With Phil Sherman

Sports matter for this month has not piled up very rapidly on this writer's desk, and as it is the annual off month of the year for the Big Green teams, subjects under discussion will be varied indeed.

It is the Winter Sports team which steals the limelight, for this unheralded organization, coached by Jerry Raab, slipped unnoticed out of Hanover for Lake Placid and came back with the President Harding Trophy, symbolic of supremacy over many colleges in an international field. By the slim margin of one-half a point did the Dartmouth men win from the University of New Hampshire, whose team was able to score 20 points. The team from Durham were the favorites to win, and they would have done so had not their star jumper, Pederson, fallen after a good leap.

Herman Sander, captain of the Dartmouth team, was also the individual high scorer of the meet, with first in the'cross-country race, and fourth in both the jumping and downhill race. In the seven mile cross-country race, Sander was followed across the finish line by another Dartmouth competitor, T. D. Mann, a freshman. In the figure skating event, Dartmouth took the first three places, L. E. Wakefield, M. G. Tucker and G. S. Collins finishing in that order.

So the palm of the month goes to the Winter Sports team, which should be as representative of Dartmouth as any branch of athletics, as Dartmouth primarily is regarded as an outdoor college, despite the fact that many of the older alumni are prone to view with alarm the passing of the more rugged days. More and more students are reporting each year for winter sports work under organized supervision, and already the Dartmouth team looms as an imposing outfit for the coming Winter Carnival at Hanover.