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"The boys haven't even broken a sweat yet," said a wispy reporter for the Glasgow Daily Record. On the floodlit field before him in St. Louis one night last week, commencing a U.S. tour, were $1,000,000 worth of Scottish football (soccer) players, champions of Britain and...
House champions in four sports will meet their Yale counterparts tomorrow. The Lowell baseball team and the Eliot golf team will go-to New Haven, and the Eliot crew and the Leverett tennis squad will stay here.
Yale, despite a dearth of boats of its own, is represented this year by two junior sailing champions, Bobby Monetti and Bobby Coulson. It is because of these two men that the Eli is having such a frolic in sailing competition this spring.
Eliot didn't startle anybody by winning the race; it remained for Leverett to pull the surprise of the afternoon by finishing only three-quarters of a length behind the champions. The Bunny oarsmen are inexperienced, but they're great in stature, strength, and determination.
In two days, more than 800,000 mourners had filed into Turin's rococo Palazzo Madama, past coffins that held the remains of Italy's greatest team. Sobbed nine-year-old Luigi Foschi: "The champions are dead. What shall we do?"