The varsity baseball team split its pair of games with a favored Yale squad; Ken Rossano and Andy Ward pitched the Crimson to a 4-2 win at New Haven, but the Elis came back to win, 6 to 5, in Cambridge. After the game, catcher George L. MacDonald, Jr. '55 of Eliot House and Marblehead, was elected captain for next spring.

MacDonald's classmate, right fielder Donald H. Butters '55 of Natick, received the Wingate Memorial Cup as the best all around player on the squad. And the Wendell Bat went to William J. Cleary, Jr. '56 of Winthrop House and Cambridge; Cleary gained the annual prize for having the highest agregate point total for runs, runs batted in, stolen bases, sacrifices, and safe arrivals at first.

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In the regatta at New London, the Crimson easily beat Yale in the junior varsity, freshman, and combination races, but lost in the varsity competition by three-quarters of a length. The victorious Yale varsity rowed the four miles in 21:58.4. Harvard was clocked in 22.02. Next year's varsity captain will be Richard W. Darrell '55 of Dunster House and New York City.

Stroke Carlo F. Zezza, Jr. '57 of West Falmouth won the Bruce Finlay Vanderveer Trophy, which goes each year to the man making the greatest contribution to the Yardling boat.

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The varsity tennis team capped its Joint European tour with Yale by defeating a combined Cambridge-Oxford squad, 6 to 4, at Wimbledon to regain the Prentice Cup. The three Crimson players making the trip were Ham Gravem, Steve Gottlieb and Brooks Harris. Gravem and Gottlieb were among the four American players gaining singles wins in the cup matches.

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Construction work began on a building to house the University hockey and skating rink. The enclosure, which will seat 2100, is expected to be finished by Nov. 15.

The cost of $350,000 is being defrayed by over 1,000 alumni contributors to a recent fund drive organized by the Working Friends of Harvard Hockey. The sum includes a gift of $100,000 from the late John W. Watson '22. The new building will be named for Watson's brother, the late Donald C. Watson '16, who quarter-backed the 1914 and 1915 varsity football teams.

The enclosure is expected to make skating possible from October to May each year. Last year without the building, weather conditions limited use to 75 percent of normal.

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Four graduate students at the University have been added to the football coaching staff to assist with the freshman and junior varsity squads. John Nichols, captain of the 1952 Crimson team; Richard Sprague, a former captain at the University of Washington; and John Driscoll, a guard from the University of New Hampshire; will work with the freshmen. The fourth man, Woody Simpson, a lineman from UCLA, will join the junior varsity coaching staff.

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Swimmer Dave Hawkins picked up 14 trophies over the summer with the Australian team, which won the swimming title in the British Empire Games at Vancouver before making a triumphant tour of southwestern United States. The junior worked his time in the 100-yard butterfly down to 68.2 while breaking California and Far Western A.A.U. records for the event.