INDOOR TRACK

Dartmouth was represented in two indoor track meets last month, the B. A. A. meet held in Mechanics Hall on February 10 and the Columbia Relay Carnival held in New York on February 17. In both of these meets Whitney, Dartmouth '15, distinguished himself. In the B. A. A. meet with a handicap of ten inches he won the shot put easily, hurling the shot 46 feet, 3¼ inches. In the Columbia Relay Carnival he added more laurels to his reputation by establishing a new American shot put record for the double put. The contestants put the shot first with the right hand and then with the left, the highest total winning. Whitney totaled 78 feet, 6 inches, beating some of the country's best men. With his right hand he put the shot but 43 feet, which was not up to his usual form, and was beaten by several other competitors; but with his left hand he performed a remarkable feat, hurling the shot 35 feet, 6 inches, far more than his nearest competitor, who totaled less than 70 feet. In both meets Dartmouth entered a one-mile relay team composed of Gardner, Haywood, Steinert, and Dolan, running in that order. At the B. A. A. meet the team ran against Tech alone and furnished a thrilling event, Dartmouth finally winning by about five yards. Gardner started for Dartmouth and finished neck and neck with Benson of Tech, but Haywood, Dartmouth's second man, was in such a hurry to get off that he failed to touch hands with Gardner and had to come back to the mark, thus losing nearly twenty-five yards on his man." However, he started gamely on and made up some of the distance. Steinert made up more, and Gardner, Dartmouth's last and fastest man, overtook and passed Geuthing of Tech in a wonderful sprint. At the Columbia Relay Carnival six colleges were entered in the mile relay, and Dartmouth took fourth place, being defeated by Syracuse, Columbia, and Cornell, though all were closely bunched. Harvard and Tech finished fifth and sixth respectively.