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Eliot's fast-breaking 'A' league basketball team stretched its undefeated skein to seven games last night by trouncing Adams, 43 to 18. The Gold Coasters did not have much of a chance against the tight man-to-man defense; they dropped behind early in the first half by 14 points. Buz Vanderlage led the winners with 10 points...
Before last Saturday Amherst boasted an undefeated string of 13 straight wins dating back to the 1948 season. Wesleyan's second half rally cut the skein, 4 to 2, but the Jeffs still boast one of the hotted offenses is the league...
Doherty averaged 19.9 points a game last season as Pelham High School, carrying over a ten-game winning streak from the 1948-49 season, went on to run its skein to 30. It also won a district championship for the second straight year. Doherty has played varsity ball there for three seasons...
Last week, after the Justice Department had postponed the case for 18 months, Roger Slaughter went on trial, waived a jury. The Government produced only two witnesses and a skimpy skein of circumstantial evidence; the defense presented no witnesses and explained that the government's own testimony proved Slaughter was acting merely as a lawyer, not a lobbyist. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff briskly decided that the Government had no case, acquitted Roger Slaughter within about an hour...
Eliot's undefeated skein was almost marred in mid-February when it dropped a contest to Dunster by one point. But the game was later forfeited to the Elephants when it was disclosed that the Fansters had been using a ringer--a Lexington High goalie--in the nets...