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When you've won all your winter dual meets, taken the indoor Heps, and have the league's best discus thrower and hop-step-and-jumper just waiting for April to show their stuff you're a good bet to give Harvard its first outdoor Heptagonal crown in eight long years...
...down in Australia, the world's reigning tennis champions are preparing an ambush for the invading Americans. Roy Emerson, no long stale, and Ken Fletcher, no longer inexperienced, are backed up by Fred Stolle, whose flame-thrower serve took him to the Wimbledon final against McKinley In addition, there is talk of reactivating Neale Fraser, whose canny court sense helped Australia hold the Davis Cup for five years Fraser is still only 29, and he held every major tennis title at some time before retiring early last year...
...each hunter spends $30 a day, and to egg him on, the local innkeepers and Chambers of Commerce provide "dove festivals" in every little town. There are entertainments,*free dances, trapshooting contests, and the various across-the-border delights of Mexicali, including a "Valencia" pigeon shoot, in which a thrower hurls a live bird into the air while the hunter, as though skeet-shooting, draws a quick bead and fires; the bird wins if it can make it out of a marked circle...
...Rock-Thrower. Feigner, 38, traces his pitching prowess to his lonely childhood in Walla Walla, Wash. "I was a love child," he says, "and none of the parents would let their kids play with me." Left to himself, young Eddie spent countless hours alone in woods and fields, throwing rocks. After he developed into a rock-thrower of prodigious force and accuracy, he switched from rocks to softballs. Pitching for his grade school and high school teams, he won 103, lost none...
Doten suffered much the same fate. Throwing a little below his best, the senior hammer thrower was in third place entering the finals, but was shoved into fourth position; his toss of 184 ft. 2 in. was two inches behind the third place finisher...