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Harvard freshman Anil Nayar is the national squash champion of India and the junior champion of the British Commonwealth, but he will not swing his racquet for the Crimson this year...
This fall he participated in the Gold Racquets Tournament in New York. In the first round he lost a close match to the United States national champion, Steve Vehslage. He won the consolation by beating Penn's number one player, Edward Coonley. Coonley is the third ranking amateur in the nation and is expected to be 1966 Ivy League singles champion...
Nayar has also beaten Vic Sexias, a former tennis champion and present senior squash champion of America. He had little trouble as he shut out the veteran three games to none...
...rules, "that he is between 17 and 40 and in good physical condition") to dress in numbered jerseys reminiscent of the late Roller Derby. Thus properly attired, the delegates run down supermarket aisles like thieves, grabbing up goods in a race against the clock. The contestant whose champion has snatched the most valuable mer chandise in his basket returns the next day to meet new challengers in a game that may very well go on to infinity. "They originally tried it with the homemakers themselves running up and down the market collecting stuff," explains an ABC executive, "but it looked...
...Dolphins to deed him the rights to Grabowski at the last minute. Then the A.F.L.'s San Diego Chargers lost their No. 1 draftee, mammoth (6 ft. 5 in., 255 Ibs.) Los Angeles State Tackle Don Davis, to the N.F.L.'s New York Giants. The Western Champion Chargers, in fact, lost every one of their top six draft choices -a hanging offense in time of war as far as Jets Owner Werblin was concerned. "What San Diego did was shameful," sputtered Werblin. "They have a set ball club, so they drafted ten fellows who could have played with...