Sports

Track

June 1931
Sports
Track
June 1931

The Dartmouth track team won its triangular meet from Brown and Columbia at New York, but dropped another Harvard dual meet in Cambridge.

The margin of the Harvard meet was 78-57 which represented the actual difference between the two teams. Dartmouth, as was expected, scored heavily in the field events, while Harvard piled up points in several of the track events, although Capt. George Stevens turned in his best performance of his career by being a double winner in the 50- and 100-yard dashes.

Harvard was without its captain, Vernon Munroe, and its best quarter miler, Art Watkins, but the Crimson showed sufficient strength to win easily.

Calvin Milans, the Green's sensational high jumper, bettered a record which had stood since 1912 when he leapt 6 feet 4 inches to take his event, and Vic King bettered his own mark, made last year, in the hammer throw to win his event with a 158 foot Vi inch toss. Oscar Sutermeister, Harvard's fine pole vaulter, was the other record breaker with a vault of 13 feet 1% inches.

The discus, javelin and broad jump records were also broken, but the judges disallowed them on account of the wind. John Eliot won the discus, and Vic Harding was the winner in the hammer throw. The Donner brothers, Roger and Ward, were first and third in the broad jump, Roger making a mark of 24 feet M inch for first place.

Harvard took five of the six places in the 440- and 880-yard events, as well as sweeping the mile run. Dartmouth swept only one event, the discus, when Lee and Bromberg placed behind Eliot.

It was the eighth successive dual victory Harvard has scored at Dartmouth expense, and it begins to look as though the Green would have to look forward another year. The freshman team this year is one of Harvey Cohn's strongest, and to date they have won meets from the Boston College freshmen and Andover. Many of the men are of varsity calibre and will have a chance to earn their spurs next season.

CAPTAIN GEORGE STEVENS of Masontown, Pa., leader of the Big Green track team