Indians Defeat Swimmers; First Loss of '70 Season

(Special to the CRIMSON)

HANOVER, N.H., Feb. 14-Twice this afternoon, Harvard's swimmers swept crucial events, but both times Dartmouth retaliated by sweeping the next event on the way to a 72-41 victory in a battle of unbeaten teams before a standing room only crowd.

The loss dropped the Crimson into a third-place tie with Princeton, Harvard's opponent next weekend.

Dartmouth received an excellent team effort, but it was double victories by diver Mike Brown and two great sophomores-Jim Gottschalk and Chris Cartensen-the proved fatal. Harvard had hoped that its best diver, Dave Silver could take first in one of the two dives, but Brown was not to be beaten.

After falling behind in the first three races, the Crimson took the top two places in the 50-free for an 18-16 (??) and a psychological edge. Captain Mike Cahalan was the winner in 21:92, with soph-

Individual Medley
omore Paul Horvitz second.

But then, in what was prohably the meet's most important event, Steve Krause, who had never lost in the individual modley, finished third behind the Indians' Gottschalk and Al Rheem. It seemed to be a risk for coach Karl Michaels to put both Gottschalk and Rheem in against Krause, but it paid off, and Harvard never regained the lead. Gottschalk's time of 1:59:46 broke the Dartmouth record he set last week.

Harvard's other sweep was in the but-terfly, where Johnny Munk and Krause swam away from weak opposition. The Crimson was only down by five points then, and there was a good chance to narrow the gap in the 100-free.

Cahalan and Toby Gerhart were the Harvard entrants, and their teammates renewed the chants of "one, two, one, two." Their opponents were standouts Chris Cartensen and Stu Vance. Cahalan was with them both at first, but could not match them over the final 40 yards, and Dartmouth swept eight points to put the victory almost out of reach for Harvard. Cartensen's time was 47.92.

Backstroke Upset

Gottschalk made the Crimson situation even more grim by upsetting Dan Kobick in the backstroke, and Greg Huff's win in the 500 free was the last for Harvard. Michael, coaching his last season and delighted to avenge last year's upset loss to the Crimson, put his top men in the final relay and won that, too, making the score even more lopsided.

One of the 'bright spots for Harvard was the performance of Huff, who Cahalan had predicted would make a strong showing. Huff never trailed in winning the 1000-free in 10:44,56 and came from behind to take the 500-free. Both times it appeared that teammate Dave Powlison, still not fully recovered from an illness, would take second, but he faltered in the last laps and was caught by Jim McNally in each event.

Harvard gained a semblance of revenge when the undefeated freshmen, swimming without Tim Chetin, downed the Big Green freshmen, who were also unbeaten, with a narrow victory in the final relay.