Nine Defeats Gymnasts, 9-3; Donelan Steadies After First

After spotting Springfield three runs in the first inning of Saturday's Soldiers Field contest, the varsity baseball team piled up nine runs in the fourth and fifth frames to down the Gymnasts, 9 to 3.

John Donelan lasted through a shaky first inning, giving up three runs on a walk and two hits, and spread five more singles effectively over the remaining eight innings. He struck out five.

In the last of the fourth, Ed Foynes and Ralph Robinson both reached base on errors and Johnny White doubled them in. Bennie Akillian singled White home and took second on the throw-in. Then with one away, Kev Reilly walked, Tom Cavanaugh was safe on an error, Donelan walked, and Foynes singled in the sixth and seventh runs.

In the following frame Akillian walked, Johnson singled, and Reilly brought both men in with a long double. Springfield used three hurlers in the game.

Today the freshman baseball team will try to break out of its batting slump when it meets M. I. T. so Soldiers Field at 3:45 p. m. Saturday the squad made only four hits in losing to Brown, 7 to 4.