Goodbye, Water Polo

The abandonment of water polo by Dartmouth came at a time when the Green finished the league season in a tie for first place with Navy and Pennsylvania, with seven victories and one defeat, and Dartmouth will receive a winning plaque along with her two opponents. It seemed rather incongruous that Dartmouth should drop out of intercollegiate competition when the first championship came their way, but such are the vagaries of fate.

The swimming team was whipped by Rutgers, Princeton and Pennsylvania in a row before a league victory was turned in at Syracuse's expense by a 49-22 score. The Green defeated Brown, and then lost to Harvard's newly organized team 37-25, when the relay decided the meet. Dartmouth showed the usual outpouring of sophomore talent, and John Monogan in the backstroke and Ken Weeman in the diving seem to be the more brilliant lights. Capt. Frank McCord, Charles MacAUister and Dick Cukor, all seniors, won their share of places and graduate this year.

Since the last writing the fencing team has closed its season by losing four meets in a row, the victors being Norwich, M. I. T., Pennsylvania and St. John's of Brooklyn. The New York papers made much of the meeting of Dartmouth and St. John's for it seems that this is the first time that the two institutions have met in any form of sport since a certain basketball game back in the early '2o's. Harry Townsend and Charley Warne were the main guns for the fencers.