1937 Nine Downs Andover In Spite of Rally in Fourth

Things looked pretty black for the Freshman nine yesterday afternoon when the Andover team rallied to make nine runs in the fourth inning. The game had started nicely for the Harvard outfit, which led 3-0 at the first of the fourth.

Then everything began to go to pieces. Royall Victor, who had been pitching well early in the game, blew up and allowed four walks. The Blue team began to take ahold of his pitches, and the runs poured over the plate. The crowning feat of the inning was a homer by Vines of the opponents when the bases were loaded.

After this tragic inning, the Freshmen forged ahead, playing airtight ball. In the fifth, Tom Bilodeau dug his spikes deep into the dust and hit a ball towards the south-west end of Soldiers Field which bounced once on the ground and hit the side walls of the Stadium. All the old veterans of Harvard baseball claimed that it was the longest hit which had been knocked out for a decade.

The game went on in this fashion until the end of the eighth, when the 1937 sluggers had managed to cut Andover's lead to 9-8. In the last half of the ninth, the hard-hitting Harvard players started another rally. Malcolm McTernen hit a triple; he was followed by Herbert Regan who knocked out a long double to score one more run; next came George Blackwood, the here of the game, who hit the second double of the inning to score the winning run. The game ended 10-9 in favor of the Crimson nine.