TRACK

Harry Hillman, the veteran track coach who is in his 36th year at Dartmouth, has been aided again by transfers from other colleges, but reliable Captain Burnham and Clark Judge are still on hand capturing firsts with their usual regularity.

Outstanding transfer is Walt Newman, who broke the College record in the 100-yard dash at West Point when he ran it in 9.7, only to have it disallowed because of a wind which was over four miles per hour. However, Newman, formerly of Cornell, should crack the record again before the season ends, according to Hillman.

Bob Grady, speedy M.I.T. runner, stepped into Bill Atkinson's mile spot, and has been burning up the track. Besides his mile work, Grady also runs the quartermile. Atkinson is ineligible for the rest of the season because of marks, and Hillman was also dealt a blow when his star hurdler, Tim Hewlett, came down with an attack of appendicitis just before the Army meet. Another point winner was lost when Bob Pulliam, pole vault stylist, was injured.

The track squad is small, and therefore has lost out in its ability to capture first, second, and third place points, as shown by the triangular meet. Here, Army took only two more firsts than the Big Green, yet defeated them by 43 points. The outstanding performances were turned in, however, at the Penn Relays, where the Indians took the sprint-medley and two-mile crowns.

Don Burnham, running anchor leg of the medley, rallied from 8 yards behind, and won by 20 feet as he turned in a 1:55.2 half. The great two-mile relay team of Bill Atkinson, Clark Judge, Frank Fox, and Burnham soundly whipped the favored Michigan Wolverines, but only on a mistake. With a 15-yard advantage over the Big Green going into the final leg, Coach Doherty withdrew his star anchor man, Bob Ufer, and replaced him with a mediocre miler, thus losing a title on which he had a staunch grip, since Burnham waltzed home 25 yards in front.

The triangular track meet was, as expected, a romp for a star-studded, perfectly balanced Cadet team. However, the Indians took seven firsts, with Newman turning in an outstanding afternoon, although honors must go to Clark Judge, who, running in his first competitive two mile race, soundly whipped Art Truxes, the Penn Relay champion. Judge covered the distance in 9.47.9, but Hillman expects him to take ten seconds off this time with practice and stiffer competition, which he should encounter at the outdoor IC4A meet. Newman, besides winning the 100, turned in 21.4 for the 220, only one-tenth of a second off the Dartmouth record.

ED. NOTE: Dartmouth took third in the outdoor intercollegiates at Philadelphia on May 19-20, scoring 26½ points to Navy's 81 and Army's 35½ Don Burnham was a double winner in the mile and half-mile, Clark Judge won the two-mile, and Walt Newman finished second in the 220 and third in the 100. Tom Leech took sth in the hammer, Neil Taylor 5th in the discus, and George Henry tied for 2nd in the high jump.