No Luck for Lacrosse
The lacrosse team has suffered a series of disheartening defeats in regular fashion, and the future looks none too bright. The latest dispatch from Yale shows a 15-1 lacing, and previous to that the Green dropped a 6-2 decision to the Onondaga Indians from Syracuse, N. Y. Eric Kelly looked up the statistics and discovered that there were more Indians in Hanover that afternoon than there have been since 1769, which is an interesting fact. However, the Indians were a very fast lot, and at the end of the half the score stood 6-1. It was noteworthy that Dartmouth played them to a standstill in the second half, with Capt. Avery Gould the outstanding man for his team.
I was talking to Prof. Chester Forsyth the other day down at the baseball diamond, and his remark on the number of men actively engaged in sports at Dartmouth, and Grantland Rice's recent article in Colliers tied two pertinent facts together.
Prof. Forsyth, than whom there is no closer follower of the teams, said that nearly every student at Dartmouth was out on some field during the afternoon, be it a fraternity baseball game, a pickup affair with an indoor ball, or merely running around the track. Then Rice's article took up this subject and asked what all of these really amateur athletes were fitting themselves for in later life. The noted sports writer pointed out the fact that all organized games such as football and baseball have no place for business men as active participants, and he went on to plead for more capable instructors in tennis and golf, which are useful to the average graduate. If one could conceive of the interest of Dartmouth students in these two games as active participants, he would realise what Rice was driving at. There is certainly the interest.
The intercollegiate tennis championships of New England have just started, and Henry Johnson, Jr., is already progressing nicely through the tournament, Ted Mac Donald, the Dartmouth captain, was unable to defend his title of last year on account of studies and as a result John Richardson, a sophomore, is helping Johnson to carry on.
The coachless Dartmouth tennis team has fared fairly well during the season, although they were the victims of a surprising shutout defeat at the hands of Harvard on their only Hanover appearance of the season. Victories over Columbia, Lehigh and Princeton helped the cause along, but they were defeated by the Navy and Yale. Members of this year's team include, beside the above, Ed Niditch, John Sheldon, and Rex Fall.
