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Featured performer of the trio is the irrepressible Wyer, poke-checker and rinkman extraordinary. This to Wyer's eighth consecutive year of high-class competitive hockey, and no more than makes up what he lacks in breakaway speed with finesse and experience to burn. His compatriots, Bordiey and Turner, make that first line a goalie's nightmare...
Unlike Coleman, Sherm Gray rarely carries the puck up the rink, though he is considered Hodder's most successful body-checker, and an effective blueline operative. Alternative defenseman Forbes Perkins is the Crimson's third highest scorer, with three tallies to his credit. A former first line wing, he was switched back to the defense to make room for a speedier skater...
Archeologists say that Egyptian kings played checkers 3,500 years ago. The earliest modern book on the game was written by one Torquemada in 1547. Neither the Rameses nor Torquemada was much concerned over the checker problems of the dub, but the latest book on checkers is. Published this week, How to Play Winning Checkers (Simon & Schuster; $1.50) is authored by an expert with the encouraging name of Hopper...
Millard Fillmore Hopper learned his first checkers in a Greenwich Village recreation centre while his friend from around the block, Gene Tunney, was learning to box. Big Gene Tunney retired as heavyweight champion of the world in 1928. Featherweight Millard Hopper, at 43, is still going strong as unrestricted ("go-as-you-please"*) checker champion of the U. S. Last summer at the New York World's Fair he set up a booth, took on all comers, sometimes a dozen at a time, played some 5,000 games, lost three...
Millard Hopper became champion by 1) studying with Christy Mathewson, as slick a checker player as he was a pitcher, 2) running a checker booth at Coney Island and manning the Eden Musee automaton, 3) beating Alfred Jordan, go-as-you-please champion of Great Britain...