Sports

TRACK

April 1950 Francis E. Merrill '26
Sports
TRACK
April 1950 Francis E. Merrill '26

The indoor track season is an abbreviated one, with most of the serious cinder doings postponed until the snow melts. After losing a close meet to Cornell (outlined in our last communique), Coach Noyes' men polished off Bowdoin in a dual meet by a convincing margin of 78-38. This was the first indoor dual meet held in Hanover in five years and represented the first time for a long time the boys have not used the board track. This surface, on which Glenn Cunningham ran his famed four-four-four mile some years ago, was recently scrapped as too old and dangerous. The Bowdoin encounter was chiefly marked by the excellent performances of the two sophomore hurdlers, Myers and McCreary, who gave further notice that they will ultimately rank well up among the long line of great Dartmouth timber-toppers.

Dartmouth finished well down in the two indoor intercollegiate meets, the ICAAAA and the Heptagonals. In the former, only Ted Myers and Nelson Ehinger were able to score, with the former taking second in the 60-yard high hurdles and the latter placing in the high jump. The total for the Green in these two activities was 6½ points, which was good for 13th place. In the Heptagonals, Dartmouth scored 1119/20 points, but managed to finish no better than next-to-last. Points in the Ivy meet were scored by Ben Lawwill with a g-way tie for first in the pole vault; by Myers with a second in the 45-yard high hurdles; by Ehinger with a 5-way tie for third in the high jump; by John Cook with a fifth in the 50-yard dash; and by Sam Daniell with a fourth in the 600.

LEAGUE ACE: Arnie Oss '50 of Minneapolis, whose 21 goals this season topped the mark of 20 set by Dick Rondeau '44 in 1942. He netted five goals at Princeton and seven against the alumni.