Baseball

Last spring the Dartmouth baseball team finished in a three-way tie for second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League (EIBL) with a record of 6-3. Elsewhere in these pages Coach Tony Lupien offers his own analysis of the situation. However, there is little doubt that southpaw hurler Art Quirk will be missed. For the past three seasons Quirk has been a mainstay of the Big Green mound staff and last year he hurled most °£ the league games which Dartmouth played. Don O'Neil, ranked second behind Quirk last spring, is a good hurler and did well on the spring trip, winning three games and relieving in a fourth. If O'Neil can hold up and gets help in the batting department from some of his teammates, the Indians could do well.

On their spring trip the Big Green broke even, winning five and losing five. The Indians split four games with Colby, winning two, 5-2 and 2-1, and losing two, 11-3 and 9-6. Dartmouth also split with North Carolina State, winning the opener, 3-2, and losing the following day, 5-0. Dartmouth won over William and Mary, 8-5, and Maryland, 4-2, but lost to North Carolina, 4-2, and to George Washington, 5-2.

Defensively the Indians should be strong. The second base-shortstop combination of Roger McArt and Chuck Kaufman is one of the best in the league, and Captain George "Woody" Woodworth, a veteran catcher, is rated as one of the top catchers in the East. Woodworth, outfielder Dan Cilo and Kaufman will be counted upon for their power at the plate.

Backing up O'Neil on the mound are sophomore Bob Van Dam, who won two games on the southern trip, and Roger Hanlon, a big righthander who has had seasoning and should have a good year.