BASEBALL

Coach Jeff Tesreau and his baseball nine are out to climb from the cellar to the top position this year in the EIL race, and from what they have shown to date, the Big Green has a head start. With only four Dartmouth men on his starting team, Tesreau has built a powerful aggregation from V-12 and Marine transfers, as six wins against one loss proves.

The team is batting at a good .293 pace, and Jack Sayers who batted .365 his freshman year, is again pacing the regulars with a .384 average, and six of the starters are above the .300 mark.

The infield of Chuck Sweeney (.368) at first, Bob Delano (.22a) at the keystone sack, Walt Snickenberger (.375) at short, and Art Young (.350) at third is fast and tight, although Carl Meurn, Dartmouth's youthful flinger, might have had two shut outs had they fielded a little better. The outfield packs a lot of punch with Joe Quig (.312) in left, Joe Wierschem (.200) in center, and Jack Sayers in right.

Tesreau has good catching strength in Hal Clayton '47 and Bill Sutphen, former Columbia catcher now here in the Marine Corps. The mound staff is headed by Meurn, outstanding pitcher at Long Island in 1943, who handed Army its only defeat in collegiate circles, 6-4, and who won the opener of the Princeton doubleheader 8-4, allowing only 5 hits. In 25 innings, Meurn has given up 18 blows, and 11 runs, only sof which have been earned. This trainee has a fiery fast ball and a sharp curve and should pace the Green this year. Art Young is Tesreau's second pitcher and moves over from his regular third-base position. Young, who played at Springfield College, in his only game this year handed the Tigers a 2-1 defeat in the Hanover nightcap.

The one defeat handed the green by Yale's Ed Machaj was a result of scratch hits. For five innings Meurn and Machaj pitched goose-eggs, but in the sixth two bunts, an error, and two infield hits accounted for three runs and Meurn's exit.

Army was thoroughly beaten by the Big Green which pounded out 10 hits, but the fielding produced eight errors which in part accounted for the Cadets' four runs.

Princeton's double defeat moved the Indians into a first-place tie with Columbia for the EIL crown, with the Green leading the league in batting with a .327 average. Other members are Pennsylvania and Cornell, which Dartmouth met May 20 in a doubleheader. The Princeton games here showed the Indians' power at the plate as they pounded out 17 hits and 10 runs. They had to come from behind in the nightcap, however, with a two-run rally in the fourth to win the game, 2-1.

The two Cornell games at Ithaca were won, 8-1 and 11-3.

In a non-league game with the Claremont Moose team Jeff Tesreau made use of his substitutes as Gene Whittier '47 held the home team to 6 hits while the Indians pounded out 17 for a total of 24 bases. Chuck Sweeney and Art Young shared slugging honors, the former with two doubles and a triple in four trips, and Art with a double and three singles in five trips.

SIX OUT OF SEVEN was the victory record of the Dartmouth nine through May 20. Members of the team are (left to right), Front row: Manager Maurice Witherspoon, Bill Rinkor, Hal Clayton, Chuck Sweeney, Joe Wierschem, Bill Sutphen. Second row: Bob Wannemacher, Carl Meurn, Coach Jeff Tesreau, Bob Delano, Art Young. Back row: Walt Snickenberger, Joe Donahue, Larry Bartnick, Joe Quig, and Jack Sayers.

MOUND ACE. Carl Meurn, Navy trainee from Bellmore, N. Y., who chalked up three wins in his first four starts for the Green.