Nine Opens League Season With 12-7 Penn Win

Led by the return to batting form of Captain Lupien, the Varsity baseball team downed Pennsylvania 12-7 to open the Mitchellmen's Eastern intercollegiate League season. Lupien polled out three hits, one of them a long homer into the centerfield bleachers.

Slim Curtiss started on the mound for the Crimson and gained credit for the win, although he was relieved by Tom Healey during a two-run Quaker uprising in the fifth canto. Healey pitched the remainder of the encounter, allowing only four hits and one run.

Besides Lupien, catcher Paul Doyle and second baseman Dave Shean garnered three hits apiece. Shortstop Dick Grondahl drove out two base knocks in three attempts, and all the other Mitchellmen, even the light-hitting Curtiss, get one safe blow, except Rud Hoye. Centerfielder Gannett and left-fielder Jo Jo Soltz smacked doubles. Two of Doyle's hits were two-base affairs.

Tomorrow Coach Mitchell's charges will journey to Ithaca to play a holiday engagement with the Cornell nine. Either Curtiss or Healey will get the nod, since big Ed Ingalls is still hors de combat. The Ithacans pulled an early season league upset yesterday, when their newly uncovered pitcher, Worthy Dodd, defeated Yale 6-3 with only for hits.

Yardling Nine Wins

Yardlings chalked up an overwhelming defeat over the Huntington School nine to the tune of 14-1 Saturday, Charley Brackett, Crimson hurler spread out the five hits that Huntington made so well that the losers were able to score but once.

Heading the list of Freshman batters who ran up 13 hits in the course of the afternoon, was Phil Cutler, right field, who made three base hits in his four times at bat. The only multiple-base hits were made by Davis, at left field, who slammed out a three bagger and Helman with two bases.

The Yardlings will take on Thayer Academy at 4 o'clock tomorrow on Soldiers Field.