ELEVEN VICTORIES MARK SUCCESSFUL SEASON FOR SECOND BASEBALL TEAM

With its 7-1 victory over Yale on Tuesday, May 30, the University second team ended a season successful in every respect. Princeton and Yale have fallen before Coach Raymond's scrubs, while nine other victories have been put on record. Out of 13 games only two have been defeats. Moreover the seconds have piled up nearly twice as many runs as their opponents, 98 tallies having been scored by the scrubs against 54 scores for their opponents.

The team is not made up of stars, but from his squad of about 35 men Coach Raymond has moulded a winning team. Their success is due, not to any remarkable ability in any one department, but to a well balanced combination. On the mound there have been some pitchers capable of coming to the front in pinches. At first the nine was handicapped by a ragged infield combination, but by the time the more difficult mid-season games came, this department had been worked into a well organized machine.

The hitting power of the team has been the largest factor in the one-sided total of the season's scores. From the first games of the season the seconds have had an advantage in this respect. It was timely hitting which was largely responsible for the victories over Yale and Princeton, while the ability to come through in the pinch gave the scrubs a chance to break the five-inning tie in the 13-inning game with Brockton.

The team was formally organized on April 11 and the first practice game was held two days later. It was the first time the entire team had played together but in spite of the ragged fielding it was able to win a 6-2 victory over Rindge Technical School. The first scheduled game of the season was also a victory, but the seconds were forced to the limit to nose out Andover by a 4-3 score. The mound work was the saving feature of the contest, for the schoolboys were taking advantage of the poor Crimson fielding until Brown, unsupported, gave them but few chances to get on base.

In the next game the ragged work in the infield was neutralized by superb hitting resulting in an 11-2 victory over the Old Colony Trust nine. But in the next game on May 2 the fielding showed the results of Coach Raymond's intensive work to improve the combination, for the team played an errorless game with St. John's Preparatory School, winning by a 16-3 score.

Defeated by Dean

A pitching slump on May 10 was responsible for the 13-2 defeat at the hands of Dean Academy, but this was more than made up for two days later when Brown pitched a no-hit game defeating Huntington 3-1. Only 30 batters faced him. By this time the team had thoroughly settled down and had established a reputation for good work at the plate.

But this superiority in hitting was not enough to win from Brown for the latter, though out-hit, took advantage of every opportunity and, bunching their drives nosed out the Crimson by the score 6-4 in a see-saw contest.

Beats Princeton

On May 16 the team was at its best both in the field and at the plate with the result that the seconds were able to stage three-run rallies in the second and fourth and to hold Princeton to single runs in the second and third. After a 6-4 victory over the Lowell Textile Institute the team played a 13 inning game with Brockton High School but there was a decided slump in the fielding. This was more than made up for, however, in the frequent rallies. After five innings with the score tied a hitting test in the thirteenth brought in three winning runs. Easy victories over Middlesex and Westbrook by the respective scores of 7-1, and 11-4 paved the way for the Yale contest on last Tuesday.

Here again the team was at its height. Brown fanned 11 men and allowed but three hits while the Crimson batters staged successful rallies at critical moments, putting a fitting climax to the season's record