Winter Sports Success in 24th D.O.C. Carnival
EACH YEAR, in some strange way, Dartmouth's Carnival seems to outdo itself, and set itself still more firmly in the position of the College's one big gala event. The smoothness with which all worked out through everyone's cooperation was a real tribute to the event. But most pleasing of all was the fact that the greatest achievements were those of Otto Schniebs' winter sports team.
Carnival this year had sanction as the championship meet of the Intercollegiate Winter Sports Union, and as such drew entries from every college, both in Canada and the United States, interested in skiing and skating. In mere numbers the entries were unheard of; at one time the competitions department expected one hundred and thirty-five team guests in town for the week-end and the committee was planning madly to entertain that number comfortably in a town already overcrowded by social guests alone. Actually over one hundred and ten men appeared for the Carnival events and furnished the keenest competition which Hanover has ever seen in winter sports. Many of the entries were Olympic stars and over half of them brought the seasoning experience of skiing competition in Canada. It was in the midst of this field that the Dartmouth Winter Sports team performed so outstandingly to keep the championship and the cup representing it solidly in Hanover. And the brightest feather in its cap is not the number of points won, but rather the way in which they were earned.
At the end of the events Friday evening, Dartmouth had a total of nine points, against New Hampshire's twenty-four; for their usual point winners in the skating events, Shea and Goldthwait hadn't been able to compete, and only Ted Hunter's and Line Washburn's good skating had kept Dartmouth from a complete shut-out in the events on Occom Pond.
It was then that Otto had the set-up he has been wanting for his team for years. Before this Dartmouth has won the Carnival event, but always had it well in hand by the end of the skating, and so left no real proof for the skiers. This year, when the competition was resumed Saturday morning, Dartmouth's only hopes of receiving the championship cup lay in outstanding performance from the skiers—and that is exactly what saved the day. On windy, sub-zero Balch Hill, Emerson capped the field of over sixty competitors to win the slalom, with Woods and Peabody earning one more point for the team in a tie for fourth place. Perhaps just to make sure that his last performance in Hanover events would be remembered, Emerson then went back up the hill and down again in the new kind of downhill race prepared for the large field, and tied for second with Warren Chivers, one of the freshmen on the Dartmouth team. In the jumping the skiers again proved they could win a winter sports event with their own points, for Woods took a very pretty first with a jump of 37.5 meters, slightly ahead of Chivers in second place and Hannah in fourth.
Except for LaFlamme of Ottawa, Dartmouth had made a complete sweep of the honors at the most impressive of the Carnival events. There could be no more satisfied man than Coach Otto, nor a happier team than his winter sports men that night, when the total results showed Dartmouth out in front thirty-five points to twenty-four for New Hampshire, with twenty-eight of those winning points earned on skis.
THIS EPIC OF winter sports competition was played before a Carnival setting unique in its color and size. Eight hundred and fifty-six girls were entertained at the fraternities, one of which, though bulging with sixteen male inhabitants normally, somehow managed to stow away fifty-nine girls, comfort questionable. With such an array of beauties the Carnival Queen judges, this year Deans Bill, Neidlinger and Strong, chosen for good eye and solid judgment, had a most difficult time in selecting the girl to reign over the festivities. The final choice was Miss Dorothy Phillips, who took her throne at The Outdoor Evening pageant of eskimos and igloos, culminating in a blaze of fireworks and the skating of the champion Weigel sisters. This year the committee, in an attempt to have the Queen more a real part of the week-end, also presented her to the Carnival crowds Saturday afternoon, at the ski-jumping, and asked her to present the cup awards for ski-joring and snow sculpture. These last in particular were keenly won, for the snow sculpture this year was contested with highly artistic productions. Though good snow was to be had for the sculpturing for over a month, much good work was done in colored ice, an example set this year by the large green and black ice monument on the center of the campus, with bas relief by its designer, George Metzger. Much of the ice was made effective by supplementary snow work, and Beta Theta Pi was finally adjudged the winner, for using snow to a more elaborate and successful degree than any other house.
The program could be elaborated almost without end, through the contribution of The Players and their elegant "lolanthe" production, the athletic teams and the exciting games they staged for recordbreaking crowds at the gymnasium, and all the smaller effects of the social extravaganza that filled Friday, Saturday and Sunday until all dropped away so suddenly at the Norwich station. Carnival is always this stupendous picture—gigantic in action while it moves, grand in memories when it's over.
Director of Carnival
