BASEBALL
The baseball team concluded its spring season with third-place standing in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League. The team amassed the respectable centage of four wins and four losses in League competition, finishing behind Princeton and Columbia and ahead of Pennsylvania and Cornell. The Indians carried off top honors in team fielding, while in team batting it ranked next to last, with the unimpressive team average of .220. The leading Dartmouth performers with the willow were Bolce and Warren, both with a .333 average, while Pruden and Lingle came through with averages of .316 and .286, respectively. The measure of success gained by the club may be attributed, in addition to the perennially astute direction of Jeff Tesreau, largely to the excellent hurling of Hal Swan son, the big pitcher-fullback. In league competition, Hal had a record of 3 wins and 1 loss which, as even a relatively inexacting mathematical computation will demonstrate, represented three-fourths of the Dartmouth wins.
The summer season opened on July 14 with a 6-2 loss to the veteran aggregation of the Camp Devens Lovell General Hospital. This team, several of whom looked (and probably were) old enough to be the fathers of some of the more youthful Dartmouth players, had comparatively little difficulty in sauntering through to a win. Hal Swanson had flashes of brilliance on the mound, but his wildness, coupled with a variety of lapses in the field by the local youngsters, was enough to give the opposition their six runs. The summer team is, for all practical purposes, the same aggregation that finished in third place in the Ivy League. One or two promising civilian freshmen have been uncovered, who may nose out one or more of the veteran performers, but outside of that Jeff will have to get through the summer with what he has. And that, unfortunately, isn't much.
AT THE GRIDIRON HELM FOR 1945 is this newly organized Big Green staff of (left to right) Bill Battles, end coach; Mi't Piepul, backfield coach; Head Coach Tuss McLaughry; "Whoops" Snively, lipe coach; and Eddie Zanfrini, trainer. Ossie Cowles, assistant coach, was missing when the picture was snapped.
