Other Sports and Other Things
The Dartmouth track team, which many figured as a great combination, lost to Harvard and beat Cornell in the famous triangular meet which is fast becoming a Boston institution. Dartmouth showed a creditable performance, but factors which would look too much like alibis caused their ultimate undoing, and the score was Harvard 47 1-3, Dartmouth 37 2-3, Cornell 31. A shift of 5 points would have given a Dartmouth victory by 1-3 of a point, and there are many instances where Dartmouth might have picked up that balance, but the final result is written into the books.
The Dartmouth winners were Hugh Alcorn Jr. in the hurdles, Capt. Swope in the 600, Ed Canby in the broad jump, and Tommy Maynard in the high jump. Coach Harry Hillman was forced to make a last minute shift in his whole personnel due to the sudden collapse of one of his stars in a hotel room just before the meet. Runners were shifted to different distances, and one man was taken from the spectators stands and rushed into a uniform so a relay quartet could be formed. He had paid his own expenses to Boston, and never dreamed that he would be called upon to run.
The following week-end, however, the relay team, now intact, ran all opposition to the ground and emerged with the I.C.A.A.A.A. title for indoor competition. This fine quartet was composed of Capt. Jerry Swope, Lee Andrews, Mel Pratt and Harris Huston. Other men to pick up points were Maynard, Canby and Stevens.
The swimming team engaged in five League meets, and won three of them. The victories were gained over Columbia, Pennsylvania and Princeton, the last being by the narrow margin of 32-30, the relay of course deciding the affair. Losses were sustained at the hands of Rutgers and Syracuse. In the Rutgers meet Capt. Johnny Bryant swam stroke for stroke with Olympic George Kojac, the latter winning by the narrowest of margins. Bryant retained his league leading scoring title, however, as he has been a dual winner in nearly every meet.
Eddie Shevlin inaugurated the official Dartmouth boxing season by sending his men against Yale. Dartmouth managed a draw, 3-3, with the strong Eli team, and the following week-end won from Syracuse, 4-2, both meets packing the gymnasium. The Dartmouth team has been composed of Watchmsky, Shaskan, Macintosh, Alton, Bragner, Armstrong and Wolff, which has been a strong combination. Ellsworth Armstrong, 1929 football captain, won both his heavyweight bouts, and then retired from the game. At this writing, Dick Black, 1928 football captain, will take his place when the team closes its season against M.I.T. in Boston.
The gym team lost to M.I.T. and then won from Pennsylvania. They dropped a close meet to the Navy, and now will meet Princeton-Army in the near future in Hanover, this match marking the first time an Army gym team has ever left its home floor to engage in a dual meet. Coach Pat Kaney declares that it is a dual meet, even though three teams are entered, but we haven't been able to explain just why.
