Baseball
The first person we talked to was a former major league baseball player, now better known in Dartmouth circles as baseball coach Tony Lupien. Starting his sixth year in Hanover, Lupien thinks his 1962 squad" is improved over the team which finished with a 10-14 mark in 1961. This feeling is prevalent despite the fact that the Indians may start as many as six sophomores.
The team has a roster of 21 and includes thirteen sophomores up from last year's undefeated freshman team. Lupien points out that he might as well go with the '64s and give them the experience they need. Thus far, his confidence in them has paid off.
In ten games played in the South the Green split even. Of the five defeats, three could easily have gone the other way. Dartmouth topped William and Mary 8-2 in the season's opener and then took charge of North Carolina State 4-2, Yale 9-8 at Durham, Randolph-Macon 8-2, and George Washington 7-1. On the other side of the ledger, William and Mary beat the Green 12-6 and 1-0, North Carolina State was victorious in a second game 5-0, Duke won 2-0, and Maryland was on top 12-3.
Three sophomore pitchers returned from the South with earned-run averages of about one per game. They included Bill Dubocq of Andover, Mass.; Roger Klein of Shaker Heights, Ohio; and Bob Mac Arthur of Summit, N. J. Scott Creelman, a right-hander from Melrose, Mass., won a pair of games during vacation, and senior Dave French, a veteran hurler had a one-and-two record. All together Coach Lupien has nine pitchers and on a given day any one of them could do a respectable job.
As this is written the team's two leading hitters are Jacques Shure at .318 and Mike Nyquist at .317. Both are juniors and figure in an infield switch that was made this spring. Nyquist has been moved to first base, while Shure has taken over the third-base spot. Around the keystone sack sophomore Mike Bloom, last year's freshman captain, has nailed down the starting assignment, .and Henry Ota, another '64, is at shortstop. Ota batted a respectable .273 on the road trip.
The only foreseeable change in the infield might see Doug Brandt moved to the third-base position and Shure shifted to left field. Shure has been somewhat hampered by a knee operation.
The mainstay of the outfield is Captain Carl Jaeger, a solid choice for the right-field spot, who is currently batting .290. Steve Dichter is patrolling center field and Ken Lapine is in left field. Both are sophomores.
Behind the plate Coach Lupien is alternating Dan Connelly, a junior from Oradell, N. J., and Jim Murar, a senior from South Gate, Calif. Another catching possibility is Mike Letis, a junior, who joined the team after spring vacation.
The prediction is that this year's club may not produce many runs but that the pitching department should have depth and the club should be sound defensively. A lot rests on the shoulders of the sophomores, and time will tell.
Pitcher Dave French '62 (r), who pitched a two-hitter and gave Boston College its firstdefeat of the season, 2-0, is shown with Jim Murar '62, the other end of the winningbattery. Dave is the son of Bud French '30 of Upper Montclair, N. J.
