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...were reassuring experienced observers who know that golf's uncertainties make such performances by favorites wildly improbable. On the very first hole, Al Watrous, home pro at Oakland Hills, took two strokes to get out of a trap which, in innumerable unimportant rounds, he had invariably avoided. Bert McDowell, an able amateur from Baton Rouge, knocked three balls into the lake on the 16th hole, took three putts for an n, posted a 91, high score for the first day. Young Frank Strafaci of Brooklyn, 1935 Public Links champion, hit the flag on the third and missed a hole...
Rowing down the Housatonic River, the Crimson was close behind the Elis and apparently coming up on them, when two crabs were caught and sent Bert Haines' boat about a length and a half behind Yale. Princeton was third in the race...
...Herrick of the Crimson scored in three field events. First in the discus with 148 ft., he figured in a four way tie in the pole vault, and was third in the shot. Win Pettingell was the other Crimsonite who tied at 12 ft. 4 in. in the vault. Bert Litman was a double winner in the shot put and the javelin. His javelin throw of 192 feet was the best of his career...
...Varsity 150 pound crew will race Yale and Princeton once more tomorrow at Derby in the final race of their season. Having defeated them both last week, the Crimson ranks as favorite to take the race. However, the winning margin was only two seconds, over the Eli's and Bert Haines' boat is expecting a hard race...
Starting times were delayed a little by the Leverett House crew, whose number seven man felt a little too strong in a practice start and broke his oar in half; but when Bert Haines got the boats off from the start of the first race, Lowell immediately jumped into a lead they were never to relinquish...