Track
With such talented performers as Pete McCreary in the hurdles, John Cook in the dashes, and a couple of others, the Green was able to place heavily in almost any competition this year. However, their strength was not well distributed and they lost a dual meet to Harvard by the wide margin of 89-51, while winning one from a weak Pennsylvania squad by the equally one-sided score of 94-46. Both of these encounters were duly chronicled in our last bulletin. Since that time, the team placed fifth in the Heptagonals and a surprising seventh in the outdoor IC4A meet a week later.
The Heptagonals saw Pete McCreary take a sparkling first in the high hurdles in the meet record time of o: 14.5 and then come right back to take a third in the aso-yard low hurdles. This gave Pete the high spot in amassing the Dartmouth total of 26 points, which in turn gave them fifth in the meet. The other winner for the Green was Nels Ehinger, who topped the field in the high jump, winning the event with a leap of 6'3". He was followed by a five-way tie for the other places. Winner of the Heptagonal dash indoors, Indian sprinter John Cook was forced to accept a second spot in the 100 yard dash. Sam Daniell was the other point-winner in the running events, with a third in the 880-yard run. In the weight events, big George Rambour fell far short of his previous college record-breaking efforts, but managed to get a fourth place in the discus. Al Reich took fourth in the javelin. That represented the scoring for Dartmouth.
As noted, Dartmouth placed seventh in the IC4A this year, with only title-winning Cornell among the Ivy League con- tingents finishing ahead of the Green. With seven points, Pete McCreary was the leading Dartmouth scorer again, although he lost the high hurdle crown to Ashbaugh of Cornell, a man he had beaten the week before in the Heptagonals. McCreary also placed in the low hurdles, coming through with a third, again behind a couple of people in red jerseys, who seemed to be all over the place that day. The rest of Dartmouth's 11 points were garnered by Al Reich's third in the javelin, wherein he tossed the spear some 202 feet for his best mark for the season, and big George Rambour's fifth in the discus with a toss of 146 feet. This latter heave, incidentally, broke the college record again, thereby constituting the fifth time this spring that the massive tackle has performed this feat.
Pete McCreary was elected captain of the 1952 team at the close of the season. As readers of this column are well aware, McCreary was the most consistently outstanding of all the Dartmouth performers this year. McCreary is in the great tradition of Dartmouth hurdlers. He should spark the Green to an outstanding season next year, when the majority of this year's excellent aggregation return.
AN ADDITION TO THE FLEET: President Dickey christening the "John Sloan Dickey," newest shell of the Dartmouth Rowing Club, in May. Under his arm is a green derby, symbol of the Green Derby Regetta.
