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...Harvard nine dropped its second straight game of the season to Connecticut, Saturday, by a score of 8 to 7 in 10 innings. It was an uphill battle all the way for the losers, who managed to tie the game in the seventh inning only to see the winning marker cross the plate on an error in overtime...
That was as far as the West Pointers were destined to get, however, for the Crimson then took the center of the stage. Bob Feloney scored at 1:00 and Bill Ayres followed him up with another at 4:15 to cut the Army lead to one scant marker. But here the rally ended, as the two teams remained deadlocked for the rest of the contest...
...only eleven racquets courts exist. Game requirements: a four-walled cement court about twice the length of a squash court; a hard ball (the size of a ping-pong ball, but the consistency of a baseball, it shoots and caroms from wall to wall so rapidly that a marker is needed to call "play" after each fair shot); a supply of racquets, since an average player breaks a racquet a game; players with stamina, timing, fast footwork and a lightning...
...only other enemy marker came in the eighth on a walk and a three base series of misplays. Wallace finally retired the side single-handed with three strikeouts...
...joined the fun long enough to come skimming between them. Then Harvard pulled off to a one-length lead, and coasted on to the River Street Bridge. Thinking that was the finish line, the Harvards rested on their oars. In the confusion, the Radcliffers pulled ahead to the white marker, 50 yards away, but still thought they had lost and began the traditional peeling of shirts to the chant: "Take 'em off, take 'em off!" With great foresight, they had worn two shirts apiece...