Under Green Contract

BASEBALL COACH JEFF TESREAU is making no rash predictions concerning his 1946 baseball team, but he is willing to admit his mascot squad compares with any in the nation and here's his lineup going into the campaign:

Chief mascot, Billy Orcutt, age 8, bats and throws right handed.

Assistant mascot, Dick Hoehn, age 8, bats and throws right handed.

Second assistant mascot, Ted Hoehn, age 4, untested at the plate, throws right handed.

To begin with the boss mascot is no mere bat and ball retriever, but a star performer with amazing ability as a player. Jeff began Billy's career when the latterwas three years old and the results have been astounding. Billy, a catcher, can take his turn warming up any member of the varsity pitching staff and none of the Indians needs to hold back when throwing to the number one good luck charm. Furthermore inside baseball strategy is no mystery to Orcutt, who even now has absorbed Tesreau's secrets of smart, alert catching duties.

Dicky Hoehn doesn't as yet measure up to Orcutt as a child prodigy, but there is a good reason why he doesn't. Dicky, as you may have guessed, is the son of Tennis Coach Red Hoehn, and Red very naturally had high hopes of making a tennis mascot out of his first born. Tesreau had other ambitions, however, and the lure of baseball, plus a contract that calls for one hotdog and two soft drinks at each game, wooed Dicky away from the courts. As if this wasn't blow enough for Hoehn, his second son Teddy also heard the call and is currently sitting in Jeff's spacious lap each practice session receiving instruction in the fine art of mascotting.

DARTMOUTH'S DIAMOND MASCOTS, Billy Orcutt (left) and Dicky Hoehn, who, in the opinion of cagey Jeff Tesreau, give the Green a big edge in this side of the coming league race.