HOCKEY

Seldom, if ever, has a Dartmouth hockey team encountered a more discouraging season than the present one. With excellent material and an excellent coach providing every, prospect for one of the greatest Dartmouth hockey teams on record, enthusiasm was running high for the ice game in Hanover. A winter in which there has been practically no snow and very little more ice has eaten away almost all of this enthusiasm, however. It is doubtful if now, under the best of conditions the hockey team will be able to make progress, for while it has been able to do little except to gaze at almost bare fields and mope over unseasonable rains the puck teasers of other institutions have had long and constant practice in indoor rinks and have been able to play often.

Coach Tuck took the team to Lake Placid during the Christmas recess after the men had at last managed to get in two days of limbering up on ponds near Hanover. At Lake Placid, where conditions were almost as unfavorable as in Hanover, four practice games were played, Dartmouth winning from Williams 3 to 0 and from Amherst 3 to 1, and losing to Yale by scores of 2 to 1 and 3 to 1. Scheduled to play two contests with the Nichols Club, of Buffalo, the Dartmouth men were able to engage in but one, on account of the warm weather, and were forced to travel some distance to find ice for that meeting. On January 3 Dartmouth and the Nichols team played to a 1 to 1 tie at Port Colbourne, Canada. The work of "Chet" Gale 'l9, former Dartmouth captain, now goal tender of the Nichols team, was the outstanding feature of the game.

At Boston, January 5, Dartmouth met the strong Princeton team which had had the advantage of much practice in the Hobey Baker rink and held the Tigers to a 2 to 1 score.

The local season opened January 16 when the Green team met the fast sextet of the Berlin Hockey Club, in Hanover, in a game that resulted in a draw at 3 all. Until the last three minutes of play the Dartmouth team was trailing when Everett, right wing, broke through the Berlin defense for the tying score. Everett had previously scored late in the second period, netting a long shot from center quarter ice. Hall, Dartmouth captain, provided the other point of the Green total. Maltais, at goal for Berlin, made many brilliant stops, and with his teammate Gauthier, Berlin center, drew the applause of the crowd. For Dartmouth Everett and Hall were outstanding figures and Learnard played well before the net.