Skiing

Last year when Dartmouth swept all the Eastern carnival meets, won the Eastern Championships arid then the National Championships, Coach Al Merrill plaintively asked, "Where do we go from here?" The answer, Dartmouth is finding, is downhill. The Big Green skiers were edged out by Middlebury in their own Carnival meet and then lost to Middlebury again at the Williams College fourevent carnival meet.

This weekend the Indians attempt a comeback as they move on to the Middlebury Carnival and Eastern Championship meets, which they have an outside chance of winning.

In the Dartmouth Carnival meet Middlebury scored 586.4 points to Dartmouth's 584.1, with St. Lawrence, New Hampshire, and Maine trailing. The Williams results were more decisive as the Panthers piled up 594.70 points to Dartmouth's 545.90 and. New Hampshire's 544.01. However, Coach Al Merrill kept some of his best competitors out of action at Williams to rest them and prepare them for the all-important Eastern Championship meet.

Dartmouth's Art Bookstrom put together a sixth place in the slalom, a second m the. downhill, a tenth in cross-country, and a sixth in jumping to win Skimeister honors at the Dartmouth Carnival. Dave Britten took second in the slalom, Dick Taylor second in the jump and third in cross-country, and Jim DeLong and Art Bookstrom placed one-two in the downhill to account for many of Dartmouth's Carnival meet points. The cross-country race hurt Dartmouth as they placed only two men among the first ten finishers, and this coupled with only a fair performance in the jumping put the Indians down in the Nordic rankings.

At Williams, Hartley Paul took third in the downhill and sixth in the slalom, with Dick Nordhaus finishing fourth in the downhill and seventh in the slalom for Dartmouth's Alpine points. Pete Ryland finished third and Skip Bean sixth in the cross-country race, with Pete Hawks third and Hartley Paul seventh in the jumping.

The Big Green skiers once again have a strong Alpine contingent, but they are not strong enough apparently in the Nordic events, and they will have to go all out to retain their Eastern Championship at Middlebury this coming weekend.

Queen of the 1959 Dartmouth Winter Carnival was Miss Barbara Hill of Edgewood, R. I., and Smith College, who is shown with her escort, John Allbee '59 of Warwick, R. I.