Baseball

The brief Hanover spring is, as we write, more than half over, and with it another baseball season. The team has a 2 and 3 record in League play to date, with victories over Brown and Yale, defeats by the same teams, plus a defeat at the hands of Army in a single game. This puts Coach Bob Shawkey's boys out of the running in the Northern Division of the Ivy League, with another game against the Army and a double-header with Harvard the remaining League encounters. By this time, the team has pretty well jelled, with Buzz Barton behind the plate, Frank Logan and Mike McDonald the leading pitchers, Ev Parker at first, Bob McGrath at second, Don Swanson at short, and Jack Hart and Bruce Haertl still fighting it out for third. In the outfield, John Brower is in left, Jack Hall (converted from short- stop) is in center, and Captain Jim Churchill is in right.

This is a smart fielding team, especially at short and second, where sophomores Swanson and McGrath form as talented a double-play combination as Dartmouth has fielded in years. To date, the pitching has been good, with Logan the ace of the staff, but the work with the willow has not been exactly lethal. There is, in effect, nothing wrong with the club that a little work with the stick would not conclusively fix. By the way of demonstration of these general theses, we may outline the double- header with Yale that took place on a balmy Saturday afternoon over the Green Key weekend.

Yale 3, Dartmouth 2. In the first game, the Green was coasting along easily under the effective pitching of Frank Logan with a 2-0 lead at the beginning of the sixth inning (out of seven for these doubleheaders). Then the roof fell in, but so easily that the spectators (and apparently the players) were almost unaware of what was happening. Yale scored three runs in the top of the sixth with no strain whatever and went on to win, as pinch-hitter Billy Johnson symbolized the futility of it all by striking out to end the game. Yale only gathered five hits during the game, but that was enough to win. The Green did even less robustly and managed to produce a meager three blows, two by Don Swanson and one by Bobby McGrath. The high point of the game for Dartmouth was an inside-the-park homer by McGrath, who bashed the ball into deep center field and then scooted all the way to score standing up. This was a tough one to lose, especially in view of the fine pitching job turned in by the talented Logan.

Dartmouth 5, Yale I. With sophomore Mike McDonald on the mound, the second game saw a reverse of the first, with the Yales able to muster only three hits and Dartmouth producing a big inning to put the game on ice. In this encounter, the Green made ten hits, with Bobby McGrath leading the parade with three bingles. Dartmouth scored single runs in the second and fourth innings, the latter stanza being marked by the massive homer by left fielder Johnnie Brower into deep right center. The big inning for the Green was the fifth. It started out in modest enough fashion, with pitcher McDonald grounding out. Then McGrath beat out an infield single, which was followed by Don Swanson's fouling out. Ev Parker then singled and Captain Jim Churchill walked to fill the bases. John Brower also drew a pass, forcing in one run. Jack Hall followed with a single to left, scoring two runs. And that was the ball game.

JOHN BROWER SCORING DARTMOUTH'S ONLY RUN IN THE HANOVER CONTEST WITH ARMY