BASKETBALL

The Dartmouth basketball team eliminated this year its customary Christmas practice trip and played but two games during the recess, one with St. John's College, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and the other with the Crescent Athletic Club team, also of Brooklyn.

In the game with St. John's little opposition was encountered, the Hanover team winning by a score of 23 to 9. The slippery condition of the floor prevented much fast playing and severely hampered Dartmouth's fast passing game. However, the Green team early took the lead and maintained it throughout, the half ending with the score at 12 to 4. Friedman and Millar each scored two goals from the field, while Goldstein and Moore netted one apiece, and Cullen counted eleven baskets out of fifteen free throws.

In defeating the strong Crescent Club team 36 to 18 the Dartmouth five accomplished a feat which stamped it as a team of extraordinary power. The Crescent team is composed of ex-college stars and has for years maintained a reputation as one of the best of the teams in the Metropolitan district. In losing to Dartmouth it suffered the first defeat of a long period and the first in a longer period upon its own court. The Brooklyn team provided stubborn opposition throughout the first half and was trailing by only four points with the score IS to 11 at half time. During the second period, however, the Dartmouth team forged steadily ahead and scored 21 points while holding the Club team to seven. Cullen, Friedman, Millar, Moore and Heep each scored two baskets from the floor with Cullen adding 16 free throws in 21 attempts.

Dartmouth 39 — Knox 14

In a game which on the part of the visiting team became an uncouth exhibition of unnecessary and premeditated roughness, Dartmouth defeated the touring team of Knox College, Jan. 8. The Illinois team displayed a creditable passing game but was unable to approach the Dartmouth basket and was forced to resort to long shots from mid court. Neither team was able during the early part of the contest, to score from the floor, Dartmouth gaining a 5 to 2 lead on free throws. The Dartmouth team managed, however, to find its stride gradually and led by 16 to 4 at the end of the first half. Both teams displayed a faster offensive game during the second half and Cullen's accuracy from the foul line counted heavily against Knox. For Dartmouth, Millar led the scoring from the floor with three baskets, Friedman and Sailor each getting two and Cullen, Goldstein and Heep one. Cullen added nineteen points in twenty-three tries from the foul line. For Knox, Albro scored all but three of the 14 points, getting two baskets from the floor and caging half of his fourteen tried from the foul line. Campbell added the remaining points, with one field goal and one foul throw.

Dartmouth 42—Crescents 17

Dartmouth's second contest with the Crescent Club team resulted in another overwhelming victory for Captain Cullen's team, when the Green quintette registered 42 points to 17 for the visitors. The Dartmouth team exhibited complete superiority over their opponents, caging fourteen baskets from scrimmage while the Crescent team scored but five. The game was a fast and spectacular one despite the indication of the score, for the Crescent team showed a swift offense and a spirited defense which necessitated consistent brilliance on the part of the Dartmouth five.

Dartmouth scoring began early in the game and the lead gained was held throughout. Fast offensive play gave the Green team an 8 to 0 lead before the Crescent Club scored three points from the foul line. At half time the score was 19 to 8. The second period was featured by even more brilliant work on the part of the Dartmouth team which scored 23 points while holding the visitors to 9. Cullen, Goldstein, Friedman, Sailor, Millar, and Watkins scored two field goals each, Heep and Moore each getting one. On free throws Cullen was successful 14 times in 18 attempts. Barkelew was the leading scorer for the Crescent Club, getting three baskets from the court, while Sims and Barker netted one each. Stewart threw seven baskets from the foul line in thirteen attempts.

Dartmouth 42 — M. A. C. 15

Dartmouth scored its seventh straight basketball victory at the expense of Massachusetts Agricultural College team in Hanover, Jan. 10. The Massachusetts team started briskly, taking a 5 to 0 lead in the first few minutes of play, but the team work of Captain Cullen's quintette rapidly improved and the visiting team was soon overtaken. During the rest of the period Dartmouth scored 21 points while holding M. A. C. to a single tally, the half ending at 21 to 6. The fast work of the Dartmouth team continued through the second half of the game, the second team men continuing to run up the score while holding the visitors well in check. Millar led the Dartmouth scoring from the floor with five field goals, Cullen and Friedman followed with three each, Goldstein caged two, and Sailor and Moore each netted one. From the foul line Cullen was successful in ten of fifteen attempts, and Heep registered both of his throws.

Princeton 25 — Dartmouth 24

For the third successive time in the past two years the Princeton quintette of basketball players downed the Dartmouth five when Loeb's successful free throw in the last twenty seconds of play gave the Tiger team a one point margin of victory in the game at Princeton, Jan. 13, which opened Dartmouth's intercollegiate league season. Since the opening of the 1921 basketball season the Princeton-Dartmouth games have been decided by single point margins, Dartmouth winning a 21 to 20 encounter at Princeton at the close of the season two years ago.

Captain Cullen, whose sensational shot in the closing seconds of play gave Dartmouth its last victory over Princeton in 1921 was as usual the main feature of the Green attack and almost carried his team to a victory in this contest, his two baskets from the floor and twelve successful free throws in seventeen attempts netting sixteen of Dartmouth's twenty four points.

Dartmouth registered the first score of the game when Friedman tossed a pretty basket during the first half minute of play. Loeb, of Princeton, soon evened the count, however, with two accurate from the foul line. Sailor dribbled through the Princeton defense for the second Dartmouth basket and Captain Jeffries evened this score for the Tigers. Loeb's three foul goals and a basket from the floor by Bergen then gave Princeton the lead at 9 to 4 Dartmouth's attack then strengthened. Millar and Friedman caged baskets from the floor and Cullen added six points from the foul line, while holding Princeton to three free throws by Loeb, and the half ended with Dartmouth in a 14 to 12 lead.

Shortly after the opening of the second period scoring again got under way, Cullen tossing in a free attempt for Dartmouth and Dickinson caging a basket from the floor for Princeton. Another successful throw from the foul line and another field goal by Dickinson put the Princeton team in the lead at 17 to 15, a score which three throws brought to 18 to 16 within the next few minutes. Princeton then spurted and widened the gap, baskets by Loeb and Dickinson sending the score to 22 while the Dartmouth score augmented only by another basket from the foul line by Cullen, just touched 17. It was at this stage of the game, with Princeton in a five point lead that Captain Cullen, single handed, staged a rally that almost closed the game. Scoring seven points in quick succession he gave Dartmouth a two point lead over the Tiger which was wiped out only in the final minute by Loeb.

Loeb was the outstanding star of the Princeton attack, his two baskets from the floor and eleven out of fifteen free throws netting a total of fifteen points. Dickinson followed in the scoring column with three baskets from the floor for a total of six points. Jeffries and Bergen each contributed a basket for Princeton. For Dartmouth, in addition to the scoring of Cullen, Friedman caged two field goals, and Millar and Sailor one each.

Dartmouth 34 — Vermont 20

Captain Cullen was again the high scorer when Dartmouth defeated Tom Keady's Vermont team 34 to 20 in a rather sluggish game at Hanover Jan. 17. Friedman, for Dartmouth, counted the opening basket soon after the start of the game, Yarnall, of Vermont evening the score shortly afterwards. Following a free throw by Cullen, Captain Stevens, of Vermont, caged the opposition's second field goal and placed his- team in the lead for the only period of the game. Baskets by Millar and Goldstein and a concentrated attack upon the Vermont basket near the close of the half placed Dartmouth in a 21 to 9 lead when the whistle blew. Two baskets by Yarnall and one by Semansky pulled the Vermont team up within six points of the Green in the slow play that opened the second half. Goals by Friedman and Millar and free throws by Cullen sent the Dartmouth team into better position. Cayward and Stevens added the remaining Vermont points.

For Dartmouth Cullen threw 10 baskets in 15 attempts from the foul line and added two field goals for a total of 14 points, Goldstein counted four baskets from the floor, and Friedman, Millar, and Heep two each. For Vermont, Yarnall's two field goals and eight free throws in IS attempts made a total of 12 points. Stevens added two baskets and Semansky and Cayward one each from the floor.