SQUASH

The squash team returned to active competition after several years of enforced idleness and promptly lost the first meet to M.I.T. by the decisive margin of 5-0. The five men on the local aggregation are, in order of their rating, Bill Barrett, Roy Carruthers, Bob Mann, Bill Hirons, and Fred Witzel. None of them has played competitive squash before this year, which accounts for much of the uncertainty which greeted their initial efforts. At Cambridge on January 12 the Engineers proved that their victory was no fluke by again whitewashing the Green squashmen, 5-0.

The next day, however, Coach Red Hoehn was all smiles. His junior charges had done something no previous Dartmouth squash team had been able to accomplish, namely, to beat Harvard. This they did very handily by the score of 4-1. The only one to lose his match was Bill Barrett in the No. 1 spot, and the rest of the racketeers (Carruthers, Mann, Hirons, and Witzel) turned in victories. No matter what happens during the rest of the season, this victory illustrates the factor which makes the coaching profession a joynamely, to start with new material and fashion them, individually or collectively, into winners.

At Hanover on January 19, Dartmouth engaged in a nip-and-tuck squash match with Williams, settled 3-2 in the visitors' favor in the final match.