Word: foul
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Kelley's jump and a driving score and foul by Deering off the pattern gave Harvard a quick five point edge in the extra session. Deering, Borchard, and Denny Lynch all scored before Cornell finally made its first points of the overtime with less than two minutes remaining. Two final baskets by Bill Baugh could only cut the Crimson's margin of victory...
Tralling by four points, 33-34 at half time, the Crimson finally drew even with 15:25 left on a jump shot by Joe Deering. Portnoy's foul shot again gave Columbia the edge, and for the next five minutes, the lead see-sawed back and forth...
...foul-ups would have infuriated any other athlete, but the minute Wilma finally did gain entrance to the Garden she was obligingly signing autographs for hordes of kids-and a number of shy male track stars. Tentative applause rippled around the gloomy tiers of the Garden at the mention of her name by the announcer ("The woman of the year in all sports through the world"). Then Wilma began to run with her long, floating stride, and suddenly the cigar-chewing track buffs-the men who had seen them all-began to cheer like schoolboys...
Down went this fighter to the rug. He roared out 'Foul!' The house dick burst in upon him to see the splendid athlete holding his groin, moaning like a busted pipe organ, and refusing to come out for another round." To Fowler's generation of writers, New York was always the Big Town, a drink was spiritus frumenti, and Broadway was the Rue Regret. Reading Skyline with or without spiritus frumenti, one question is bound to arise: Where are the monkey glands of yesteryear...
...Foul weather and a fine speech provided the most memorable moments of a historic week...