Tennis and Golf

The tennis and golf teams have not yet started their schedule, and much interest is evidenced in the former sport, for Crawford L. Gilligan is in charge as the first varsity coach of tennis at Dartmouth in a long, long while.

Donald McPhail will captain the golf team this year, this senior from Baltimore being elected to replace George Orcutt of Corry, Pennsylvania, who was unable to devote his time to golf on account of his studies. The golf team plays all its matches on the road this year and Orcutt found that he could not make the trips. He is a cousin of Maureen Orcutt, the North-South titleholder.

I assume that a majority of the readers of this piece are golfing fans, something which this department cannot claim to be, but I tried to sound out Maureen on the finer points of golf between dance numbers at the Pinehurst Country Club awhile ago.

One thing that I gathered was that the ball this year will have no paint on it. I don't know if the Dartmouth team is planning to use a paintless ball, but everybody at Pinehurst, including Bobby Jones himself, was all for it. They told me that a ball without paint flies much truer than the coated ball and I suppose it does.