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Although Straus finished with a comfortable margin of victory the Yardling composite competition was close until March. But in a one-week stretch, Straus won the basketball title and added first in the boxing and wrestling tournaments to move ahead to stay.
At the same time. freshman transfer Jim Fitzsimmons led the Straus basketball team to the Yardling championship. Basketball had a fall and a spring championship, and Fitzsimmons' outside shooting took both crowns for Straus.
Brown, a crew which beat Harvard's J.V. boat by 5.2 seconds earlier this season, is seeded number one in the second varsity race, and Navy, who nipped the Yardling heavyweights by 5 second Saturday, is the premier freshman crew.
Three years ago Harvard had a freshman team that stole attention from a varsity squad that won the Eeastern League and advanced to the Omaha World Series. That Yardling squad, the first undefeated team since 1900, averaged over ten runs per game and provided five starters for the next varsity...
This is the senior season for that record-setting Yardling team, and if coach Loyal Park's pitching staff develops as he hopes it will, the Crimson may finally reach its projected peak. "We have the best hitting team I've ever had," Park said. "How far we go depends...