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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a children's game in the Parker manner was sweeping Communist Hungary. Called The Road to Peace, it requires each player to move a Picasso dove around the board until it reaches a center spot marked "Peace." A throw of the dice that lands the player in a Red City (i.e., cities in the Soviet bloc, plus Tunis and Guatemala) earns him an extra turn. Green Cities (London, Paris, Caracas, etc.) carry a penalty of one turn. But woe betide the player who lights on a Black City, for he must promptly leave the game altogether...
Defending champion Ben Heckscher will be the top seeded player in the University Club Intercollegiate Squash Tournament which starts today in New York. Other Crimson players will be freshmen Charles Hamm, Tom Lee, and the varsity's Roger and Henry Cortesi and Bob Magowan...
...Omaha, "Mack" Baldridge, 1916 Yale tackle, boarded the train unexpectedly and revealed that Oregon was using underhanded methods. "Oregon is leaving no stone unturned in preparing its team to defeat you," he said. "I know a Yale player who was offered $150 and expenses to pay a visit to Oregon and outline Harvard's style of play in a blackboard talk...
...cement playing floor has lines painted on it called "chase lines." If the player cannot return the ball, the referee calls out "chase 4, 3, etc.," depending on which line the ball hits. The opponent then has a chance to "lay down" a better chase. If he fails, he loses the point...
Bostwick, a minus half thirty player, had the highest handicap in the tournament, giving fifteen points a game to Ludington, a minus half fifteen player...