TRACK

In a meet that was not decided until the next-to-the-last event (the low hurdles), Harvard nosed out a fighting Dartmouth aggregation by the score of 76-64 in a track meet held over Green Key weekend. Although the Green captured nine out of the fifteen first places, they did not have quite enough strength to defeat a perennially strong Harvard aggregation, especially in view of Harvard sweeps in the shot and the two-mile. Highlighting the encounter from a Dartmouth standpoint was the winning toss in the javelin by sophomore Al Reich, who hurled the spear 204 feet 9½ inches, thus breaking the Memorial Field record of 202 feet held by Dick Metcalf since 1932.

Ted Myers, another Green sophomore, took a double in the hurdles, winning the highs in 0:14.8 and the lows in 0.24:2, both extremely creditable times. The loss through injury of his teammate Pete McCreary, who was unable to compete in either hurdle event, may have cost the Indians the meet. Needing a first and second in the low hurdles to come even into the last event, the mile relay, the Green could get only a first and a third, thereby sewing up the meet for the Crimson.

Sprinter John Cook also came through with a pair of firsts for Dartmouth, wining both the 100 and the 220-yard dashes. His time in the latter event was 0:21.5, but it was in the shorter event that he really showed his mettle. He was clocked by all watches in 0:9.8 for the 100, which would have been a new College record, but for the tail wind which was blowing at the time and which made a record claim impossible. Even at that, however, he was eating up the cinders at a rapid rate.

Captain Tom Richmond came through with Dartmouth's only win in the weight events, with his winning heave of 164 feet 5½ inches in the hammer throw. Often weak in these events, the Green did nothing at all in the shot and not much better in the discus. In the other field events, sophomore Ben Lawwill won the pole vault and ditto Nels Ehinger was not even forced to extend himself to win the high jump.

In the distance events, Dartmouth was shut out (as noted) in the two-mile run, but won the mile when Stan Smiley coasted home the winner. In the half-mile run, Dartmouth's Sam Daniell was narrowly defeated by a Harvard.