With the Big Green Teams

THERE WAS no shame in losing today," said Indian baseball coach Tony Lupien. "We were beaten by a fine baseball team."

The Indians had just lost a crucial Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League contest to powerful Army and Lupien's squad were dejected about the defeat. A win would have put the Indians on top of the league. The loss, however, dropped the Green to second with a 6-2 record, behind Army at 7-1.

The players wanted very badly to "win one for the coach." "Coach Lupien is probably the most unsung coach on campus," said the talented Indian captain, Barry Machado, from Fall River, Mass. "He instills the pride of professionals into his squad. Pete (Barber) pitched a terrific ball game. He deserved a better fate."

Against the Cadets the 6-3, 185-pound righthander pitched a two-hitter, and lost to Army's ace righthander Barry DeBolt, 2-0. On that sunny afternoon at Doubleday Field, Barber gave up two runs in the first inning on a walk, a single, and a throwing error. He allowed one hit in the third, but retired the last seventeen of eighteen batters he faced without allowing another hit.

"Pete matured as a pitcher against Army," lauded Coach Lupien. "He had control of his curve and of his changeup and mixed his pitches very effectively." Barber, a senior from Williamsville, N. Y., struck out seven men and walked only one.

Big Pete and Captain Barry were two of the key factors in a drive which saw the Indians climb from a 6-7 record to a 14-8 slate. After an early 6-4 loss to Navy on the spring trip, Barber pitched shutouts against Yale, Columbia, and Princeton, and defeated hard-hitting Brown 7-5.

In the Princeton contest Pete allowed only two hits and was named EIBL Player of the Week. Subsequently Barber was given the Watson Trophy, annually given by the coaches to the best allaround athlete at Dartmouth, and he was named Athlete of the Year by The Dartmouth. His 1.51 earned run average speaks for his pitching ability and his nomination to the All-Ivy soccer team last fall is another indication of his versatility.

Machado has been having a superb season also. A relatively little guy at 5-8, 165 pounds, Barry is hitting .325 and presently leads the club in runs batted in with 23. Quick wrists and the Lupien pride have pushed him into a starting berth in the lineup and have enabled him to break the College record for most doubles in a season with 10. Of his 29 hits, 13 have been for extra bases. Barry connected for two of the Indians' six hits garnered against Army.

Still leading the nine in hitting is sophomore outfielder-firstbaseman Ted Nixon of Minneapolis who is swinging at a .343 clip. Classmate Gene Ryzewicz from Springfield, Mass., who broke the College record for runs scored in a season with 28, is hot on Nixon's heels at .339. Pinchhitter Steve Luxford of McLean, Va., is batting .300 even (3 for 10).

Luxford also is a sophomore, which gives a good indication of the team's future. Another soph, John Blair, of Rialto, Calif., drove in the tying run against Williams in the ninth inning and batted home the clinching tally in the eleventh to spark the Green's 2-1 victory over the Ephmen. Blair, since he was elevated to a starting role in rightfield, has raised his average from .182 to .281. He has a bright future with the Indians in the years ahead. A fifth soph is cleanup hitter Bob Thomas, a powerful lefty from Mifflinburg, Pa.

Except for Machado and Barber, the rest of the starting squad will return next year. Catcher Bruce Smith of Louisville hit a grandslam and a two-run double against Harvard as the Green demolished Harvard 14-5. A junior, Smith hiked his average to .302 on the strength of his consistent batsmanship. Flashy Paul Mikus, whom Lupien calls "the best fielding thirdbaseman in the league," fills out the starting nine.

At this date the Green still has a slight chance to tie for the EIBL crown. The Indians must defeat Cornell while Navy must down Deßolt and the Cadets. In the topsy-turvy EIBL, anything is possible.

Meanwhile Coach Whitey Burnham's varsity lacrosse team is floundering in the second division of the Ivy lacrosse league. An inconsistent offense has been one of the problems.

"More than any other single thing," observed Coach Burnham, "our inability to score when we're a man up has lost L games." Against Yale the Green failed to score on any of eight man-up situations as the Indians were defeated 9-6 The weekend before, the Quakers of Penn downed the Green 10-7. "Being close is like kissing your sister," ranted the Indian mentor. "I intend to shake up our offense and see if we can improve our scoring punch."

Oozing confidence the Green then went out and defeated arch-rival Harvard 9-6 in a satisfying victory. In the battle to see who could avoid last place, Coach Burnham remarked, "We'll be playing to see who stays in the cellar to make the wine, and who moves upstairs to join the party." Sophomore Rob McCormick of Baltimore made certain that the Indians would "join the party" as he tallied three goals and added three assists. Senior Bruce McKissock of Wynnewood, Pa., and soph Bill Rich of Lexington, Mass., each tallied twice for the Green.

Tom Clarke, the 220-pound defenseman from Wellesley, Mass., tore ligaments and cartilage in the subsequent Williams loss. Clarke, captain of last year's football squad, had to be operated on and will be out of action the rest of the season. At Wet Down this spring Clarke was awarded The DartmouthCup, given annually to "that athlete who on and off the field brings the greatest credit to Dartmouth College."

After losing to a crack Princeton squad, the Indians began to click, defeating UNH 15-4 and UMass 13-5. Rob McCormick, a fine stickhandler and a very quick attackman, tallied eight goals in the two wins and added eight assists to give him a total of 42 points for the season. In all the talented rookie has scored 20 goals along with 22 assists. Rob scored 42 points in ten games with the frosh last year, and after ten contests on the varsity has shown that he was more than capable of making the difficult transition to the big time.

The rough and ready McKissock, the Indians' high-scoring ace who is often doubleteamed by opponents, presently has scored 26 goals. He has three assists for 29 points. A league contest with Ivy leader Cornell finishes out the campaign. Now at 4-6, a win over Ned Harkness and his Cornell Canadians would add some glow to an otherwise undistinguished season.

There are several "little men" who are outstanding for the Green this season. Machado is 5-8 and McCormick and McKissock both stand under six feet in height. Pound for pound, moreover, one of the best athletes on campus stands at 5-10 and weighs 165 pounds dripping wet.

Unquestionably the best player in New England and perhaps in the East, Charlie Hoeveler is captain and knight in white armor for the Green tennis squad. Playing number one, Hoeveler has been competing against the very best players in the area and in match play has compiled an outstanding 12-1 record. The team stands 4-8, but Charlie is not to blame. The junior from Southport, Conn., defeated such top-rated competitors as Ham McGill of Princeton, Jack Waltz of Yale, and Dave Benjamin of Harvard.

A lefty with a wicked twist serve and a stellar net game, Hoeveler almost singlehandedly led the Green to a fourthplace finish in the New England Tennis Championships. In two days he played a total of seven matches, reaching the finals in both singles and doubles. In fact, Hoeveler did not lose a set until finalist Bernie Adelsberg of Harvard defeated him 6-3, 5-7, 1-6. Adelsberg did not have to play in the doubles and had a tremendous advantage in the withering Amherst heat.

Cannonball Charlie teamed with classmate Curt Anderson of Mamaroneck, N. Y. in the doubles and the overworked pair went down in the finals to the top Williams doubles team in straight sets. Yale won the New Englands with 30 points. The Green finished fourth with 26.

Unbeknownst to Hoeveler, who took up a collection with his teammates to buy departing tennis coach Wayne Van Voorhees a gift, his compatriots were quietly taking up a collection to buy Charlie a present. "He's like another coach out there," commented Anderson. "It's a privilege to have him on our team.

The problem of depth has hampered several of the squads this spring, and the golf and track teams are no exception. The linksmen have been getting consistent performances from their top three competitors, Ken Kotowski of Melrose, Mass., Dave Potthoff of Marion, Ill., and Captain Dave Goldstein of West Hartford, Conn., each of whom has been winning consistently; but as a result of a paucity of wins from the competitors toward the bottom of the ladder, the Green record stands at 8-12. Kotowski and Potthoff both qualified for the individual title of the Eastern Golf Championships.

Potthoff, an ex-football player, was eliminated in the first round, but Kotowski, another of Dartmouth's "little men" at 5-8, 150 pounds, reached the semifinals of the tourney. The former Massachusetts Junior Champion was defeated by Dave Hambley of Penn State, 1 up. The Green finished seventh in a field of fifteen.

The track team (3-4) sent three men, Gordon Rule of Chandler, Ariz., Harris Wagenseil of Palos Verdes Est., Calif, and George Mcllrath of Muscatine, lowa to the Heps, where the Green finished ninth in the ten-team field. Wagenseil gained a third in the pole vault with 13'6" and Rule took fourth place in the 120-yard high hurdles in 15.5. Mcllrath, who barely missed qualifying in the discus and javelin, has been averaging about ten points per dual meet. George, a junior, competes in the shotput and the hammer throw in addition to the other two events.

"I was elated," commented lightweight crew coach Bryce Harbaugh after his rowing machine finished third to perennial powers Harvard and Cornell in the Eastern Sprints. With a new stroke, Mike Evans of Seattle, firmly in command, the lightweights sped down the 2000-meter course in 6:47.4, only seven seconds behind the leader.

Meanwhile the heavyweights showed mid-season improvement as they downed Rutgers and BU to win the Bill Cup and then downed Wisconsin and MIT to take the Cochrane Cup. Both crews will compete in the national championships at Syracuse June 17.

CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN DEPT.: Junior Carter Hall of Marblehead, Mass., has been elected captain of the 1966-67 squash team. At 5'7", 150 pounds, Carter played number one last year. The skiing captain for next year is cross-country ace Ned Gillette of Barre, Vt. A skier for over 16 years of his life, the 20-year-old Gillette succeeds teammate Brian Beattie of Lyndonville, Vt.

At the annual swimming banquet it was announced that free-styler Tony Dalrymple of Goffstown, N. H., was elected captain for next year. Top pointgetter on the exciting swimming varsity, Dalrymple took ten firsts and seven seconds in twenty starts.

MILESTONES: Golf coach Tommy Keane, one of Dartmouth's most distinguished and successful mentors, is retiring at the end of this season. In his 45 years at the College his squads have won 295 matches and have had a .629 winning percentage. Between 1950 and 1958 his clubs compiled an amazing 108-34-1 record. Tommy came to the College from the Winchester Country Club in 1922.

As a tribute to their coach, the freshman and varsity golf teams held a banquet in his honor and inaugurated the Thomas F. Keane Cup, an award that will be given annually to the College golf champion. The Cup was made possible through the generosity of Endicott Smith '39 who played for Keane as an undergraduate.

Also announced by Athletic Director Red Rolfe was the appointment of Dave Gavitt '59 as freshman basketball coach for next year. Gavitt was an outstanding backcourt operator under Coach Doggie Julian and along with Rudy LaRusso and Company, took part in a 62-18 log between 1957 and 1959.

A native of Westerly, R. I., the 29year-old Gavitt will replace Julian when the latter retires at the end of next season. Gavitt had compiled a 53-18 record as a coach of the Providence frosh, and his success as a recruiter for head coach Joe Mulaney has been evident.

An editorial in The Dartmouth stated, "Dave Gavitt has all the qualifications he's a first-class coach and first-class person. Coach Gavitt belongs at Dartmouth."

IN THE CLUTCH DEPT.: Against Harvard catcher Bruce Smith hit a grandslam homerun to spark the Green to a big lead en route to an awe-inspiring 14-5 win over the Crimson.

With two on in the third, Smith produced a long double to drive in the runners. Commented one disappointed junior highschooler, "I think he hits better with the bases loaded!"

A WAH HOO WAH FOR sophomore Timmy O'Connor, who pitched a no-hitter for Phoenix in an intramural Softball game last month. A semi-pro hurler during the summer, O'Connor led his team to an undefeated 6-0 league record.

Dartmouth's dugout should have looked happier during the 10-4 win over Penn.

Pete Barber '66, Williamsville, N.Y.,Dartmouth's ace pitcher, has won boththe Watson Trophy and The Dartmouth Cup as Athlete of the Year. Three leagueshutouts and a two-hitter against Armywere among his pitching performances.

Tennis captain Charlie Hoeveler '66,standout college player in New England,has a 12-1 record in singles matches.

Dave Gavitt '59 has been named freshman basketball coach and will take thevarsity job when Doggie Julian retires.A Big Green star in 1957-59, he is currently the freshman coach at Providence.