SWIMMING

The Dartmouth swimming team de- serves a pat on its collective back for despite all the bad breaks that have hit this year's team, the Indian swimmers are now 4-4 and have a chance to post a winning season. Coach Karl Michael's men will meet invincible Yale, but then tangle with less formidable Columbia, Colgate, and Cornell in that order.

The swimmers have split even in six meets since our last report. After a 58-47 loss to Army, the Green came back strong to beat Brown 64-31 and Spring- field 57-38. In their most recent home meet they fell before Navy 59-36, but then beat Penn 69-26 and lost to Princeton 52-43 in back-to-back road encounters.

In the Navy meet, Tom Hoober, a sophomore, took the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:16 and his teammate Dick Kaukas was second. The only other Dartmouth victories in that meet went to Carl DuRei in the 100-yard freestyle and to Hank Marshall in the 200-yard breaststroke. Marshall broke his own pool record with a time of 2:26.2.

DuRei continued to shine, even in a losing cause, as he took both the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events against Princeton.

In the Penn meet the Indians were at their best, as they took eight out of a possible eleven firsts. Hoober took the butterfly in 2:14.4. In the 50-yard freestyle George Fesus and Don Waite were one, two. The Green also swept the 500yard freestyle with Pete Steck and Bob Nash and the dive with Randy Stay in first and Forrest Martin, second.

As expected, the Indian swimmers, despite their early season losses, are making gradual but steady improvement. For this reason, the outlook for the rest of the season is good, and with luck Coach Karl Michael will have another winning season as well as a new pool.