With Big Green Teams
Trackmen, with Third in Outdoor Intercollegiates, Take Honors in Spring Season of Moderate Overall Success
IN CASE you have been spending the summer wondering what happened to the baseball team, they finished last in the League. With an EIL record of 2 won and 8 lost, the Green had no competition whatever for the cellar position, a spot to which they are definitely not accustomed. With the football season coming into view, the news of spring sports is not exactly of the spot variety at this juncture. But for the sake of the record, I present herewith a brief recapitulation of the last month of varsity competition.
(I) Cornell 2, Dartmouth o; Cornell 3,Dartmouth 1. On May 24 the Green dropped a couple of tight pitching battles far above the waters of you-know-what. In the first game, Jim Doole spun a masterful four-hitter, only to succumb by a 2-0 score when Dartmouth was able to produce a grand total of two hits. Both of these blows were made by Harry Durham and the rest of the Green contenders managed to produce nothing but frustration. In the second game, Bill Callagy started and lasted part of the first inning. He was replaced by Bob Amirault, who held the Big Red to four hits for the rest of the afternoon. The Green sluggers contributed three hits during the second game, which gave them a grand total of five hits for the doubleheader. Such power would do a minimum of damage to the assorted goats and guinea pigs in Bikini Atoll.
(2) Pennsylvania 6, Dartmouth 5; Dartmouth 6, Pe?insylvania 3. In a Sunday ball game postponed from the previous day because of rain, Dartmouth split even in a double-header with Penn to close her League season on a somewhat less gloomy note. The Red and Blue started off the first game by ambushing pitcher Jim Doole to the tune of five runs before he was able to put out the fire. The Green came right back in their half of the first inning and exploded for four runs themselves, in a display of power which the clients had been anticipating all season. This initial one-run advantage was just too much, however, for with both sides picking up another run apiece the game ended in favor of Penn 6-5. The Green outhit the Red and Blue eight to six in this contest, but were unable to pull the game out of the fire. In the afterpiece, Coach Tesreau's proteges counted once in the first stanza and three times in the second, to rout the Penn starting pitcher and give Freshman Bob Amirault a pleasant lead. Seven Dartmouth hits were scattered evenly through the lineup with nobody getting more than one apiece, while Penn produced the same number of safeties. A final outburst of two runs in the last frame put the game on ice for Dartmouth.
(3) Holy Cross 10, Dartmouth 9. In as weird an encounter as Memorial Field has seen for many a year, the Crusaders of Holy Cross managed to stumble through a hilarious contest to outlast a resurgent Dartmouth team by a single run. Starting with five runs in the first inning, three in the second, and two in the third, the Crusaders built up what appeared to be the astronomical lead of 10-1 before the Big Green found out what hit them. Routing starting pitcher Jim Doole, the Cross started with a barrage of bingles, augmented by some extremely bizarre fielding on the part of the Dartmouth operatives, who accumulated a rousing total of seven errors during the contest. Bob Amirault took over what seemed to be a hopelessly lost cause in the second inning and went on to pitch a very nice game. The undaunted Green went out after the flying Crusaders and, what with one thing and another, managed to accumulate nine runs during the course of the afternoon, two of them in the last inning. The most spectacular offensive effort of the Green was a stirring home run by Pitcher Bob Amirault in the seventh inning, scoring Don Evans ahead of him. The procession of Holy Cross pitchers issued no less than 18 passes and in practically every inning there were several Dartmouths clustered about the bases, many of whom never touched pay dirt. The Green had the bases loaded on four different occasions, none of which produced any runs. But for all those lost opportunities, the Green almost came through to present Jeff Tesreau with a concluding home win in what has been; a very disappointing season.
(4) Boston College j, Dartmouth 4. The season fizzled out like a damp firecracker when the Green lost its concluding game to Boston College by the uninspiring score of 7-4. Dartmouth started out sturdily by ringing up four runs in the second inning on a combination of circumstances which included hits by Durham, Cashin, and Cary, a hit batsman, and a brace of B.C. errors. Starting pitcher Bob Amirault there after held the opposition scoreless until a big 6th inning, when B.C. came through with all seven of their runs, with the rally sparked by a grand slam homer by their pitcher. Amirault was replaced by Doole during this insurrection, but by that time it was too late. The Green amassed some six hits to nine for the enemy, but neither the power nor the pitching appeared for Dartmouth in the clutches.
POINT WINNERS FOR THE BIG GREEN in the IC4A outdoor meet at Annapolis this spring were these five trackmen who enabled Ellie Noyes' entry to finish third. Left to right, John Hanley, Sam Felton, Capt. Joe Conley, Bill Kimball and Alan Snyder.
