Golf

The golf team has caused much of the spring excitement, confounding the prognosticated who assigned it to last place in the northern division of the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association by tying with Yale for division honors and losing out only in the play-off for the right to meet Princeton in the Eastern title match. The Green golfers handed Yale its first defeat in three years as they swept through four division matches, but the Blue team got its revenge when it blanked Dartmouth, 9-0, in the play-off at Greenwich.

In achieving a tie for division honors, Dartmouth defeated Williams, 8-1; Yale, 5-4; Brown, 8-1; and Harvard, 5-4, only to fall before Holy Cross, 7-2, in the match which would have given it undisputed possession of the northern crown.

In the important Yale match, played at Williamstown on May 2, Bob Heneage and Tom von Tacky scored three points for the Green by winning their singles as well as their foursome matches. Doug Porter, shooting four under par for the last 14 holes, downed Eshelman for another point, and then teamed up with Dick Heneage for the deciding point in the foursome match with Munson and Eshelman. Captain Gib Sykes and Freddie Kneip found the Blue opposition too strong that day, and Dick Heneage dropped his twosome match with Munson to account for Yale's four points.

In the play-off with Yale, Dick Heneage forced Bob Fisher to the 19th hole before bowing, and his brother Bob lost a tight match to Allen on the 18th green. Porter also lost on the 18th, and he and Dick Heneage carried Fisher and Eshelman the full 18 holes before losing out. The remaining matches were won by Yale in decisive fashion, Gib Sykes, A 1 Bliss, and Tom von Tacky falling before the revenge-seeking Bulldogs.

The close match with Harvard was decided when Captain Sykes holed a four-foot putt on the 19th green to win the third four-ball match and the entire encounter. Bob Heneage, Porter, and Kneip won their singles matches, and the fifth point was garnered by Bob Heneage and von Tacky, who downed McGowan and Bellows, 4 and 3.

In non-league competition during the past month, Dartmouth defeated Boston College, 71/, to 11/2, and Amherst, 5 to 4.