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Needless to say, the loss of Hatch leaves the backfield with less depth than over at halfback. Presently, three of the top six halfbacks are players who had no football experience last year. Sophomore speedster Jim Leath, second string left half behind Boone, and John Damis, third string, sat out last year--as did sophomore Dave Connor, third string right half behind Chuck Reed and Scott Harshbarger...
Steve Clark, 17-year-old high school speedster from Los Altos, Calif., scored a major upset early in the three-day meet by beating Australian Murray Rose in the 220-yd. freestyle with a record-smashing time of two minutes flat. Picking up momentum, he flailed through the 100-yd. freestyle in 46.8 sec.-an achievement that ranks with an 8-ft. high jump, a 16-ft. pole vault, or a 100-yd. dash run in less than 9 sec. Slender (155 Ibs., 5 ft. 11 in.) for a swimmer, Clark plans to put on twelve more pounds...
...Grand Prix de Pau either cracked up or broke down before they finished the long, sun-splashed climb through the streets of the little Pyrenees town. Veteran Belgian Driver Olivier Gen-debein even managed to get his foot jammed between brake pedal and accelerator on his little Emeryson speedster, shot off the road at high speed and wound up in a hay bale. With that kind of competition, Scottish Farmer Jimmy Clark, 25, who had never won a big race before, had no trouble bringing his Formula One Lotus home in front. ¶Just in time to give the last...
...swinging back. Soapy Williams took over in 1948 with an outpouring of labor strength that shook the teeth of the Republicans, who had been confidently in control of the state government for most of the century. Carefully the Democrats hammered out their own machine-a three-wheeled speedster that rolled on the vote-delivering power of union leaders, the organizational wizardry of Democratic Chairman Neil Staebler, and the popularity of ebullient bow-tied Soapy Williams, who could out-polka any Polish-American in Hamtramck...
...effort to put some semblance of pep into the offensive line-up, Yovicsin will start Hobie Armstrong, sophomore speedster, at left half to team with Larry Repsher. After a good day in the Holy Cross opener, Repsher has been conspicuously absent from full-time duty...