Word: clinching
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...them." Last week the serious side of Honore Daumier was on view at Lon don's Tate Gallery in 231 paintings and drawings, the biggest Daumier show in 60 years. Daumier's reputation as a painter has soared over the past two decades; the Tate exhibition should clinch his position as one of the most original artists of his time...
...first meet of the spring, Marty Beckwith was second in the high jump with a leap of 5 ft., 9 1/2 in. Saturday, he cleared 6 ft., 4 in. for the second week in a row, to tie for second place--one inch behind John Thomas of B.U.--and clinch a berth on the Harvard-Yale squad that will face Oxford and Cambridge. With all this at stake, Beckwith made 6 ft., 2 in. on his third try, and then soared over 6 ft., 4 in. on his first attempt...
...undress in the locker room, varsity creaseman and New England scoring leader, Dave Bohn, commented, "Its nice to beat Yale, but better to beat the hell out of them." With Bohn leading the charge, the varsity lacrosse team rolled up 18 goals compared to 12 for the Yalies to clinch first place in the New England Intercollegiate race, and second berth in the Ivy League, behind Princeton...
...Crimson needed only one doubles match to clinch the win in Eastern League scoring and got the victory at number one, after Yale's Hetherington and Parry had taken the second doubles, 7-5, 6-1, from Walter and Martin. In the first doubles match, Bowditch and Sullivan won a fairly easy first set from Howe and Phipps, 6-2, breaking Howe in the first and last games...
...Crimson took five of the six singles to clinch matters before the doubles play started. Bob Bowditch led the way for the varsity with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Clyde Buck at first singles. All the other singles matches had begun before Bowditch arrived, bundled up in sweat suit and windbreaker, but he was the first man off the court. It was the fifth straight time he had beaten Buck in the past three years, and he might as well take the Williams man home and stuff him as a trophy...