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...matter what he happened to hit during the monthlong derby, Oscar Flanders, 64, would still be regarded by the experts with the same reverential awe they reserve for the striper himself. A stumpy 230 lbs., he won last year with a 51-pounder that he promptly sold to "some city feller standing around. Gave me ten dollars." In a monumental battle Oscar once landed a 63-pounder-the island record for surf casting. "I've thrown back more fish than most men have caught," he says matter-of-factly. "Anything less than 30 lbs. doesn't interest...
...three weeks the derby has run, Oscar's best is only a 20-pounder. He is undiscouraged. Says he: "What can be better than trying to work it out in your head, and in your heart, too, about the big fish in the ocean? It's what keeps a man alive. Worrying about stripers ain't going to hurt. No, sir. Only give a lot of walking and smelling and good living. Worrying about stripers, you don't grow so's you're ready to bark and quit on life...
Munro is still searching for someone to replace departed senior Roger Tuckerman, who led the Ivy League in scoring last year from his center forward post. The center forward makes a team go, and Tuckerman was a particularly effective scorer and play-maker. Keith Lowe, a little 110-pounder, will start tomorrow at center, but it is feared he may be too light for the steady pounding...
Born in Baltimore, William John Thaler majored in physics (but also won prizes in theology and philosophy) at Loyola College, took .his doctorate at Washington's Catholic University of America, where he specialized in ultrasonics. A solid, 6-ft. 190-pounder and father of four. Thaler is a topnotch tennis player, has several times won the state doubles championship. Thaler took his sudden fame calmly. Reporters looking for him at his suburban home in Silver Spring, Md. found he had ducked out to buy his six-year-old son a small green turtle as a replacement...
...Tide-race, which will now sail as H.M.S. Tide Flow. The Admiralty stoutly insisted that the change was made because Tiderace kept being confused with other tankers of similar name; below-decks scuttlebutt was that puckish sailors had insisted on rhyming Tiderace with the monicker of dimpled Schmalz Piano Pounder Liberace...