FOLLOWING THE BIG GREEN TEAMS

AFTER A SUCCESSFUL southern trip during Lthe spring vacation, Dartmouth's championship baseball team opened its regular season in weird fashion by losing to Holy Cross, 12 to 11, at Worcester on April 18. The Indians took batting honors with 17 hits to an even dozen for the Crusaders, and held an 11-7 lead going into the last of the eighth, but Ted Bruce passed three men and hit another during the five-run uprising which gave Holy Cross the game.

Captain Ted Olson, Dartmouth's pitch- ing ace, started the game for the Green and during the five innings he worked was the victim of poor defensive support by his teammates. He allowed seven hits and left the game with the Crusaders ahead, 7 to 3. Bruce followed Olson on the mound and did well until the fatal eighth inning, when Joe Jayne went to the rescue. Holy Cross used all four members of its famed pitching staff, only Kenney holding the Indians in check after they began to pound the ball in the fifth inning. Both teams showed the lack of outdoor practice, but free hitting made the game a thriller from start to finish.

Tauno Frigard, center fielder, and Red Pounder, third baseman, led the Green batters with three hits each, while Phil Clark, right fielder, Junie Allen, second baseman, and Ray Ratajczak, shortstop, collected a pair of hits each.

Three Championship Assets Jeff Tesreau and two of his pitching aces, Captain Ted Olson, left, and Joe Jayne, right.