THE B. A. A. RELAY RACE

The Dartmouth two-mile relay team closed its indoor season with one of the most creditable performances ever executed by Dartmouth track representatives, for although defeated by the B. A. A. quartet, the men pushed the winners to the tape and finished but five yards behind them, in a race that clipped twelve seconds from the world's record of seven minutes, eleven, and two-fifths seconds. Each runner went 780 yards; the former record for this distance was made by the Harvard team three years ago.

This event closed an epoch-making season for Dartmouth's indoor teams. Former winters have found Dartmouth strong in open field events, but Coach Hillman spent his energy this year in the development of relay teams. Both the quarter and half-mile combination won from Tech at the B. A. A. meet. The two-mile team then won the Intercollegiate championship by defeating Cornell and Harvard at New York, and by winning from Princeton the next week at Hartford. The winning of this last named meet showed that the remainder of the squad is rounding into form, and the team should be in fine order for the Penn Relay Carnival, the Pennsylvania Dual Meet, the New England Intercollegiate Meet, and the "big" Intercollegiates.