Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With only three practice days left before the match against M.I.T. on Saturday, Barclay's charges will have to do some fast fairway furrowing in order to get their swings grooved for the first contest...
Cerdan is now a likely opponent for Tony Zale, who must defend his title by summer. It is up to Zale (and his manager Sam Pian) to decide which would be more profitable: a match outside New York with Graziano (who is banned in New York for failing to report a bribe offer), or one with Cerdan in Manhattan...
After two weeks practice on the low, fast-bouncing surfaces of the Indoor Athletic Building, the slow, damp clay at Annapolis throw the Crimson just enough off balance to drop the decision by one match. The next day at West Point, rain forced the contest onto the fast indoor cement courts, aging throwing the Varsity off-balance to the tune of a 6-3 defeat...
Steve Pratt, who accompanied the squad as an alternate, turned up as the surprise of the trip by stepping into the number six slot against Navy and winning his match in straight sets as well as teaming up with Murray Levin to produce the Middies' only doubles defeat...
Barnaby also had high praise for Bill Wightman, who "refused to lose" to a highly experienced Navy opponent, finally wearing him down to take the match...