With Season More Than One-Third Over Baseball Team Shows Weak Hitting, Fielding---Strong Nines on Schedule

With the baseball season more than a third over, the University nine is batting .264 and fielding .933. In the ten games already played the Crimson has knocked out a total of 92 hits, 24 of them for extra bases. Ticknor is the leading slugger to date with an average of .359 while Bassett and McGrath have both maintained a 1,000 average in fielding.

Ticknor has shown the most powerful hitting so far. Out of his total of 14 hits only four were singles. Three of them were for two bases, two were three baggers and five were home runs. Mays, Bassett, and McGrath are the other heavy hitters averaging .345, .313, and .310, respectively. Wood follows close behind with a .282.

Devens leads the pitchers, having won three and lost two games. MacHale, in three contests has won two. Page has pitched only one game, against Georgetown, losing 4 to 2.

With today's engagement, the team enters upon a schedule of important encounters. Next Saturday, Pennsylvania comes to Soldiers Field. The following weekend will witness Dartmouth's invasion of the University diamond.

On May 23 the Harvard nine will meet Pennsylvania in a return game and on the next day it will meet Syracuse at Syracuse.

This season's records fall below the results of the last three years about this time. No man on the 1930 team has equalled Prior's average of .419, while the results fall far below those of two years ago. On the other hand, no man last year had maintained a clean fielding average.

The total number of extra base hits this year is also greater than at the corresponding time last year. This year's team has knocked six doubles against seven in 1929, nine triples against seven, and nine homers while last season's outfit drove out only five. The team fielding has fallen down. The 27 errors allowed this year were almost entirely misplays in the infield. Every regular member of the infield has been guilty of at least four misplays.

The schedule upon which the Crimson embarks today will show what improvement has been made since the spring trip. Syracuse has defeated Columbia 2 to 0 while the latter nosed out Harvard 2 to 1 in an 11 inning struggle.

Penn has scored defeats over N. Y. U. and Cornell and on Wednesday it beat Columbia by 7 to 1. Dartmouth opened the season weakly but it also beat Columbia last week by a score of 10 to 3. In this game, Myllykangas, the Green pitcher, was the individual star of the contest pitching a sterling game and knocking a home run with the bases full.

The present record of the team stands six games won and four lost. Harvard was defeated in its opening game with B. U. and dropped the first game of the spring trip to William and Mary. It also lost to Georgetown, and Columbia and was victorious over the Quantico Marines and Catholic University. Since the return home it has not been defeated in a single game defeating Bowdoiu. U. S. S. Southery, Colby and New Hampshire in successive games. CRIMSON NINE BATS .264 AND FIELDS .933 Player  a.b.  r.  h.  2b.  3b.  h.r.  s.b.  s.h.  Ave.  p.o.  a.  e.  Ave. Carver,  7  2  3  0  0  0  0  0  .429  0  2  0  1.000 Ticknor  39  10  14  3  2  5  1  1  .359  11  2  1  .929 Mays  29  8  10  0  0  0  3  1  .345  17  23  4  .909 Bassett  32  6  10  0  1  0  1  0  .313  9  1  0  1.000 McGrath  42  11  13  2  2  1  5  1  .310  17  0  0  1.000 Wood  39  9  11  0  2  2  0  1  .282  92  2  4  .979 Pago  4  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  .250  0  0  0  .000 Des Roches  37  7  9  0  0  1  1  0  .243  10  16  4  .867 Batchelder  30  5  7  0  1  0  1  1  .233  70  8  5  .939 Nugent  40  8  9  1  1  0  3  2  .225  13  23  5  .878 Fincke  5  0  1  0  0  0  0  2  .200  17  4  1  .955 Samborski  7  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  .143  0  0  0  .000 Devens  16  4  2  0  0  0  0  1  .126  5  16  2  .913 MacHale  13  1  1  0  0  0  2  1  .077  3  10  0  1.000 Davis  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  .000  0  0  0  .000 Donaldson  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  .000  3  0  0  1.000 Huxtable  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  .000  0  0  0  000 Lupien  6  1  0  0  0  0  0  1  .000  3  0  1  .750 Rex  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  .000  0  0  0  000 Totals  349  73  92  6  9  9  17  12  .264  270  107  27  .933

AT THE TOP OF THE LIST BATTING Ticknor    .359 RUNS McGrath    11 HITS Ticknor    14 DOUBLES Ticknor    3 TRIPLES Ticknor    2 McGrath    2 Wood    2 HOME RUNS Ticknor    5 STOLEN BASES McGrath    5 PITCHING Devens    Won 3     Lost 2

AT THE TOP OF THE LIST BATTING Ticknor    .359 RUNS McGrath    11 HITS Ticknor    14 DOUBLES Ticknor    3 TRIPLES Ticknor    2 McGrath    2 Wood    2 HOME RUNS Ticknor    5 STOLEN BASES McGrath    5 PITCHING Devens    Won 3     Lost 2