Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freestyle sprinter Lou Kozloff is probably Penn's best bet to break up the Crimson's domination. After him, the Quakers get a bit thin; freestyler Jay Eberhardt has set a new Penn record in the 500-yard freestyle with a 5:55.6 clocking, a scant 50 seconds off Dave Abramson's Harvard record. Backstroker Bruce Banm has also turned in a record, but his 2:16.2 time is easily within the reach of Earl Showerman and Al Lincoln...
...nothing could deter the horseplayers from their appointed rounds last week. And out they came for the opening of New York's 1964 harness-racing season - 35,000 strong, only 1,000 less than for the closing '63 session last Dec. 7. At that, 15,000 bet-famished, fresh-money fans were turned away because there was no room in the parking...
...poker itself has a nice ring of language. "The raiser came back with a touch, a breath, feeling his way into those checking queens like a man fumbling in the dark." But ultimately the technical side of the novel turns on a confrontation of hands that are bet with a foolishness that belies the experience claimed for the players. Against a pair of tens showing, the Kid's opponent matches a $2,000 bet after three cards on the strength of a possible flush. Win or lose, anyone called The Man ought to be called The Boy for doing...
With the winter House athletic season entering the home stretch, Kirkland looks like a good bet to increase its slim 5 1/2 point lead in the Straus Trophy race...
...Crimson is a pretty good bet to be out to grab this one tonight. The team has no desire to relinquish the Ivy crown which has been Harvard's for the last three years. Nor are they in any mood to break an eleven-year tradition of not losing to the Tigers...