SKIING

After dropping a warm-up meet with the Lebanon Outing Club, the Dartmouth ski team launched it's intercollegiate schedule successfully on January 19-20 by taking top honors in Middlebury's 15th annual winter carnival meet. With no one outstanding star of the stature of Dick Durrance or other Big Green greats of the past, but with team balance that gladdens Coach Walter Prager's heart, the Dartmouth skiers rolled up 574.85 points in the four events—downhill, slalom, cross-country and jumping—to New Hampshire's 525.59. McGill held a commanding lead at the end of the first day's competition, but with Malcolm McLane, Odd Ramsay and John Chivers finishing one, three and four in the cross-country, and Ramsay and Captain Jack Snobble placing second and third behind McGill's Olsen in the jump, Dartmouth sewed up the carnival title by virtue of its aforementioned balance. Olson of McGill took the four-event honors, but McLane and Snobble .with second and third, respectively, made strong showings. Besides winning the cross-country, McLane took second in the downhill, seventh in the slalom, and eighth in the jumping.

In addition to Captain Jack Snobble, Malcolm McLane, John Chivers and Odd Ramsay (a Norwegian student from the University of Oslo), the leading Green skiers this season include Sonny Drury, Vern Lamb, and Gil Warren. Walter Prager, back from service with the 10th Mountain Division, seems well on his way to restoring Dartmouth to its prewar supremacy in intercollegiate skiing, but the competition is getting stiffer all the time and staying at the top of the heap is no longer an easy matter.