ROWING

While Dartmouth's oarsmen haven't rowed in competition yet (the annual Kowaliga Cup regatta in Alabama was erased by the weatherman), Peter Gardner is thriving on home course conditions that are the best since he came to Hanover in 1957 and provide the opportunity to get the sprint season preparations into high gear.

"We've got June conditions on the river," said Gardner in mid-April, "and our times for the heavyweight boat compare with those of late May last year."

The heavyweight eight is progressing well but the lightweights, who have been looking for their best season ever, haven't showed the improvement that Gardner would like to see. That improvement was vital in the early going because the opening race for the Biglin Bowl on April 21 was against Harvard's lights who have won the Eastern Sprint for the past five years.

The lightweight boat has good experience returning from the boat that finished fifth in the Sprints in 1972. Brad Little, the captain from Marblehead, Mass., and Hanover, is established in the seventh seat and Bob Stevens from Lexington, Mass., is pulling the stroke oar.

Bill Landmesser in the bow, Jeff Hanson at four, and Mark Potter at six also return home from the '72 varsity shell along with the coxswain, Doug Jones. Rick Routhier' Chip Hughes, and Mike Winer have stepped up from the last year's jayvee boat.

In the heavyweight shell, the biggest surprise has been sophomore Jan Brink, lost to football last year with a pre-season knee injury but making his athletic mark already in rowing.

Brink has taken over the sixth oar behind Art Post (he'll stroke the heavies from the starboard side in Gardners modified German rig) and Captain Charlie Arnold who's on the port side at seven.

Bruce Alexander (bow), Dave Leuschen (four) and Hod Fowler (five) are the other seniors in the heavy shell while sophomores Ron Gatzke and Tim Whitney look like the men who will work at tow and three. The coxswain is junior Brian Pritchard.

Sports Schedule

BASEBALL — May 4, Holy Cross away; 5 Harvard (2); 6, Providence away (2); 11 Army away; 12, Cornell away (2); 15 New Hampshire; 17, Springfield; 25, Brown Keene, N.H.; 26, Brown; 27, Brown (2). (The five games with Brown are post-season, non-league games.)

LACROSSE — May 2, Holy Cross away; 5 Adelphi away; 9, Harvard; 12, Brown; 15 New Hampshire; 19, Williams; 23, Union away

TRACK — May 1, Harvard; 5, Brown 8 Springfield; 12, Heptagonals at Brown; 19, Englands at Brown; 26-27, Intercollegiate? at Rutgers; June 7-9, NCAA Meet at Louisiana State.

GOLF — May 1, Norwich and Williams; 5.6 Eastern Intercollegiates at University Park, Pa,; 8, Harvard away; 12, Boston College'and Brown; 14, Middlebury away; 17, Springfield and New Hampshire at Springfield.

TENNIS — May 2, Cornell away; 5, Harvard 8, Amherst away; 11-12, New England Intercollegiates at Williams; 14, Middlebury away 16, Army away,

HEAVYWEIGHT CREW — May 5, Wisconsin and M.I.T. at Madison; 12, EARC Regatta at Worcester, Mass.; 19, Syracuse and M.I.T.; May 31-June 2, IRA Regatta at Syracuse.

LIGHTWEIGHT CREW — May 5, Cornell; 12, EARC Regatta at Worcester.