"Andy Coakley, veteran of thirty campaigns at Morningside, was without a doubt the happiest coach on campus this year, for his diamond squad captured its first Eastern League baseball title since 1934 and compiled a brilliant overall record of eleven wins, six losses and one tie to complete its most successful campaign in recent years.

 

"Coakley did not have much time to whip his squad into shape for the scheduled opener with Brooklyn College on April 8, so the wet grounds which forced cancellation of the contest provided him with a welcome delay.

 

"After the first of two games with Stevens was wiped off the schedule, City College invaded Baker Field and bowed, 7-2, to lanky righthander [Dick] Ames, who later was to lead the league in strikeouts. In the City agme, he fell just one strike out short of Lou Gehrig's all-time Columbia record of 17.

 

"[Harry] Garbett captured his first decision over Staten Island Coast Guard a few days later, 3-1. Then Coakely took his squad down to Princeton for the Ivy innaugural. Ames, fanning 14 batters and showing himself superb in the pinches, pitched Columbia to a 3-1 victory.

 

"Having gotten off on the right foot in the League, the Light Blue blew its first encounter on May 5 with Colgate, 14-4, but then the Morningsiders steadied themselves the following day to take Pennsylvania, 7-3, in their second Ivy League game, this one at Baker Field. Again, it was Ames leading his teammates to an easy victory, which was climaxed by a four-run eighth frame after the Quakers had tied the contest 3-all in the top half of that inning.

 

"Triumphs over Yale and Stevens sandwiched around an 8-0 loss to Army followed. Then on May 20 NYU handed Ames his first lost a Ohio field, 4-3.

 

"After Navy won over the Blue in an exciting ten-inning battle at Annapolis, 2-1, in which Columbia could only get two hits, Penn entertained the Lions at Philadelphia as both nines resumed league play. Ames captured his third consecutive Ivy contest and his fifth of the season.

 

"Columbia went into a tie with Dartmouth for first place in the EI[B]L on May 31, when Princeton took another drubbing from the Lions at Baker Field, 4-3.

 

"The inevitable had to come. Dartmouth and Columbia finally clashed in a doubleheader on Baker Field on June 3, as an Alumni Reunion Day crowd of more than 300 looked on. Both games were scheduled to be of seven innings duration, but the opener, which saw Ames opposed by Indian* ace Carl Mourn, went twelve frames, before Dartmouth was able to earn a 6-4 decision.

 

"With their backs pinned against the wall, the Coakleymen bounded back to take the nightcap, 8-3, behind Garbett's 11 strikeouts, five-hit twirling. After the long five-hour day was over, the two teams found themselves just where they had started, tied for first place in the League.

 

"In the twin finale at Cornell, after an 8-5 loss to Yale at New Haven, Ames pitched and won both games to lead his teammates to the coveted Ivy flag. He allowed six hits, winning the opener, 7-1, and then shut out the Ithacans, 1-0, with one hit in the nightcap."