Batsmen Conquer Tufts, 4 to 2, In Final Ball Game of Season

Harvard's diamond forces split a pair of ball games over the weekend as they topped a pick-up Tufts aggregation Saturday after dropping a decision to Rabbit Maranville's Bethlehem-Hingham Steel Co. team the day before.

A big sixth inning which saw the Stahlmen bunch four hits to manufacture three runs told the story in the Jumbo affair. With two men out, Sherman Clark hit a sharp single to left, and Gleason followed with a two-bagger, Clark pulling up at third, Captain Moe Berg dumped a bunt down the third base line and Clark romped home while the Jumbo infield waited anxiously and vainly for the ball to roll foul. Walt Sorgi clouted a long double, scoring Gleason and Berg, to clinch the ball game.

Clark Gets 3 for 4

Clark, incidentally, led the Crimson batsmen with three for four, while his mates pounded Ed Ericson of Tufts for eight more safeties. Berg held the Jumbos to four scattered hite, and chalked up 11 strike-outs. Longest blow of the day was a home run by Don Calareso to account or one of Tufts' two scores.

Three errors in the ninth inning counted fatally against the Crimson as they lost to the Bethlehem-Hingham steelmen by a 4-3 count Friday.

After MacDonald was granted a life on Gleason's bobble, successive miscues by Al Everts and Bob Slattery loaded the sacks. O'Neill's single drove in what proved to be the deciding run.

In the final half of the ninth, Harvard bats got four runners on base, but only one finished the round trip. Bud Mains started the festivities with a single and moved to second on Sorgi's blow. After Al Everts forced Sorgi, while Mains reached third, Bob Axtell drove in the lone Harvard tally of the inning with a hard hit ball to short.

The summary of the Tufts game:   ab  r  h  po  a  e Sorgi, 2b  4  2  0  1  0  0 Heath, 3b  2  0  0  1  1  0 Quinn, lf  4  1  0  1  0  0 Fitzgibbons, c  5  1  0  11  2  0 Flynn, cf  5  1  0  1  0  0 Slattery, 1b  3  0  0  9  0  1 Clark, rf  4  3  1  2  0  1 Gleason, ss  3  1  2  1  1  1 Berg, p  3  2  1  0  1  0   33  11  4  27  9  3

Two-base hits--Gleason, Clark. Stolen bases--Sorgi. Base on balls--off Berg 1. Struck out--by Berg 11. Sacrifice hits--Berg. Double plays--Sorgi to Gleason. Hit by pitched ball--by Berg (Antonelli).

Sorgi Selected to Captain '44 Nine: Noonan Manages

Walter V. Sorgi '46 of Milton was elected captain of the baseball team at a meeting of the lettermen following the Tufts game on Saturday. At the same time it was announced that Charles T. Noonan '46 of Lowell House and Ashland, Kentucky will manage the team, if there is one.

Sorgi has ben playing second base this year since Jack Forte was drafted at about the middle of the season, and even moved to third on Friday when Danny Shields was occupied elsewhere. He has also taken over Forte's position as lead-off man.

Two-base hits--Gleason, Clark. Stolen bases--Sorgi. Base on balls--off Berg 1. Struck out--by Berg 11. Sacrifice hits--Berg. Double plays--Sorgi to Gleason. Hit by pitched ball--by Berg (Antonelli).

Sorgi Selected to Captain '44 Nine: Noonan Manages

Walter V. Sorgi '46 of Milton was elected captain of the baseball team at a meeting of the lettermen following the Tufts game on Saturday. At the same time it was announced that Charles T. Noonan '46 of Lowell House and Ashland, Kentucky will manage the team, if there is one.

Sorgi has ben playing second base this year since Jack Forte was drafted at about the middle of the season, and even moved to third on Friday when Danny Shields was occupied elsewhere. He has also taken over Forte's position as lead-off man.