No Rest For Larson; St. Louis Grabs Honors

With the Harvard hockey season concluding at Dartmouth tonight, forward BILL LARSON will be able to hang up his skates and rest--for a day. Monday, he'll don a pair of cleats and report to baseball coach Alex Nahigian. The sophomore was one of Harvard's most effective pitchers last season (6-5, 4.30), and along with sophomores GREG BROWN and BILL DOYLE and juniors JIM CURTIN and JOHN SORICH, he will be counted on to replace graduated stars ROB ALEVIZOS (7-0, 2.13) and ROB STEWART (3-3, 4.40). Larson started the current hockey season on Kevin Hampe's junior varsity squad, but was promoted to the big club after a strong performance during winter vacation. His varsity action will make him the first hockey-baseball letterman since Hampe, who captained both sports, graduated in 1973.

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Women's soccer and lacrosse star SUE ST. LOUIS ran away with all the individual honors at the intramural indoor track meet last week at the ITT. The MIKE COGLIN goes for third straight. Leverett House senior shot out of the blocks and over the finish line of the 60 yd. hurdles, winning the race going away in eight seconds flat, more than two seconds faster than Lowell's LISA TRACY, who finished second. St. Louis placed first in the women's long jump, tied for the top place in the high jump, and finished just behind Lowell's MARTY ASHLEY in the shot. Led by roommates' JOAN CORSIGLIA and KRISTEN MERTZ's one-two photo finish in the mile. Winthrop crushed the rest of the college and picked up 75 crucial Straus Cap points...

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The Friends of Harvard Basketball gathered before last Tuesday's game against Dartmouth--which the Crimson won easily. 60-40--to pay their last respects to the IAB. The reception, which was held at 33 Dunster Street, attracted only a very few friends, perhaps because the IAB was not a very friendly place during the Crimson long string of losing seasons. But prominent among the guests were long-time fan HENRY ZIMMERMAN '25, who travels from Brookline for every Crimson home game, and his wife. Representing Harvard's winningest hoop squad ever--the 20-3 1945-46 team--was MIKE DeLEO '45. BRIAN NEWMARK '72, who holds the Harvard record for most rebounds in a single game, was also present...Speaking of winningest teams, Crimson coach FRANK McLAUGHLIN says that if the Crimson finishes the season with a pair of wins at Yale and Brown, the resulting 17-9 mark will be the second best. Ever.

If the men's swimming team successfully defends its Eastern Seaboard title in today's final event at Dartmouth it will be the Crimson's third straight crown. Before the start of Harvard's current streak, Princeton won six straight years. Last year the aquamen finished 106 points ahead of the second place Tigers, and their winning total of 506 was the highest ever amassed at an Easter Championships--higher even than the totals of the Yale squads of the early '60s that included Olympic triple gold medal winners Don Schollander and Steve Clark.

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Although Pennypacker cleaned up at the freshman intramural swim meet last week. Thayer's BOB TYLER--one of the hottest recruits for the men's swim team--grabbed top honors with his fast times, Other good performances were turned in by STEVEN MUNATONES--another recruit who hung up his goggles when he turned Crimson, water polo ace DAVID FASI, and ex-swimmer PAM STEDMAN... At the women's Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships at Brown University last week, sophomore butterfly ace KATHLEEN "MAD MAC" McCLOSKEY celebrated her twentieth birthday in fine style. Not only did she receive several cakes and a few singing serenades, but the team presented her with a rubber duck life preserver which she wore to lunch at the Marriott Hotel...Although co-captain and Rhodes Scholar DEBBIE JACOBS was prevented from competing in the Ivies because of a broken arm, she suited up--cast and all--for the 100-yd. freestyle and got onto the blocks to wave and smile when her name was called..Although the women's swim team is renowned for the amount of food it can consume, new records were set at Ivies...After her second-place performance in the 1650-yd. freestyle at Ivies, sophomore MAUREEN GILDEA's time of 17:10 has catapulted her to fifteenth-place in the nation in collegiate standings.