FOLLOWING THE BIG GREEN TEAMS

THE BIG GREEN baseball team rates the selection as Mystery of the Month. Possessing practically all of last year's championship personnel and starting the league race as the odds-on favorite, the Dartmouth nine ran into trouble in its second game, losing to Pennsylvania, then divided a double-header with Princeton, and finally crippled its title hopes by dropping both ends of a double-header with Columbia. After these disastrous three weeks, however, the Indians began to gather momentum, and within three days handed defeats to Harvard's league-leading nine and Penn's second-place club. Added to the two victories over Yale and the single victory over Princeton, these latest wins gave Jeff Tesreau's team a record of five victories in nine league contests and a mathematical chance, at any rate, of tying Harvard for the championship if the Crimson nine should lose again to Dartmouth and should drop both Yale games.

The causes behind the collapse of the Green nine are various. The weather has been frightful, for one thing, spreading colds among the squad and particularly the hurling staff. The Indians have been slow in getting their batting eyes, for another. And the polished and smart fielding of last season "hasn't yet been recaptured, for a third. The pitching problem, however, has been the toughest nut for Coach Tesreau to crack. Captain Ted Olson has won four of the five league victories but has been slow rounding into form because of an early illness. Ted Bruce was laid up with grippe for a considerable period, losing his first two league starts before finally pitching an excellent game against Penn; while Joe Jayne, third-ranking hurler, has shown little of the effectiveness of last year.

Timely Hitter Bill Hart, Green outfielder, whose TexasLeaguer sent Harvard down to its first league defeat.