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...Thirteen years later, another British army, under General Horatio Herbert Kitchener (thenceforth known as K of K, Kitchener of Khartoum), set out to avenge Gordon. As the dervishes tried to cut their way out in a ferocious surge known as the Battle of Omdurman, a young cavalry officer named Winston Churchill got in the way, nearly lost his life. Dervish power was smashed...
After Ed Peterson had sent the Big Red off to a 1 to 0 lead with a free throw, Steve Davis dunked a neat pivot to give the Crimson the margin, and the visitors from Cambridge stayed there for thirteen minutes of the first half...
Astounding accuracy from the foul-line was also responsible for the Varsity triumph. Seventeen of twenty-four free throws were converted by the Crimson, who scored only one more field goal than the Bruins. Of their first thirteen foul tries, the Barclay forces caged twelve...
...Bruins, Captain George Grimshaw led the scorers with thirteen points, while Paul Flick guarded George Hauptfuhrer doggedly in the pivot. HARVARD G F P Davis, lf 1 3 5 Gantt 3 1 7 Noble 0 0 0 Page, rf 3 2 8 Petrillo 0 0 0 Hauptfuhrer, c 5 4 14 Nelson 0 0 0 Mariaschin, lg 3 3 9 Harford, rg 1 1 3 Henry 2 2 6 Gannon 0 1 1 Totals 18 17 53 BROWN G F P Grimshaw, lf 6 1 13 D'Angelo 0 0 0 Miller, rf 3 1 7 Flick...
Marshall is now en route back to this country from China where he has spent the last thirteen months as President Truman's special envoy to that nation...