SKIING LAURELS IN DANGER
While the basketball and hockey teams have good chances of retaining their titles, Dartmouth's long standing claim to intercollegiate skiing supremacy is in imminent danger of being lost. It is not known to what extent the University of New Hampshire has lost veteran skiers to the armed services, but it seems doubtful that the Wildcats' losses are as great as those of the Big Green.
Bob Meservey, Dartmouth's star downhill and slalom skier, will not be able to captain the 1943 team because of his December graduation. His place as leader of the Indians' ski forces has been taken by junior Bill Distin from Saranac Lake, N. Y., one of the best four-event skiers in the East. But besides Distin, John Chivers of the famous Hanover skiing family is the only other Dartmouth skier who has had much experience in stiff competition.
Contrary, however, to a common impression, Dartmouth's ski teams of recent years have not necessarily been weaker than those of former seasons. The Green has dominated no other sport so completely as skiing in years past, but today the calibre of the competition has increased in direct proportion to the popularity of the sport.
Although New Hampshire has taken the Dartmouth Carnival title for the past two years, the Green has managed by the narrowest margins to retain the ISU title, which is comparable to the IC4A-title in track. A battle-scarred Dartmouth Indian may be able to keep the New Hampshire Wildcat at bay for a third year, but it is going to be a tough fight.
The coaching duties of Karl Michael, now in training at Chapel Hill, N. C., as a member of the Tom Hamilton physical training group, will be taken over by Fred Worthen '43, star of last year's swimming team who graduated in December. Faced with the task of rebuilding a Dartmouth swimming squad which has lost all the juniors of a year ago, Worthen will probably have to rely largely upon the members of last year's freshman team plus some promising members of the class of 1946.
Among the outstanding candidates are Bill Rolph of Honolulu, T.H., free styler and distance swimmer; Marty Anderholm, 1945 freshman captain from Gardner, Mass., also a free styler; Bill Schacht of Huntington, Ind., former interscholastic diving champion; Cline Mann, also from Honolulu; and freshman Paul Lux of Middlebury, Conn.
MAESTROS OF THE SQUASH COURTRed Hoehn (left), tennis and squash coach, and Tommy Dent, who helps out with squashwhen not busy coaching the soccer and lacrosse teams, pose in cheerful fashion beforeundertaking an afternoon's work with the young army of Dartmouth undergraduateswho have taken to the indoor court game.
VETERANS OF DARTMOUTH COACHING STAFF Harry Hillman, track coach since 1910, explains the workings of his starting gun to JeffTesreau, who has directed Big Green baseball teams since 1919. The latter is probablyfeigning ignorance, for it is alleged that he is a crack shot with a starting pistol, especiallywhen sneaking up behind the dean of coaches.
