The varsity baseball team took undisputed possession of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League cellar last Saturday by dropping a crucial doubleheader to Dartmouth, 6 to 3 and 3 to 0, and the chances are that Coach Stuffy McInnis and the 18 players who saw action would like very much to forget the whole thing.
Although the Crimson got excellent pitching from John Arnold and Jack Donelan, both of whom went the route, and fair fielding, neither of these proved sufficient in the light of the generally anemic hitting. The losers were held to a total of nine blows, all of them singles, and in only two innings were they able to bunch as many as two.
Ralph Robinson, with three hits in two games, led the Crimson batters.
Down to the Wire
Both games went right down to the wire. Dartmouth deciding the issue with four runs in the seventh inning of the opener and three in the tenth of the nightcap.
Each team had two unearned runs going into the last frame of the first game. Arnold, who had allowed only two hits and struck out seven, started his own downfall by walking pitcher Bruce Maclvor. A sacrifice moved Maclvor to second, and an infield hit put runners on first and third. McInnis then ordered Es Parker intentionally passed, bringing up Jim Churchill, the clean-up hitter and captain. The strategy proved disastrous when Churchill drove a base-clearing triple to right center and scored a moment later on a fly ball.
In the bottom of the seventh the Crimson mentor used four pinch hitters, all pitchers and got back a run on three walks and a wild pitch.
For nine innings, the afterpiece was an exciting 0-0 duel between righthanders Donelan and Frank Logan. The former had a scoreless streak of 20 innings intact going into the tenth. Then a walk, a sacrice, a game-winning single by Churchill, and two doubles by John Brower and Warren Cassidy gave Dartmouth the game.
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