Sport Shorts
The number of students taking part in intercollegiate, intramural and recreational sports at Dartmouth this semester has reached the grand total of 3,146, if one counts repetitions. The largest portion of this total, 1404, engaged in intramural sports, while 1096 participated in recreational sports, 430 in varsity sports, and 216 in freshman sports. Touch football this fall attracted 1056 players.
In the required physical education classes, tennis led with 237, followed by football with 158, body building with 117, golf with 112, soccer with 107, baseball with 102, swimming with 95, and track with 81.
At the present time, Sigma Chi leads in the Intramural Fraternity League, while Gile Hall leads in the Dormitory League. Zeta Psi and New Hampshire Hall are runners-up in their respective leagues.
Harry Hillman, track coach at Dartmouth for the past 25 years, will devote full time to the varsity track and crosscountry teams in the future, it was recently announced. A new trainer for the football team, which role Coach Hillman has filled for 15 years or more, will be appointed to release the veteran mentor from distracting duties. The Green coach is likely to keep a finger in the training business, however with reports circulating that he is to be named trainer for the United States Davis Cup tennis team.
Lawrence Goldthwait '36, New England speed-skating champion, and George Wallace '38, California title-holder, were among those who competed at Minneapolis in the final Olympic tryouts of the American Amateur Skating Union. In the final Eastern trials at Bear Mountain, N. Y., Goldthwait finished second to Potts, veteran American representative in the 1928 and 193 a Winter Olympics, in the 500-meter and 1500-meter events, and finished in the same position behind Bialis in the 5000meter race.
The finals of Harvey Cohn's elimination boxing tournament to pick a team to meet Harvard on February 22 were run off successfully on January 17, with the following having their arms raised in victory: John Daniels Jr. '37, New York City; Adna H. Underhill '36, Summit, N. J.; John H. Hanan '38, Narragansett, R. I.; George E. Mitchell Jr. '38, Swampscott, Mass.; Robert C. Harvey '38, Bloomfield, N. J.; Charles F. O'Connor '38, Fort Dodge, Iowa; Paul E. Thorpe '38, Amherst, Mass.; Robert E. Eckel '38, Buffalo, N. Y.; Carl A. Eckel '35, Buffalo, N. Y.: Richard B. Morse '38, Omaha, Nebr.; and John C. Richter Jr. '37, La Porte, Ind.
Word has leached Hanover that Don Allen '34, a member of last year's winter sports team and now on the Oxford ski team, won first place in the slalom and second in the langlauf in the Oxford-Cambridge ski meet in the Parsenn, Switzerland, on December 23. Allen is at Oxford on a one-year Henry Fellowship, and is expected to be a member of the D. A. O. C. team next winter.
