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June 1951 Francis E. Merrill '26
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Baseball
June 1951 Francis E. Merrill '26

Princeton 10, Dartmouth 6. Pitcher Frank Logan of Dartmouth has been a hard luck hurler, turning in several sensational games in the last two years, only to have his mates fail to produce behind him. In this contest against the powerful Princeton Tigers, Logan got considerable help (six runs of it, in fact), but he himself just didn't have it. In the course of the afternoon, he was clubbed for 12 hits and 10 runs, during which his colleagues were able to muster no more than eight hits for the aforementioned six runs. In the second inning, with one Princeton tally already in, Dartmouth got to work to grind out two runs of their own, on Catcher Buzz D'Avanzo's triple to deep center, scoring Ev Parker and Jack Hall ahead of him. In their half of the third, the Green came up with a couple more runs, after two were down, on hits by Churchill, Parker, and Jack Hart. The Tigers then scored four times in their half of the third and went on to win. Following on the heels of defeats by Yale and Army, this debacle placed Dartmouth in the league cellar, with o victories and 3 defeats.

Dartmouth 7, Brown 4. After absorbing three consecutive league defeats at the hands of Yale, Army, and Princeton, the pupils of Coach Jeremiah rose in their wrath and hung a resounding defeat on the league-leading Brown team. This was the first league victory for Dartmouth and only the second defeat for Brown, who were mightily disgruntled at having their standing so rudely shattered by a Green team that had not been exactly sensational to date. The heady events of victory arose in a single big inning, during which Dartmouth scored all their runs, happily batting around in the process. After playing dead for seven innings, the Green came to life in the 8th, when seven runs clattered across the plate. In this stanza, Jack Hall opened with a hit to left and went on to second when Dutch Farrisee walked. Jack Hart continued his. phenomenal hitting streak by belting a single to left, scoring Hall. At this juncture, Brown changed pitchers, and Jim Churchill greeted the new incumbent with a single, scoring Farrisee. Bower attempted a sacrifice and failed, after which Ev Parker and catcher D'Avanzo beat out infield hits, scoring two more runs. Are you still with me? Then came the big blow of the game, when second-baseman Zack Boyages smashed a double, scoring two more runs. The two final tallies of this outburst came when Jack Hall got his second hit of the inning, scoring Boyages and DAvanzo. The Indians used three pitchers during the contest, with George Bissell, Pete MacKinnon, and Hal Wiper appearing in that order.