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Coach Warren Berg substituted freely after leading at the half 35 to 9. Every man on the Freshman squad played for at least two minutes in what was the final Yale tuneup battle. John Rockwell, ace pivot man, was high man again in the scoring department as he racked up 19 points. The starting lineup: Freshmen; rf, Lionette; if, Goldsmith; c, Rockwell; rg, Covey; lg, Byrnteson...
...throw; Dave Reed, whose 21 foot, 1/4 inch leap earned him second place in the broadjump; and Pete Garland, who took second in the 16-pound shot and tied for third in the high-jump. Since the meet was invitational, no score were kept. It was the last competitive tuneup for the Varsity prior to next Saturday's Yale meet...
...short of capacity (around 58,000) but just a scattered few thousands around those end zone oases would have made a lot of difference in the atmosphere. Even the press box looked deserted for this opener, the earliest in Harlow's Harvard history except for a tuneup with a pre-flight eleven...
...tuneup for the Yale match, the Freshman tennis team lost 5 to 4 to a very good Exeter squad yesterday. Yardling John Zinsser pulled a great upset in downing Oliver Moses, interscholastic champion who had never before been beaten...
This year, Whirly's distaste for crowds on the turns became more & more discouraging. Last fortnight, in the Blue Grass Stakes, traditional Derby preview, he was licked by Our Boots. Last week, four days before the Big Race, he was given another tuneup in the Derby Trial Stakes-only to be beaten by Blue Pair, a colt that cost $600 as a yearling. In desperation, Trainer Ben Jones got canny Eddie Arcaro, a genius at handling headstrong horses, to ride Whirlaway in the Derby...