BASEBALL

(1) Army 8, Dartmouth 5. In the opening game for both aggregations, the Cadets outscored an uncertain Dartmouth nine to win 8-3. Although the Indians outhit the soldiers by 12 to 10 (including a home run by freshman shortstop John Stockwell), they were unable to capitalize on their potential power. Jim Doole started on the mound for Dartmouth, but was forced from the box in a big fourth inning, during which the Army scored five runs on a combination of hits and Dartmouth misplays. One of the most costly of the latter was Catcher Don Evans wild throw to third in the midst of a double steal, which let in two runs. Freshman Bob Amirault took over the pitching chores from Doole and did fairly well for the rest of the game, holding the Cadets to four hits (and three runs) in the last five innings. Dick Hyman led the Green attack with three singles, while Henry Durham, opening at second, contributed a single and a double. The rest of the Dartmouth team hit the Army pitcher frequently but with insufficient consistency, the Green total of nine strikeouts contributing no little to their defeat.

(2) Yale 10, Dartmouth 6; Yale 3, Dartmouth 2. The Green opened the Eastern Intercollegiate League baseball season in inauspicious fashion by. dropping a doubleheader to Yale at New Haven on April 27. In spite of a six-run rally in the final inning of the opener, Coach Tesreau's charges were unable to get back in the ball game following a seven-run deficit in the first two innings. Freshman Bob Amirault started the first game and was practically blasted out of the park before he made way for Lefty Bob Grunditz, who carried on for the balance of the initial encounter. The Indians managed to amass a meager six hits, two of them by Dave Barr who figured prominently in the belated rally. Yale also marked up a half-dozen hits, but their stick work was considerably encouraged by six passes from the two Dartmouth pitchers.

In the afterpiece, Jim Doole held the Yales to a mere four hits, only to go down to defeat by the narrow margin of 3-2. All the Yale runs were garnered in a big third inning and for the rest of the abbreviated contest Doole had the men in blue eating out of his hand. During the same period, however, Dartmouth could manage no runs whatever, after their two markers in the initial stanza. The Green rang up the unformidable total of five hits and at the same time contributed ten strikeouts to the record of the Yale pitcher.

(3) Dartmouth 10, Princeton 2; Princeton 4, Dartmouth 3. Before a capacity crowd over Green Key weekend, Dartmouth and Princeton broke even in a double-header, marked by the initial win of the season for the sorely pressed local team. The first of the seven-inning games was a breeze for Dartmouth, with Jim Doole holding the Tigers to five hits and having the situation well in hand at all titties. Meanwhile Dartmouth was making ten runs off seven hits and as fancy a lot of base-running as anyone could ask for. In one particularly hilarious stanza, the Green managed to produce not one, not two, but three double steals from a completely befuddled Princeton infield, which bit time and again on this ancient bit of business so beloved by the canny Tesreau. Catcher Charlie Cashin was the principal Dartmouth offensive hero, lashing out two hits, including a ringing triple. The scarcity of Tiger hits doled out by pitcher Jim Doole (no pun intended) was equaled only by his superb control, for he issued nary a pass during the entire seven innings.

The customers settled back in their chairs in the second game, expecting another pleasant session of fancy base running and free hitting by the Dartmouth team, which finally appeared to have found itself. Coach Tesreau sent diminutive Bill Callagy to the mound for his first start of the season—he having contributed some excellent performances last spring and summer in the same capacity. And for six innings, all was merry as a wedding bell. Callagy was only slightly less than terrific, issuing a few passes but holding the Tigers to no hits whatever. In the interim, Dartmouth built up an apparently decisive lead of three runs and was leading by that score when Princeton came up for their last bats in the unlucky seventh. They started the inning by singling to center, thereby spoiling Callagy's no-hit record, but nobody was visibly excited. The next man also singled and then the tiring Callagy filled the bases by walking the next man. Captain Walt Snickenberger then threw wide to first on the next play, scoring one run and leaving all hands safe. Then another Princeton single produced two more runs, knotting the count at three-all. At this point, Pitcher Callagy was removed for Lefty Bob Grunditz, who pitched to one man and walked him, filling the bases again. Bob Amirault was called in at this depressing point to put out the fire, but succeeded only in walking the winning run across the plate. This was a tough one to lose.

(4) Columbia 5, Dartmouth 4; Columbia 8, Dartmouth 6. The following week, the Green dropped a double-header to Columbia at Morningside Heights and thereby took exclusive possession of the League cellar. Needless to say, that is a position which the minions of Coach Tesreau are not accustomed to occupy. In the first game, Dartmouth again had the excruciating experience of going into the last half of the last inning sporting a comfortable lead, only to blow same and watch the game snatched from under their noses. This time it took an extra inning to do it. Jim Doole pitched creditably for Dartmouth most of the way, only to be ambushed in the fatal seventh when Columbia came from behind to tie up a 4-1 advantage. In the extra stanza, the Columbia catcher lost no time in providing the knockout punch with a homer over the center field fence. For the Green, First Baseman Harry Durham performed nobly, with a triple, a double, and two singles out of four times at bat. Bill Cary came through with a double and a single, with the two men accounting personally for six of the nine Dartmouth hits. But they weren't quite enough.

In the second game, a procession of Dartmouth pitchers—Callagy, Amirault, and Grunditz—were collectively unable to stem the tide of a rampaging and heavy-hitting Columbia aggregation and the Green went down to another defeat. Dave Barr was the hero of this encounter, with a home run which sent Dartmouth briefly out in front in the third frame, only to have Columbia tie the game up in the next inning and then explode for four more runs in the fifth. Dartmouth kept trying, however, and managed to pick up a couple more runs in the last half of the sixth. The Green also had a very promising rally under way in the last half of the seventh, which was frustrated by A1 Gould's technical out for batting out of turn. He had slashed out a single with the tying runs on base, only to be declared out in this somewhat bizarre fashion. And that was another ball game.

(5) Dartmouth i, Harvard o. Under a leaden sky and with conditions more reminiscent of football than baseball, the team finally found itself to play errorless ball, contribute some fielding gems, produce a few hits in the clutch, and generally stand behind Jim Doole as he spun a gaudy shutout victory over a strong Harvard nine. The game was played under extremely sloppy conditions, with an all-night rain leaving pools of standing water and the air so cold the players were blowing on their hands and the spectators sitting on theirs. Pitcher Doole pitched a masterful game, sliding his slow curves past the Harvard batters who were unable to combine their seven hits to produce a single tally. The Green gladiators were not exactly murderous with the willow, managing to produce only five hits, but they did come through in the clutch to squeeze out the single tally which ultimately proved the margin of victory. The hits were engineered by Stockwell, Cary, and Durham, with the former two making two apiece and Durham coming through with one blow. The sixth inning was the big one, with the Indians combining three of their five safe blows for their lone run. In this stanza, John Stockwell scored the winning run after singling, advancing on a walk and another single, and then coming in on Durham's brisk one-baser to right field. After that, Doole continued to slip his shoots past the Crimson to win a victory which was both his and the team's most professional effort to date.

SETTING UP THE SCORE for Gus Farnsworth (number 17) is Don Scully, hemmed in at the right by two defending Harvard players, as the Big Green defeated the Crimson in a lacrosse game on Hanover's Memorial Field last month by an 11-5 score. Farnsworth tallied seconds after this picture was snapped on a short pass from Scully.

GREEN KEY WEEK-END COUPLES WATCH DARTMOUTH TEAMS IN ACTION. Above right, students and their dates sit in the bleachers of sun-drenched Memorial Field as the Indians win, 10-2, and lose, 4-3, to Princeton in a doubleheader; while, left, others use the grass alongside the varsity tennis courts as a vantage point for seeing the netmen whitewash Harvard, 9-0.