Facing a Dartmouth team which included three members of the 1936 Olympic Ski Team, the University skiers handed the Green its first major defeat of two years last Sunday in the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom race in Tuckerman's Ravine at Mt. Washington. The sum of the times of the first 15 men on each team gave the Crimson a slim margin of 6.7 seconds, 739.2 seconds to Dartmouth's 745.9. First place was taken by Dick Dorrance of Dartmouth, slalom champion of the United States, in the time of 40.1 seconds.

Charles S. Rogers '37 placed second in 41.9 seconds; Howard Chivers of Dartmouth was third in 42.1; Dave Bradley of Dartmouth fourth, 43.1. The fourteen Harvard men besides Rogers, whose times were counted in the team score, placed as follows: H. Adams Carter '36, fifth, 43.9; David Emerson '38, sixth, 44.8; Charles Lawrence, eighth, 46.4; Albert F. Sise, tenth, 47.6; Andrew E. Ritchie, Jr. '34, twelth, 47.9.

Robert H. Shaw '37, fourteenth, 48.1; Strafford Wentworth '36, fifteenth, 48.4; Thomas B. Walsh '25, seventeenth, 50.0; David H. Lawrence '40, nineteenth, 50.6; R. Colin MacLaurin '38, twenty-first, 53.0; Andrew Marshall, Jr. '34, twenty-third, 53.4; Samuel Wakeman, twenty-fourth, 53.6; Wendell M. Hastings '35, twenty-fifth, 54.0; Hubert D. Kernan, Jr., twenty-seventh, 55.6.