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...lower bracket, the form favorite was Bromwich, the two-hander who plays tennis like a man batting out fungoes. In the quarter-final he easily dismissed Gil Hunt, the Washington, D. C. mathematician who sometimes uses a tennis court to demonstrate how he can balance a pencil on his bare toes. But in Jack's next match, he faced no eccentric pushover. He ran up against a 19-year-old, six-foot-one Golden Boy from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Near Titan | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...only other contest on the week's card, Penn shut out Columbia as its Sophomore right hander, Tony Caputo, turned in a one-bitter, but the Red and Blue remained in sixth place. It was the season's finale for the Lions, who finished in the League cellar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leaders Inactive on E.I.L. Baseball Front; Cornell Secure in First Place | 6/7/1939 | See Source »

...year's outstanding players. No. 1 pitcher of the season has been Fordham's Hank Borowy, son of a New Jersey hat manufacturer, who has been defeated only once in 13 starts-and is Fordham's best batter to boot. Against Yale last week Right-hander Borowy performed in routine fashion: he struck out ten men, allowed only four hits, shut out his opponents 5-to-0 for Fordham's 16th victory of the season. In three years at Fordham (against Grade A competition) Junior Borowy has chalked up 27 victories in 28 starts-a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Baseball | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Today's contest is the windup for the crucial encounter with Dartmouth Saturday at Hanover which will decide the Eastern Intercollegiate League race. Right hander Tom Healey, whose most recent performance was in an able relief role against California, is the logical choice to do the flinging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE OUT FOR REVENGE AS IT MEETS VIRGINIA | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

Eddie Ingalls was credited with two more wins, although the big left hander was greatly removed from the Ingalls who held Princeton to four hits a while back. the Crimson hurler gave way to a pinch hitter in the fifth inning Friday, after allowing Cornell four runs in the first half of that frame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, '41 Oarsmen Triumph; Baseballers Retain League Lead | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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