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...Thomas Scanlon, former Harvard police officer, died Tuesday at Massachusetts General Hospital following a short illness. He was 68 years...
...Scanlon, who was known as "The Irish Cop," first came to Harvard in September 1951 and worked here until his retirement...
More serious was the mauling suffered by co-captain Doug Mason, who lacks the same defensive tactics and paid for it dearly when a crafty John Scanlon employed a double leg move to lift Mason right off the mat before lowering him to secure...
Which is what happened to Scanlon and Navratilova. They were minding their own business on a side court, methodically overcoming the less-than-dynamic duo of Van Winitsky and Rayni Fox before a few bored passers-by. Then the crowd started pouring out of the stadium when the final featured match of the day ended. It was time to leave--the night session would start in little more than an hour...
...thousands satisfied? Shit, no! So they descended on this doubles match, rooting for the underdogs so the match could go 3 sets, hoping for an upset, minor as it might be. Winitsky and Fox enjoyed this unexpected support. Was Navratilova amused? No way. A bit unnerved, she and Scanlon did manage to eke out a third-set tiebreaker...