SWIMMING

Dartmouth opened its third swimming season with an, easy victory over Springfield Y.M.C.A. College in the Spaulding Pool, Jan. 20. The Green tank stars won first and second place in every event with the exception of the dive, and smashed pool records in the SO yard dash and in the relay race. Captain Taylor's time in winning the dash event, the first on the program, was 25 3/5, the previous mark had been 26 seconds. Dempsey, Bolles, Alger, and Taylor, swimming for Dartmouth in the relay race, lowered the pool record, made by Amherst last year.

Summary:

Fifty-yard dash—Won by H. F. Taylor, Dartmouth; second, J. E. Dempsey, Dartmouth ; third, B. F. Dillenbeck, Springfield. Time—25 3-5s.

220-yard swim—Won by W. Miller, Dartmouth; second, C. B. Rice, Dartmouth; third, M. S. Shepherd, Springfield. Time—2m. 49 1-5s.

Fancy dive—Won by E. F. Abercrombie, Springfield; second, C. Blunt, Dartmouth; third, C. A. Robinson, Dartmouth.

100-yard swim—Won by H. F. Taylor, Dartmouth; second, G. E. Algar, Dartmouth; third, C. Buekema, Sprinfield. Time—lm. 1s.

Plunge—Won by R. L. Marsans, Dartmouth, 68 ft.; second, W. Blake, Dartmouth, 66 ft.; third, W. Hyde, Springfield, 56 ft.

Relay race—Won by Dartmouth (J. E. Dempsey, C. A. Bolles, G. E. Algar, H. F. Taylor) ; second, Springfield (C. Buekeman, B. F. Dillenbeck, H. Munson, M. S. Shepherd).

Journeying to New Haven, Feb. 5, the Dartmouth swimmers provided little opposition for the championship Yale team which won 43 to 10. Dartmouth took second places in the 100 yard swim and in the plunge, and in the other events had to be content with last places.

Summary:

Fifty-yard swim—Won by Jeliffe, Yale; second, Colgate, Yale; third, Taylor, Dartmouth. Time—255.

100-yard swim—Won by Banks, Yale; second, Taylor, Dartmouth; third, Bixler, Yale. Time—56 1-5s.

220-yard swim—Won by Sauers, Yale; second, Marshall, Yale; third, Eiche, Dartmouth. Time—2m. 36 2-5s,

Fancy dive—Won by Prime, Yale; second, McCallum, Yale; third, Thompson, Dartmouth.

Plunge—Won by Swasey, Yale (75 ft. in 45.) ; second, Marsans, Dartmouth; third, Lake, second, Marsans, Dartmouth; third, Lake, Dartmouth.

200-yard relay—Won by Yale (Frost, Higgins, Stewart, Bixler). Time—lm. 43 2-5s.

All first places and four second places went to the Dartmouth swimmers in the meet with. M.I.T. in the Spaulding Pool, Feb. 9. Captain Taylor, left on the tiles, at the start of the 50 yard dash which opened the meet, swam a pretty race in overcoming the lead of Marsh, of Tech. R. E. Eiche '25, took two first places, the 100 yard dash and the 220 yard swim, M. B. Lake '26, captured the plunge event, C. Blunt '26, won the diving contest, and Dimond '26 won the backstroke. M. I. T. showed its best form in the relay race but lost in an exciting finish in which captain Taylor won from Stewart by a foot.

Dartmouth offered little opposition for the strong swimming contingent of Brown, captained by the redoubtable "Davy" Jones. The Brown team captured seven first places in the meet, with Jones winning both the 50 and 100 yard' dashes. In the latter event the Providence swimmer set a new Brown record of 55 3-5 seconds, only 1-5 of a second slower than the intercollegiate record held by Banks, of Yale. Dartmouth's only win came when Rogers, swimming in, the 100 yard breast stroke event broke the New England Intercollegiate record, his time being 1 minute 18 2-5 seconds. The previous record of 1 minute 19 1-5 seconds was also held by Rogers.

Summary:

50-yard dash—Won by Jones (B), Adams (B) second, Taylor (D) third. Time—24 3-5 sec.

50-yard backstroke—Won by Stiffler (B), Algar (D) second, Goddard (B) third. Time —32 2-5 sec.

100-yard dash—Won by Jones (B), Staples (B) second, Taylor and Eiche (D) tied for third. Time—53 2-5 sec.

100-yard breaststroke—Won by Rogers (D), Reynolds (B) second, Robinson (D) third. Time—1 min. 18 2-5 sec. New England collegiate record.

220-yard dash—Won by S. Metzger (B), Eiche (D) second, Almy (D) third. Time—2 min. 35 sec.

Relay—Won by Brown (Stiffler, Adams, Staples and Jones). Time—1 min. 45 3-5 sec.

Plunge—Won by H. Metzger (B), Lake (D) second, Haywood (B) third. Distance-70 ft.

Fancy diving—Won by Whitehouse (B), Adams (B) second, Blunt and Robinson (D) tied for third.