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COMING INTO THE COUNTRY by John McPhee...
...third period, John Dunderdale became the first of two Crimson players to receive a game misconduct for disagreeing with referee Neil McPhee's hooking call. Less than a minute later, Jack Kelley stuffed the puck past a sprawling Murphy to give Dartmouth a 4-1 lead...
...hell broke loose when McPhee, out of position for the umpteenth time, made yet another atrocious call and denied Harvard a goal. After a scramble in front of the net, the puck ended up in the twine. McPhee held that the puck was kicked in and disallowed the goal...
Kelley, obviously upset, protested the call and received a game misconduct just before Harvard coach Bob Carr accused the ref of having lost his intestines. It all meant nothing to McPhee...
...were supposed to be stronger for being together." Another reason is the evident pleasure of the game as it can be played, a fine and courtly conspiracy in motion, full of nuances and restraints and insights into character, as well as hard shots and action. "Mixed doubles," says John McPhee, author of Levels of the Game, the best book on tense, competitive tennis yet written, "has to be played with a pinch of forbearance. It doesn't have much to do with winning. It's more like a fleshly version of that other rarity, a civilized conversation between four friends...