Word: weight
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Harvard's Olympics-hopeful heavy-weight crew races Northeastern, Brown and Rutgers for the Stein Cup today. The race will be the heavyweight's only contest on the Charles this spring...
...Crimson, although Jim Coleman will need a great performance to upset Princeton's Weisinger in the high jump. Schoonover and Bog Galliers in the broad jump are probably too strong for the Tigers. And the muscular quartet of Wilson, Benka, Ajootian, and Champi insures Harvard domination of the weight events...
What's more, the mountain is there for everyone. No one but a weight lifter or a masochist can pretend to enjoy wrestling with a heavy reel that spans 6 in. across and weighs 101 lbs.-assuming they can afford the cost (up to $800 for the biggest Fin-Nor model). Yet a six-year-old youngster or a 60-year-old grandmother can play all day with a little 2½/Oreel and a rod as supple as a willow wand. Last February Mrs. Evelyn M. Anderson, 60, a Glendale, Calif., housewife, boated a 353-lb. black marlin...
Twang & Plane. It takes genuine skill and some luck. No serious pressure can be exerted on the line; yet the fish cannot be permitted to strip too much off the reel, or the fragile line may break just from its own weight in the water. Light-tackle anglers try to distract and turn a running fish by twanging the taut line with their fingers; if the fish persists in running, they must rev up their boat engines and give chase, trying to retrieve enough line to get the fish back under control. A heavy fish that chooses to sound deep...
Wrestlers who place first or second in their weight class in the regionals will go to the finals at Ames, Iowa...