WITH THE BIG GREEN TEAMS

A COMBINATION of fine May weather and late-season improvements in performance brings the Dartmouth spring teams down the home stretch with most squads looking for better-than-average records. With just two weeks of scheduled contests ahead the baseball team has a 9-10 record, the tennis team a fine 9-3 record, the track team a 2-1 mark plus a third place in the Heptagonals, and the golf team a 3-4 posting. The lacrosse team has a 4-6 record, while the heavyweight crew has defeated three opponents and lost to five, and the varsity lightweight crew has lost to all seven opponents. Dartmouth's informal Rugby Club varsity has an undefeated record to date. The overall varsity totals show 27 wins against 23 defeats, with 13 contests remaining.

Dartmouth's freshman teams have fared somewhat better than their varsity counterparts this spring with the baseball team boasting an undefeated 8-0 record and the golf team also undefeated with three wins. The lacrosse team has a 3-3 mark, the track team has won two and lost two meets, and the tennis team has a 2-1 record. Freshman totals show 18 wins and only six defeats while combined varsity-frosh records show Dartmouth spring teams in all sports with 45 wins and 29 defeats.

Elsewhere in this section will be found the scores for games played by all teams through the third week of May.

More than 100 alumni, friends and former players of Dartmouth's veteran soccer and lacrosse coach, Tom Dent, turned out May 6 "for a testimonial dinner at the Inn in honor of his formal retirement. Dent received a plaque which will be installed in a D.O.C. cabin being built in his honor.

Robert A. "Red" Rolfe, director of athletics, introduced the program while presiding was James M. West '35, chairman of the Tom Dent Tribute Committee, which raised the funds for the Tom Dent cabin. Main speakers were President Dickey and DeanEmeritus Joseph L. McDonald, and Randall Malin '59 and George Goodman '35 also made presentations to Dent. Dent's 35 years of soccer coaching have brought 144 wins, 102 defeats and 23 ties. Over a 33-year period his lacrosse teams have won 192 contests, lost 126 and tied three.

Three days later veteran hockey coach Eddie Jeremiah was also honored at a dinner in the Hotel Kenmore, Boston. Jerry was feted for his 22 years as Big Green varsity hockey coach and a record of 289 wins, which puts him second to Boston College's 27-year hockey coach John Kelly in the number of college hockey victories. Bill Riley '46 and Bud Zetterberg '44 were in charge of arrangements for the testimonial affair attended by many former Big Green hockey stars and other alumni from the Boston area.

Turning to spring sports we find the Big Green baseball team, coached by Tony Lupien, has nine wins and ten defeats, while in the Eastern Inter-collegiate Baseball League it has a 3-4 record and is in fourth place. Don O'Neill has pitched the most for the Big Green and currently has five wins against two defeats with an earned-run average of 2.36. Another fine hurler, Dave French, has won four and lost three with an ERA of 2.79, and Bob Van Dam has a 1-1 record on the mound. Sophomore third baseman Mike Nyquist has been having a fine year at the plate with a .412 batting average, including five home runs and 23 runs batted in. Outfielder Ernie Torres is second with a .300 average, followed by infielder Roger McArt, batting .297, and Carl Jaeger, another outfielder, at .239.

Dartmouth's two wins over Holy Cross marked the first time in a decade the Indians have won two from the Crusaders in a single season. The Big Green is also getting more extra-base hits than in previous years, with fifteen doubles, two triples and six home runs to date. Two games in the past month have been lost by a one-run margin, and fielding lapses and occasional wild pitching have been costly in other games. Further details on Dartmouth's baseball team will be found in this month's Coaches' Corner in a report by Coach Lupien.

Coach Whitey Burnham also has a report on the lacrosse team in Coaches'Comer. Bad weather in the early part of the season and injuries have hampered the team. Midfielder Mike Slive and attack man Dave McEachron were both injured in early May and missed the remaining games. The recent 10-8 loss to Harvard was a heartbreaker, with the Indians almost pulling an upset. Captain Pete Sly played a spectacular game against the Crimson, twice running the length of the field - once to score and once to gain an assist. Sophomore Billy King is rated the most improved player on the squad, while Bruce Derry, who replaced the injured Dave McEachron, collected three goals against Yale and has been playing very well. Pat Walsh and John Walters have also done outstanding jobs on the attack line. Walters is current high scorer with 27 goals and sixteen assists, while Walsh has 25 goals and six assists, and Bruce Derry has seven goals and four assists.

Dartmouth's strongest tennis team in a decade, under the tutelage of veteran coach Red Hoehn, has a fine record of nine wins against three losses. The Indians lost a tough one to perennially strong Princeton, 6-3, and were edged in a thrilling match by Harvard, 5-4. Phil Meyer has a fine season record of nine wins and two defeats, while Gordon Aydelott and Dave Smoyer have identical 8-3 records going. The Yale victory, by a 5-4 score, was particularly heartening for the Big Green, as it snapped a 38-match winning streak held by the Elis and came the day after the Indians had lost to Harvard, 5-4, with the third doubles match being the deciding factor.

The Big Green track team under Coaches Ellie Noyes and Bruce Hescock, is having a fine season with two dual meet wins, a second in a triangular meet, and a surprising third-place finish in the Heptagonal meet. The Indians finished behind Yale and Navy at the Heps with the Big Green competitors all turning in fine performances. George Ramming took a fourth in the discus, Nick Jennison ran a fast 4:11.7 mile to cop third in that event, and John Ebers took a first in the high hurdles, and John Knight was fourth in both hurdle races. Tom Laris finished second to Brown's Bobby Lowe in the two-mile race, sophomore Tom Holzel captured second in the 440, and Jerry Ashworth was a close second in the 100-yard dash and third in the 220-yard race.

The nationally televised Penn Relays also featured some fine Dartmouth performances as John Ebers took third in the high hurdles and a Dartmouth relay hurdle team captured second in a shuttle hurdle race on grass. In the most recent meet the Big Green had an easy time disposing of Holy Cross by an 83-25 score, with Tom Holzel and John Ebers each capturing two firsts.

Coach Tom Keane's golfers are having an average year with three wins against four losses to date. Captain Dave Lashar has been playing very well and the present rankings, after Lashar, are Kent Graham, Dave Mankowski, Bill Gifford, Dave McCollum. Leith Lattimore, and Ellis Kern.

By edging Amherst 6-5 in a mid-May game the undefeated varsity rugby team won a right to play Brown for the championship of the Eastern Rugby Union. Coming on top of a come-from-behind win over the New York Rugby Club, 12-8, it appears that Dartmouth may well win the championship again. Playing on the scrum for the A team are Mike Murphy, Chuck Dayton, Dave Prewitt, Don McKinnon, Henri Sarpy, John Edwards, and Jim McElhinney. In the backfield are Von Beebe (the newly elected captain), Gary Spiess, Don Wells, Jack Huber, Bill Carlson, Bill Glenn and Jack Kinder dine.

The Dartmouth varsity heavyweight and lightweight crews have been experiencing a rather poor season to date. In the most recent meet at Wisconsin the Big Green heavies defeated the Badgers but lost to M.I.T. in a three-crew race. Previously the Indians had lost to Brown in a dual race, then to Syracuse in a race in which they finished second, defeating Boston University. The lightweight varsity crew has yet to edge an opponent, having lost to seven crews during the season.

Coach Tony Lupien discusses strategy with shortstop Barry Elson (28) and second baseman Roger McArt (34) during a league game with Yale. The Indians lost the contest, 11-5.