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...Guild contributed another three points with a decision in the 128 class, while Pete Fuller, a fairly consistent winner throughout the season, managed a draw with Yale Captain Bill Macamber, star of the Elis, in the 165-pound tilt. Two Varsity footballers met in the unlimited class as tackle Stan Durwood was held to the mat by football player Bob Pickett of Yale, as the latter added one more victory to his unbroken string this season...
...keeping with the dimensions of the place, the session is expanded to more than double the size of the last one. Definitely coming are, hold your breath: Coleman Hawkins and Pete Brown again; Teddy Wilson's band minus Teddy, but including Edmund Hall, clarinet, Benny Morton, trombone, Johnny Williams, bass, Sidney Catlett drums, and Emmett Berry, trumpet; Frankie Newton and some of his old band, such as Ernie Trottman, and possibly Vic Dickenson...
Crimson hopes rest heavily on the success of Walt Parsons in the 155-pound bracket, Ted Guild at 128, Pete Fuller at 165, and Stan Durwood in the unlimited field. Parsons will not only be gunning for his seventh straight Varsity victory but his 26th in college and school competition...
...other Varsity hopes are Ready at 121, Hart at 136, Smith at 145, and Byrnes at 175. Pete Sax, heavyweight, who has been meet captain since Sosman's departure, will lead the team again tomorrow in the season's climax...
Last week's deadline prevented getting in the news about the jam session at the Hotel Bradford this past Sunday. (It was half good and half bad.) Assets: Coleman Hawkin's superb tenoring, the tremendous drive of Pete Brown's alto, and J. C. Higginbotham's tromboning. Debits poor acoustics which murdered the ensembles, and Red Allen's attempts to be entertaining and run the whole show. Another session will be held soon, and we promise to let you know this time...