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...whip over boxing's hoodlums. Wrote New York Herald Tribune Sport Columnist Red Smith: "Eddie Eagan is a genuinely sweet guy. He is profoundly honest and profoundly sincere, diffident, humble and considerate. The first two qualities are indispensable in a boxing commissioner; probably the other three are a handicap." Smith also had a warning for Christenberry: "This veteran hotelman will find the fight mob noisier than convention drunks, less manageable than a weekend football crowd, and accomplished in more devious dodges than an absconding deadbeat...
Jaakko Mikkola will get his first chance to see just how well his cross-country team is shaping up today by means of an all-University cross country meet. Close to 50 varsity and freshman harriers are expected to run the race over the old handicap course. Starting time...
Mikkola refused to name the outstanding freshmen, although he indicated that this may be the strongest group of distance runners at Harvard in many years. The freshmen will get a five minute handicap on the varsity...
Jaakko Mikkola yesterday expressed satisfaction with the way the cross country team has been working into shape for the all-university handicap meet, which will be held a week from today...
...final 36-hole round over the Saucon Valley Country Club course, a gallery of 5,000 turned out to watch the giant killers fight it out. Playing with the handicap of three painfully abscessed teeth, cool Joe Gagliardi took a one-up lead over Billy by the end of the first nine, lost it on the next hole. Then, on the 203-yard 14th hole, Billy uncorked a shot that broke Gagliardi's heart, if not his spirit. With his opponent only 7 ft. from the pin on his drive, Maxwell wedged his ball from a trap toward...