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...linksters plummeted to fifth place in the tournament, after leading by a stroke over Penn after the first round of play. Not a single Harvard golfer managed to break 80 on the par-70 course in the afternoon...
...championship for the second year running with splendid scrambling rounds of 72, 73--145, three strokes ahead of Henley. Teravainen and Henley were all even after 32 holes of play, but the Eli rolled a 30-ft. downhiller for a birdie on the 15th and then eagled the par-five 17th...
Indeed, there was a cornucopia of calamities in store for the field. One Columbia linkster, who played with Harvard's Spence Fitzgibbons, took a 14 on the wood-lined par five 18th in the morning and an 11 on the same hole in the afternoon. Fitzgibbons fired an opening 80 but billowed to an 86 his second time around...
...three-putted the second through sixth holes, and then took a nine on the tempestuous par-five 16th. He tried to park a three-wood on the green, but after taking a lusty rip at it, he finished up like a knight at Agincourt who has just missed connections with his mace and chain. The ball disappeared, heading due west...
...rest of Harvard's scoring was desultory at best. Freshman Glenn Alexander, whose drives are as pure as the driven snow, came in at 80. Jim Dales skied to an 85 when he lost seven strokes to par in the last three holes of his round, Dave Paxton and Brett Johnson stumbled...