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From both sides of the border, top-ranking bridge players arrived in Toronto last week for the Toronto Whist Club's annual championship tournament. To run the show, the Whist Club imported Al Sobel of New York, the American Contract Bridge League's national tournament director. At headquarters in the Royal York Hotel, Director Sobel accepted 305 entrants. But he balked on the 306th. No. 306 was Leon Beard, 43, a Trinidad civil servant studying surveying at the University of Toronto. Reason for rejection: Leon Beard is a Negro...
Coach Dick Harlow and his football coaching staff are taking more than passing interest in the championship game of the National Professional League tomorrow, for Bob Margarita, Varsity backfield coach, will be back at his old post for the Chicago Bears against the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds...
...injury kept him out of the Bears' tussle last Sunday, but he is expected to be ready for action against the Giants tomorrow. His teammates, in a generous gesture, voted him a half-share in their championship proceeds. After the play-off, Margarita will return to his University coaching duties...
After elections, the Council considered the rules proposed by Yale for this year's Harkness Trophy Competition. The trophy is presented competition between championship intramural teams in football, basketball, hockey, crew, baseball, touch football, soccer, swimming, track, squash, tennis, and golf...
Other Intercollegiate championship events darded: March 14-15. Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championships, at New Haven May 17, Second Annual Championship Regatta of Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges, at Princeton, N. J.; Nov. 8, Heptagonal Cross Country Championship, at Princeton...