Swimming

The Dartmouth swimming team has compiled a record of three victories and two defeats to date, winning over Springfield, McGill and N. Y. U., and losing to Yale and Princeton. The Green natators opened their season on February 2 with a 37-34 victory over Springfield, settling the issue in the final relay race after Holland of the visitors had captured three firsts in the 100-, 220- and 440-yard free style events. Four days later the Green swimmers defeated McGill, 56-15, without the services of Captain Bill Crouch and Fred Atkinson. Frank Specht set a new Dartmouth record in the 440-yard free style with a time of 5 minutes 26.6 seconds. McGill, handicapped by a small squad, entered only one man in most events.

Yale opposed Dartmouth in the Carnival swimming meet on February 8, and broke two Spaulding Pool records in defeating Sid Hazelton's charges, 50 to 21. Norris Hoyt clipped 11.4 seconds off the 440-yard mark as he won in 5 minutes flat, and Dick Cooke lowered the 220-yard record by one-tenth of a second by winning in 2:17.7. The former records were both set by Yale men in 1931. Jack Smith won Dartmouth's only first in the dive, and Doug Ley forced Livingston, Yale's sprint ace, all the way in the 50-yard race.

The Indians opened a two-game trip to N. Y. U. and Princeton by defeating the New Yorkers, 44 to 27, on February 16. Dartmouth won seven first places in the meet, Jack Smith maintaining his unbeaten record in the dive. The other firsts went to the Ley brothers, Gordon and Doug, and to Sloggett, Specht, Young, and Weiss. Two nights later, at Princeton, the Green swimmers lost 47-28, the Tigers taking four firsts and the relay to Dartmouth's three firsts. Weiss captured the breast stroke for Dartmouth, and the Ley brothers won the 50- and 100-yard dashes. Jack Smith suffered his first intercollegiate defeat in the dive, losing out to Barrett by a scant two points.