Golf

The Dartmouth varsity golf team, perennially one of the top spring teams under veteran Coach Tom Keane, got away to a fine start during its spring trip with a record of seven wins against only two defeats. The Big Green golfers opened with two wins over William and Mary by scores of 5-4 and 8-3. However, they dropped the next match in a driving rain storm to Washington and Lee, Southern Conference champions, by an 8-1 score; then defeated Richmond University and Lynchburg College by 9-0 scores. Dartmouth next took the measure of Andrews Air Force Base 20-7, but bowed in the final match of the spring trip to a strong Navy team, 5-2.

Captain Fred Oman played extremely well with several sub-par rounds, and the showing of some of the sophomores was very pleasing to Coach Keane. Captain Oman along with Harvey Bloom, Rod Frates, Bruce McDonald, John Armstrong and Tom Tally form the nucleus of the 1956 team. All are sophomores except Oman.

The team was dealt a blow when Pete Barnes, winner of the fall championship, could not report because of illness and when Don Purple, only Dartmouth qualifier in the Eastern Championships last spring, decided to give up the game to concentrate on his pre-medical studies.

With eight dual matches and the Easterns ahead, the Indian golfers are looking forward to another fine year if the weatherman cooperates.