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PAGE ELEVEN 80 Best College Skiers In East Start ISU Events THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS AND I ES A FEBRUARY 20, 1941 Of Tod Northern League List of Entries In ISU Meet Standings Won Lost Pet. Cathedral 10 0 1.000 Burlington 6 3 .667 Montpelier 5 4 .556 Winooski 5 4 -556 Spaulding 2 7 .222 St. Albans 0 10 .000 Gruelling Cross Country Grind On Mf. Mansfield's Western Side Run Off This Afternoon Dartmouth's Freshman Ace Bill Distin Highly Favored But Stars of Other Colleges Will fight' For Team Honors Norwich Wins Thriller From Mlddlebury Score 46-45; Hughes' Basket 2 Minutes 1 From Gun Turns Trick Speftal to the Free Presf MEDDLEBURY. Feb.

19. In Bracket! Named Vf. Top Ranking --V Tennis Player Brattleboro Boy Won Majority of Singles Titles In '40 Roger A. Brackett of Brattle-boro, who won a large majority of the Vermont 1940 tennis singles titles, was yesterday named the top-ranking player in the state, Fred H. Harris of Brattle-boro.

chairman of the state advisory councU of 19 members, announced after the council's votes had been counted. Other Singles Rankings Based entirely upon competitive tennis pay play in the state. Har Yale Almost Beats Dartmouth Hoopsters NEW HAVEN, Feb. 19. VP) Yale, cellar-dweller of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, threw a scare into first-place Dartmouth tonight, but Captain Gus Broberg came through with a last-minute foul shot to give the Indians a 51 to SO victory.

With Broberg well-bottled up by Yale's Chuck Seelbach in the first half, the Elis were ahead 26-23 at the mid-way mark. The game see-sawed weU into the third quarter, but Dartmouth commenced to build up a commanding lead when its captain started feeding Jim Olsen, George Monroe and Stubby Pearson. Within two minutes of the end. Dartmouth led 50 to 43. but a Yale rally brought the score up to 50-48.

At the one-minute mark, Seelbach fouled Broberg and the Dartmouth captain sank the one-pointer. Seconds later. Captain Johnny Cobb sank a field goal for Yale and the scoring ended! John P. Sabo Assistant Grid Coach at Yale NEW HAVEN, Feb. 19.

'XP) Emerson W. "Spike" Nelson, Yale's first non-graduate football boss, has named his staff of seven assistants four of them holdovers from the last regime and coupled It with an expression of "confidence In the future." Nelson, former Iowa star who replaced Raymond W. "Ducky" Pond as head football coach last month when Yale cast aside its graduate coaching system, went to the mid-west for most of his appointees. They are: Edward E. Howell, Nebraska, 1929.

John P. Sabo, Illinois, 1922. W. Robert Voights. Northwestern, 1939.

Ivan B. Williamson, Michigan, Reginald D. Root, Yale, 1926. David C. Colwell, Yale, 1938.

Marvin Franklin, Vander-bilt, 1939. Of the newcomers, Howell coached at Kansas State Teachers and Louisiana State; Sabo at the University of Rochester, Kansas, Illinois and Vermont; and Voig-hts at Illinois 'i if tv i I I Results Last Night Cathedral 48, St. Albans 33. Games Tonight Spaulding at Burlington. Games Friday Winooski at Montpelier.

Little Indians Win Over BFA Quintet 48-33 Special to the Free Press ST. ALBANS, Feb. 19. It was another victory; for the. Little Indians of Cathedral high school here tonight, and a new Northern League scoring record for Angelo (Pal) Evelti, the Indians' center.

With Evelti tossing in 14 points to run his season's league total to 127 points, breaking his mark of 121 points set a year ago, the Indians ran up a 34 to 11 lead in the first half and coasted to a 48 to 33 decision in the remaining minutes of play. It closed the league season for the Indians with ten wins and no defeats, and was the Hammond coached team'e 15th straight victory. With Evelti leading the scoring, Ray Brown and Ken Miller with 12 and ten points respectively were right behind him, while Bowles' 11 points led the academy. In the period the home club came back with a crash and outscored the Xndians 13 to 8, to close the scoring gap to 42 to 24, and again in the last period out-scored the visitors, who played reserves most of the time, nine to six. The box score: CATHEDRAL Gls Fls Pts probably the most thrilling basketball game of the state series, Norwich university, trailing with less than two minutes of the game left to be played, won over Mlddlebury college tonight, when Jack Hughes sank a basket to give the Cadets the lead which they held until the final gun, defeating the Panthers 46 to 45 here this evening.

The Cadets, led by Joe McClos- key. and Jack Jones, piled up a 10 point lead In the opening half of the game, before the Panthers began to get the range of their opponents' basket. Led by FTed Lapham and Tom Niedhart, Mld dlebury started on a scoring spree which led to tieing the score at 14 to 14 with less than 10 minutes of the helf left to be played. Mc-Closkey and Jones, however, by brilliant playing, managed to keep the visitors out in front and the first period ended with Norwich leading Middlebury, 23 to 19. A Hot Fourth Period In the last half of the closing period the game became real hot when McCloskey and Jones of Norwich, along with Krauszer of Middlebury, were put out of the game for having their, maximum of fouls.

The score stood at 43 to 41 in favor of the Cadets after Bob Adsit's sinking of a free foul shot. Fred Lapham sank the next basket for Middlebury, tying the game' up at 43 to 43. Tom Neid- hart, a couple of minutes later, put the Panthers In the lead 45 to 43 when he sank a beautiful basket from a difficult angle. Maynard gave Norwich its next tally of one point on afree foul shot. And with less than two minutes of the game left to be played Hughes crashed through with a basket for the Cadets and the two winning points.

The visitors stalled during the remaining seconds of the game: The box' score: NORWICH UNIVERSITY Maynard, rf. Durkee, rf. Jones, If. Gebbie, if. McCloskey, e.

Hughes, rgr. -Benedetti, rg. Dean, lg. Gls Fls Pts -4 0 8 1 1 -7 17 0 -33 9 -4 0 8 -00 0 -1 1,3 HERE FOR ISU MEET Charlie McLane (left) captain of the Dartmouth ski team and Coach Walter Prager discuss plans for the Biff Green in the In tercollegiate Ski Union meet starting today on the Underhill slopes. McLane, one of the country's leading college skiers, is highly favored to carry off many of the individual honors in the meet.

By WALT HICKEY About 80 of the best college skiers in the east begin competitions at 2:30 this afternoon in the annual Intercollegiate Ski Union's senior division meet, this year being held under the auspices of the University of Vermont Qut-ing club and the Underhill Winter Sports club. BHS Will Meet .3 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 -5 2 12 0 0 0 -7 0 14 0 0 -3 4 10 -2 4 1 0 2 -21 6 48 Gls Fls Pts 2 2 -OO 0 .3 2 8 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 -3 0 6 -5 1 11 -13 7 33 -19 8 46 Gls Fls Pts .4 8 1 0 2 0 10 -4 4 12 -1 1 3 -2 1 5 0 0 0 1 3 9 -18 9 45 ry Parker of Montpelier ranked second and Gordon Booth of Burlington third. Other rankings in the first 10 are: 4, Norman Myers, Burlington: 5, William Golds- bury, St. Albans; 6, Malcolm Maclay, Burlington; 7, Edward Simpson, St. Albans: 8, Paul Rand, Burlington; 9, Herman Livingston, Brattleboro, and 10, Eric Barradale, Brattleboro.

Doubles In doubles Paul DeBoer and Harry Parker of Montpelier re ceived top ranking, followed by Henry and E. B. Cornwall of Middlebury in second place, Norman Myers and Maclay of Bur lington third, Roger Brackett and Eric Barradale of Brattleboro fourth, and William Goldsbury and Edward Simpson of St. fifth. Junior Singles Five ranking in junior singles found Brattleboro players state high school champions taking the first three places in the fol lowing order: William Philip Dunham, Raymond Churchill.

In fourth spot was R. Ansheles of West Rutland; and fifth was D. Stone of Swanton. The increase in the number of sanctioned tournaments and the number of players in the state in 1940 are noteworthy achievements. Tennis took a big step forward, and plans by the Vermont State association call for a still broader program during the coming months.

State association officers are Fred W. Guild, 51 Madison New York, president; Miss Eleanor H. Means, Middlebury, vice-president; John L. Dunham, Brattleboro, secretary, and delegate to the New England Lawn Tennis association, Paul K. DeBoer of MontpeUer.

Members of the advisory council are Charles A. Adams, Georg A. Boyden, Ward N. Boylston, Roger A. Brackett, Fred D.

Carpenter, Paul K. DeBoer, James S. Dennis, Joseph Fairbanks, Er nest W. Gibson, Fred B. William Tr avers Jerome, Walter Reisinger, Ralph H.

See- ley, Frank S. Shields, Frank T. Tschorn, E. B. Cornwall, Waldo C.

Holden, Norman Myers and Edmund' Royce. Harvard-Norwich Rifle, Match at Northfield Special to the Free Press NORTHFIELD, Feb. 19. Lt. Frank Moffitt, coach of rifle shooting at Norwich university, completed arrangements today for a shoulder-to-shoulder match with Harvard on the Norwich range here Saturday.

Teams of five men wiU fire. A report received today on the results to date in postal matches fired in the New England College Rifle League showed a first-place tie shared, by Norwich, M. I. T. Yale and New Hampshire.

Following these four came Rhode Island, Vermont, Coast Guard, Harvard, Wentworth, Northeastern, Connecticut, Worcester, Bos ton university and Ten highest individual averages were listed as foUows: Myers, Northeastern, 284; Openshaw, New Hampshire, 278; Pratt, Vermont, Orr, M. I. 274; Giddings, Norwich, 274; Colehamer Vermont, 273; Karstrom, M. I. 273; McCain, Yale, 272; Stewart, Norwich, 272; Jensen, -Northeastern, 272.

Burlington Athletics Swamp YMCA 68-38 Burlington Athletirs raner im another victory in their frrowinz string last evening, swamping the YMCA varsity quintet 68 to 38. Charlie Smith led the attack with 26 points, with Elmer (The Great) Nicholson dnmniner in 1 9. Rnrt Allen's 14 topped the five, with Don Lorraine tossing in 10 for second honors. Spaulding High Here Tonight Burlington high school's epa! still stunned by the defeat taced on last Friday eve- UUifi AW WUAaV gee revenge uie urwiern league and will meet Spauldlng high of Barre tonight on the BHS gym floor in a doubleheader, the open- ing game starting at 7 p. m.

No Lineup Change Coach Buck Hard plans no lineup changes as his charges go into their final Northern league tilt of the season. Four long practice sessions have been held since last Friday's game in an effort to straighten out the problems which i Men's ISO Senior Division Member: Dartmouth: Charles McLsne, Robert Meservey, William Distin, Alex Sslm, Donald Jordan, Simpter, John Tobin and Robert well, New Hampshire: Edgar Costello, Paul Townsend. Robert Clark. Ralph Town send, Curtis Chase, Allison Merrill, Wil liam Keough, Jr Robert Middleton, Rich ard Snowman and Truxton Perry-Smith. Syracuse: David Levy.

Roger Wells, Wlllard Born, John Maxwell, Fred Ayllng, Kenneth Norton and Peter Borge-meister. Mlddlebury: 1 Dwlght Smith, Ray Una- worth. Bob Darrow. Robert Stuart. Ira Townsend, Robert Gale, John Gale and Robert Sheehan.

Amherst: Red Valens, William Traver, In. Edward R. Guson, Howard Kesseier, Robert McCrum and R. Bradley Benedict. Harvard: Roger Wilson, Thomas Win- ship.

Finn Ferner, Franklin King, LiLndley Burton, John D. Crawford, Adel-bert Ames, HI. and Philip Field. Norwich: Allan Beat, uoraon jrowier, Sam Constant, Tom Cootey, Merrill Bar ber and Robert Sawyer. Maine: John Bower, oscar tuaaie, David Greenwood.

William Ellis, William Garsoe, Ralph Woodbury, Charles Adams, Forrest Whitman, waiter Strang ana William Riddle. David Collins, Paul Sutton, Arthur Patterson, Franklin Pierce, Harvey Goodell, Charles Smith, III, Ernest St. Mary ana wooers uobs. Williams: Ball. Brown, cantweii, coie, Everdell, Findlay, Moore and Schneider.

Women's Teams: Wellesley: Grace F. Smith and Suianne Van Dyke. St. Lawrence: Marguerite Malay, Lorraine Walter and Elizabeth Harper. RadcliSe: Margaret Helburn and Elea nor Chestnut.

Vermont: Barbara Burns, Sara Peters and Julia Fletcher. MeOill: Jacaueline Papineau, Joan and PeceT Turner. Conn, college- for Women: Anne Shat-tuck, Peggy Groui, Betty Gosswiele and Dorothy Fizzell. New Hampshire: Dorothy Sparks, Ruth Dickson and Leslie Ireland. Mlddlebury, Syracuse, Cornell and Skid- more are also sending women's teams, but had not submitted members names.

Bowling By TED JANES Eddie Perrotta, proprietor of the Bowling Center, 169 Church reports plans are progressing smoothly for his men's doubles tournament to be held Sunday afternoon and. evening on his alleys. Already more than 40 teams have entered and indications are there will be close to 50 by the time the first contestants toe the foul line at 2 In the afternoon. We understand that numerous prizes will be awarded in this tournament with the view of drawing in as many contestants as nossible. The top prize will be reduced -somewhat in order that more money can be passed along to some of those who score in the lower brackets.

Prizes will be given to the first five high teams, to the man having the high single, the one having the high triple Also there will be consolations and other awards. Officials of the Vermont tsowung association win assist Perrotta in handling the event. Bert Gay. Bowlaway league pin ner Qf Winooskl having a good year; Besides winning the singles money and title at the recent tournament at the Arena, he has scored well hi other events, including mixed doubles -tournaments at Bowlaway and the Arena. He is also a hard man to beat in the Saturday and Sunday afternoon blood matches at the Arena.

The Community Saturday night bowling is not the same President Henry Way is in Florida thorouehlv bronzed hv the tropical sun. Incidentally they are taking in the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. Another word has reached us concerning Ida Simmons, world champion woman duck pin bowler for the past six years. It is now denied that she intends to retire from active competition. As previously stated in this column, we did not believe the first announce ment because it can hardly be imagined that anyone so proficient in the game-as Miss Simmons could retire unless Jie had a very good reason, such as illness.

It was only a few days ago in Balti more that she participated in making a new world's mixed doubles record. Paired with Bob Fisher of Baltimore she rolled 675 for five games while her partner scored 665 for a total of 1,340. The old record of 1,338 was held by Helen Randlett of Rich mond, Va and Astor Clarke of C. Clarke, inci dentally is the number one man bowler in the country, having held the honor for five consecutive years. Any day now we expect our mall box will be filled with entry blanks and full particulars on the New England duck pin tournament from Charlie R.

Peel of Taunton, New i England secretary of duck pin bowling. The tourney will be held in Norwich, May 10 to 18 inclusive. --v5; The Del Rio five of Washington. D. headed by Astor Clarke, recently defeated the national champion blue ribbon team of WiHimantic.

3,219 to 3.208 in a five-man five-game match. Clarke paced his team with a 724 total for the five strings. A new world's record for a five-man team, three games, was recently made by the United Birdmen team in the Northern Connecticut League when it scored 2,068 on the Maple alleys in Hartford. The game totals were 679, 699 and 660. Mario Izzo, with an average of 121.6 is leading the Knights of! EAGLES WIN, 30-23 Burlington Eagles defeated the All Stars in the Cathedral high.

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nri iggL rgE dit been rollin? ten. Pms bi balIs Iffi'S lmprvm? and PI0 ltlmustference) and scored in the rf the Sea Horses hold any hopes 180. few davs are due of surviving in state tournament ioviii JrIttZZ St. MichaeFs To Play Siena This Evening1 With the state title aU but mathematically out of its grasp, the St. Michael's college varsity quintet will swing into its final road trip of the season tonight when it meets a strong Siena college five of Loudonville on the Hackett junior high hardwoods in Albany.

The Purple wUl remain in Albany the next night to play State Teachers, traveling to Pittsburgh for its Windup Saturday night. A Slim Chance For Tie Vermont's smashing victory in Tuesday night's 'classic, "left the state title entirely up to the Mid-dlebury-Vermont clash Saturday afternoon. A 'loss for the Catamounts would give the Michael-men a chance for a tie, as they meet the Panthers on their own court next week. Coach Pinky Ryan will undoubtedly start -the same team that played valiantly in a losing cause against Vermont, with the single exception that Connors mav be replaced in the starting lineup by Jack Fitzgibbon. The other start ers mclude high-scorme forward Jules Pequignot, Bob Malone at center and Bud Riley and Steve Guter at guards.

Reserves who will see action on the include Captain Fred Coffey, Don Akey, joe jvaaweii ana boo Linehan. Two Old Rivals Albany state and Plattsbureh are oia rivals on the St. Michael's schedule, but Siena is a comDara- tive newcomer. The Purple dropped a 45 to 38 decision in Trov last winter, is out to revenge that aeieat. siena, a college of four years' standing and yet to have a graduating class, has a first team composed entirely of seniors.

Coach Bunoskl has a veteran squad centered around one of the east's high scorers, Howie Tucker. The starting lineup will probably include Tucker and Rehfuss at forwards, Crummey at center, with Bob Barrett and Tim O'Brien in the backcourt. Northern Vt. Semi-Pro Tournament Teams Special to the Free Press HARDICK. Feb.

19S.lPrHnn of the eight teams to participate' in cne iourtn- annual Nnrt.ViPm Vermont semi-pro basketball tournament to be held here have been announced as follows: Mor-risville, Greensboro Craftsbury, Concord. Bradford. StoWe. Enos- burg Falls -and Hardwick. The tourney will be run off on three nights, next week Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Pairings for the preliminary round follow: Morrisville vs. Greensboro; Craftsbury vs. Concord; Bradford vs. Stowe, and Hardwick vs. Enosburg Falls.

The games will start on the hour beginning at7 o'clock. i Semi-finals Wednesday will start at 8. The consolation and final games will start at 8 Thursday. The 'games will be played in the, new Hardwick. academy and school dsitrict gymnasium.

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Miller, rg. Dennis, rg. Welch, lg. Coffey, lg. TOTALS ST.

ALBANS Chevalier, lg. Shepard, lg. Livingston, rg. Bean, c. Lemnah, U.

Wright, If. Palmer, rf. Bowles, rf. TOTALS Score By Quarters: Cathedral St. Albans 3 8 Tl 48 33 Ut -IS It 1 Referee: Stanley Sloan, Montpelier.

Umpire Archi Burlington. Barre Hockey Team To Play In Boston Special to the Freo Press BARRE, Feb. 19. The Barre hockey club, as 1941 Vermont champions, Winooski Red Wings as runners-up, and the St. Johns- 1 4 4 oury town team as xaiu cnampions will enter the NEAAAU ice hockey tournament to be held in the Bos ton Garden, Feb.

26 and 27. -In the Vermont tournament held last weekend Barre defeated Winooski in the finals to become 1941 champions. St. Johnsbury was put out by Winooski in the semi-finals by a score of 4-3. While in Boston the teams will be guests of Walter A.

Brown at the Boston Bruins and Boston Olympics games held in the Gar den. They will also be presented with their awards at this time. The winners of this tournament will be eligible to enter the national tournament which will be held at Lake Placid in March. Ski Conditions BRANDON Eight to 10 inches breakable crust on Demon Drive, skiing fair. Open slopes, one inch icy base, no skiing.

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Phone 78 JVOW $1.00 -NOW 69c -NOW 69c $1.55 -2 for $1.00 With the gruelling cross-country grind, made more difficult by be-j ing staged on the mountainous i slopes and fields on the lower part of Mt. Mansfield's western side in the Stevensviiie area at Underhill the ISU meet will officially open with about 50 of the group participating, representing the ten senior colleges which are members of the best college skiing group in North America. The start and finish of the race will be in the vicinity of the Shannon and Wheeler farms. Distin Favored Highly favored, although the terrain will be most difficult faced this year and nearly eight miles in length, will be Dartmouth's freshman ace. Bill Distin, and the Dartmouth captain, Charlie McLane; New Hampshire's Bob Middleton and Truxton Perry-Smith; Middlebury's Bob Stuart and Bob Sheehan; Maine's Oscar Riddle; Kenneth Norton and Roger Wells from Syracuse and Burton Lindlay from Harvard, not to mention such long-distance ialberrfNo of Amherst, Tommy Cantweii of Williams, and Vermont's Dave Collins and Harvev Goodell oinns ana narvey oooaeii.

At Least 4 in EacT Team The fight will be for team hon- ors, with eacn team entering at least four runners. Given terrain about as rough as could be found, with plenty of uphill and downhill, open and wooded and brushed territory, this afternoon's race will prove test wnlcn will decide the best cross-country runners and the best college team in the ISU senior division without leaving a trace of doubt. Downhill, Slalom Tomorrow With the men's division start ing its competition today, tomor row finds the downhill and slalom listed for the Tear Drop Trail high on the mountain. In excel lent condition with snow over hip- deep and promises of new powder top over-night, exceptional times are expected to be reported tomor row the clriore fmm triaca coma 3-w ivi 19 uviu vaiqv aouib Hen colleges roar down the steep, Icurving slopes, in the fight to hold iposition jn the senior division, fjumping Saturday P. M.

I Climaxing the meet will be the Jmost spectacular, to both spec-Itator and competitor, event of the weekend, the jumping gaturday afternoon at 1:30. his will officially ODen the tew 40-meter hili in the Halfway Kouse district on the 'western side pi the mountain, a jump set in a Jiatural -bowl" just off the highway up the mountain, with plenty pf accommodations for hundreds jpf spectators. 1 The new Jump Bowl, completed Jast week will prove a test of the utmost skill for the college jump- rs, in wmcn Merrill Barber of orwich, Paul Townsend of New ampsnire, Charles McLane of artmouth, and about 20 others be competing for the ISU in- iviauai and team honors, with Neighborhood of 130 to 160 feet jb length. VTill Keep Roads Open The UVM Cmting club has made rrangements with the state high-ay department to keep the lountain roads open to traffic, ith plenty of space at the park-lg areas for hundreds of cars im an areas wiinm a lew min es oi tne scene of all events. Ten of the leading women's ski ams will also have their meet.

hid will be organizing a women's union along the lines of the en's ISU meet. Heading the ray of women experts for the fcwnhill and slalom events is I is TOTALS MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Niedhart, rf. Harris, rf. Lapham, If. rauszer, e.

Dale, c. Ouimette, rg. Bishop, rg. AdSlt, lg. TOTALS Vitt's Salary Claim Of $2,500 Is Paid CHICAGO, Feb.

19. If. as they say, money talks, Oscar Vitt had the last word today in his row with the Cleveland ball club -by proxy. The last word, exactly $2,500 worth, was delivered in behalf of Ol' Oz by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who ruled favorably on Vitt's salary claim against the club which dismissed him late last Oct. Vitt.

now manager of Portland in the Pacific coast league, was paid $15,000 for the 1940 season, a hectic one marked by a rebellion of players against him, differences with the Indian front office and a stretch drive which saw Detroit nose out Cleveland for the American League pennant. When Cleveland declined his demand for $2,500 bonus, he took his case to UVM Rif lewomen Improve Rapidly Although shooting only a couple of weeks, a class of girls from the University of Vermont is showing rapid improvement in rifle handling and have turned in commendable scores firing two positions at the pioneer rif range here. Possibilities are that by next faU there will be the formation of a UVM womens' rifle- team Following are the recent scores turned in by the group, prone score listed first and offhand second: 1 LeVens 83-43 15R- Poni ao 73-55128; Benson oi-' izo; Bteere 87-67154-Nichols 84-54138; Murphy 81-42 TaV 67-48-115; Abbott 67-45112; Adams 73-35108-Buckingham 78-56134: Faw-cett 78-44 122. BHS Seniors Win Class League Title Burlington high school seniors completed an -undefeated league season last night by defeating the juniors for the second time tills season, deciding the league winner. The score was 25 to 18 with Burrell and Dory leading the scoring, and Izzy Fleishman playing a great defensive game for the winners.

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Reserves who are expected to see plenty of action are Cubby Smith, Red Lavery, Poko Larivee and Bob Stafford. May Give BHS Tussle Coach Bill Wilbur's improving Crimson Tide may give the Sea Horses a tussle. In its recent games it has been proving to be strong opposition, and is expected to have a "hot" night before the season closes and win one of the games where it is picked as the underdog. most of the lineup composed of sophomores, Spaulding is building towards making a big impression around the top of the Northern league in the next two seasons, and with the advancement of this season has shown enough improvement to warrant watching. one of the world's leading women skiers, 'and a member of the United States FIS women's team.

Miss Van Dyke, well-known in Burlington and a student at the UVM summer session in 1940 and session women's tennis champion, will have Grace P. Smith as her team partner. Miss Smith is a resident of Burlington, and a sister of Dorothea Smith, president of the UVM Outing club and chairman of the meet this week end. McGill Sends Classy Team' McGill's classy team composed of Jacqueline Papineau, Joan Johnson and Peggy Turner, and the New Hampshire skiers. Dot Sparks, Ruth Dickson and Leslie Ireland, winners at the Middle- bury events last, weekend, lead the field.

Miss Ireland, one of Canada's top-notch women ski racers', win be up against the toughest assignment she has had this year, and expected to have a close battle with Miss Van Dyke for individual honors in both slalom and downhill. The women's slalom is to be held on the Stevens Trail starting at noon tomorrow, and the downhill will be at the same place starting at Jo a. m. Saturday. SUDTS and OVERCOATS At 20 Per Cent Less Than Regular SHIRTS, values HOSIERY, regular $1.00 hose SKI CAPS, regular $1.00 caps PAJAMAS, $2.00 qualities NECKWEAR, Silk or Wool LEU-ICI MAMEyjI 32 CHURCH STREET.

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