BASEBALL
By the time this bulletin reaches you, in midsummer, the intelligence which it contains will hardly be in the category of spot news. However, in the interests of conscientious reporting, your correspondent must produce the melancholy news that the baseball team finished in last place in the Ivy League, with one lone victory and six defeats to show for a somewhat frustrating season. By losing its final League contest to Princeton, the team thereby lost the chance to beat out Columbia for last place and instead clinched this dubious distinction for itself.
The Princeton game was played the Thursday before Commencement, on a steaming day and before such a handful of spectators that virtual privacy was the net result. Coach Jeremiah was saving his ace righthander, Frank Logan, for the Holy Cross game and hence was forced to experiment with one of his less reliable operatives, the ponderous junior hurler, Jack Sutton. The latter did not do so badly, all things considered, and the 6-1 Princeton triumph was the result not so much of bad pitching, as of chaotic support. The Tigers got only six hits off Sutton's righthanded slants, but the Indians committed a combination of errors and lapses of judgment which allowed five hostile runs to clatter across the plate in the fourth inning. One of the more spectacular Dartmouth miscues occurred when the usually reliable first baseman Ev Parker threw the ball home when there wasn't anybody there to catch it. One Princeton run had already scored, but this flight of fancy resulted in three more runs coming in, as the ball rolled unimpeded to the backstop. That, for all practical purposes, was the ball game.
Before a Commencement crowd that had been considerably reduced by the intermittent thundershowers during the early innings, the Green met the Crusaders of Holy Cross for the third time this year and went down to defeat for the third time. The score on this occasion was 3-2, and the pupils of Coach Jeremiah thereby came closer than they had on the two previous occasions, in point of final score, at least. Dartmouth's ace righthander, Frank Logan, went all the way for the home team and limited the heavy-hitting invaders to nine hits. Dartmouth, incidentally, got the same number. He was handicapped by somewhat erratic support again and might have pulled this one out of the fire except for a couple of costly bobbles by the Dartmouth team. The locals kicked up a considerable fuss themselves in the final innings, having men on first and third in both the eighth and ninth stanzas and being unable to produce a winning run. The strategy of the canny Jeremiah missed fire twice, through no fault of the wily mentor's, once when Buddy Bray was picked off third base and again when, with two out, a run-down between first and second was killed before the runner on third could get home. This was an excellent game, however, and the hardy alumni who sweltered in the stands got their money's worth.
MEMORIAL TO JEFF TESREAU DEDICATED: Attending the ceremony before the Dartmouth-Holy Cross game June 10 were many alumni, friends and former players. Above (I to r) are: Mrs. Helen Tesreau; Coach Eddie Jeremiah '30; Roger Frechette '50, baseball captain; John Parker '29, principal speaker at the dedication; Rev. John W. Sliney, who gave the invocation; William Porter, Holy Cross captain; Coach Jack Barry of Holy Cross; and Charles Tesreau Jr. '38.
