Odds and Ends

I don't know whether chess is within a sports writer's province, but something more than passing mention should be made of the Dartmouth chessmen who went to New York duing the holidays and defeated both Yale and Princeton. They lost to Harvard, but ended second in the four-way league. H. W. Wood, B. H. Schwartz, J. T. Dean and R. J. Fowle were the Dartmouth players.

Last Saturday, being an open athletic night, the student body was treated to an old-fashioned athletic show put on by Harvey Cohn in the gymnasium. Boxers, wrestlers, tug-of-war experts, tap dancers and the Barbary Coast were all featured in a bill which ran till nearly midnight and provided funds for the Mary Hitchcock Hospital.

Coach Harold Evans' little freshman basketball league finished its schedule, which was run with the names of the Eastern League teams under league rules and was refereed by this author. It was one of the most interesting leagues set up in freshman sports and interest was kept at a high pitch during the season. After it was all over, I picked first and second all-League teams which were as follows: First teamforwards, Arthur B. Toan Jr. and Thomas A. Sinding; center, John R. McKernan; guards, Oscar Goodman and Tauno J. Frigard. Second team—forwards, Niels C. Nielsen and Jack B. O'Brien; center, Paul S. Cleaveland; guards, Frank A. Lagorio and James R. Peabody Jr.

The Winter Sports team went to Lake Placid during the holidays but failed to lift the President Harding trophy from New Hampshire. The sports which were held were hard fought but the boys from Durham had the edge. However, the skating races and other winter sports event in which Dartmouth was expected to score heavily were not held on account of the warm weather. Jack Shea won his sole event handily and Lyman Wakefield again was on top in the figure skating.