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...varsity squash team, only major undefeated squad in the country, goes after its sixth national squash racquets team title in Chicago today as first-round play in the field of 16 top teams gets under way at half a dozen different clubs. The Crimson is the only college squad entered in the tournament...
...Sugar Bowl's four-team basketball tournament last week was carefully planned for a logical climax: Kentucky v. Bradley, the No. 1 and 2 teams in the country. As first-round warmups for these giants, bowl officials invited Syracuse and St. Louis, good teams but not ranked among the nation's top 20. Syracuse followed the script to the letter and lost to Bradley. St. Louis refused to play dead. The Billikens had upset another great Kentucky team in the 1948 Sugar Bowl tournament, and they made up their minds to do it again...
...losing stroke after stroke on the greens. "I'm puttin' as though my doggone arms wuz broke," moaned Sam. As the incoming scores went up on the huge scoreboards, other topflighters began to slip: Jimmy Demaret (149 for the first 36 holes), Al Brosch (151), Lawson Little (153). But iron-nerved Ben Hogan improved his first-round 72 with a one-under...
...birdies and a par on the first three holes are enough to turn any golfer's head. When that happened to Crooner Bing Crosby in the British Amateur Golf Tournament last week, he addlepatedly played toward the nearby 14th instead of the fourth green. Thereafter Bing gathered a flock of sixes and lost his first-round match.-By week's end he was joined on the sidelines by more distinguished golfing company, including Defending Champion Sam McCready of Ireland and the 1947 winner, Willie Turnesa of New York. As usual, the Royal and Ancient "Old Course...
Last year, Harvard dropped all three of its first-round matches. Sharper games and a good record (after the disastrous Southern trip) have made the Crimson a team to be watched this year. Yale has also had a successful record; it played only practice matches on its Southern jaunt...