BASEBALL SEASON OPENS

The Big Green baseball nine got away to a flying start on their summer baseball campaign last July 17 with a 20-2 landslide win over the Grenier Field team from the Manchester (N.H.) Air Base. Bolstered by an array of V-12 ball players from several powerful college teams, it looks as though the Big Green will have a highly successful baseball club this summer.

Among the outstanding players now with the Dartmouth nine is Harper Gerry, leading hurler at Holy Cross for the past two seasons. Gerry, one of the outstanding college hurlers in the east, was undefeated in two years of varsity baseball under coach Jack Barry at Holy Cross, and this year has defeated both the Boston Red Sox and the Braves in exhibition games.

Another promising hurler is Ben Zecker from Colby College at Waterville, Maine. Gerry and Zecker each pitched three innings against the Grenier Field nine, and between them allowed no hits and struck out twelve men.

Jim Ronayne of Boston College is holding down the backstop position, although George MacKay also performed well in the opening game. Jack Sayers, Dartmouth's regular first baseman for the past two seasons was scheduled to take over his regular first base post again, but because football practice is already under way, he will be unable to play this summer. Aud Brindley, flashy reserve forward on the Big Green basketball team last winter, held down the initial sack in the opening game and showed up well, getting three hits in five trips to the plate.