Sport Shorts
The Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Cornell football games have been designated as letter games by the Athletic Council this year.
Freshman insignia will be awarded for the contests with Roxbury School, New Hampshire '38, and Harvard '38.
Jeff Tesreau's baseball club has engaged in two games this fall and has won both. The Green nine defeated Lebanon, 5-4, in 12 innings, and the Littleton Athletic Club, 10-3. Andy McLaughlin '28, former Dartmouth catcher, was outstanding for the losers in the second game.
Ted Olson, who won nine games for Barnstable in the Cape Cod League this summer, and Ted Bruce, a promising sophomore, have been doing the hurling for the Indians. Raymond Ratajczak, last season's freshman captain, and Eddie Casey, nephew of the Harvard gridiron coach, are two of the most promising sophomores who have moved up to the varsity this year.
After a two-year reign as tennis champion of the College, Bob Husted '35, captain of the net team, was deposed this fall by Paul Guibord '36, his doubles partner, 6-0, 6-1, 6-4. Guibord, who captured the Maine and Vermont singles titles this summer and reached the finals of the New Hampshire state tournament, was at the top of his game in defeating the Green leader, while Husted was decidedly off his usual steady game. Husted and Guibord are holders of the New England intercollegiate doubles title.
Three athletes in the present freshman class are sons of famous track stars. Vining Sherman, a football player and middle-distance runner, is the son of N. A. Sherman '10, a sprinter on the American Olympic team of 1908. Arthur B. Shaw Jr., a football player and hurdler, is the son of Arthur Shaw 'OB who ran the 110-meter hurdle race in the 1908 Olympics and also formerly held the record for the 120-yard high hurdles. Thomas J. Sheehan, a baseball player, is the son of "Ike" Sheehan, who competed in the 800-meter event in the London Olympics of 1908.
Several hundred Boston alumni traveled to Hanover aboard "The Big Green Flyer" for the opening game with Norwich. Before the football contest, a golf tournament was held on Hilton Field and 32 persons participated in spite of the downpour. Prizes for gross scores went to Melville P. Merritt '20, who had 79, and Prof. Russell R. Larman '19, who shot an 83. Prizes for low net scores went to Edward H. Kenerson '03 and Prof. Ralph A. Burns.
Harvey Cohn's freshman cross-country team won its opening meet of the season on October 6 by defeating the University of Vermont freshmen, 27 to 28. C. W. Wyckoff and L. H. King, both of Dartmouth, finished in a dead heat for first place. Wyckoff, who entered Dartmouth from University School in Cleveland, is captain of the yearling runners. Meets with Concord High School and Andover complete the freshman season before the intercollegiates on November 19. Varsity cross-country has been omitted for the present year, lack of funds and a long ineligibility list making it practically impossible to produce a team.
Dick Heneage '38, son of Harry R. Heneage '07, won the College open golf championship this fall by defeating Tom von Tacky '37, 1 up, in a 37-hole match. Young Heneage, who was runner-up in the New Hampshire state tournament this past summer, was 3 down at the completion of 30 holes but evened the match on the 36th and won out on the extra hole. The new champion carded a 71 during the second round, which is three strokes more than the Hilton course record which he set during the summer.
A sudden squall recently smashed the single four-oared and two eight-oared shells of the Dartmouth Rowing Club, but undaunted by this misfortune, the Green crewmen have gone ahead with the formal organization of their Club and are rowing informally on Lake Mascoma in the one shell which has been repaired. Coach Jim Smith, of the Union Boat Club of Boston, is again directing the work of the Dartmouth crew enthusiasts.
Officers of the Rowing Club are Oliver Butterworth '37, of West Hartford, Conn., president; Thomas D. Duff '37, of Jersey City, N. J., secretary; and Elliott P. Palmer '36, of Cincinnati, Ohio. The executive committee includes Alexander S. Atherton '35, of Honolulu; Richard L. Kenney '35, of West Newton, Mass.; and Victor H. Luneborg '35, of Forest Hills Gardens, N. Y.
Field, General Jack Kenny, veteran from Hartford, Conn., who takes over the quarterbacking duties when Deckert is out.
