Track

The varsity track team has had a lean season to date, losing dual meets to Army and Harvard and finishing seventh in the first Heptagonal Games, which seem destined to become an annual fixture among the seven colleges represented in the eastern baseball and basketball leagues. Harry Hillman's track and field men lost the Army meet, 72 to 54, in opening their spring season on May 4, and dropped the annual encounter with Harvard, 84 to 51, at Cambridge on May 18. The Heptagonal Games at Princeton on May 11 went to Harvard, with Cornell second, Columbia third, Yale fourth, Princeton fifth, Pennsylvania sixth, and Dartmouth last.

The Army meet saw three new College records created. Tony Geniawicz, sophomore shot-put champion, bettered his own discus mark with a toss of 142 feet 714 inches; Johnny Hoffstetter, another of Harry Hillman's sophomore stars, set a new record for the quarter-mile with a time of 48 1/5 seconds; and Dick Bauer, West Point miler, created the third mark when he negotiated the mile in 4 minutes, 15 seconds to clip 33/5 seconds off the 82-year-old College record. Dartmouth's strength was largely confined to the field events, with Army sweeping the dashes, hurdles and distance races.

In comparison with Harvard's winning total of points, Dartmouth garnered 19 points in the Heptagonal Games in Palmer Stadium. The Green total was produced by Captain Bob Quimby's second in the 1500-meter event, two-thirds by Geniawicz in the shot and discuss, third by Dick Blister in the pole vault, third by the Green quartet in the 1600-meter relay, and fifth places by. Neff in the 100-meter dash, Cole in the hammer throw, and Hagerman in the shot.

Although overpowered by Harvard in their dual meet on May 18, the Indian trackmen turned in some brilliant individual performances. Hoffstetter shattered the Dartmouth-Harvard meet record in the 400-meter event with the exceptional time of 48.4 seconds, Quimby bested Bob Woodward in a thrilling 1500-meter run, and Dan Mitchell nosed out Dave Crawford in a close 200-meter hurdles race. Another first for Dartmouth was recorded by Geniawicz in the shot and Brister tied with Dubiel of Harvard for pole-vault honors. Seconds were garnered by Sutherland in the 800-meter run, Hagerman in the shot, Donovan in the 400-meter run, Hoffstetter in the 200-meter dash, Geniawicz in the discus, and Thomas in the javelin. Harvard swept the 100-meter dash, the 3000-meter run and the broad jump, with Norm Cahners setting two meet records in the 100-meters and the hammer throw.