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...last week a trio of long-tailed Porsche 907 prototypes put on a performance that suggested this year may be Deutschland über Alles once again. They finished one-two-three in the 24 Hours of Daytona, the longest sports-car endurance race in the U.S. and a major tune-up for Le Mans...
Freshmen indoor trackmen go north today also, to meet Exeter. In a tune-up for the Greater Boston College Championships, the Yardlings will put their 4-0 record on the line against the strongest team it has yet faced...
...Crimson figures to be the better team tonight in the IAB, but they can't exactly treat this as a tune-up for the meeting with Cousy's boys. Springfield lost, 68-66, to Brown, and the Springfield coach, Ed Billik, says Harvard has a somewhat better squad than the Bruins. He saw Harvard clobber Tufts on Wednesday...
...lads who played for Brazil, however, had a pretty fair idea of how to hold a racket. And they may have worked a pretty good ploy on the U.S. too. As a tune-up for the Davis Cup competition, the Brazilian and U.S. teams played in last month's South American championships at Buenos Aires. The tournament was won by Texas' Cliff Richey, 19, the U.S.'s No. 3-ranked player-behind Dennis ("the Menace") Ralston and Arthur Ashe; in the process, Richey beat both of Brazil's Davis Cuppers, Thomaz Koch, 21, and Edison Mandarine...
Harvard's golf team defeated M.I.T. yesterday, 5 to 2, in its final tune-up for Wednesday's big match against Yale...