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Last night proved that the exceptional all-round improvement shown during the last week of practice in team play was not only a dream raiser. Plays clicked and extinguished any semblance of a Tech defense, with pivot-man Pat McCormick, his alternator John, Lombard, and Smith virtually roping off the backboard areas and tipping the points in at will over the heads of the M.I.T. quintet...
...times even brilliant as in the 17-7 win over Columbia and in the first half of the Dartmouth game. Discounting the mud-splattered Brown fiasco, however, it has been found wanting in two instances against Wisconsin and Princeton. The answer both times seemed to be the all-round edge of the rival front ranks...
Wobbling Rabbit. The man who had made it work is a well-muscled, pigeontoed, 28-year-old rookie from Pasadena, Calif., who, along with Glenn Davis and Babe Didrikson Zaharias, is one of the great all-round athletes...
...been profitable: the Enterprise was down to 268 subscribers when Gould bought it in 1945. Boston-born and Maine-reared, he knew the town from childhood summers on his grandfather's farm on nearby Lisbon Ridge. When he grew up he bought the farm, worked as an all-round newsman on the Brunswick Record. When its publisher died, a banker friend suggested that he take over the Lisbon weekly. Gould proposed a partnership to Printer J. W. ("Jess") Goud (rhymes with food), who seemed, after the Maine fashion, completely uninterested. Next morning Goud showed up with his eyeshade...
Jake has always understood that fact of sporting life; and he has always understood the all-round value of becoming a champion. Nothing has ever been allowed to interfere with his determination to make good at tennis...