Spring Sports

During the final days of May the varsity baseball team dropped games to the University of Vermont, 15-0, and to the University of New Hampshire, 3-2, to set their season's record at six wins and fifteen defeats. The golf team whipped Lowell Tech 7-0 and edged Harvard 4-3 for fifteen wins and four defeats, while the lacrosse team lost to Colgate 12-10 for four wins and seven losses. After beating Cornell 5-4, the varsity tennis team dropped Middlebury 6-3 for seven wins and five defeats; and the track team placed 17 th in the IC4A meet with three wins and one loss in dual competition.

Freshman teams also finished up their season in late May with the baseball team defeating Kimball Union 10-5, but losing the final game to New Hampshire 9-1 for a five-five record. The '59 golfers lost to Harvard 5-2 and defeated Exeter 8-4 for two wins against four defeats, while the lacrosse team lost the finale to Deerfield 5-4 for four wins and two defeats. The freshman tennis team, one of the best in recent years, won four matches and lost only one, defeating both Andover and Exeter by 6-3 and 5-4 scores. The track team duplicated the varsity record of three wins and one defeat in dual competition with a close 66-60 win over New Hampshire during the third week in May.

In June news, Dartmouth track star Doug Brew, recently elected captain of the 1957 spring track team, entered the 800-meter run at the NCAA Track and Field Championships held at Berkeley, Calif., on June 14-16. He finished third in a race won by Arnold Sowell of Pittsburgh. He went on to compete June 23 in the National AAU competition, but did not make the finals, thus losing the chance to try out for the United States Olympic Track Team.

Two Dartmouth Rowing Club fouroared shells, one with a coxswain and one without, also were scheduled to make bids for U.S. Olympic berths on June 28 at Lake Onondaga, Syracuse, N. Y. Both shells were manned by varsity oarsmen, but the Class of 1959 was represented by a pair-oared shell with coxswain.

On the weekend of June 14-15, a freshman heavyweight crew competed in the I.R.A. Regatta at Syracuse. They raced against the nation's top freshman crews from Syracuse, Navy, Wisconsin, Washington, Princeton, Penn, M.I.T., Cornell, and Columbia. Dartmouth came in ninth just ahead of Columbia and just behind M.I.T. Dartmouth's time over the two mile course was eleven minutes and 47 seconds, just 35 seconds behind the winning time clocked by Syracuse, with Navy second.

The other news at the end of each season is, of course, the election of team captains. Second-baseman Larry Blades was chosen captain of the 1957 varsity baseball team; Charles Grafton '55 captain of lacrosse; Bruce McDonald '58 golf captain; Livingston Jenks '57 tennis captain; and Doug Brew '57 track captain.

On the freshman level, Dave Marshall was chosen baseball captain; Fred Hunzicker golf captain; John Herriott lacrosse captain; Dick Hoehn, son of Coach Red Hoehn, tennis captain; and Jim Muller, track captain.

1956 Football Schedule Sept. 29 N. H. at Hanover Oct. 6 Pennsylvania at Phila. 13 Brown at Providence 20 Holy Cross at Hanover 27 Harvard at Boston Nov. 3 Yale at New Haven 10 Columbia at Hanover 17 Cornell at Ithaca 24 Princeton at Princeton All home games will start at 1:30 p.m., EDT through October, EST in November.