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Sophomore Bob Sinclair (160), Mike Millis (162), and John Hawkins (166) also scored for Harvard as the Crimson's 799 total beat runnerup Boston College by 18 strokes for the team title...
Harvard won the team title going away, with 28 points to 18 for Williams and Yale. The squad also piled up the eight points needed to retire the tournament's team trophy. A win in either singles or doubles counts one point; a runnerup's berth counts a half. Harvard entered this year's competition with six points already to its credit from previous years...
...odds on Hill Rise might have been something like 1-100. At post time, only two colts contested Hill Rise's claim to the $6,500 purse, and Shoemaker rode him, reported one onlooker, "as if he were the only horse in the race." Hill Rise spotted the runnerup 15 Ibs., still romped to a ¾-length victory, and came within 1⅛ sec. of tying the track record...
...Oakland Hills with the brand of golf needed to take the Monster's measure, it was Gene Littler, 30, a sandy-haired, ham-handed ex-sailor from La Jolla, Calif. A reserved, coldly efficient man dubbed "Gene the Machine" and "Stone Face." he was runnerup in the 1954 Open. But then he went into a disastrous slump, and had yet to redeem his promise. Out of play with a rib injury early this year, he had not won a tournament, but he was slowly regaining his old style and steadily perfecting his putting...
Yale won the Ivy League championship and Cornell was runnerup this season. The Crimson ended the season with a three and eight record...