TRACK

The balmy spring sun (and anyone who has undergone the usual spring in these parts will understand the rhapsodic references to the weather this year) has given Harry Hillman's boys an extra month's lease on life, with gratifying results. Many of the boys with latent promise have come along well under Harry's able tutelage and as a consequence Dartmouth should have a very creditable track team this spring. We are still far from being in the same league with the Army and the Navy, but we should hold our own in our own orbit, with several outstanding performers in as many events.

Year in and year out, the field events have not been exactly Dartmouth's strong point. This spring, however, there are a number of able operatives in these events which should brighten up the corners considerably. In the javelin throw, Fetzer has been tossing the spear between 180 and 190 feet, with now and then a heave out almost to 200. While this distance is at some remove from the Olympic efforts of the ferocious Finns, in college competition it is very acceptable. Fetzer is also doing well in the shot, while Felton is spinning the platter in gratifying fashion in the discus throw. The latter has also taken over in the hammer throw, where the Green will also be well represented. Joe Conley is expected to carry on his winning ways in the high jump, which gives Dartmouth a nucleus of point winners in even the fastest college competition.

In the dashes and hurdles, the Green is represented by Captain Bob Grady in the 220 and 440, as well as by Goodman, Craig, and Gilman in the same events. In the 220yard dash, Grady recently stepped a neat 22.6 which, considering the phase of the season and the softness of the track, was very good going. In the high hurdles, Snyder turned in some excellent times in his initial ventures at the full 120 yards.

The leading distance men are expected to be Burnham (no kin to Don) who surprised everyone (including himself) by winning his first competitive mile indoors, and Hanley in the two mile. Burnham will also run the half, although he may not have the tremendous stamina necessary to double in these events as did his famous namesake. Hanley is just in from the Fleet, where he spent two years on a battleship, an environment not particularly conducive to the development of distance runners. Nevertheless, Harry expects him to become a top performer in this grueling event, once he has shed his sea legs and accustomed himself to walking and running on a stationary surface.