Alumni Down Varsity Nine By 8-5 Count

Saturday was Alumni Day at Soldiers Field, and the varsity baseball team lent official recognition to the affair by dropping an 8 to 5 decision to a squad of former Crimson players.

Three varsity hurlers--Ira Godin, Ralph Hymans, and Barry Turner--split the pitching duties. Only Turner got away unscathed, and it took some fine support to save him, Godin and Hymans each gave up four runs, including home runs by Jack Wallace and Bill Barron of the 1947 team. Varsity outfielder Herb Neal retaliated with a three-run homer off Wallace in the sixth, when Stuffy McInnis' men got four of their five tallies.

Grads Start Fast

The grads started fast with two runs in the first and one each in the second and third. From there on it was all their game, as they were never headed. The team was largely composed of recent alumni of "Uncle Bill" Bingham's farm system--such as Wally Flynn, Jack Coppinger, and Leunie Lunder from last year's squad; Barron, Wallace, "Hoss" Hamlen, and Nick Rodis from the '47 team; sole oldster was hockey coach John Chase.

'48 mound ace Brendon Reilly started the game for the alumni, but gave way in the first to Wallace, a wartime standout for Harvard nines. He gave up ten hits to the varsity but kept them well scattered except in the sixth.

In the week's only league game, Penn walloped Dartmouth 15 to 10, to throw the Indians out of a first-place tie with Harvard and Princeton, which beat Yale, 5 to 0. Harvard can tie Princeton for league honors if it beats Yale in the season's only remaining scheduled contest.