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JACK O'HANLON Dublin...
Eliot House also chalked up its second straight victory on the Thames with a decisive three-length triumph over University College of Dublin. In the first round of the 125th edition of this rowing classic, Eliot trounced the Staines Boating Club of England in the creditable time...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Dublin Horse Show and the National A.A.U. Track and Field championships...
...SCARPERER, by Brendan Behan. To "scarper" in Irish is to escape, and Behan runs off with some Dublin weirdos glorifying their past and dreaming their future. This short novel is vintage Behan (1953), when the mercurial writer wrote his best, ebullient prose...
...masterminding a successful jailbreak for a rich client every couple of years, the businessman-of-crime known as the Scarperer makes enough to live the life of a gent of leisure. This time the trick is trickier. The client is a toff London tough lodged in Dublin's Mountjoy penitentiary, and the price is 5,000 nicker. But when the limey is sprung by the Scarperer's guileful crew, he finds himself the victim of a Gaelic doublecross. The Scarperer has arranged to have him drowned and his body washed up on the coast of France. The implausible...