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...varsity baseball team faces a champion with its hands tied on Soldiers Field at 3:45 p.m. today, when it plays boast to Holy Cross, 1952 NCAA titlist...
Number one problem on Barnaby's mind at this point seems to be the varsity's approaching match with Williams next Monday. The Ephmen boast in Dick Squires a national junior doubles quarterfinalist when he was a freshman in high school. And Squires will lead a team with talent perhaps matching the Crimson...
Sicily has only one great painter to boast of, but in the five centuries since his death he had never been paid the tribute of a big, retrospective show. Last week the city of Messina (pop. 220,790) was finally making belated amends, with the first major exhibition honoring its home town master, Antonello da Messina. It was a limited display, for Antonello's known works are few. But the show did include 15 religious paintings and portraits known to be from Antonello's own hand, plus ten more pictures hopefully attributed...
Dunster and Eliot are slated to stage a down-to-the-wire race for final first place standing in Straus Trophy competition this spring. The Funsters boast a 5 1/2 point lead over the Elephants, 982 1/2 to 977, but the perennially strong Eliot crew is expected to wipe out this lead and make the race a toss-up. Otherwise, the two Houses are rated fairly even...
Tennis: Lowell is rated slight favorite over Leverett and Dudley in a strict three-team race. The Bellboys boast two sophomore Ecuadorians, Maurice Toro and Hernando Franco, as well as Bob Zock, who is currently ranked 14th in the College. The Hutch was up in tennis last year, and has undefeated Dick Myers back again to keep it there this year. Dudley, low last year, expects to have general, all-around improvement...