MCGILL STAR WINS JUMP

The only first place in the five events which escaped the Dartmouth skiers was the jumping, which Bob Johannsen of McGill won with his annual outstanding performance. Captain Warren Chivers placed second and Dave Bradley and John Litchfield finished well enough up in the event to present Dartmouth the team championship with a total point scoring for the meet of 486.3 out of a possible 500 points. Going into the jumping event Dartmouth had scored perfect ratings in the downhill, slalom, and langlauf, and later scored a clean sweep in the combined- Captain Warren Chivers and Dick Durrance also added a slight Dartmouth touch to the National Combined Championships held at Minneapolis, Minn., on February 13-14 when Warren won the national title and Dick placed third. Johnny Litchfield also spread the local color in another direction the same week-end by winning the Class A Eastern Amateur Ski Jumping Championship at Rumford, Me.

And just to make sure that no coach made any offers to one of his ski team members, Coach Walter Prager sent along Dave Bradley to watch Litchfield and Dave came home with an Open Combined Championship wrapped around his skis.

All of which makes very easy reading for Dartmouth sports fans. And a good note on the ski team would seem to be that Coach Walter Prager, who is fast becoming one of Hanover's most popular in- habitants with skiers and non-skiers alike, cut his squad recently to 40 members and of this number of leading intercollegiate skiers, only one was a senior, Harry Cooke from Burlington, Vt., where he is known as Harrison to his friends.

Which leads us to wondering what some of our other athletic teams couldn't do with a little of this comparative Dartmouth ski squad strength. Our C team in football would be playing Minnesota and our baseball varsity would be in the American league, or something. At any rate, it looks very well for several more years to come even if the snow does continue to act bashful.