Baseball
In their final League encounter, Coach Shawkey's charges put on a burst of last-minute scoring (the lack of which had plagued them all year) and took a double-header from Harvard by the scores of 6-3 and 3-0. These heroic efforts enabled the Green to finish the League season in third place in the Northern Division, with a 4-4 record. The boys finished behind Brown and Army and ahead of Yale and Harvard. This was a very creditable showing indeed for a team under a new mentor, and Coach Shawkey's careful training was increasingly apparent as the season wore on. With some of the key men still on hand next year (notably the sparkling shortstopsecond-base combination of Don Swanson and Bob McGrath), plus considerable help from an undefeated freshman team, things should be looking up for Dartmouth baseball.
In the first game of the Harvard doubleheader, the Indians put on a four-run blast in the seventh inning (these games are, ordinarily, seven-inning affairs), and won the contest going away. Sophomore Dick Major was the starting pitcher for the Green, but he went out in the fourth in favor of Bruce Mclvor, who himself needed help in the seventh from Pete McKinnon (captain-elect). The winning outburst came on a walk to pitcher Maclvor, a sacrifice by McGrath, an infield hit by Swanson, and a pass to Ev Parker which filled the bases. Captain Jim Churchill came through with the old college try and tripled to left center, thereby emptying the bases. Churchill tallied a few moments later on John Brower's infield out.
In the nightcap, Frank Logan's superlative pitching was practically the whole show. This contest went ten innings before anybody could push a run across, with Dartmouth tallying three times to win the game in the top half of the tenth. Logan shut out Harvard for ten innings, allowing only six hits, all of them singles. In the tenth, McGrath walked to open the inning and was nudged along by Swanson's sacrifice. Captain Jim Churchill came through for the second time by rifling a single to left to score McGrath. John Brower then singled and a double by Warren Cassidy brought in two more runs. That was the ball game, and with it third place in the Northern Division.
The high point of the entire season, however, came after Dartmouth had ended its League season in creditable, although far from spectacular, fashion. This was the defeat of Holy Cross on the Hanover diamond by the score of 2-1 in 15 innings. The Green thereby administered the only defeat of the season for the perennially powerful Crusaders. Subsequent to this defeat, Holy Cross was chosen as the New England representative to the NCAA national tournament. Frank Logan pitched the greatest game of his career and went all the way for the Indians, to hold the heavy-hitting invaders to eight scattered hits in 15 innings. The game should have been over in the regulation distance. The Green was ahead 1-0 in the ninth, but John Brower's bad throw pulled Ev Parker off first base, enabling the tying run to score on what should have been the third out.
In the 15th, Brower atoned for this lapse by singling to left, after which Logan sacrificed him to second. Bob McGrath singled and Brower was held at third. Then Don Swanson bunted down the first-base line, as the squeeze was on. Swanson was hit by the throw to the plate. In the meantime, Brower scored the winning run, in as tight and tidy a ball game as Memorial Field has seen for many a moon. The defensive star of the game was sophomore Don Swanson, who played shortstop as though he owned it, and handled 17 chances without an error. All in all, this was a most satisfactory one to win.
DARTMOUTH BASEBALL CAPTAIN-ELECT is Peter P. Mackinnon '53 of Winnetka, III., who for two years has been one of the Indians' fop pitchers.
DARTMOUTH PITCHER HONORED: Big Green hurling ace Frank Logan receives the James Henry Cooke Trophy as "the senior who has done the most for baseball at Dartmouth during his undergraduate years from William H. McCarter '19, director of athletics, before the start of the Commencement game with Brandeis. He then hurled the Indians to a 12-2 win. Logan, one of Dartmouth's top hurlers for three years, will continue his diamond career on a farm club of the Detroit Tigers.
