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...finest performances seen at Harvard in recent years, the Crimson squash team defeated Yale's National Champions, 6 to 3, Saturday afternon in Hemenway Gymnasium. Led by a decisive opening victory by captain Charlie Hamm, the Crimson controlled the match from the very beginning, as the varsity regained the Ivy crown...
Yale also threatens to be a difficult, though not insurmountable, obstacle, having beaten Dartmouth 11 to 0. Eddie Jeremiah, Dartmouth varsity coach, observed, "This is the finest Yale team I've seen in a long time...
Against Princeton, however, the story was completely different. With three and a half minutes left to play, the Crimson was down by two goals, 5 to 3, as the Tiger sextet played probably their finest game of the season. Dave Vietze's second score of the evening, coming at 16:34, put the visitors within striking distance...
...winning his first National Amateur crown, Heckscher had to overcome a long series of obstacles, foremost among whom was the brilliant defending champion, Henri Salaun of Boston. Salaun is one of the very finest players in the world, probably second only to the Khan's of Pakistan at present, and has always stopped Heckscher's ambitions in the past. But Sunday, playing with a recently improved backhand, Heckscher finally pulled out a victory. Salaun played deliberately to Heckscher's backhand side in their semi-final contest, and this strategy proved his undoing...
Carl August Sandburg, 81-year-old poet of the American dream and of Lincoln's greatness, raised the political ploy into a true and moving memorial service. In 19 spellbinding minutes that brought tears even to the eyes of Dixie Senators, Sandburg chiseled his finest tribute to the Lincoln "invisibly there, today, tomorrow and for a long time yet to come in the hearts of lovers of liberty...