Swimming

The swimming team closed its season with a 41-30 victory over Brown on March 3, finishing with a record of five wins and three losses. Princeton, Harvard, and Yale administered the defeats, while Springfield, Colgate, Army, M. I. T. and Brown were the victims of Sid Hazelton's tankmen.

Bill Crouse, who has been elected to captain the Green swimmers next year, Fred Atkinson, and Bob Smith entered the Intercollegiates at Rutgers on March 16 and 17. The Dartmouth captain-elect, who stars in the dashes, finished third in the 50- yard event and fourth in the 100-yard race. Atkinson qualified for the breast-stroke, but was not among the final winners.

Following its 38-33 loss to Harvard on February 17, the Indian swimmers journeyed to West Point and there defeated the Army, 43 to 28, for the fifth time in five meets. Victory in the final relay event, and Crouse's double victory in the 50- and 100-yard dashes enabled the Green to win Against Yale, the Green swimmers went under, 49 to 22, but Crouse again captured both dashes, and Atkinson set a new College record for the 200-yard breast-stroke with the time of 2 minutes 402/5 seconds. Dartmouth won no second places, but Captain Banfield, Ballard, Meigher, Essex, Specht, Weiss, and Earl were credited with thirds.

The Dartmouth tankmen had an easy time of it against M. I. T. at Boston, and trounced the Engineers, 64 to 16. The Indians swept all events except the 220 and 440, Captain Banfield winning the 50-yard dash and Earl taking first in the 100-yard race in the absence of Crouse.

In the Brown meet at Hanover, the double victories of Crouse in the 50 and 100, and the capturing of the final relay race again accounted for the winning margin. Jim Ballard won the 220 and Ralph Specht the 44.0, to give Dartmouth a clean sweep in the freestyle events. Atkinson again won the breast-stroke, and the relay quartet of Ballard, Ley, Banfield and Crouse had no serious opposition from its Bruin rivals.