Following the Big Green Teams

TRACKMEN WIN QUAD MEET; BASKETBALL AND HOCKEY FINISH WELL;BASEBALL PROSPECTS BRIGHT AS INDIAN NINE HEADS SOUTH

BY VIRTUE of strong finishes in their respective leagues, Dartmouth's hockey and basketball teams both ended their seasonal activities in second place—the basketeers behind Pennsylvania in the Eastern Intercollegiate league; the pucksters behind Harvard in the Quadrangular division of the year-old International Intercollegiate league. Exceptional records were also compiled by Coach Harry Hillman's indoor track forces and Coach Walter Prager's many charges in the Indian ski tribe.

By way of passing comment in regard to how Dartmouth teams have fared against Harvard, Yale and Princeton in major sports since September the following may be of factual interest to the alumni sports fans who are probably forced to defend constantly the Dartmouth faith against those critics who claim we can't hold a candle to the Big Three during the course of a college year in athletics. Here's how it stands to date: Dartmouth defeated Harvard and Yale in football and tied Princeton on a questionable decision of interference that has since been proven so questionable that it had much to do with changing the rule book on this play. Dartmouth's basketball team during the season just ended downed Harvard twice, Yale once and Princeton twice. Dartmouth's hockey team lost twice to Harvard, downed Yale once and Princeton twice. In winning the Quad meet championship, Dartmouth bettered the scores of both Yale and Harvard. And our major sport of skiing can't be compared to Harvard, Yale and Princeton records because of the very unfairness of the comparison. Neither is this taking advantage of an unusual athletic year for Dartmouth in the major sports field; for the writer, out of natural curiosity, recently spent some time in the files of TheDartmouth and discovered that the last decade has favored Dartmouth with more total wins in the major sports than any one of the Big Three in the Dartmouth-Harvard-Yale-Princeton competitions.

This, however, is getting us off on a tangent and to return to the circumference of a short review of the winter season perhaps it might be well to single out the Big Green trackmen for highest award of the month for their first Quadrangular meet title in 13 years; but to do so would be to slight the following: the quintet which surprised the basketball experts of the East with its excellent play considering the handicap of inexperienced material Coach Osborne Cowles had at his disposal at the outset of his first year as coach; the sextet which buried all real and imaginary internal difficulties for a few last impressive united efforts; the ski team which climaxed a decade and more of Dartmouth ski supremacy with the greatest of all winning campaigns on the snow; the freshman basketball and hockey squads that enjoyed noteworthy seasons of their own; and last, but on a par with the others, the Dartmouth swimming team under Coach Sid Hazelton which lost only to Harvard and Yale by large scores and pressed every other foe on the schedule to wins or close defeats.

Directly ahead on the Big Green athletic road all signs are clear and the engineer has called for full speed ahead. Specifically the outlook for the baseball and track teams this spring looks brighter than a polished mirror.

It seems difficult to believe that Jeff Tesreau can better his championship team of two years ago or his co-champion team of last spring. But if Jeff can partially fill the gap in his pitching staff left by the graduation of present Boston Red Soxer, Ted Olson, genial Jeff believes he will do just this. For one thing his infield shapes up as a better balanced quartet than last year or the year before and his batting power appears promising to say the least.

As the nine left for the South, Charlie Tesreau held the first base position after three weeks of work in the cage, sophomore Buddy McLaughlin was at second for his first varsity try, Captain Ray Ratajczak was firmly intrenched at short stop preparatory to what looks like the outstanding year for the great Indian ball player, and Brad Jenkins, who spent his sophomore year filling in a shortage of Big Green catchers, was at third.

Ratajczak, McLaughlin and Jenkins are all known as brilliant collegiate fielders and Tesreau is expected to make up for a slight awkwardnes afield with his powerful bat.

These men alone assumed any semblance whatever of being certain of starting the first games of the southern trip. Behind the plate Coach Tesreau must still decide between three outstanding sophomore prospects, Joe Urban, Bob Gibson and Lennie Viens. In the outfield the veteran Eddie Casey has only to resume his batting strength of his sophomore year to establish himself firmly in centerfield for his third and last season. Senior Howie Longley and sophomore George Hanna are slated to open the season at left and right field after the team returns north after Easter vacation, but both must prove their rights to their posts-in the southland competition.

In fact, competition for every position except Captain Ratajczak's is still open and the training trip will be used to great advantage by Jeff in making his final decisions on the players. For instance, the veteran Carl "Mutt" Ray is not currently listed on the starting nine, and yet it's a safe bet that "Mutt" will find his spot before the schedule is very far underway. His great competitive spirit, experience, and strong throwing arm are factors that may offset his failure to hit well in his two previous seasons in the varsity lineup.

Then, too, the pitching staff, although the question mark of the entire team, is still unsettled. Ted Bruce, after two years as head understudy to Olson, should be ready for a banner season. Sophomore Bud Clifford also arrived at Dartmouth with a highly regarded preparatory school twirling reputation, but the sophomore lefthander failed to impress this corner in his starts as a freshman last year. His showing on the southern expedition if good, will relieve much of the worry from the pitching staff. Junior Ben Lane, a dependable hurler last year, and a relief hurler of real merit, seems the more likely number two pitcher, however.

The fact of the matter is, though, if Bruce and one helping mate come through as expected, the promising batting and fielding ability of the Indians may win many games. In this respect Dartmouth will be not unlike the other nines of the Eastern Intercollegiate league, for if outside reports may be passed along as worthy sources of information, the League will have few outstanding pitchers and much batting strength all along the line. The Indians apparently have only to stand toe to toe with their foes and slug it out, and I have confidence the Big Green will be the last standing when the pennant is handed out in June.

TRACK TO THE FORE

On the local front, the baseball team will be forced to share some of its rabid support from the student body with the track team. Track, long in the dog house in Hanover, insofar as popular enthusiasm can be measured by the deplorable lack of interest shown at the ticket gate, received a tremendous boost this winter with the aforementioned Quad meet win and a fourth place for the Big Green in the I. C. 4A championships at New York two weeks later. Jackie Donovan's individual rise to stardom over the high hurdles this winter has also contributed greatly in arousing sleeping interest in the sport.

Of course, the track team is on the spot if it would continue this recent burst into the spotlight, and that is exactly what Coach Harry Hillman and his runners promise to do. It will be a well balanced Dartmouth team which takes to the cinders in the South for training meets.

In addition to Donovan, the team also has several colorful performers to please the most exacting of the most critical of spectators. Captain Tony Geniawicz, who has labored diligently to regain his record breaking form of his freshman and sophomore years, is most certain to reach his peak for the spring meets. Tony, with a bad knee, threw the shot consistently around the 49 foot mark last year. This year with his knee back in order once more, he has been forced to change his style once again and the change has come by slow, and at times for Tony, discouraging stages.

Quarter miler Johnny Hoffstetter also packs the color that has been popular with the track fans. Johnny has already broken the 440 record of the college and now aims to set his own mark at a still lower figure. His anchor legs on the Dartmouth mile relay four during the winter have been outstanding performances and forecast that Johnny will realize his present ambitions.

Roy Hatch, who ran second on the mile relay team this winter, will back Johnny as the number two quarter miler. Hatch is just realizing on his power and speed and improved with each start this winter despite the fact that he postponed his most serious track efforts until this, his senior year.

Two other members of the mile relay quartet, Pat Gorman and Bud Foster, have moved up to the half mile race to strengthen this spot on the lineup. Both have bettered two minutes indoors and either, or both should develop into leading Eastern 880 men early in the schedule.

On the squad itself, Donovan and Bill Watson present a trial hurdle race that is worthy of a Madison Square Garden meet. Donovan has barely edged out his own teammate this winter, and lost to Watson in the Quad meet by the same narrow margin. This daily competition has been of mutual benefit to both, and together they should run one, two in every meet and at the outdoor Intercollegiates on May 29-30.

Wayne Ballantyne in the hammer throw, Jim Cuffe in the high jump, Warren King and Johnny Johnson in the dashes, Stew Whitman in the mile, Ulysses Wharton in the pole vault, King in the broad jump, Danny Mitchell in the 220-yard low hurdles and Geniawicz in the discus will shoulder a major portion of the scoring duties for the Indians.

SPRING FOOTBALL

Spring football at Dartmouth has also commanded its share of attention from the sporting public. Freshman candidates with ability that would lift them into the varsity ranks next fall have been few and far between. In truth, the only prospect seems to be Bob Campbell of Brooklyn. Campbell, a big 195-pound giant, will fit in nicely in one of the guard slots if his scholastic ability remains on a par with his gridiron promise. Others with the size appear a year or two away from college football while others with ability appear too small to be of great value to Coach Blaik and his staff. In the gymnasium cage the workouts have keen limited to fundamentals. When the snow man discovers that he has mixed up his calendar this year and decides to let spring arrive in New Hampshire, Coaches Blaik, Gustafson, Ellinger, Hirshberg, Chamberlain and Hoffman will move to Chase field for a more extensive practice schedule of scrimmages.

In connection with the importance of spring practice to college football, it should be remembered that Coach Blaik was able to decide on his entire starting lineup on the basis of the spring work, and so well were the selections made that the same lineup that was known as the varsity for the last spring scrimmage was exactly the same as that which started the Princeton game at the end of the fall season with the exception that Carl Ray was with the ball team.

Therefore with nearly every position open for next September, the gridsters have taken the spring workouts in great seriousness realizing that the Big Green will stand or fall to a great extent upon the developments of the month on Chase field.

Congratulations of the month to Will Thomas for his selection to the Eastern League's all-star basketball five and his election to the captaincy for next year .... to Hal Parachini, retiring basketball captain for his evident qualities of leadership this winter To Ed White for his election to captaincy of the swimming team for next year .... to Jack Donovan for his I. C. A. A. A. A. indoor hurdling crown and to Coach Pat Kaney for the manner in which he conducted the Eastern Intercollegiate Gym championships here in Hanover on March 20.

Intramurals

It seems to be the upset year in intramurals, with champions falling right and left. Sigma Chi was the only repeat winner during the winter season annexing the volley ball crown for the second consecutive year. In hockey Phi Gamma Delta became the new cup-holder in the fraternity, division while Middle Mass. found itself dormitory champion. In basketball, Zeta Psi added to its collection of cups for the year by winning the fraternity and college basketball championships, while Gile carried off the honors in dormitory competition.

The hockey finals were colored considerably by the Beta-Sigma Chi battle for the first finalist birth. It required two games to decide the winner, the first game ending in a 1-1 tie after an hour of play and the second game going to the Betas by virtue of a last minute tally by Johnny Perry. But the Phi Gams, after disposing of the Phi Sigs in convincing style flashed too much style in the final game and defeated the Betas in an exciting exhibition of hockey.

In selecting an All-Fraternity Hockey Team this year the Department set a precedent which promises to become a permanent policy of real value. The committee, composed of Coach Tommy Keane, Manager Dick Brierley and Referees Mouse Hallett and Paul Ossen, has just announced its final selections for the first two teams giving an unanimous vote to Les Chase '39 for the mythical captaincy of the all-star team. Members of the first All Fraternity team follow:

First Team

Wings, Les Chase '39, Phi Gamma Delta, and Bob Wing '39, Phi Gamma Delta; Center, Art Ruggles '37, Psi Upsilon; Defense, Charlie Goodrich '39, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Mouse Hallett '38, Sigma Chi; Goal, Ev Woodman '39, Sigma Chi.

The final playoff ratings in the fraternity basketball found Sigma Chi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Zeta Psi, Pi Lambda Phi, Phi Psi, and Psi Upsilon as the final contestants. The Zetes sprang the upset by defeating the powerful S. A. E. team in the semifinals while Sigma Chi defeated Psi Upsilon, winners for the past two years.

In line with its new policy, the department also announced an all-fraternity and an all-dormitory basketball team.

All-Fraternity Team

Forwards, Bob Kaiser '39, Psi Upsilon, and Bill McMurtrie '38, Phi Kappa Psi; Center, Bob Loughry '39, Zeta Psi; Guards, Bob Gibson '39, Psi Upsilon, and Latta McCray '37, Delta Kappa Epsilon.

All-Dormitory Team

Forwards, Walt Carlson '40, Gile, and Mayer Abrahamsen '40, New Hampshire; Center, Jack Wiener '40, Gile; Guards, Jim Weaver '40, Gile, and Bill Holmes '40, College.

Boxing and wrestling seem really to have come into their own in intramurals this month. The first dormitory boxing and wrestling championships in the history of the College were held before an enthusiastic crowd early in the month, and the College open championships followed later. Bill Fitzell '40 dominated both tournaments, winning two championships in the dormitory boxing and wrestling and the same two crowns in the college open.

With the winter season drawing to a close, squash, dormitory volley ball, ping pong, and handball occupy the intramural spotlight. The fraternity squash tournament will see Sigma Chi defending its championship, but without the team of last year, Johnny Nelson, Bob Reeve and Dick Brierley, all of whom have been declared ineligible because of their activities with the informal squash team which represented the College this year. The extramural meet with Harvard has been called off for the current year because of the lack of suitable date in which both colleges could compete. We look forward to resuming such relations in the coming years. Harvard unfortunately has disbanded its intramural boxing and wrestling, which takes much of the spice out of the annual meets.

ROBERT P. FULLER '37 Native of Beverly, Mass., whose columnwriting in the field of sports for The Dartmouth and the ALUMNI MAGAZINE hasbrought him distinction in undergraduatejournalism.

GREEN TRACK ACEJack Donovan, intercollegiate hurdleschampion, has taken his place in the lineof great timber-toppers produced by HarryHillman.

SWIMMING CAPTAIN-ELECT Ed White, holder of the College breaststroke record, will lead the Dartmouthswimming team next season.

SPRING SCHEDULES BASEBALL Apr. i William and Mary at Williams- burg. 2 Maryland at College Park. 3 Temple at Philadelphia. 4 St. John's at Brooklyn. 17 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. S3 Providence at Providence. 24 Brown at Providence. 28 Cornell at Ithaca. 29 Syracuse at Syracuse. May 1 Princeton (2 games). 5 Vermont at Burlington. 8 Columbia at New York (2 games). >2 Yale. i5 Harvard. 18 Holy Cross at Worcester. 21 Pennsylvania. 22 Yale at New Haven. 25 Vermont. 29 Cornell. June 10 Harvard at Cambridge. 12 Maryland. TRACK Apr. 3 Maryland at College Park. May 1 Holy Cross. 8 Heptagonal Games at Cam- bridge. 15 Harvard at Cambridge. 22 Colgate. TENNIS May 1 M. I. T. 6 Harvard at Cambridge. 7 Williams at Williamstown. 8 Army at West Point. 10-12 N. E. Intercollegiates at Spring- field. 13 Princeton at Princeton. 14 Columbia at New York. 15 Yale at New Haven. !7 Cornell at Ithaca. GOLF Apr. 28 Bowdoin. May 1 Manchester C. C. at Manchester. 7 Yale at New Haven. 8 (A.M.) Williams at New Haven. (P.M.) Holy Cross at New Haven. 12 Amherst at Amherst. 14 Brown. i5 Harvard. LACROSSE Apr. 1 St. John's at Annapolis. 3 Navy at Annapolis. 10 Johns Hopkins. 23 Brown at Providence. 24 Harvard at Cambridge. 28 M. I. T. May I Yale. 8 Union. 14 Colgate at Hamilton. 15 Hobart at Geneva. 22 New Hampshire at Durham.

Final StandingsBASKETBALL LEAGUEPointsW.L.For Agst. Penn 12 0 445 35° Dartmouth 8 4 484 455 Columbia . 5 460 432 Yale 7 ■ 5 450 408 Harvard . . 6 6 434 416 Princeton . 2 10 374 474 Cornell 0 12 401 513 HOCKEY LEAGUEGoalsW.L.Pts.For Agst. McGill . . . 10 o 20 CD 00 Harvard . . 9 1 18 57 3° Toronto . . 6 4 12 ■ 48 32 Montreal . 5 5 lO 33 33 Queens . . . 4 6 8 35 40 Dartmouth 3 7 6 29 64 Yale 2 8 4 20 60 Princeton I 9 2 25 62 SWIMMING LEAGUEPointsW.L.For Agst. Harvard . . 6 0 3l3 137 Yale 5 i 317 >34 Princeton . 4 2 221 229 Dartmouth 2 4 203 247 Columbia 2 4 188 263 Penn 2 4 172 278 Navy 0 6 162 288