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Desaulniers, who won the Canadian national Amateur Individual Championship just last weekend, seemed to be toying with the Quaker as he ran Edwards all around the court...
...easier, playing the low-post position to perfection. She got help from forward Wendy Carle who poured in 20 points and grabbed a team-high 12 rebounds. Carle's continuously aggressive play and a strong all-round contribution from floor general Caryn Curry worked to wear down a persistent Quaker team that hung tough through most of the first half...
...Quaker mentor Kath Lawlor let neither the snow nor the lack of a restroom bother her. "We're sophisticated travelers," she claimed. "We don't let the elements bother us. We're like pioneers blazing a trail." Or, translated, anything's better than spending a weekend in Philadelphia...
...final match of the day, Craig Beling faced an awesome challenge in the form of Penn's 270-lb. behemoth heavyweight. The bout ended in a 2-2 draw when the Quaker grappler received stalling points in the final minutes...
...been thinking that Canada was too ambiguous an option to be a real protest. If I went to jail for my convictions there would be less ambiguity. And my reading that year was full of precedents: Thoreau, Eugene Debs, Daniel Berrigan, even George Fox, the first Quaker. I can't say now what I would have done, but I know my sympathies were with the resisters in American prisons. If it didn't stop the war, it would sure be one way to get some reading done...