RICHARD WARD '01 DONATES WINTER SPORTS CUP

Richard Ward '01 of Boston is presenting to the Intercollegiate Winter Sports Union a cup which will be competed for yearly by colleges with membership in the union. The cup, which is of sterling silver, will be 17 inches high, and will be somewhat in the form of a vase. Encircling the upper part will be four panels, the first bearing the inscription "Dartmouth Winter Cup, Intercollegiate Winter Sports Union," while the other three panels will contain representations of a ski-jumper in mid-air, a speed skater, and a snowshoer, depicting the three main branches of winter sports which are contested in the annual championships. The edges of the panels, also the upper rim and base of the cup, are lightly decorated with designs of snow flakes and pine cones.

This year's annual championships will be held at McGill University, Montreal, on March 4. The first meet of the union was held at Hanover last year, and was won by New Hampshire, finishing one-half point ahead of Dartmouth; and through that victory New Hampshire will be the first college to have her name engraved upon the cup. It will eventually become the permanent possession of the college which shall have won it the greatest number of times within a certain period of years. This latter has not as yet been definitely decided, and may be placed at 15 or 20 years.

The six events which make up the program for the championships are as follows: Crosscountry ski race, snowshoe race, speed skating, proficiency ski test, downhill ski race, and skijumping. The speed skating consists of a 440-yard race and a two-mile race, and the proficiency test is composed of a slalom race, which is a short downhill race laid out so as to require a variety of turns and stops. The downhill ski race is from one to two.miles in length, the ski cross-country approximately seven miles, and the snowshoe race from one and one-half to two miles.

The Intercollegiate Winter Sports Union was organized in the winter of 1923-24, and a meet was planned for the winter of 1925, which was not held however, on account of the weather conditions. The union is the lineal descendant of the Intercollegiate Ski Association, a rather informal organization, which was fundamentally the outgrowth from the competition in skiing between McGill and Dartmouth in 1913, when Dartmouth won the 7-mile relay ski race by a few feet.

The union is composed of three geographical divisions, the Central, Eastern and Canadian, each division being made up of the colleges which are members of the union in that district. The principal controlling body of the association is the executive committee, which is composed of three men, one from each division. Professor C. A. Proctor of Dartmouth represents the eastern section. Other colleges which are affiliated with the union are Bates, Loyola, McGill, Ottawa, University of Montreal, University of New Hampshire, Williams, Colby, University of Maine and Bowdoin. The annual meet of the Intercollegiate Winter Sports Union is the official intercollegiate championships.