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Sandwiched between the Darmouth scores was another marker for the Crimson. Predun, moving towards the cage at just the right moment gobbled up the rebound from a Meagher shot and drove it home...
...defense played especially well with sophomore Annie Velie and freshman Jennie Piersiak leading the way with eight and seven interceptions respectively. Rookie goalie Nancy Boutillier also performed superlatively, recording ten saves and allowing a lone marker in the waning seconds of the game...
Predun waited less than a minute into the first period before racking up the first Harvard tally. At the 46 second mark, the agile midfielder moved easily by a defender and blasted a high hard shot past Penn goalie Chuck Leitner for the unassisted marker...
Every time they film Little Miss Marker (the 1934 original, with Shirley Temple and Adolphe Menjou, a remake in 1949 called Sorrowful Jones, with Bob Hope, and another in 1963 called 40 Pounds of Trouble, with Tony Curtis in the Matthau role), there is a soggy moment when some of the air goes out of the farce. No getting around it; the despairing horseplayer must come to grief, because if he doesn't, Sorrowful won't have $10 worth of the live marker, who seems to have no real name and is always referred...
...supporting cast, including Bob Newhart, Julie Andrews and Brian Dennehy, is fine too. What is missing is the necessary conviction on the part of actors and director that the idea of using a little girl as a betting marker is the funniest thing they ever heard of. But you do not get that when you remake a remake...