Green Jottings
Bob McGrath of Laconia, N. H., Dartmouth's stellar second baseman and the team's leading hitter this season (.363), was elected captain of the varsity baseball team. Stephen Fast '54 of Kalamazoo, Mich., was elected to captain next year's tennis team, while Walt Clarkson of Westfield, N. J., a distance man, was chosen to captain the track team.
In the honors department: Dartmouth baseball captain Pete Mackinnon, the team's most dependable pitcher with a 2-2 record and an earned-run average of 2.68, was awarded the James Henry Cooke Tro- phy as "the senior who has done the most for baseball at Dartmouth during his undergraduate years." The trophy is given in memory of James H. Cooke '4O, Dartmouth baseball manager, who died in a Japanese prison camp during World War II.
Charley Jacob of Scarsdale, N. Y., an attack man on the Dartmouth lacrosse team, was voted by his fellow players and the coaches the new Dartmouth Alumni Lacrosse Trophy as "the lacrosse player who has shown during the year the greatest interest, cooperation and improvement and who by his fellowship and sportsmanlike conduct is a credit to the game and to Dartmouth." The award, which was given for the first time this year, is the gift of sev- eral former Dartmouth lacrosse players.
Another Dartmouth lacrosse player, Captain Tom Bloomer, was selected as a member of the Northern Team in the annual North-South All-Star lacrosse game played June 6 in Baltimore. Bloomer is a defenseman.
In the realm of soccer, Dartmouth's AilAmerican fullback Jack Hall will have his photograph on the cover of this year's NCAA Soccer Guide, an honor he richly deserves.
More information on the Christmas basketball tournament at Dartmouth mentioned last month. The eight teams entered in the two-day tourney (Dec. 28-30) are Amherst, Brown, Colby, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Harvard, Middlebury and Springfield. There will be two afternoon and two evening games on both days and each team will play three contests.
The varsity football squad will return to Hanover on September 2 to begin preparations for the Holy Cross game. Ordinarily they would not return until Sept. 3, but a new league ruling this fall permits an extra day for photographs and physical exams.
This summer Dartmouth once again will play host to a number of camps in the area for the annual Dartmouth Summer Camp Softball Tournament. Definite dates have not been set for the two-day tourney which attracts some 16 camps and over 300 youngsters, but it is expected that it will be held the latter part of July or in early August.
Tom Keane, Dartmouth golf coach, was the only athletic official to get near President Eisenhower on his recent visit to Hanover. Tommy met the President early Sunday morning on the 15th fairway near the Dartmouth ski jump, with two sets of clubs. For a moment it appeared as though Ike would play a hole or two, but the President told Tom that he only had a few minutes and had better resist the temptation.
That's all for the Big Green Teams until next fall. Although it has not been one of Dartmouth's most successful athletic years, it has been an interesting one. The wonderful thing about sports is that there's always that next season ahead and a fresh crop of talented youngsters coming along.
VARSITY LACROSSERS: With 9 victories in 14 contests, and only two losses in the regular season, the Big Green stickmen had one of the best spring records. L to r, front row: Malin, Learnard, Jacob, Captain Bloomer, Fenton, Sanderson, Fauver; second row: Trainer Gilbody, Gates, Wetzel, Lenhard, Thielscher, Martin, White, Coach Dent; back row: Brock, Batchelder, Anderson, Spencer, Cleveland, Pearl.
