TRACK

After a victory over Columbia in one dual track meet, a defeat at the hands of Penn's well-balanced aggregation, and a creditable performance in the annual Penn Relay Carnival, Dartmouth's outdoor track season came to a successful conclusion when the Green entries took third place in the Intercollegiates at Philadelphia. Penn, the favorite, led the field with a total of 30½ points, while Princeton followed close behind with 29. Dartmouth was a real contender for the honors with a point score of 24.

The world's record hurdling of Earl Thomson was easily the big feature of the two-day meet. Thomson was forced to content himself with a second in the low hurdle event, but only after he had cleared the high sticks in 14 2-5 seconds, one-fifth of a second better than the old mark set by "Bob" Simpson Weld found unexpected opposition in the hammer throw and took third, but Shelburne tossed the shot 43 feet 5 5/8 inches for a second place. The rest of the Dartmouth points came in the pole vault, where Captain Myers repeated his victory of last year, clearing the bar at 12 feet 6 inches. Jordan figured in a three-cornered tie for second.

In the Penn Relay Carnival at Philadelphia April 30-May 1, Thomson scored Dartmouth's only first by defeating Watt, Cornell's best bet, in the finals of the 120-yard high hurdles. His other point-winning performance of the meet was a tie for second place in the discus throw with a heave of 120 feet 2 inches. Weld contributed a second in the 56-pound weight throw and Shelburne took third place in the shot-put, failing by a bare foot to equal the winning toss. The freshman relay quartet finished fourth to Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Syracuse among a large field of entries.

In spite of the individual efforts of Thomson and Shelburne, who together turned in five first places and a second, Dartmouth lost the dual meet with Penn May 8 by a score of to 44½. Thomson won both hurdle events and the high jump and took a second in the broad jump, while Shelburne carried away the honors in the shot-put and tied for first in the 100-yard dash. Failure to capture more second and third places cost Dartmouth a victory. A railroad wreck on the trip to Philadelphia caused loss of sleep which showed its effect throughout the meet.

In the second dual meet of the season May 15 Columbia offered less stiff opposition and trailed the Green entries, 612-3 to 461-3. Thomson and Shelburne accomplished the seemingly impossible by improving upon their showing of the week before. The big hurdler took first in all four events, while Shelburne led the field in both dashes and the. shot-put. Dartmouth's big strength lay in the hurdles, jumps, and weights, in which 38 out of a possible 54 points went to the Green.