Hockey

In hockey, the situation is not at all reassuring The team, handicapped without adequate ice in the new rink, has simply not had enough practice, and it begins to look as though last year's story has begun its repetition.

It is too bad in a way that Dartmouth has suddenly fallen as a hockey power, for the name Dartmouth conveys everything connected with the out-of-doors, and there was a time when the Dartmouth hockey team was rated as one of America's best. But to date two games have been dropped to Yale, the last by a 6-1 score, and one contest has been lost to Princeton.

Yale, Princeton and Harvard have been practising for two months on artificial ice in the city, and their teams are considerably advanced over Dartmouth's.

The last two classes to enter Dartmouth have not been productive of many hockey stars and as a result Capt. Henry Johnson, Bill Morton and goalie Nathan Hawkes, Jr., have been playing lone hands. Other good players include Rockhill, Dick Fisher and Manchester. But in past years, two full teams have been maintained, and I was reading a story coming from Harvard only yesterday pointing out the rivalry between the two Harvard first teams who are so closely matched that the individual members vie with one another on scoring!

This year's freshman team is a wow, fortunately. I saw them against Tilton Academy the other day in the first game, and several men on the team are right now of varsity calibre. Frank Spain of Exeter is another Ed Jeremiah, and he was ably assisted by Wilbur Powers, this pair being instrumental in every goal scored during the afternoon. Then there is Ronald Morton, brother of Dartmouth's Bill, and McHugh, an excellent goalie.