HOLY CROSS DOWNS FRESHMAN NINE

The Freshman baseball team managed to score against Holy Cross, although the Crusaders came through by a 9 to 3 count. Second baseman Vinnie Leahy was elected captain after the game Saturday at Soldiers Field.

After the visitors had teed off on Irv Rudman for three runs in the first, the Yardlings came back with one tally when Vinnie Leahy and Jim Apthrop singled, and Jim Gallagher drove in a run by hitting into a double play. The victors scored two more in the third and one in the fifth.

The home team also scored in the fifth, when Bill Hamlen, Rudman, and Leahy singled with two out to drive in a run. Brendan Reilly took over in the sixth, and was greeted by two more Purple scores. Sparked by George Casey's double, their only extra-base hit of the day, the Yardlings made their final score in the eighth.