BASEBALL

The Indian baseball team, straggling to overcome a midseason slump, came back to win three of its last six games, including a 3-0 win over Cornell in which Scott Creelman blanked the Big Red for the second year in a row. The final Eastern League standings showed Dartmouth with a 5-4 record.

Captain-elect for the 1965 season, catcher Dick Horton from Reading, Mass., led the Indians in batting with a .337 average. Dick had 31 base hits, including eight doubles, and led in runs batted in with twenty.

The biggest news of the post-baseball season was the signing of centerfielder Steve Dichter to a New York Yankee contract, the first Dartmouth player to sign with the Yankees since Red Rolfe in 1931. Dichter, 21, from Roslyn, N. Y., has reported to Greensboro in the Class A Carolina League. He was an All-New England and All-Eastern choice this season and, like Rolfe, was an outstanding base runner. This year he stole 21 bases in 24 games, including two thefts of home, batted .307 for the season, tied Horton with 31 hits, and led the team in runs scored with 24.

Junior Ted Friel was the ace of the Green pitching staff with a 7-2 mark. He also led the Green pitchers in the earned run department with a 1.60 average. Sophomore Pete Barber was two wins-two losses while seniors Bob Mac Arthur (2-2) and Creelman (3-3) also came out even.

In addition to Dichter and pitchers Mac Arthur and Creelman. Coach Tony Lupien will lose outfielder Ken Lapine and the double play combination of short-stop Mike Bloom and second baseman Henry Ota. Lupien hopes to fill these holes with some promising players moving from the freshman team - which compiled an 8-5 record.