TRACK

Harry Hillman is celebrating an anniversary this winter, which is duly chronicled at some length elsewhere in these columns. By way of celebration, he took his track team to the West Point Relays on January 27 and did very well indeed by garnering two first places, a few thirds and fourths, and one fifth. The meet was, as expected, largely dominated by the powerhouse Army aggregation, which had given Dartmouth such a pasting in Hanover in a dual meet a couple of weeks before. In the face of this galaxy of war-inspired talent at the Point, Harry's boys did well to seize what crumbs they did from the rich Army table.

The two wins in the Dartmouth column were engineered in the high jump and the 35-pound weight throw. Joe Conley, with a leap of 6 feet 2 inches, carried off his specialty, while Sam Felton tossed the hammer 46 feet 111/2 inches, defeating as he did so the Army's intercollegiate champion. The Green also broke into the scoring column in the 1200 and 2400-yard relays, where they scored a brace of fourths; in the low hurdles where Captain Bob Grady finished third in a fast field; in the high hurdles and broad jump, where the versatile Joe Conley added fourths in both events; and in the shot put where Bill Fetzer scored a fifth place.

The team went into even faster company the next weekend, when it entered the Milrose Games in New York City. Here the mile relay team beat Penn, Columbia, and Miami to score a gratifying first in the college event, but the other star performers were in a somewhat speedier league than heretofore. Joe Conley's leap of 6 feet 3 inches was high among college competitors, but was good for only fourth place in the event. In the high hurdles, Al Snyder was shut out in an extremely fast heat, something which had not happened to him before this winter. And that was that, so far as Dartmouth was concerned.