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Despite the rain, the wind, and the bitter cold, which have messed up playing conditions for at least three matches--sweating out 36 holes in the wet is no fun--some creditably low tallies have been registered. Tyke Wilcox, lead-off man in the links lineup, has climbed down dangerously close to par, with two 75s, a 76, and 79 to his credit. Ed Egan hit Williams with a 76, and Bill Rickenbacker, Sam Savidge, and Walter Robb have also broken into the wonderful 70s. These five, in addition to Bob Orr, Lincoln Kinnicutt, John Noble, Walt Butler, Joe Gordon...
...blazing down, Australia's best bowler let go with the first ball. It zipped in nearly as fast as a baseball pitch (about 65 m.p.h.), hit the ground just in front of the batsman, where he would have to hit it on the pickup. England's lead-off man blocked it off to one side. The fourth of the Test Matches, the World Series of cricket...
When the commission met Nov. 13 for its lead-off inspection at the Oak Ridge plant, Chairman David Lilienthal did not quite know how to begin the proceedings. Finally, with determined offhandedness, he said: "Well, I guess we might as well start...
Taking to the boards first for the Crimson was the one-mile relay quartet consisting of Jim Wheeler, A1 Ruby, Dave Hamblett and Wes Flint, running in that order. Behind in the first quarter-lap, wheeler passed the Rhode Island lead-off man on the first turn and Mikkola's baton carriers were never trailing again. Ending the third leg, Rhode Island's Cashman spurted to within a few yards of Hamblett, but a burst of speed by Flint put the race on ice, with a time...
...lead-off poll, the CRIMSON will probe undergraduate feeling on three of the larger issues that have arisen this term, with the Student Council getting the major share of the questions. Both the Council's sphere of activities and the two largest problems facing the Constitutional Committee will go before the student...