LACROSSE TEAM FINDS A FIELD

Not looking for any excuses any more than we are trying to invent them, the lacrosse team returned from the south and attempted to stage outdoor drills on a muddy field down near the Tuck and Thayer Schools. For two days all was passable. Then the latest snow storm arrived and put a temporary halt to such ambitions.

Another of the Dartmouth athletic representatives to accept the vacation as a chance for outdoor work was the Dartmouth crew. With living quarters at Yale's Gales Ferry, the oarsmen spent several days ironing out kinks and gaining experience on the water. The Connecticut press rewarded the efforts of the Dartmouth crew with sincere "rave notices." In fact there was general amazement that Dartmouth had a crew of some polish and strength.

Gentlemen, to be frank, Dartmouth is very much out of the honky-tonk class in this crew game. Coach "Rosey" Bowen has done a remarkable job and his men have worked overtime trying to stay with their coach's ambitions and high ideals. Most of the winter has seen countless candidates taking their turn on the indoor rowing machine that has been screwed into the floor along the swimming pool side of the gymnasium upper-deck. A new shell as fine as any owned by a college in the land was christened during the Easter recess, and aspirations by members of the Rowing Club are high indeed. It may be some time before Dartmouth can hope to meet Harvard and Yale on an equal footing—and perhaps this is not the aim—but the Big Green is going places and will continue to improve year by year. Risking a brick from the back pew, we would like to add that a foot of ice on the local race course is keeping the Indians from practicing outdoors at this writing, but we won't say so.