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...been playing the ancient Oriental board game constantly since he was eight, now ranks as a fifth Dan professional (ninth Dan is highest) in his native Japan, where Go has been the national indoor game for as long as anybody can remember. Besides, this time was really only a warmup: later, in his three-week exhibition tour of the U.S., he will play 15 games simultaneously in Boston. It hardly mattered that he eventually lost two games while winning five and drawing two; he had conceded each of his honorable opponents a generous handicap, without which it would have been...
...tennis team plays Brown today at Soldiers Field in what should not be too much more than a warmup for the Penn match on Friday...
...game, he suggested that an intentional pass should be automatic without the pitcher's having to throw four balls, that the ball should not be chucked around the infield after every out, and that relief pitchers who have been warming up for seven innings" should not throw eight warmup pitches when they enter the game...
There is, of course, more than one way to train for a Davis Cup match. Some ways are just better than others. Australia's defending champions got ready for last week's challenge round by playing in warmup tournaments and running laps. Their Spanish challengers had a different theory. They arrived in Australia two weeks late, explaining casually that they had missed a connection in Tahiti. ("It was," sighed Spain's Luis Arilla, "such a beautiful spot.") Then they begged out of two Australian tournaments and didn't even hoist a racket during a "practice session...
Three games of trigger-happy shifting by Coach Cooney Weiland produced a combination of sophomores and lettermen that blasted Bowdoin, 9-2, last Wednesday. With a winning combination at least temporarily set, tonight's 8 p.m. encounter with the St. Nicholas Hockey Club will be a final warmup before the Crimson confronts the biggest hockey powers in the Northeast...