TYPE OF PLAY HAS APPEAL

Probably the team's excellent record has had much to do with the new increase in interest, but there is also something to be said for Coach Cowles' type of basketball that has an immense spectator appeal. Coach Cowles has taken full advantage of the recent speeding up of the game, and his own offense regards such lightning like passing of the ball that most of the fans are as tired as the players at the end of each game—just from following the progress of the ball.

On the hockey side of the sports ledger, the Dartmouth sextet has developed under Coach Eddie Jeremiah just as many of us hoped and dared to expect it would. The popular Jeremiah made it clear to one and all at the outset of the season that win or lose he would make every effort to mold a Dartmouth six that would know how to block at the defensive positions and would know how to check back on the lines. This was Jeremiah's sure fire way of laying the groundwork for a six that would never be badly beaten by teams in its own class, and as it has turned out, the team has only suffered one setback, that being the already mentioned McGill massacre.

In this one game it was impossible for the Hanover stickmen to get close to the McGill wizards, let alone body check them or cover them with the front lines. Perhaps the 13-1 margin shows McGill to be slightly more superior than they actually were on the ice. However, Fud Mather's lone goal was the only tally made against the Canadians on their recent American tour, which was some feather in the Dartmouth caps.

The McGill defeat stopped Dartmouth's consecutive winning steak at the eight straight point, but since the McGill game the lads in Green have started a new series with wins over Montreal, Williams and Yale building up a new mark rapidly.

The Montreal game, won by Dartmouth, 7-6, saw the Indians overcome an early lead of three goals, tie the game in the third period and go on to take the contest in the closing minute of the third stanza after the majority of the fans present had given the game to Montreal and had departed to be in at the start of the Harvard-Dartmouth basketball game. So the stickmen received most of their applause in the gymnasium when it was announced that Dartmouth had won the tilt by one point. So surprised were the hockey fans who had left prematurely, that there was a loud clamor for a repeat of the information, the fans apparently scared to believe what they had heard in light of the score at the end of the second period.

However, as enjoyable as this demonstration of fight and determination against Montreal was, the top spot in the ice season so far came with the 6-2 upset the Big Green handed to the Elis. Few of the hockey authorities had figured on Dartmouth as a strong entry in the League, and most of the pre-game comment favored the Blue, especially after the Elis had held Toronto to a 2-2 overtime draw.

Thus the win itself was most welcome and the four point margin of victory almost unbelievable.

Whether Yale was experiencing an oif night, or whether Dartmouth is going to be stronger than expected this winter will soon be apparent after the results of the Canadian trip come in. Both Queens and Toronto have leading teams in the I. I. League for this campaign and a win over both or one of these teams will mean much to the rating of the Big Green in the future.

And in the great outdoors, the Dartmouth skiing team goes merrily on its way, winning meets here and there in a consistent fashion. Billed as the Intercollegiate North American Championship, the Dartmouth-University of Washington dual meet was completely dominated by Coach Walter Prager's crack skiers. Without the services of Dick Durrance in the slalom and downhill, the Indians went on to take everything in sight that was movable, more or less ending once and for all the myth that the Pacific coast college has a ski team that compares favorably with the famed Dartmouth squad.

Captain Dave Bradley of the Hanover skiers won the slalom event, Howard Olivers the langlauf, Warren Chivers the downhill and the five man team of Warren and Howard Chivers, Dave and Steve Bradley and Johnny Litchfield finished well up in each of the events.

At Lake Placid in the absence of the "A" team skiers, the Dartmouth "B" team won the annual college crown with Ed Wells, Ted Hunter, Tiger Chamberlain, Ed Meservey, Ev Wood and Percy Rideout taking most of the honors of the meet. The score of the "B" team was goo, a perfect performance in ski competition.

Several of the Dartmouth skiers have also entered competitions as individuals and the "C" team placed third during the Christmas vacation at Lac Beauport, Canada, behind McGill and New Hampshire.

Practically all of Hanover's legion of ski enthusiasts are now looking forward to the Carnival Ski Meet in which a Bavarian, Norwegian, Canadian and American quartet all figure as the major threats of the teams entered. In lining up the Bavarian skiers, and the Norwegians, the Dartmouth team has selected for itself the stiffest competition the Big Green has ever faced. If Coach Prager's men are able to win the Carnival meet this year, there will be little doubt in anybody's mind that Dartmouth rules the world's collegiate skiing picture. For the Indians bettered the Swiss University all-stars a year ago and now are walking up one more rung to face virtually the cream of the European collegiate skiers.

In the freshman athletic world, the out- standing news of the moment is Gutave Broberg, one of the most sensational frosh basketball players to appear in Hanover in ten years. Coach Chick Evans, who has tutored the yearling quintets for nine years, says that Mr. Broberg is "posolutely" the best thing that has happened his way in all this time, and no wonder!

Broberg has already in two freshman games scored 33 points against Portland Junior College and another 23 points against Kimball Union Academy. In the first game he played 27 minutes and in the second 25, which may account for the difference in his scoring in the two games. Few freshman court aces have ever been any hotter, and the entire frosh team is good, as we reported last month. The results of the two games played already have been: 67-37 and 57-9, with neither of the onesided scores completely accounted for by the weak opposition.

To Julian Armstrong of the freshman swimming team goes the cup of the month for breaking the freshman record in 100 free style event, time 53.8 seconds, bettering the old freshman mark by two full seconds. Coach Sid Hazelton believes that Armstrong will surpass his own mark before the winter is over, and also wishes he could use this first-year performer right now to bolster his varsity squad, for Armstrong is also a standout in the 50- and 200- yard free style dashes.

To the varsity squash team went a good natured kidding for being the only Dartmouth team to lose to Yale on the weekend of January 15. Even with a 7-0 match the Indians pressed the Elis in every set on the long afternoon program, and it shouldn't be long before Dartmouth begins to take its rightful place in the intercollegiate squash world, despite the fact the sport is stressed so much more in several of the other leading Eastern colleges.

And to the entire squads of all of the Dartmouth winter sports teams a giant applause for the perfect condition the Indian athletes have shown in all contests this winter—a factor that has had much to do with the many successes on several different sports fronts. The seriousness of the Dartmouth athletes in training this year has been better than I have ever seen it which is certainly a good note with which to end up this article.

"SLIM" CONNORS (LEFT), HANOVER'S WELL-KNOWN MAN ABOUT TOWN, OFFICIATES AT AN INTRAMURAL HOCKEY GAME, WHILE TO THE RIGHT IS A VIEW OF INTERFRATERNITY ACTION ON ONE OF THE FOUR OUTDOOR RINKS ON OCCOM POND

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