With Big Green Teams

THE past month, from mid-April to mid-May, has seen almost perfect spring weather in Hanover, and Dartmouth varsity and freshman spring teams took full advantage of the fine weather to play a total of some sixty contests, almost two per day. With just two weeks remaining on the spring schedules Dartmouth teams are doing well, but not exactly setting the world on fire.

The varsity baseball team has won ten and lost 13 games to date, including those played on the Southern Trip. In the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, the Indians are currently tied for fifth place with Army with identical records of three wins against five defeats. Dartmouth's lacrosse team has won five and lost six, while the golf team with the best record of all spring varsity teams has 11 wins against four defeats. The tennis team has won six, lost eight, while the track squad has split two dual meets. On May 14, the track team wound up in eighth place in the Heptagonals (ten teams), while the golf team finished eighth (also out of ten) at the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Tourney. Varsity totals show 33 wins against 32 losses.

The freshman teams, off to a later start than the varsity, are doing better, as is usually the case. Coach Eddie Jeremiah's baseball nine is riding a four-game winning streak, while the track and golf teams are likewise undefeated in two contests each to date. The '58 lacrosse team has five wins against one defeat, and the tennis team has a single victory against two setbacks. Frosh totals reveal 14 wins against only three defeats, while totals for both varsity and freshman teams are 47 wins and 35 defeats.

On the informal side, the Dartmouth rugby team continued to show its strength by running its record to seven wins against only two defeats. The heavyweight crew won the important Dad Vail Regatta at Philadelphia, and wins by the jayvees and freshmen gave Dartmouth a clean sweep.

Beyond the results of the contests, there has been little else of real news to report on the athletic front. Construction work is still proceeding on the Memorial Stadium fence, and football coach Bob Blackman invited all varsity football candidates down to the track for time trials in fifty-yard sprints, which caused some amount of sweat and strain, but otherwise the gymnasium sits placidly in the spring sun with only the Green Key prom disrupting its lethargy.

But outside in the spring air there has been action aplenty, so let's take a closer look at some of it.