Swimming and Hockey
The honor fell to the Dartmouth swimming team to provide the real thrills of the season. Although not up to the class of Rutgers, Yale and the Navy, nevertheless Sid Hazelton's men turned in two sensational victories over the Army and Pennsylvania which left the crowd yelling for some time.
The Pennsylvania meet was a thriller. It was one of those affairs that see-saw back and forth with the passing of each event. The final score was 32-30 and only a scant foot margin in the relay race gave Dartmouth the meet. Capt. Frank McCord was one of the heroes of the afternoon, for he led the way home in the 100-yard freestyle, and swam as a member of the relay team.
One of the reassuring factors in the swimming ups and downs this season is the fact that very few of the men will be lost through graduation. Former Captain Walter Birnie and Chuck Faye, diver, are about the only consistent point winners who go. Capt. McCord, Cukor, Burkhardt, Smith, Spiegal, Jeffery, Hosmer, Pinney and Cardozo all return for another year or more.
The water polo team boasts of a fair team which has not won its share of victories. Dartmouth is new to this sport, and as yet the men have isot been able to make inroads upon the records of older teams in experience. It is more of passing interest that Princeton had to abandon water polo entirely, not having men enough to make up a team. Capt. Harrison has been the most consistent man on the team, with support from Moore, Walser, Dilley, Greig, Barber and Wolf.
The hockey team, after losing for the second time to Harvard in Boston, came back to win home victories from Amherst, 11-1 and Brown, 6-0. In both games the Green players showed a good passing attack against opponents admittedly not of their calibre, although Brown had held Dartmouth to a 3-2 decision previously in Providence. The ice was in general soft, and particularly in the Brown game.
The Dartmouth hockey team, boasting of a fine individual stylist in the veteran Ed Jeremiah, was handicapped throughout the season first by the construction of the new rink, which was delayed until nearly midseason, and second by the spring-like weather which simply would not let ice form satisfactorily on its surface. The only major successes for the team were two victories over Princeton away from home, which rather offset the fact that they dropped the finale to the Tigers by a one-point margin.
The Dartmouth team will lose both Jeremiah and Capt. Harold Booma next year by graduation, as well as Roland Booma and Joe Guilfoy. Returning will be Capt. Henry Johnson of tennis and football fame, who will team again with Harold Andres, football captain-elect, at the defence position. Nathan Hawkes, Jr., who improved as the season went along as a goal tender, has two more years, and with the added experience he should develop into a fine player. Bill Morton, Rockhill, Wentworth, Whitcomb, Fisher and Allyn all return, and with fellows such as Capt. Jackson, Manchester, Faegre, Dickson, Stoneman, MacGregor and Rocker coming up from Chick Shea's freshman hockey team, the situation looks fairly bright.
