TRACK

The indoor track season got under way with a victory for Coach Ellie Noyes in his first venture as chief mentor of the spiked shoe brigade. While the competition was not precisely of the caliber of Southern California, nevertheless it was pleasant to overcome a Tufts aggregation by the topheavy score of 64 1/10 to 30 9/10 and demonstrate, at least at this stage of the game, a well-rounded dual meet team. It is reasonable to assume that this characteristic will not be so apparent in subsequent encounters—say in the forthcoming West Point Relays—but against Tufts Dartmouth managed to place either first or second in every event but the pole vault, which is definitely not one of their strong events. Captain Joe Conley led the Green performers with three firsts—in the high jump, broad jump, and high hurdles. This boy is really a talented performer and demonstrated last year his ability to stay up there in the fastest competition, particularly in his specialty, the high jump. The other outstanding performer for the Green was Jack Hanley, the great distance runner who made such an outstanding record in cross-country last fall. Jack won the mile run and in so doing managed to set a new record for the Tufts oval. The time was some distance from Glenn Cunningham's four-four-four mile in the Dartmouth gymnasium, but it was a record for some place.

Continuing their efforts against somewhat less than high-powered competition, the Green runners decisively defeated Exeter on January 19 by the score of 59 to 82, in which Hanley set another record, this time for the Exeter track in the 1,000-yard run. Another very respectable per- formance (if that this was the 16-pound shot they were using) was McGrath's throw of 50 feet one-half inch to win this event for Dartmouth. Captain Joe Conley came through again with his standard three firsts —the high and broad jumps and the high hurdles. The only event the Green was not able to do much about was the pole vault, in which schoolboys won first and second places. Next week the character of the competition will change drastically with the participation of the Green runners in the West Point Relays on January 26.