OTHER SPORTS
The track team finished the 1963 outdoor season with a 2-3 dual meet record. As if he wanted to make up for all the races he couldn't run this spring and perhaps because it was his last intercollegiate race, Captain Gerry Ashworth swept to victory in the IC4A 100-yard dash. The Indian sprinter was clocked in 9.7, just .3 of a second off his College record.
The Indians managed to salvage part of an otherwise disappointing season as they won two of their last three dual meets. Brown was beaten 84-65 and Boston University 94-26. Springfield took the final meet of the season 74-66.
Fred Bates of Hillborough, Calif., the College's first 14-foot pole vaulter, will captain the 1963-64 team. He holds the College record of 14 feet, 3¼ inches and was winner in the pole vault event in eleven out of thirteen meets during the past year.
The golf team finished the 1963 season with a respectable 7-4 mark. Since our last report the team was edged by Harvard 4-3 and defeated Middlebury 5-2, Amherst 4-3, and Springfield 7-0.
In the finale Gerry Sharon was medalist with a 71 and Tom Rand had a 72, Other winners included Keith Latti-more with a 74, Herb Carlson, Dick Leukart, Steve Brown, and Mike Wood-bury.
Coach Tommy Keane brought his golfers along in fine fashion as they seemed to gain momentum as the season went along. Tom Rand of Yazoo City, Miss., has been elected captain of the 1964 golf team. He played number two on this year's team and won his final three matches of the season in the Indians' late season surge. He is an Alfred Sloan Scholar and is majoring in government.
The 1964 tennis team, the last to be coached by Red Hoehn, finished with an 8-11 record. It stood 6-5, however, against competition since spring vacation.
The final match of the season at Ithaca found the Green and Cornell tied at 3-3 after the singles matches. The Indians took two of the three doubles matches, however, to pull out the 5-4 victory. Dave Smoyer lost his match at the number one position, bowing to eastern titlist Jerry Levin, 6-3, 6-0, but Captain Doug Floren and John Morrison came through with a pair of victories at the next two positions.
In other late season matches, the Green beat Middlebury 8-1 and Amherst 6-0, and lost to Princeton 9-0.
Edward "Ned" Miller of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., will captain the 1964 tennis team. He played number six on this year's team and is a government major.
The Dartmouth heavyweight crew completed the 1963 season without a taste of victory. In the final race of the year, the IRA at Syracuse, the Indian oarsmen were eighth, some 24 seconds behind the winning Cornell crew.
Late in May the Dartmouth heavies were able to practice for the first time at full strength. Bob Brayton, who rowed at the Pan-American Games in April, was at stroke and there was a feeling that the Indians might equal their '62 sixth place finish - the best in Green history.
Two weeks, before the big race, however, Brayton was hospitalized with acute hepatitis and the chances of repeating were dealt a severe blow. Junior John McLaughlin of Spokane, Wash, was moved into the stroke position, the fifth man to hold that seat during the spring rowing season.
It was a gallant crew which raced June 15 on Lake Onondaga. Despite the eighth place finish, it had the satisfaction of beating at least two crews which had beaten it previously. Behind the Green were Columbia, Princeton, Boston University, Brown, Marietta, Penn, and Rutgers in that order.
If the Dartmouth crew of 1963 had not been plagued with injuries, missing oarsmen, and a few other bad breaks the final results might well have been different. A word of praise, though, for the job done by Coach Pete Gardner and the spirit of the varsity eight which always remained high.
For the first time in recent years, the Dartmouth Rugby Club compiled a losing record. As reported last month "A" team sustained several key losses and also did not have depth in experienced players.
In the final two matches of the season the Indians lost a close one to the New York Rugby Club 9-5 and defeated Amherst 24-9. It would be unfair to judge the team, however, solely on its record for there were many players who displayed a fine brand of rugby. Captain Jack Huber and President Tom Rucker were consistently outstanding. Lee Bate-man, a senior, made a fine contribution with his running and kicking and Dick Heimovics, a wing, also played well all season.
At Wetdown this year, the Dick Leisching Award, which is presented to that player who contributed the most to Dartmouth rugby, went to Don Burris. The recipient had been sidelined all spring with a broken finger. He had been a starter at wing, however, for two years and had contributed greatly to the leadership of the club, first as publicity director and then as secretary-treasurer.
Pete Luitwieler of Winchester, Mass., a Spanish major, has been elected captain for the 1963-64 season and Bill Warrick of Rye, N. Y., is the new club president.
