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...skaters wield a stick as surely as a crayon. Brooklyn-reared Rosenstein never played hockey as a boy; instead, he settled for watching the New York Rangers from cut-rate seats in the stratosphere of Madison Square Garden. Writer Taubman, though a seasoned Central Park skater and sometime impromptu stickman, claims he "really learned the game" from none other than Robert Lewis. Seems that when they were both correspondents at TIME'S Boston bureau from 1970 to 1972, Lewis brought a table-hockey game to town and spent countless hours trouncing his American-born colleagues...
Forced to play in driving rain and generally poor conditions, only Paul Oldfield maintained his pace of one under par through the last two matches as he downed his Columbia opponent on the 11th hold and the Penn stickman on the 15th...
...that heavy losses were being racked up at the Lake Tahoe Hotel, agents from the Nevada attorney general's office infiltrated the dice game, stood in at the table for over an hour as one customer plunged deeper and deeper. The man they were watching was the stickman running the game, Clayton Gatterdam, 47, whom they spotted handling the dice instead of moving them with his stick, and occasionally reaching into his apron pockets between rolls. When the agents pounced, they found four pairs of mis-spotted dice in secret compartments in Gatterdam's apron; a fifth pair...
...game Stickman Gatterdam was running was a setup for suckers. Each set of dice was mis-spotted differently-the gull being to let the roller establish his point with straight dice, then slip in the mis-spotted pair that would make the point unattainable. Thus, by using "even splitters"-numbers 1, 3 and 5 on one die and 2, 4 and 6 on the other-Gatterdam made certain that points 4, 6, 8 and 10 could never be made. Crapping out became inevitable. Since Nevada law holds that a casino is responsible for its employees and is liable to lose...
While Cornell's replacement problems have been less severe, the Big Red will be playing without its two 1962 honorable mention All-Americans, Vann Jones and Bing Carlson. Third team All-American goalie Jung Leong is another Ithacan stickman who will not see action today...