Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia). 'Tis a dark and stormy night. Shouts and shots are heard. Four Yanks jump the wall of a Confederate stockade, grab a Rebel hostage and pile into the basket of an observation balloon. Whack! They cut loose. The balloon soars. "We made it! We made it!" The storm screams derision. Four days and 7,000 miles later, it hurls the fugitives into the sea and onto the beach of an island somewhere in the South Pacific...
...baskets. Fortnight ago, in Manhattan's Holiday Festival, Cincinnati was trailing St. John's, 30-33, in the final moments of the first half, when Jucker beckoned to Bonham on the bench. "Get in there and get us some points," he ordered. Bonham promptly sank three straight jump shots, wound up with 27 points as the Bearcats won, 97-68. In the Festival final against Wisconsin, Bonham ignored a full-court press, pumped in another 26 to lead a 101-71 Cincinnati victory. Last week, against tough St. Louis, Bonham started, for a change, and scored 14 points...
...jell under their new coach, Jack Rohan, and went to the finals of the Down East Classic last month before losing to Rochester. The top player thus far has been sophomore Art Wollan-sky, a 5 ft., 10 in. guard, who scores most of his points on line drive jump shots from outside. Jim Brogan, the 6 ft., 7 in. center, is erratic but tough under the boards. The rest of the team includes captain and floor leader Marty Erdheim, Jim Glynn, and another sophomore, cornerman Roy Bahoboy...
Crimson weight men Ted Bailey and Art Doten and shot putters Rick DeLone and Art Croasdale should place well in their specialties. Marty Beckwith could figure in the broad jump and the high jump...
Erstwhile math whizzes who think the CRIMSON has erred are wron. A Jump from 55 per cent to 60 per cent is (approximately) a 10 per cent increase. You can work it out on your own electric slide rule: the five percentage point rise divided by the old figure of 55 per cent equals the per cent of increase, namely 090909...or roughly 10 per cent...