Sports

WINTER SPORTS

March, 1924
Sports
WINTER SPORTS
March, 1924

Dartmouth this year maintained its supremacy in winter sports winning the events of the Dartmouth Outing Club's fourteenth annual Winter Carnival by a total score of 34½ points to McGill's 15, with New Hampshire University scoring 8½ points and Williams 1.

On the opening day of the Carnival, February 7, A. W. Edson '25, won the five-mile cross-country ski race with T. B. Farwell '26 second. R. S. Wade '25, of McGill, finished in third place. Edson's time over sticky snow was 45 minutes 53 seconds.

A.t the close of the second day Dartmouth ski and snowshoe men had amassed a total of 23½ points. In the 150-yard ski dash Edson, of Dartmouth, won with Michelson, of New Hampshire, second, and Stowell, of New Hampshire, third.. The 150-yard snowshoe dash was won by Doe, of Dartmouth, with Mitchell, of McGill, second, and Blake, of Dartmouth, third. Peaslee, of New Hampshire, won the two-mile snowshoe crosscountry race, with Doe, of Dartmouth, second, and Blake, of Dartmouth, third. The 880yard ski relay race was won by McGill (Wade, Costigan, Brown, and Starice), Dartmouth second, (Edson, Farwell, Mann, and Corwin), and New Hampshire third, (Michelson, Rowe, Stowell, and Snow). The novice race was won by Husband, of Dartmouth, with Turner, of Dartmouth, second, and Smith, of Dartmouth, third.

The ski jumping contest on the last day of the Carnival closed the meet. This was won by T. D. Frost '25, of Dartmouth, with R. D. Mann '26, of Dartmouth, second, and R. Heywood '24, of Williams, third. Frost's longest jump during the contest was one of 106 feet. Michelson, of New Hampshire, made a jump of 112 feet but fell. In the exhibition jumping following the meet, the lip of the jump was raised and Michelson with a leap of 123 feet established a new Hanover record, breaking the previous record of 122 feet held by Frost, of Dartmouth.

In the Intercollegiate championship meet held at Brattleboro February 14, T. D. Frost '25 and R. M. Hodgson '26, of Dartmouth, took second and third places in the ski jumping. Michelson, of New Hampshire University, won the meet with a standing jump of 137 feet. Frost made a jump of 138 feet but fell.

In the second day of ski jumping of the national championship meet at Brattleboro, T. H. Griffith '23 won 10th place in Class B. with leaps of 106 and 120 feet.

In what turned out to be a dual meet at Williams, February 16, Dartmouth entrants again proved their superiority on the snow and took 44 points to Williams 10. Farwell and Edson scored first and second places in the Ski cross-country event, Edson turning in a course record of 51 minutes, Blake and Doe, tied for first place in the Snowshoe crosscountry race, Edson and Farwell took the first two places in the ski dash, Doe and Blake first and second in the snowshoe dash, and Edson first and Frost third in the ski proficiency contest. The ski jumping honors went, to Frost with Griffith trailing in third place.

Dartmouth ski jumpers also performed at the Norwich University meet February 16, Mann and Hodgdon winning second and third places. Olson, of the Montpelier Ski Club, turned in the longest jump, 87 feet.