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...Lead-off man Tom Wheeling played excellently, defeating both his opponents. Captain Lou Klein also took his two matches, aided by several long putts. Klein defeated his M.I.T. opponent on the 19th hole, while number two man Jim Bailey was extended to the 21st...
...upset of the afternoon came when lead-off man Tom Wheeling took his match from B.C.'s Charley Volpone, 2 and 1. Volpone is the Massachusetts State Amateur Golf Champion. Wheeling shot a few out of bounds, but played an excellent game...
After giving up a somewhat tainted home run to the lead-off batter, a line drive on which right fielder Matt Botsford missed making a shoestring catch, Crimson hurler Bob McGinnis held Boston University scoreless the rest of the route as Harvard went on to win the contest...
...addition to this nucleus, there were sunsung heroes: Sandy Dodge in the dash, Williams in the mile, Dave Norris in the two-mile, Dave Spinney, Bill Thompson, and Al Gordon in the two-mile relay, and Mike Robertson, who later suffered a gashed leg in a losing cause as lead-off man for the mile relay team. French Anderson, before and after his injury, proved one of the best middle distance runners in the league...
Mike Robertson, running lead-off for the mile relay team, ran fourth at the end of the first lap, nearly seven yards behind Ed Holohan of Yale. At a lap and a half he passed Columbia and moved into third, still nearly seven yards behind the front-running Eli. By the first hand-off, he was second, less than five yards behind Holohan...