A Year For Winter Sports

The history of the Winter Sports team is usually entwined in the Winter Carnival festivities, and we are all too prone to regard them as not a separate entity, but one of the many attractions which is offered to the gay Carnival throngs who make Hanover a focus on a certain winter week-end.

That is the wrong slant, and those boys who strive day in and day out are as much a separate Dartmouth sports team as the football players who leap into national prominence as intersectional competitors. Dartmouth has been fortunate in securing good ice and fine facilities for skiing and snowshoeing, and the wealth of material has responded in the past few years to give the Green one of the strongest teams in the United States.

Jack Shea, the sensational freshman, who held the title of North American Speed Skating Champion, easily tops the list of luminaries who have carried Dartmouth to victory. Shea, a marvel on skates, has outdistanced his field in every race which he has entered, and has that added touch of color which is a delight to the writer's heart. This season he did not defend his title at Lake Placid.

Other prominent members of the Winter Sports team include Lyman Wakefield and M. G. Tucker in the figure skating events, and Wallace Bertram in the long distance snowshoeing. Bertram, by the way, has had an interesting history at Dartmouth, for I believe that he is just about the only college undergraduate who set his heart on the Boston Marathon, that classic which features the perennial Clarence De Mar. Bertram entered the Marathon last year and what is more surprising, finished. His place was around 45th, but nevertheless it was quite a piece of rigorous competition.