OTHER SPORTS

Because of the dastardly weather, it is too early to tell much about the spring season. At this writing, Dartmouth track team and golfers are on the eve of their first dual competition. The lacrosse team stands 0-2 and the tennis team stands 4-6, including a 3-4 record during the southern trip.

In track, the Indians concluded a successful trek to William & Mary for a week of training and tasted their first spring competition at the Boston College Relays. It was a good test for the Green which shared second place with Yale (45 points) behind Northeastern, which won with 49 points.

As expected, Dartmouth's weightmen Produced the bulk of the Indians scoring but Coach Ken Weinbel had to be pleased, too, with the performance of Bob Brown, the football end from Massapequa, N. Y., who finished fourth in the decathlon and of Eric Potter, the sophomore distance specialist, who returned from a term of study in Europe to finish second in the 3000-meter steeplechase. Brown, Brown a quarter-miler, won the 1500-meter run, the javelin, and the 400-meter run in collecting 6227 points in the decathlon.

George Remmer, the 270-pound behemoth, won the shot put and was third in the discus. Frank Howard, a senior, was second in the discus with a distance of 178 feet, 10 inches, more than 11 feet better than the Dartmouth record of 167 feet, 6 inches set by George Ramming in 1960. DeWitt Davies, the dependable all-round weightman, was second in his spring specialty, the hammer, and also finished fifth in the discus.

Dartmouth's first-year lacrosse coach, Dudley Hendrick, was an All-America attackman at Navy but he's spending most of his time this season trying to improve the Indians' clearing game. In its first two outings, Dartmouth lost to Yale, 11-1, and to Penn, 10-2, and in both instances the problems rested in the Green's inability to clear the ball through the midfield.

"I can't believe those two scores are indicative of this team's ability," said Hendrick. He has a good goalie in Captain Peter Harter, and Trip Dorkey and Lou Young are able defensemen.

In the midfield, where mobility is the name of the game, he can look to senior Bill Johnson (who scored two of Dartmouth's three goals in the first two games) and sophomore Bob Bassett. Beyond Johnson and Bassett, however, it's a search for consistency. Hopefully, Hendrick will find some.

In tennis, Coach John Kenfield's squad defeated East Stroudsburg, Emory, and George Washington during the southern trip and opened the regular season with a 7-2 win at Brown. Then came losses at Penn (8-1) and Columbia (7-2) as the Indians headed for the friendly confines of the varsity courts.

Individually, sophomore Brian Williams has built a 4-5 record playing in the No. 2 position behind Co-Captain Geoff Dyer who is 2-8 at this early stage of the campaign. Williams is also 4-5 with three doubles partners while Barry Brink and Justin Stanley are 2-1 in regular season doubles.

A year ago, Dartmouth's golfers finished 20th in a field of 45 teams at the Miami Invitational Tournament. This spring, the Indians finished 20th again — but the field was expanded to include 86 teams. This performance gave Coach Bill Johnson a good barometer of his ladder as the regular season began. As expected, Marsh Gavre and Ken Kotowski were consistent and will hold the top spots, while Jim Cox, Mark Hallenback, and Dave Hill demonstrated that they will be one of the East's toughest 3-4-5 combinations.

Sophomore Pete Broberg had a 3-1 record during the first weeks of the season.