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Robert L. Lipman 3L., of Berkeley, California, won the singles championship of the University yesterday by defeating L. A. de Turenne '21 in straight sets, 6-3, 7-5, 6-0. The match was well-played and hard-fought throughout, both players evidently being at the top of their game. The second set was the most spectacular, as Turenne rallied with the score 1 to 5 against him and pulled up to 5 all before Lipman could recover himself. The last set the graduate student won easily, 6-0, only two of the games going to deuce...
Yesterday afternoon Teams A and B of the 1923 football squad held the third scrimmage of the year. The playing was somewhat ragged but hard-fought. In speaking of the prospects for the season Dr. Paul Withington '09 said: "Our chief drawback is in the lightness and inexperience of the line. Line candidates are badly needed, particularly heavier men. The back field, on the other hand, is comparatively heavy and more experienced...
...Camp Devens seven was defeated 3 to 0 in a hard-fought game which was greatly handicapped by the soft and weak ice. From the beginning, the heavier Camp Devens team presented a stiff defense, and every attack by the University forwards was met with a driving opposition by A. F. Doty '16 or by R. Lovering, whose height and weight proved to be of great value against the Crimson players. Although the officers of the Camp Devens team had had little practice, they played an effective offensive game which failed only by lack of team-play...
...outclassed and failed to place. French of the Portland Naval Station, by a final burst of speed, was the winner in six and two fifths seconds, equaling the world's record. W. Rollins '16, former University sprinter, now in the M. I. T. aviation school, after a hard-fought struggle nosed out Proud of the Navy Yard for second place, losing to French by little more than two yards. Rollins also ran anchor man on the M. I. T. quartet, which easily defeated Fort Andrews in a one-sided contest...
Outclassing its opponents by its superior team-play, the St. Paul's School hockey team defeated the Freshman seven at Concord, N. H., yesterday by the score of 4 to 2. The game was clean and hard-fought throughout, but the greater individual brilliancy of the 1921 players could not resist the combination work of the school team...