted two triples, a double, and a single in five tries.
Dartmouth took an early lead with four runs in the second, two walks, two errors, and Phil Clark's single producing the tallies. Yale came back in its half to score twice, and added three runs in the third as Bruce weakened and Jayne came to the rescue. Singles by Ray and Conathan tied the score at 5-all in the sixth, and two runs in the seventh gave the Indians the lead once more. Ratajczak's single and doubles by Casey and Bill Clark were the cause of the two-run revival. Kelley's homer and Klimczak's single brought Olson into action in the eighth, and the Green ace forced Kohlman to fly out and fanned Cummins and Dugan to end the inning. In the ninth, however, Curtin singled and went to second on Woodlock's sacrifice. Horton struck out, but Klein singled to score Curtin with the tying run. Kelley walked and both advanced a base when Olson made a balk. Klimczak then proceeded to punch out a single, scoring Klein with the winning run. The box score:
DARTMOUTH 6 PENNSYLVANIA 5 ab h po a ab h po a P. Clark,rf. .. 4 3 0 0 O'Donnell.lf. . .5 0 2 0 Ratajczak,ss. .4 0 2 2 Chanda,ss . ... 5 1 2 1 Casey,cf 3 2 2 0 Shanahan.cf. .' 3 2 2 0 W. Clark, c... 4 16 0 Hauze,2b 3 0 0 2 Hart.rf 3 1 1 0 K0510ff,3b.... 4 1 0 3 Ray,3b 4 10 0 Freeman,lb.. . 4 2 11 0 Allen,2b 3 0 2 ST. Clark,rf. . . 3 0 2 0 Conathan,lb.. 1 0 14 0 Rirchie.c 4 0 5 0 Olson,p 2 0 0 6 Barton,p 1 0 0 2 Lees,p 3 2 0 1 Totals 28 8 27 13 Totals 35 824 9 Pennsylvania 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 o—s0—5 Dartmouth 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 x—6
Runs—P. Clark 2, Casey, Hart, Ray, Conathan, Chanda, Shanahan, Hauze, Kosloff, T. Clark. Errors— Ratajczak, W. Clark, Allen 2, O'Donnell, Shanahan, T. Clark. Runs batted in—Casey 3, P. Clark, Olson. Shan- ahan, Kosloff, Freeman. Stolen bases—Shanahan 2, P. Clark 2, Rirchie, T. Clark. Bases on balls—Off Olson 3, off Barton 2. Struck out—By Olson 5, by Lees 4. Hits—Off Barton, 6 in 2% innings; off Lees, 2 in innings; off Olson, 8. Double plays—Ratajczak to Allen to Conathan; Ratajczak to Conathan; Chanda (un- assisted). Left on bases—Penn 8, Dartmouth 5. Passed ball—W. Clark.
FIRST GAME
DARTMOUTH 4 PRINCETON 2 ab h po a ab h po a P. Clark,rf. .. 3 11 0 Nevitt,rf 2 0 0 0 Ratajczak.ss. .2012 LeVan.cf 3 1 1 0 Casey,cf 1 0 1 0 Chubet.ss. .. . 3 0 0 3 W. Clark,c. .. .3 2 9 2 Sandbaeh,2b. . 2 0 2 2 Hart,lf 2 0 0 0 French,3b.... 3 1 1 0 Ray,3b 33 0 1 Hill,lf 3 0 1 0 Allen.2b 0 0 0 2 Spencer,lb.... 2 0 8 0 •Longley 1 0 0 0 Reichel.c 3 15 3 Pounder,2b. ..1 0 0 0 Bell.p 2 0 0 3 Conathan,lb.. 3 0 9 0 tMyers 10 0 0 Olson,p 3000 1 B Totals 24 318 11 Totals 22 6 21 7 *Batted for Allen in 4 th. fßatted for Bell in 7th. Princeton 2 0 0 0 0 0 o—20—2 Dartmouth 0 0 0 1 3 0 x—4
Runs—Ratajczak, W. Clark, Hart 2, Chubet, Sand- bach. Errors—Chubet, French, Reichel. Two-base hit —W. Clark. Stolen bases—Casey, Hart, Ray, Chubet, French. Sacrifice—Allen. Left on bases—Princeton 4, Dartmouth 6. Bases on balls—Off Olson 3, off Bell S. Struck out—By Olson 10, by Bell 4. Wild pitch—Olson.
SECOND GAME
DARTMOUTH 4 PRINCETON 1 ab h po a ab h po a P. Clark,rf. .. 4 0 0 0 Nevitt,rf 3 0 0 0 Ratajczak.ss. .4214 LeVan,cf 3 0 2 0 Casey, cf 4 3 1 0 Chubet.ss.... 3 0 3 1 W. Clark, c.. . 4 1 6 0 Sandbach,2b .10 1 1 Hart,lf 4 0 4 0 French,3b.... 3 1 2 0 Ray,3b 4 0 0 1 Hill,lf 3 1 5 0 Pounder,3b.. . 3 1 1 1 Myers,lb 3 1 3 2 Conathan,lb.. 2 18 0 Reichel.c 3 0 4 0 Jayne,p 3 2 0 4 Morris.p 10 10 Lauritzen,p. . . 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 10 21 10 'Johnston .... 1000 Totals 23 3 21 4 *Batted for Lauritzen in 7th. Dartmouth 0 0 2 2 0 0 o—40—4 Princeton 0 0 0 1 0 0 o—l
Runs—P. Clark, Ratajczak, Casey, Sandbach. Er- rors—Chufcet, Morris. Two-base hit—Pounder. Three- base hits—Ratajczak, French. Home run—Ratajczak. Stolen bases—P. Clark, W. Clark. Sacrifice—French. Bases on balls—Off Jayne 2, off Lauritzen 1. Struck out—By Jayne 6. by Morris 3, by Lauritzen 1. Double play—Myers to Sandbach. Hits—Off Morris 8 in innings, off Lauritzen 2 in 3% innings.
YALE 8 DARTMOUTH 7 -r, , , , ab h po a ab h po a Kohlman.rf.. . 3 0 2 IP. Clark,rf 4 1 2 i Cummins,cf. . 5 11 0 Ratajczak,ss. . 4 I It Dugan,lf 4 0 2 0 Casey,cf 5 £ 1 n Curtin,2b... 3 8 2 2W. Clark,c. . . 5 4 7 I Woodlock.ss. . 4 2 1 1 Hart,lf 4 0 1 o Klein,c 3 1 5 1 Ray,3b 3 2 0 <j Kel]ey,lb .. . . 3 1 11 1 Pounder,2b... 2 0 ! i) Klimczak,3b. .5 5 2 6 Conathan,lb. .3 2 13 o Horton,p 4 1 1 5 Bruce,p 1 0 0 1 Rankin,p..... 0 0 0 0 Jayne.p 2 0 0 l Dillingham,p .0 0 0 0 Olson,p 0 0 0 1 Totals 34 13 27 17 Totals 33 12 26 13 Dartmouth 0 4 0 0 0 1 2 0 o—7 Yale 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 1 2—B
Runs—P. Clark, Ratajczak, Casey, Ray, Pounder, Conathan, Bruce, Kohlman, Cummins, Curtin 3, Wood- lock, Klein, Kelley. Errors—Jayne, Cummins, Wood- lock. Runs batted in—P. Clark 2, Casey, W. Clark Conathan, Curtin 2, Horton, Klein 3, Kelley, Klim- czak. Two-base hits—W. Clark, Casey. Three-base bits—W. Clark 2, Conathan. Home run—Kelley. Stolen bases—Ratajczak, Curtin, Woodlock. Sacrifice hits—Ratajczak, Hart, Pounder, Jayne, Kohlman Woodlock, Klein. Bases on balls—Off Horton, Bruce Z Jayne 1, Olson 4. Left on bases—Yale 11, Dartmouth 7. Double plays—Horton to Kelley to Klimczak, Klim- czak to Kelley, Kohlman to Curtin to Kelley, Ray to W. Clark to Conathan. Hits—Off Horton 10 in 6U innings, Rankin lin 1 Dillingham lin 1, Bruce 4in Jayne 6 in 4%, Olson 3 in Hit by Pitcher— By Jayne (Curtin #2, Kelley). Wild pitch—Jayne. Balk—Olson. Winning pitcher—Dillingham. Losing pitcher—Olson.
The Harvard game at Hanover on May 18 was a wild and wooly affair, marred by errors, rain, bickering, and a near-riot before Dartmouth finally won out, 7 to 6, in 11 innings. The fact that the league leadership was involved also added to the general excitement. Ted Olson went the whole route for Dartmouth, and Captain Bill Clark enjoyed a field day at bat, his long drive to right in the eleventh scoring Ratajczak with the deciding run. Bill Lincoln, Harvard's ace hurler, also pitched the entire game, but he was handicapped by nine Crimson errors.
MOB SCENE HALTS GAME
The contest set something of a record for close decisions, and each one brought forth a storm of protest from the team sinned against. When a Harvard runner was called out at first in the tenth, he sailed into Umpire Couture and precipitated a mob scene that held up the game for ten minutes. The decision calling Ratajczak safe at third, just before Bill Clark's winning blow in the eleventh, also called forth a violent Crimson demonstration.
The Harvard infield blew up in the first inning, and this lapse and Casey's triple gave Dartmouth a two-run lead. Ratajczak poled a homer in the third, and a triples by Bill Clark and Longley's single added a fourth score. Harvard scored two runs in the fourth and single runs in the sixth and seventh to knot the count at 4-4. Dartmouth recaptured the lead in the last of the seventh, was tied by Harvard in the eighth, again took a one-run lead, and was once more tied in the ninth. With two out in the ninth, Adzigian slashed a single to center to send Fletcher home with the tying run. Dartmouth settled the contest in the eleventh when Ratajczak doubled to center, reached third on Hart's sacrifice, and scored on Bill Clark's long drive to right field.
In scoring his sixth league victory Olson struck out is Crimson batters and allowed nine hits during the 11 innings. With the bases loaded and one out in the eighth, the Green ace fanned both Maguire and Wood- uiff to retire the side. The box score:
DARTMOUTH 7 HARVARD 6 ab h po a ab h po a P. Clark, rf, cf 6 1 2 0 Proutyjf 3 0 0 0 Katajczak,ss. .5234 Sullivan,lf 2 1 1 0 Casey,cf 110 0 Fletcher,lf 0 0 10 Hart,lf 2 0 1 0 Adzigian,3b. ..4 2 2 1 Barrett,rf... . 301 0 Bilodeau.lb.. . 5 2 3 1 W Clark, c... 6 4 12 3 Owen,rf 5 12 0 Longley,lf -... 4 1 1 0 Gibbs,cf 4 3 0 0 Ray,3b 4 12 1 Maguire,c.. . . 4 0 12 2 Allen,2b 4 0 1 3 Woodruff,ss. ..4 0 5 2 Conathan,lb. .4 0 10 0 Hayes,2b 4 0 3 1 Olson,p 5 1 0 3 Lincoln,p 4 0 1 3 Totals 44 11 33 14 Totals 39 930 10 Harvard 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 o—6 Dartmouth ....2 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 7
Runs—P. Clark 2, Ratajczak 2, Casey, Olson, W. Clark, Sullivan, Fletcher, Adzigian, Bilodeau, Gibbs, Hayes. Errors—Ray 2, Allen, Adzigian, Gibbs 2, Ma- guire, Woodruff 4, Hayes. Runs batted in—W. Clark 2, Longley, Casey, Ratajczak, Adzigian 2, Bilodeau, Ma- guire. Two-base hits—Ray, Ratajczak. Three-base hits —Casey, W. Clark, Sullivan. Home run—Ratajczak. Stolen bases—Adzigian 2, P. Clark 2, Gibbs, W. Clark, Ratajczak, Longley. Sacrifice hits—Ratajczak, Wood- ruff, Lincoln. Double play—Lincoln to Woodruff. Left on bases—Dartmouth 10, Harvard 7. Bases on balls— Off Olson 3, off Lincoln 4. Struck out—By Olson 12, by Lincoln 9.
In its non-league games during the past month, the Dartmouth nine lost to Brown, 4 to 3, at Providence on April 26; won over Providence College, 5 to 2, at Providence on the following day; lost to Holy Cross, 6 to 5, at Worcester on May 11; and defeated Vermont, 7 to 3, at Hanover on May 20.
Safe at First Shanahan, captain of the Penn nine, safely makes first in the game which Dartmouth won at Hanover, 6 to 5. The ball can be seen eluding Conathan, the Green first baseman.
