BASEBALL

Under the benign gaze of Coach Tesreau, the current edition of Dartmouth's baseball team has long since abandoned the cavernous confines of the cage and moved out of doors. While a little band of camp followers have watched and baked their backs in the warm spring sun, the team has been playing practice games with itself for a couple of weeks. The weather has been even more favorable than on the average spring trip, so Jeff has been able to get a reasonably accurate line on his players. While no first team as such has been picked, nevertheless essentially the same group has taken the field for several days in succession prior to this writing. The crop of talent this spring is almost entirely new and hence will be completely unfamiliar to our readers. For this reason, we will minimize the names in this initial survey in order not to confuse you unduly before the various squads have shaken out.

One of the few boys known to a considerable number of Dartmouth sports followers is Carl McKinnon, who played guard on the last civilian football team at Dartmouth and has since been reassigned to Hanover by the Marines. Carl played football again last fall and this spring is a leading contender for the backstop position on the baseball team. Several other catchers are currently fighting it out with McKinnon, any one of whom may eventually get the final nod. At this point, Tommy Davis is sharing the duties behind the plate.

Among the pitchers, the outstanding candidates appear to be Fred Kuehm and Hal Swanson. The former is one of only three lettermen available to Coach Tesreau, while Swanson will be remembered as the bulky Marine fullback transferred here in mid-season who performed very ably in the final games. Another promising member of the mound squad is Jim Sheekey, who played at Wesleyan and later did a stretch with Scranton of the Eastern League before entering the Navy. Paul Twohey and Joe McPortland are other hurlers who may see considerable action. It is still too early to judge, but it is possible that Jeff may be able to find one or two top-notchers among this group. In this League, as baseball followers of the Green well know, with one outstanding pitcher you are as good as in. With two you can't miss.

The leading candidates for the infield at the moment are Callagy at third, Deutsch at short, Turner at second, and Murkey at first. The latter is a lanky Marine with considerable front-line service in the South Pacific to his credit, where he reputedly came into highly personal contact with the Japanese. The outfield is currently being patrolled by McAllister, who played hockey at Dartmouth on Coach Hafey Arthur's undefeated team; Bolce, who played at Bowling Green State University in Ohio; and Bolleman, who wore the Orange and Black of Princeton last year. Other leading candidates for the outfield are Warburton, also a Green hockey player, and Distefano, a stocky little fellow who earned a baseball letter on the Dartmouth aggregation of last summer. That about tells the baseball story at the moment.

THE OLD MASTER, Coach Jeff Tesreau, shows a Green pitching hopeful how if was done when he was mound ace of the champion New York Giants.

THANKS TO AN ACCELERATED SPRING, the Dartmouth baseball squad took to the Memorial Field diamond in mid-April this year. Hal Swanson, Marine hurler, is shown taking a healthy cut on a ball in batting drill.