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Seven weeks into their first season, the Blues were last in their division and badly in need of some offensive punch. Coach Scotty Bowman made some quick trades and acquired Gordon ("Red") Berenson, a bench warmer for the New York Rangers. Berenson, 29, the son of a Regina, Sask., fireman, had all the makings of a top scorer. He learned his swift and violent trade as a boy, skating on the frozen ponds of his home town, but like many young pros, he had found it hard to make a dent in the talent-heavy NHL. As a teenager...
Shortly into the second half, however, the two leading Crimson rebounders, Hardy and senior Chris Gallagher, went to the bench, seconds apart, with four personals. As the few Dartmouth fans chortled happily, their super-star, a 6-7 junior named Alex Winn inexplicably committed four fouls within two and one half minutes--so he too took a seat...
Tufts shot and missed. Harvard took the rebound and came downcourt. Hardy dribbled to the top of the key and passed to Gustavson cutting across the middle. The senior pivoted and flipped in a ten foot turn around all in one motion. Then Harrison began to clear the bench...
...next night, Gallagher and his rebounding partner, Ernie Hardy, earned three personal fouls in the first ten minutes against Princeton and thus committed themselves to a lot of bench time...
...deciding to run for his current judgeship, which pays only $15,000 a year. He frankly admits that he was attracted by a pension equal to 75% of his salary. But Battle has proved to be more than a mere machine politician putting in time on the bench while he waits to retire. He has been a courageous judge. In one highly unpopular decision, he dismissed an indictment against a Memphis theater manager who had been charged with possessing and planning to screen a French film entitled I Spit on Your Grave, which showed nude love-making by interracial couples...