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Calhoun yesterday pointed out Kunhardt as an example of the fact that, contrary to general opinion, good ruggers do not have to be giants. Weighing only 150 pounds, Kunhardt managed to make last year's All-Star American Rugby team. This team is drawn from American universities which compete each Easter vacation at the Bermuda gala Rugby Week. Usually the universities are Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and M.I.T...
...DiMaggio stepped from the plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, a full-throated roar rose from the waiting crowd. "Banzai DiMaggio," they shouted. Joe and 16 other players-the first U.S. all-star major league team to visit Japan since 1934-had come to make a good-will tour of Japan, in which they will play 15 games of beisu-boru against Japan's best teams...
Wylie captained the Chelmsford High School team in 1945 and, in the same year, was made captain of the Greater Lowell all-star team. At Harvard he and Lowenstein lived together in the Varsity Club, and were very close friends...
...baseball-writer friends, urging them not to bypass Harry in this year's selections. Last week New York Times Columnist Arthur Daley printed part of Cobb's letter, agreed that Heilmann's election was, long overdue. The appeal came too late. At last week's All-Star game in Detroit, 50,000 fans stood and observed a moment of silence. The day before, Harry Heilmann, 56, had died of cancer in Detroit...
...third no-hitter of the season, over the Cleveland Indians, 1-0, on Gene Woodling's seventh-inning home run; in Cleveland. The losing pitcher: Bob Feller, who had turned the trick himself (for the third time) a fortnight before. ¶The underdog National League team, the All-Star game, with four home runs, over the American League, 8-3; in Detroit. ¶British Miler Roger Bannister, Britain's Amateur Athletic Association championship, with his best time ever, and best in the world this year: 4:07.8; in London. ¶Heavyweight Rocky Marciano, his 36th straight victory, over...