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Wellesley athletes took a wary look at the troubled skies last night, uttered a few choice but lady-like oaths at the weatherman, and retired to their respective training tables for a last minute tune-up in preparation for Saturday's hoop race...
...mahogany-colored wonder horse, wanned up for the Kentucky Derby by winning Havre de Grace's $25,000 Chesapeake Stakes. On his back was Eddie Arcaro, the nation's No. 1 jockey, who hoped Citation would be his fourth Derby winner. The others: Lawrin (1938), Whirlaway (1941), Hoop...
Hoopee. Collapsible plastic hoops that can be slipped into full-skirted evening dresses to turn them into hoop skirts will go on sale soon in Atlanta department stores. The name: "Bell o' the Ball." The price...
...Nelson, who copped scoring honors for the day, poured 12 points through the hoop for the losing Puritans, all during the first half...
...star of the team was towering (6 ft., 8 in.) Center Ed Macauley. He has a deadly eye and a soft southpaw shot that helped him pile up 395 points last season. His teammates, with some reason, call him Easy Ed. Once, when he was gauging the hoop on a crucial foul shot, an opponent tried to throw him off by yelling, "Hey, Ed, your shoe's untied." Without taking his eye from the basket, Macauley drawled: "You tie it for me, Junior, while I make this point." Then he dropped the ball neatly through the hoop...