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...still using his famous sidearm stroke, added the three-cushion billiard championship to the two he already held (18.1 balkline and cushion caroms). He had to compete against ten of the best players in the game, two of whom, during the course of the double round-robin tournament, succeeded in equaling previous records: one for consecutive points, the other for best (shortest) game. Playing calmly and steadily, muttering occasionally, "Come on, pull yourself together," Hoppe won match after match. With his 16th straight win he clinched the title, but still he clicked on. When the play ended Hoppe had suffered...
Although Yale annexed team honors for the second year in a row, Harvard's captain and free styler, Eric Cutler, became the individual scoring champion of the Eastern. Intercollegiate Swimming League as the fourth annual round-robin tournament ended Tuesday with Yale outscoring Harvard...
Winner of the men's crown: 19-year-old Eugene Turner of Los Angeles, successor to five-time champion Robin Lee, 20, who turned pro two months...
Capt. Jay Shields of Yale, who holds the 45-yard high hurdle record of 5-7 seconds, will face Donald Weadon of Cornell, runner-up last year; Dick Osborn of Yale, who was third; Captain Robin Hartmann of Dartmouth, who was fourth, and Richard Craw, Dartmouth's sensational Sophomore...
George Downing, Nat Mendell, and Howard Hurd will carry on in the field events; Bill Shallow and Tom White heaved a mean weight last year, but White is not expected to compete for a while. Gil Aertsen won't do any high jumping until the robin comes around, but Bob Partlow will be reaching for the cage ceiling all winter...