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MISCELLANY

July 1949 Roddy Wolbarst '43
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MISCELLANY
July 1949 Roddy Wolbarst '43

Lacrosse and soccer coach Tommy Dent and athletic trainer Eddie DeCourcey were the recipients of varsity letters for their long service to the College. Dent just celebrated his twenty-fifth year as coach, while DeCourcey completed his thirty-first season at Dartmouth Eggert Benzon of Denmark has been elected sailing captain for 1950 and Cyril Hough of Lakewood, N. Y., was named freshman sailing leader. Freshman javelin record-breaker Al Reich entered the Metropolitan track championships under the colors of a N. Y. athletic club and easily won the javelin event with a toss of 188 feet plus Eddie Williams, speedy left-halfback from Chicago, was married in Hanover to Miss Gloria Jean Clayton of Cleveland on June 7. Among those in attendance at the wedding were Coach Tuss McLaughry, assistant coaches Milt Piepul and John Dell Isola, and former assistant line coach Bill Battles. Also members of the football squad. Eddie, who suffered a broken neck in practice last fall, looked better than ever in drills this spring.

Bill Tarlow of Brockton, Mass., has been elected Dartmouth golf captain for the third straight year Freshman captains recently elected include Everett Parker of Bath, Me., baseball; William Randall of Milwaukee, tennis; and Eugene Brooks of Concord, N. H., golf Two members of the varsity football team, Bill Dey and Red Rowe, have proven their versatility by winning letters in three different sports. Dey has captured football, basketball and tennis letters, while Rowe has been awarded football, basketball and track letters Freshman second baseman Curt Richards of Chicopee, Mass., paced the Little Green nine at the plate with a .437 batting average. Freshman pitchers Pete Burnside, Wilmette, 111.; Frank Logan, Topeka, Kansas; Gerald Lukeman, Woodcliife Lake, N. Y. and Roland Barker, Upper Montclair, N. J., looked impressive. Burnside's pitching job against the Harvard freshmen, in which he allowed but one hit and struck out ten, was particularly noteworthy.

Joe Sullivan and Dale Armstrong will appear in the New York Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund All-Star football game Sept. l. Dartmouth rooters will have a special section set aside for them at the contest Don Scully, captain of the championship Dartmouth lacrosse team, played in the annual North-South all-star game, June 11 at Troy, N. Y„ and was in the North's starting lineup. The Southerners won 11-6 Two individuals and two relay teams from Dartmouth were named to the All-America Collegiate Swimming Team picked annually by the College Swimming Coaches Association. Jock McIntyre in the 100-yard free style and Frank Bruch in the 200-yard breast stroke were the individual place winners. Dartmouth's 300-yard medley relay trio of Captain Dana Jackson, Bruch and Mclntyre and the Indian 400-yard free-style quartet of Chuck Ryan, Steve Pollak, Blaine Boyden and Mclntyre were the relay combinations honored. This represents the largest number of places Dartmouth has ever taken on the All-America team.

COACH GETS HIS "LETTER": Tommy Dent (left) proudly sporting a varsity "D" sweater, receives a "D" certificate from Irving F. Smith, DCAC business manager, in honor of his 25 years as a Dartmouth coach.