SKIING

The Dartmouth Outing Club played host to a large number of intercollegiate and club skiers in Hanover on the weekend of January 13-14 for a unique crosscountry relay race on Saturday and a Class A and Class B jump on Sunday.

A total of 21 teams entered the crosscountry relay race, the first of its kind to be held since a similar event was part of the 1936 Dartmouth Winter Carnival. Each team consisted of four men with each man running over the four-mile course and then tagging another man as in a regular relay race. Unfortunately, due to a scarcity of snow it was difficult to clearly mark the course and this, coupled with the unfamiliarity of most of the skiers with a race of this type, led to some of the contestants going off the course and a great deal of subsequent confusion. Upshot of the matter was a decision to declare it no race. Unofficial results, however, showed University of New Hampshire teams in first, third and fifth places and the Dartmouth teams in second and fourth places, with the Scandinavian Ski Club sixth and the Chisholm Ski Club seventh.

In marked contrast, the Class A and Class B jumping the following day went off in clockwork fashion. In some 2½ hours, a total of 115 entries flashed down the Dartmouth 40-meter hill which was in top shape. Ken Fysh of the Nansen Ski Club turned in one 38-meter jump and a 40-meter jump to take first place in the Class A field. He was followed by Ted Farwell of Steamboat Springs, Col., while Dartmouth's Charlie Tremblay took third.

In the Class B field, Norman Carlsen of the Winnipesaukee Ski Club garnered top honors with leaps of 38 and 38.5 meters. Arthur Follensbee of the Lebanon Outing Club finished second, with Gordon Ulmar of Middlebury third. Dartmouth Class B entries who placed were John Boardman in seventh, Jim Branch eighth, Bob Michael 15th, Tom Agan 18th and Wendell Cox 21st.

On the previous weekend, the Dartmouth ski team members revealed some of their potentialities at the Jackson (N. H.) cross-country meet. A strong Dartmouth contingent swept fifth through tenth places, with co-captain Wes Blake, Bruce Bryant, Bill Beck, Charlie Tremblay, Wally Ashnault and Fred Barstow scoring in that order.

The next team meet for the Big Green is the Dartmouth Winter Carnival Meet on February 9 and 10. Entrants in the 36th annual Dartmouth Invitational Intercollegiate Ski Meet include Denver Uni- versity, M.1.T., McGill, Middlebury, Syracuse, the State Universities of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, and, of course, Dartmouth. The cross country and slalom races will be held on Friday, and the downhill race and the jump on Saturday.

OFF TO EUROPE: Dave Lawrence '51 of Chantilly, France, who has been granted leave of absence to represent the D.O.C. in European ski meets.