SKIING

Although Hampered by poor snow conditions throughout the entire winter, Dartmouth's varsity skiers approach the end of the 1949 season unchallenged as the top college aggregation in the East, if not in the entire U. S.

Following the Green's decisive 30-point win at its own Winter Carnvial, February 11-12, Coach Walter Prager sent an eightman team to Montreal the following weekend which won the McGill Winter Carnival title with a strong University of New Hampshire entry eight points behind. Headed by Captain Wilbur Bull, members of the Dartmouth team were Tor Arneberg, Granville "Red" Austin, Pat Brewster, John Caldwell, Griff Lumbard, Colin Stewart and Sandy Treat. Arneberg carried off skimeister honors by placing first in the downhill, third in the slalom, fourth in the cross-country, second in the jumping, first in the downhill-slalom combined, and third in the jumping-crosscountry combined. Stewart was first in the slalom.

With the transformation of the scheduled four-event Middlebury Winter Carnival Meet into an open invitational jump because of poor snow conditions, the Indians' intercollegiate team competition was definitely limited this season. The sole remaining team meet is the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom at Tuckerman's Ravine, April 16-17.

Competing on an individual basis, both Arneberg and Stewart won several outstanding meets during February and March. Arneberg tied George Macomber of the Hochgebirge Ski Club for first in the 10th Annual Gibson Trophy Race on Cranmore Mountain February 13; outpointed some of the best American and European Class "A" jumpers at the International Jump-Cross Country Meet in Berlin, N. H., February 26-27; and captured first place in the A.M.C. Downhill Race on the Wildcat Trail in Pinkham Notch, N. H., March 12. Stewart displayed the form which gave him a berth on the 1948 Olympic team when he placed first in the USEASA slalom March 13 on Cranmore Mountain in North Conway and also won the Eastern combined title. Other prominent Big Green entries in individual meets this season have been John Caldwell, who won the Class "B" jumping and combined championship at the International JumpCross Country Meet in Berlin, N. H., February 26-27; Captain Bull, who took the Class "B" USEASA Jump-Cross Country Combined title at Gilford, N. H., March 5 and 13; and Charles Tremblay, a member of the freshman squad who placed among the top five in several invitational Class "A" jumping meets against some of the best skiers here and abroad.

In order to compete in several Western meets which are considered tryouts for the U. S. team at the F.I.S. Championships at Aspen, Colorado, in 1950, Brooks Dodge was granted a leave of absence by the College for the second semester. He placed second in the competition for the Roche Cup at Aspen March 13, while classmate Dave Lawrence finished fifth.

EASTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE SKIMEISTER: Tor Arneberg '5O, who won the four-event titles at both the Dartmouth and McGill Winter Carnival meets, displays the form which also brought him the Class "A jumping title at the International Championships in Berlin, N. H., Feb. 27.