Basketball

Spectators who rushed from the Yale hockey game to the basketball court saw the Dartmouth five slip a notch in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League by losing to Cornell, 40 to 35. The defeat gave the Indians a record of two wins and two losses in four contests and placed them in a tie with Princeton for fourth place in the standings.

The Cornell encounter was the third league game for Dartmouth within the space of eight days, Princeton having been defeated on the previous Saturday, 31 to 30, in what the old-timers called the most dramatic basketball game ever seen in Hanover, and Pennsylvania having been returned the winner by a similar one-point margin, 19 to 18, two nights later.

After nearly a month's lapse since its 54-20 triumph over Harvard, the Green courtmen resumed their league campaign against Princeton on January 13 and squeezed out an unexpected victory over the Tigers when A 1 Bonniwell, slim forward, flipped in an unbelievable basket with only five seconds left to play. The sudden turn of affairs was too much for the Dartmouth rooters, and the final whistle found most persons cutting emotional capers which they never dreamed themselves capable of.

The dramatic finish was only the highlight of a fiercely fought contest in which the score was tied eight times and the lead changed hands on nine different occasions. Play seesawed back and forth until the final minute of the first half, when a basket by Bonniwell and a foul by Captain Kraszewski enabled the Indians to leave the floor with a ig-12 lead. Dartmouth managed to increase its lead to 23-17 early in the second period, but Princeton put on pressure and tied it up at 23-all. From that point on the crowd remained on its feet, with neither side ever more than one basket ahead. Close to the end, Bonniwell made good on a foul shot to bring Dartmouth within one point of the Tigers, and a few moments later he caged his spectacular basket to clinch a Green victory. The honors of the evening were all Bonniwell's, and eight baskets and a foul gave him the high scoring total of 17 points.