With Phil Sherman

This is the month when the snow begins to move from the Dartmouth campus, water runs in the gutters, and the sports writers leave the winter athletics with a sigh and turn to thoughts of spring and baseball.

My desk is piled high with winter statistics, results and write-ups, but somehow the smack of the new baseball against a catcher's glove, the few experts squatting along the first-base line in the cage and the long, easy and graceful pitches let loose by a flock of youngsters trying out for the team are far more important at this time than the fading records of what promised to be a fine winter sport season.

As reported last month, the freshman teams furnished the sensation of this period, and their seasons drew to as impressive a close as has been seen here in years, with the net result that only one contest was lost by the entire group of first-year teams, which must in itself be some sort of a record. Take the final results, and we find the 1934 basketball team winning 11 and losing none, swimming five and none, track two and none, and hockey with eight victories and a single defeat! And the single defeat came at the hands of St. Paul's school by a 3-2 score, which is no stigma.