Track

The Dartmouth track team finished sixth in the indoor Heptagonals at Cornell, but was only one point out of fourth. Harvard piled up 46½ points to edge Army which had 46 1/5, while Yale was third with 39 points. Navy had 22 3/5 points, Princeton 22, and Dartmouth 21 3/5.

Tom Holzel provided the only first- place points for the Green as he upset Cornell's Fran Smith in the 600-yard run. His time was an impressive 1:12.0. Holzel was trailing with 25 yards to go, when he turned on the steam and blazed by the previously unbeaten Smith. Gerry Ashworth suffered his first loss of the season as he was nipped at the wire in a hotly contested 60-yard dash; Nick Jennison was a solid second in the mile behind Mark Mullins of Harvard; and Laris led the field in the two-mile run but lost in the stretch to Mack of Yale. Laris bettered his own Heptagonal record with a 9:10.1 clocking, but Mack did even better with 9:08.7. Elsewhere at the Heps, the two-mile relay team was fifth, the one-mile quartet was fourth and Lynn Bates leaped 13-6 in the pole vault to tie for fourth.

At the IC4A's a week later at New York, the Green runners made an even better showing, topping all other Ivy League opponents and finishing sixth to some of the best track teams in the East. In this meet Ashworth stole the show as he ran the 60-yard dash trial and quarter heats in 6.1 seconds, a new Dartmouth record. In the finals he was a close second to Frank Budd who set a new meet record of 6.0 seconds.

Tom Laris also ran a respectable twomile run, even though he was beaten again by Mack. This time Laris did 9:03, while Mack was clocked in 8:58.3, breaking the meet record of 8:59 set by Laris in 1960.

Bates cleared the pole vault bar at the IC4A's at 14 feet to establish a new Dartmouth record. His leap gave him a tie for fifth in the meet. And finally Holzel was third in the 600-yard run in 1:12.9.

In dual meet competition the indoor track team had three wins and five losses. Following the close loss to Harvard reported last month, the Green was defeated by Army 81-28, in a meet which saw five records broken or tied. Ashworth ran the 50-yard dash in 5.3, a tenth of a second better than the record. The one-mile relay team took nearly two seconds off of the old mark with a time of 3:20.4. The quartet included Ashworth, Dud Hallagan, Lang Scott, and Holzel. Cam Duncan also tied the 50yard high hurdle record of 6.6 seconds.

In their final dual meet of the season the Indians tuned up for the Heps by trouncing Columbia 77½-25½.