BASKETBALL

Varsity basketball this season has been a sad failure from the point of victories. So far the team has been unable to win a single game. The cause for this is hard to locate. Coach Walker, a man with a successful coaching record behind him, particularly with the 1917 Williams football team, has been in charge of the basketball five, and it would seem as if a winning combination should have resulted. Lack of good material, however, has greatly handicapped any such aspiration. Dartmouth has been strong in guard material, but the forward department of the game was greatly weakened by the forced withdrawal of Captain Rau, whose work in Thayer School occupied his whole time. The men also seem unable to learn the passing game, and the result has been a general inability to score. The men who have been playing on the team are Larmon and Johnson, forwards, Hutchinson, center, and Ainsworth and Hilliker, guards. Hutchinson was elected captain to take the place made vacant by Captain Rau's inability to play.

Freshman basketball, on the other hand, presents a much rosier outlook. So far this quintet has not lost a game and has shown a strength that promises well for coming years. Bolles and Prince, the former, captain of the team, have been playing a sterling game at forward and Prince and Schulting have been showing well at guard. The center position has been more or less uncertain all season, having been held successively by Beers, Sullivan and Sample. The last of these seems to be the logical man for the place, but a sprained ankle has kept him out of the game for quite a while.