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Upperclassmen and Freshmen are competing in a House volleyball round-robin, and in the future there will be inter-House tennis matches and crew races...
Inter-House contests in baseball, softball, and volleyball started Tuesday, July 7. In the baseball league, in which about eight games have been played, only one game a day is to be played in a round-robin tournament which will culminate in a championship tournament for the first four teams. Yesterday Leverett defeated Kirkland with a last inning rally to keep its perfect record of two wins and no defeats...
...basketball tournament will start in about two weeks, with games to be played on Tuesdays and Thursdays, extending through the winter. All matches will be held in the Hemingway gymnasium. Instead of playing each team in the League once, the basketball will be a double round-robin, with each team meeting twice. The winner of the first round-robin will clash with the champion of the second in each group, to decide the League Leader, and then there will be a League I vs. League II playoff...
...were the annual Stanley Cup play-offs - one of the silliest competitions in all professional sport. Emblematic of the world's professional championship, the Stanley Cup is awarded, not to the winner of the National Hockey League's season schedule, but to the winner of a postseason, round-robin tourney between the league's top six teams. In other words, the regular season's play does nothing but eliminate one team (the seventh). Any team, even the lowest-ranking, stands to win the playoffs. But even the addicts wanted heavy odds against the potent Bruins...
...Champion Jane Vaughn, fourth. In the men's singles, the judges' complicated scoring awarded the title to 196-lb. Ralph McCreath, Canadian champion, by .8 of a point over U. S. Champion Eugene Turner. > Silver-haired Willie Hoppe, 53-year-old, 45-year veteran cueman; the monthlong, round-robin tournament for the world's three-cushion billiard championship; for the second successive year; winning all but one of his 17 matches, after a tardy start because of pneumonia; at Bensinger's billiard parlors, Chicago...