Word: cal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Crimson squash players, Ben Heckscher, Cal Place, Larry Sears, Charlie Hamm, and freshman Gerry Emmett, reached the quarter-finals of the Intercollegiate Squash Tournament in New York last week...
...intelligence to work, scouted around for a likely target. "I deliberately selected a small bank that wouldn't be crowded, and where there wouldn't be an electric-alarm system," he said. He chose the small, upstate Richmond (111.) State Bank, borrowed his father's -45-cal. and a neighbor's car, drove to Richmond. In the middle of the day he walked calmly into the bank ("I wanted to be fair, so I didn't wear a mask"), vaulted the counter, flourished the -45-cal. and told the astonished teller to put the money...
Backfire. In Chicago, after he burgled the Waltz Inn, got $6.95 and a .25-cal. automatic, Charles J. Walsh took the loot to a friend's house, accidentally shot himself in the leg while gloating over the gun, confessed all to cops who arrived to investigate the ruckus...
Against these teams, Coach Jack Barnaby will rely heavily on his top five of Captain Ben Heckscher, Cal Place, Larry Sears, Charlie MacVeagh, and Charlie Hamm. As Barnaby puts it, "Here are five men who should be outstanding this year...
...number two singles Cal Place is probably the finest match player to compete for Barnaby in many years. Undefeated last year, he would be first man on almost any other college team. Place rarely has a "bad" day and according to Barnaby "never has lost a match that he possibly could have won." He should be regarded as an excellent bet to repeat his undefeated season of last year...