Skiing

The Dartmouth ski team climaxed its phenomenal season by winning the intercollegiate championship for the fifth consecutive year at St. Sauveur, Quebec, on March i and 2. Scoring 496.5 points out of a possible 500, the Green skiers took team honors in every event except the downhill and staged a brilliant uphill fight to win their first major relay race of the year. The final standings at the end of the Intercollegiate Ski Union championships gave Dartmouth 496.5, McGill 458.0, New Hampshire 452.2, Middlebury 345.3, Toronto 275.5, Cornell 226.5, and Norwich 208.2.

Dick Durrance, with first in the slalom, first in the jump, third in the downhill and third in the combined event, was once more the individual star of Otto Schniebs' crack team. "Bern" Woods was close on his heels with a first in the combined event, three seconds in the slalom, jump, and langlauf, and a fourth in the downhill. Dartmouth swept the first four places in the jump, with Hannah and Chivers finishing behind Durrance and Woods, and the first five places in the combined event, Woods, Chivers, Durrance, Hannah and Bradley finishing in that order. Ted Hunter, with a tie for first in the downhill and fifth in the slalom, also played a prominent role in the Indians' defense of their skiing crown.

The 8-mile relay race did not figure in the meet scoring, but because of the unfortunate outcome of the Carnival meet Otto Schniebs and his men had their hearts set on winning that particular event. After Dartmouth had trailed during the first two legs, Bill Lingley forged ahead of the McGill man on a stiff uphill climb, and Warren Chivers clinched the victory by taking the final downhill leg wide open. Coach Schniebs, who has witnessed quite a bit of skiing in his day, is still talking about Chivers' speed in that final dash, and competent judges estimate that he must have been doing around 75 miles an hour.

Over the week-end of February 23, the varsity ski team captured the Mt. Mansfield Carnival against a rather weak field; the B team finished second behind the White Mountain Ski Runners in the Third Class Eastern Downhill Championships held on the Gunstock Trail at Laconia, N. H.; and the third team defeated Cornell, 90-88, in a two-day meet at Ithaca. In the downhill races at Laconia, H. A. Cooke Jr. '37 took individual honors with a new record for the Gunstock Trail.

In the Ski Club Hochgebirge's Invitation Ski Meet at Franconia on March 16, the Dartmouth team took the meet trophy by winning the slalom and finishing second in the downhill. The Hochgebirge skiers, made up of Harvard graduates, won the downhill on the fast Taft Trail but did not do as well in the other event.

Dick Durrance won individual honors by taking first place in both events. He captured the slalom in the remarkably fast time of 1146, and won the downhill dash in 2:503/5. Warren Chivers was but one-fifth of a second behind Durrance in the slalom, with Ted Hunter third and Bern Woods fifth. The same men figured in the downhill race, with Line Washburn and Bud Titcomb also competing. Dartmouth's second team in the H< chgebirge meet included Meservey, Chamberlin, Soule, Cooke, Densmore and Bradley.

OLYMPIC TRIALS NEXT

With their regular season closed, Otto Schniebs' skiers are now looking forward to the Olympic trials at Mt. Rainier, Washington, on April 13 and 14. The Outing Club plans to send a four-man team of Durrance, Hunter, Woods and Chivers, and Washburn, who took third in the national downhill last year, will go out to the Pacific coast on his own.

Woods won the first national downhill championship in 1933, the Mt. Washington downhill in 1934, and was second to Durrance in the intercollegiate slalom this season. Chivers, who has picked up a lot of places in downhill racing, is especially dangerous when it comes to straightaway speed, and for this reason will be a valuable man at Mt. Rainier. Hunter, the most graceful skier on the Dartmouth team, tied for first in the intercollegiate downhill this season, won the Carnival slalom event, and was second to Durrance in the downhill. Washburn, a dependable performer, took third in the national downhill races in Colorado last year. Durrance, whose brilliance on skis has had the whole campus agog this winter, won the downhill at Carnival, the Toronto international and the Massachusetts State championship, and won the slalom at Lake Placid, the Intercollegiate Ski Union championships, and the Toronto international. Last season, while still in high school, he won the Eastern downhill championship on Hell's Highway.