SWIMMING

The Dartmouth swimmers celebrated Coach Karl Michael's return from the wars in inauspicious fashion by dropping their first meet of the new season to Princeton by the score of 45-30. Led by acting-captain Dune Gibson, who won the 220-yard freestyle and anchored the 4-man relay to victory, the Green was able to amass only a modest and insufficient number of points against a superior Tiger. Jay Urstadt and Tor Eide finished one-two in the 200-yard breaststroke, while Dana Jackson registered a second in the backstroke. Tevald's second in the fancy diving completed the Dartmouth scoring for the afternoon and indicated that it will take at least another season before the postwar reconversion in swimming is able to get away to an eminently successful start.

The team found considerably easier pickings the next week and swept an encounter with a none-too-strong McGill team by the one-sided score of 49-17. The Indians managed to win every event except the aoo-yard free style relay, which was won by a quartet of McGills. The fancy diving was won by Tevald of Dartmouth, the 50- yard free style by Platz, the 440-yard free style by acting-captain Gibson, the 100-yard backstroke by Rector, the 100-yard free style by Chubb, the 200-yard breaststroke by Kirkland, and the 300-yard medley by a Dartmouth trio of Jackson, Urstadt, and Wilcox. This decisive outcome was a pleasant tonic to Coach Michael, who likes to win meets as well as build character.

As we go to press, the swimming team just won another meet, this one from Penn by the authoritative margin of 48 to 27. The Green won five out of the eight events, with Urstadt winning the 220-yard freestyle; Tevald the dive; Jackson the backstroke; Kirkland the breaststroke; and the 300-yard medley splashing in ahead of the Red and Blue. This was the fourth straight defeat for the Penn swimmers and the second win in a row for Coach Michael's burgeoning boys.

BACK IN ACTION AFTER A WARTIME LAPSE, the Dartmouth swimming team has already dunked three foes under the tutelage of Coach Karl Michael '29, who is back in Hanover after serving with the Navy and is shown above working with some of his charges in the Spaulding Pool.