GOLF

What with the cold weather, the flooded course, the uncertain greens, and one thing and another in conjunction with the Hanover spring, the local golf teams always operate at a disadvantage in competition with representatives of other institutions. This year is no exception and the drive and pitch experts are currently on the short end of a 4-5 season with losses to Yale, Princeton, and Williams among the blemishes on their escutcheon. On their last dual effort as we go to press, however, they extended themselves to hand Middlebury an 8-1 trouncing on the home course, after having absorbed a 6-3 beating from the same aggregation a week before at Rutland. If we could only lure some of the more effete Ivy League aggregations up into the North Country, the superior knowledge of the mountainous Hanover course might prove to be an advantage to the local forces which would overcome in part their lack of early practice. As it is, we have to play most of our matches away, with mixed results.