SKIING

In their postwar conversion, the Green skiers were forced to submit to the novel experience of watching somebody else walk off with top honors at a Dartmouth Carnival. This year it was the red-shirted aggregation from McGill which took over the winning spot, with Coach Prager's boys swallowing hard over the cold comfort of a second place. The team from the banks of the St. Lawrence was not quite so terrific, relatively speaking, as their brothers on ice, but they were plenty good enough to take this meet by the score of 568.7 points to 553.5 points for Dartmouth. (Your correspondent makes no claim at understanding what these scores mean. He is merely reporting what the paper said). McGill won four of the events in team scores (the downhill, cross-country, jump, and combined cross-country-jump) while the University of Denver (who came a long way to do this) won the slalom and the combined downhill-slalom. The boys from the Rocky Mountains did not do so well in the rest of the events, finishing in sixth place, well back of McGill, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, Middlebury, and the Army. Also competing in this uniquely Dartmouth gathering were teams from Vermont, Williams, Harvard, M.1.T., and Rensselaer.

The Dartmouth first team, which competed in the Carnival and has represented the Green in other various and sundry similar family parties, is composed of the following six men: (i) Captain Jack Snobble, erstwhile Flying Fortress pilot, who performs in four events with equal facility and is thus a very handy fellow to have around; (2) Malcolm McLane, scion of the Dartmouth McLanes, who spent a year in Germany as a prisoner of war after service as a fighter pilot and who is perhaps the outstanding man on the team in versatility; (3) Odd Ramsay, a Norwegian exchange student who put his skiing techniques to good advantage as a member of the underground during the war, and who currently specializes in cross-country arid jumping; (4) John Chivers of the skiing Chiverses, who performs with all the skill and stamina of his clan in cross-country but who likes best to take his life in his hands several times every day by going off the big jump; (5) Vern Lamb, a senior who operated last year on the team as a member of the V-12, specializes in the slalom and downhill racing; and (6) Sonny Drury, son of Danny Drury '26, is another native son who showed his mettle last year. Sonny specializes in the slalom and downhill, but is another four-event skier and should be an even more outstanding star when he completes his four years of competition. This well-balanced aggregation has done very well in its various meets this winter, with only the Carnival loss to McGill to lower its banner in defeat.