Green Skiers Nosed Out

In the closest finish ever recorded in Carnival history, Dartmouth lost the 38th Annual Winter Carnival Ski Meet to Middlebury by a mathematical whisker, being edged out in the final tabulation, 563 to 562.8. McGill was third with New Hampshire a close fourth, followed by St. Lawrence, Maine, Vermont, Harvard, Amherst and Williams in that order.

The meet was largely a question of Dartmouth's strength in the crosscountry and jumping pitted against Middlebury's power in the downhill and slalom. The Panthers turned in the best performances on the Moose Mountain downhill course on which the Big Green's Tor Arneberg and Tom Tomasi, finished sixth and seventh, with Henry Lumbard and Captain Mai McLane tied for 12th. Dartmouth's best run in the Oak Hill slalom was turned in by Tomasi, who finished eighth.

New Hampshire swept the first three places in cross-country, but the Dartmouth trio of Sandy Treat, Wilbur Bull and McLane garnered the next three positions. Trailing Middlebury by 13.8 points with only the jumping remaining, the Indians crept within 5.1 points by taking first in this event, but were unable to completely close the gap when the classic combined results were added. Individual honors in the jumping for Dartmouth went to Lowell Thomas Jr., Bull and Arne berg, who finished third, fourth and fifth.