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...countess-who it was that gave them to her first. Shocked at her unfeeling duplicity in accepting such a gift, the baron breaks off his suit. The countess goes into a decline, the count into a mounting rage. In the end he challenges the baron to a duel. In rushing to prevent it, the countess has a heart attack and dies...
...sense, the last 25 years have been a continuing duel between golfers and golf-course architects. As the golfers kept scoring lower and lower-thanks, in part, to improved equipment-the architects had to think up new ways to keep the courses from getting too easy. With balanced, steel-shafted clubs and hopped-up golf balls, good players were going out on established courses and easily smacking their tee shots past once-dangerous hazards. Duffers and mediocre golfers were running into all the trouble. Architect Jones has been forced to drain swampland, dam creeks and rearrange sand dunes...
...Eastern Sprints, Yale finished half a length behind the crack Navy crew and thereby became the official favorite for Saturday's classic, for Harvard closed two lengths behind the Elis. This race was undoubtedly the Blue's finest performance to date, since it has won no other duel this season...
...other victors in the regattas. Four of them are pictured above standing on the balcony of Weld Boathouse: (from left to right) senior Richard Kirk, winner of the half mile 155 pound single scull race; junior Kon Culbert, who took the three-quarter mile junior singles duel; Wilde; and freshman Pete Neaman, first in the novice single race over a half mile course...
Observers felt the varsity oarsmen rowed one of their smoothest races of the season, the last before the Yale duel on June 19. Their cadence was controlled and their cars neatly caught the water as they swung in unison. Four days before the race Coach Harvey Love had made his only line-up change of the rowing year when he moved Dick Darrell from three to seven position in place of Dick Higgins who dropped back to Darrell's place...