TRACK

(1) The Penn Relays. The initial spring exercise for Coach Ellie Noyes' eager charges was the extremely fast competition provided by the Penn Relays. The hero of this encounter for the Green was Sam Felton Jr. '47N, who won the hammer throw by a comfortable margin with a toss of 147 feet 834 inches, which was some 20 feet farther than the best effort of the secondplace winner. The other Dartmouth scoring was done by the shuttle hurdle team of Conley, Snyder, Kimball, and Blackwood, which finished a very creditable third behind Ohio State and the Oklahoma Aggies. The Green timber toppers showed their spikes to the other Ivy League competition, including the Army and Navy, and can bask in the glory of having probably the best four high hurdlers in the current eastern competition. Some of the other competitors (notably Joe Conley in the high jump) finished just outside the money in their own specialties.

(g) Army-Columbia-Illinois-Dartmouth. The next weekend, the Green had the temerity to take on the IC4A Champions (Army) and the Big Ten Champions (Illinois) at one and the same time, with an enfeebled Columbia lion thrown in for good measure. When the smoke cleared away, Dartmouth had managed to build UP points for a very satisfactory third place behind Illinois and Army in that order. Even the mighty Cadets were overwhelmed by the array of power and speed flashed by the boys from the Corn Belt, who have several operatives of Olympic caliber currently performing for them. Chief scoring for Dartmouth was done in the weights, with Sam Felton again winning the hammer and spinning the platter farther than anyone else to win the discus handily. His teammate Maurice McGrath was second in this event. In the javelin throw, Lingo and Fetzer of Dartmouth finished second and third, respectively, while Joe Conley tied for third in the high jump.

In the track events, Dartmouth's strength in the hurdles showed to advantage, with A1 Snyder and Joe Conley taking second and third in the highs and Snyder and Kimball second and fourth in the lows. Both races were run in blazing fast time, which suggests the caliber of the current crop of Dartmouth timber toppers. John Hanley came in second in the two-mile run, while Ken Coyne took third in the half, thus completing the Dartmouth scoring. This meet showed Coach Ellie Noyes' proteges to excellent advantage and the Green runners, jumpers, and weight-throwers need apologize to no one this year.

(3) Harvard-Pennsylvania-Y ale-Dartmouth. In the biggest track meet ever held (at least in modern times) on the cinder path around Memorial Field, Dartmouth lost a heartbreaking race with Harvard to finish just out of the winning money by a scant two points. The final score was Harvard 53 5/6; Dartmouth 51 5/6; Pennsylvania 43; Yale 16 2/6. The outcome was not decided until the final event, the broad jump, in which the Green needed a first, second, and fourth to win and a first, third, and fourth to tie. We got the first all right, with Joe Conley coming in with his second win of the day (his first in the high hurdles, first in the broad jump, and second in the high jump made him high scorer for the day). But the best we could do with the rest of the broad jumpers was a fourth, which gave the Crimson the meet by two points. The real coup de grace, however, had been given the Dartmouth chances earlier in the rainy afternoon, when Har- vard took one-two in the hammer, discus, and shot, scoring 24 points in those three events alone and getting off to a lead we could never quite overtake.

The Dartmouth runners did themselves proud and kept the Green in the meet right up to the final jump. The hurdlers were particularly brilliant, with Joe Conley taking the highs in 14.7 and A1 Snyder close behind him; Snyder won the lows in 24.2, with Bill Kimball a close third. John Hanley came through with a decisive win in the two-mile. Ken Coyne showed his heels to the field in the half, and Harmon came in fourth in the mile. Crockett of Dartmouth took a second in a fast quarter mile, won by one of the Harvards, and we sprinkled various thirds and fourths through the rest of the weight events. But it was the latter form of activity, in which the Green has been so strong this spring, which proved our eventual undoing. This failure was particularly disappointing because the weight events are, broadly speaking, considerably less chancy than the hurdles and other running events. We came through with flying colors in the latter, but could not produce in the former.

(4) The Heptagonal Meet. Dartmouth came in fourth in this Ivy League classic, held at Princeton in the same inclement weather that marked the baseball game with Harvard in Hanover on the same day. We scored points, to finish behind Army with 56, Navy with 51½, and Pennsylvania with 3814. We gained a measure of revenge by finishing ahead of Harvard, which came to the wire with only 22 14 points, followed by Yale with 17, Cornell with 834, Princeton with 7, and Columbia with a. Sam Felton came through with a second in the hammer and a third in the discuss, which abruptly concluded our scoring in the field events. In the track events, the hurdlers produced in their usual satisfactory fashion, with A1 Snyder garnering Dartmouth's only first place in the low hurdles, and Bill Kimball second. Snyder took a second in the 120-yard highs and Captain Joe Conley came in third in the same event. The other points for the Green were taken by Ken Coyne's fourth in the half mile, John Hanley's second in the two-mile, a fourth in the 440-yard relay, and a fifth in the one-mile relay. The team goes into the final event of the year, the IC4A meet at Annapolis, on May 25 with an excellent season behind it, one which does credit to Coach Ellie Noyes' first year at the varsity helm.

CAPTAIN JOE CONLEY of Dartmouth breasting the tape in the finals of the high hurdles to win in 14.7 seconds in the Quadrangular Track Meet held at Memorial Field last month. Although the Big Greer was edged out by Harvard, 53 5/6 to 51 5/6, Conley was individual high point man with 13 points. Penn nand Yale trailed with 43 and 16 2/6 points, respectively.