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...Warmup...
This tournament served basically as a warmup to this weekend's important meet. Harvard, which has already won the Ivy League and Greater Boston Tournaments, will get an opportunity to revenge its sole looses of the spring, at the hands of Yale and Princeton last Thursday at Brookline. The Tigers and the Elis, as well as all other golfing powers on the East coast will be in New Haven this weekend...
Rita Eunaro played at number four in singles. Maude Wood at five and Ann Koufman at six. Funaro played consistently excellent singles as she lost only one of five matches over the week. In one match, she required a mere 44 minutes including warmup to dispatch her opponent...
...list. Dubbed "the Bayonne Bleeder" because of the more than 300 stitches he had accumulated in the easy-to-open skin above his eyes, Wepner was an implausible opponent for Muhammad Ali, boxing's great and jaded world heavyweight champ. But Ali wanted an easy fight as a warmup for his next major title bout; and a guarantee of $1.5 million helped him to make up his mind. Wepner signed for $100,000, ten times more than he had ever earned for a single match...
...reason why Harvard should win this one either, even if the opposition is hated Boston University. This game will be painful for both squads to have to play. The masochists among you can watch all the action on the tube (channel 44) tonight at 7 p.m. as a warmup to the finals...