Intramural Athletics Booming

Interclass and interdormitory teams in various sports have been active all month in numerous leagues. Dormitory fives are engaged in a feverish scramble to emerge at the top of the heap and claim the college basketball championship, and four class hockey sextets are cutting up the ice on Faculty Pond under the leadership of Coach Dent.

The Outing Club is mothering a host of outdoor enthusiasts and classes for all sorts of skiers, good, bad, and indifferent are being held with teachers chosen from Cabin and Trail and the golf links is a mass of ski tracks as usual.

The Winter Sports team opened its schedule at Lake Placid during the Chirstmas recess and emerged with sixth place honors, winning two first and two second places out of eight events entered. Captain C. N. Proctor '28 was high scorer.

The college snowbirds captured first place in the intercollegiate ski meet staged by McGill University at Montreal. The scores: Dartmouth 12, Laval 8, and Loyola 2. Brittan and Proctor wore the Green.

The fact of several branches of winter sports practicing simultaneously, has necessitated the appointment by Coach Anton Diettrich of several undergraduate coaches from among the best athletes in each division. Captain Proctor is coaching the ski j umpers and racers; W. L. North '27 is in charge of the figure skaters; G. K. Sanborn '28 is directing the practice of the ski cross-country squad; L. S Mason '28 is working with the snowshoers; and S. I. Harris '27 is directing the speed skaters.

Charles Jewtraw, nationally known speed skater and record holder, spent several days in Hanover assisting the speed skaters in their workouts.

The seniors recently voted to furnish one of the lounging rooms in "Dick Hall's House" and Mr. Hall expressed his appreciation to President J. A. Davis for the interest the Class of 1927 is taking in the project.