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Harris Hyman at 147 is possibly the best member of the squad, but he comes up against the Crimson's outstanding sophomore, former Yardling captain Joey Noble, who won by forfeit Friday. Another Engineer standout, Ed Brenner, will come up against Gilmor at 167. The other Tech star, Tony Vertin, meets Bob Foster, who also pinned his Dartmouth opponent...
Tech's only score came when time advantage failed to break a 4-4 points-deadlock between Joe Goodman and Mike Brenner of M.I.T., in the 167 class. Goodman was in the line-up to replace Charlie Harding, out with a bruised...
...eighth river was the Danube, and the ninth the Inn. Johnston went all the way-through Bavaria into Austria and over the Brenner Pass to meet the U.S. Fifth Army, stumbling up from Italy. "Do you gentlemen realize," said the wiry American colonel who led the last advance, "that only three soldiers in history have ever forced the Brenner? Hannibal, Napoleon...
Johnston ends his book with sheer fantasy: a description of his own death in the Brenner Pass. At first sight, this appears to be a crude and contrived gag, but Johnston insists that he is serious. His moral is that he has crossed the nine rivers of experience and reached his long-sought goal: an understanding of war, which is too terrible for a man to live with. Such fatalism-and conceit-seems out of character with the life-lusty Irishman revealed in the book's earlier pages...
...experience provided the five point margin us Dave Jordan (137) got his pin in 8:08, after missing it several times, and Bob Gilmor (167) decision Harold Becker, 7 to 2. Bob Wynne (unlimited) beat Tony Vertin 8 to 0, and Captain Ken Culbert (177) pinned Mike Brenner...