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With upwards of 75 pros pects to choose from, varsity baseball coach Norm Shepard held the first regular practice of the season yesterday afternoon in Briggs Cage. The opening game will come March 30 against Georgetown, the initial stop on the team's annual Southern trip...
Sylvia began to swim competitively when she was seven under the watchful eye of her Finnish-born father, a bear of a man (6 ft., 260 Ibs.) who works as an electrician and doubles as swimming coach for the Berkeley Y.M.C.A. Father Weikko Ruuska drills her incessantly, lumbers up and down the poolside while Sylvia performs, shouting "Giddyap, giddyap!" in a voice that some declare can be heard all the way across San Francisco Bay on clear nights. The Ruuska family practices togetherness. Each morning Mrs. Ruuska drives Sylvia to Berkeley High School on her way to the Y.M.C.A., where...
...heavily with his hip. Tipped sideways in midair, Bob Pettit shot anyway. The ball swished cleanly through the hoop, and the St. Louis Hawks went on to a 104-100 victory. In the stands at Detroit's Olympia Stadium, a basketball-wise visitor, the Minneapolis Lakers' Coach John Kundla, shook his head in admiration. "I've been in this league twelve years," he said, "and I coached George Mikan, but I think Pettit is the best all-round player I've ever seen...
...strong supporting cast. Opponents must not neglect his fellow forward, 6-ft. 4-in. Cliff Hagan, a driving, hook-shooting jack-in-the-box who regularly outjumps players much taller than himself. Hagan ranks fifth in the scoring race, averages 23.7 points a game. Says New York Knickerbockers Coach Fuzzy Levane ruefully: "Before you even start a game, these two guys are going to get 60 points against you." Together, Pettit and Hagan form the most fearsome one-two scoring punch since the days when Mikan and Jim Pollard led the Lakers to five championships in six years...
...Crimson's weak spot has been the epee, but they have only lost once to Yale in this event since Edo Marion has been coach...