Sports

SUCCESS IN TRACK

March 1916
Sports
SUCCESS IN TRACK
March 1916

Dartmouth's indoor relay teams covered themselves with glory in the B. A. A. games February 5, winning all three events in which they were entered. One week later in the season, in a special three-quarters mile relay with the crack 74th Regiment quartet of Buffalo, the team repeated, winning by 30 yards, and establishing a record for the armory track.

At Boston, the varsity two-mile relay team was pitted against Syracuse, Dartmouth winning by 15 yards. Chase in the first lap finished three yards behind Irving of Syracuse, but the lead changed back to the Green in Granger's lap. Riley, running third, gave Tucker a tenyard advantage, to which the cross-country captain added five more in his half-mile. The time was 7 min. 16 4-5 sec. The one-mile relay team had a close run with M. I. T., but finally won by 20 yards in the fast time of 3 min. 7 4-5 sec. Trenholm was distanced by Doon in the first lap, but Lagay managed to recover and hand over a lead to Riley. Riley was 15 yards faster than his opponent, and Worthington increased the distance in the final lap. The freshmen were entered in a triangular relay against ;M. I. T. and Holy Cross freshmen. In the first lap, Doyle of Holy Cross jumped past Phillips of Dartmouth and Jackson of M. I. T., handing a lead to his teammate McCarthy which the Purple runners main- tained until the last lap. In this lap he fell, however, and lost the lead to Dartmouth. Fitts and Phelan, running the last stages for Dartmouth, won easily by 15 yards, in 3 min. 12 3-5 sec.

At Buffalo, Trenholm, Worthington, Lagay, and Riley ran in that order. The time for the of 2 minutes2 51 seconds was 2 3-5 seconds better than the previous armory record. Riley, entered in the 440 handicap, overcame a six-yard disadvantage, and won in 51 seconds.

The indoor season closed with the Hartford meet February 21, with thirteen Dartmouth entrants. Further indoor meets in Alumni Gymnasium are scheduled for March, however, including inter-class meets, inter-dormitory relays, and the inter-fraternity relay events.