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...League hockey game and coach Cooney Weiland's varsity six currently leads the loop, tonight's 8 p.m. contest at Watson rink cannot be taken too lightly. The icemen from Hanover almost best powerful Boston College in January and have last year's Ivy scoring champ, Dave Leighton, in their front line...
Playing in the first round Saturday, Niederhoffer beat Carter Mitchell, who has been intercollegiate champ three times, by a 3-1 score, as number one-seeded Howe was winning his match 3-0. Niederhoffer met Howe that afternoon, and in the first game had tied him 13-all when Howe called the beat of nine. The battle see-sawed for the next eight points, until Howe eopped the victory...
...next day the Harvard star, who was also studying for a statistics exam, faced Canadian champ Smith Chapman, who had beaten him in Canada previously. Niederhoffer got the jump on the fast and skillful Chapman, keeping him up front in the court. The match went to 2-2 in games and 12-12 in points in the final game when Chapman cracked under pressure, hitting several shots into the tin. Niederhoffer took the game...
Niederhoffer is now favored to beat Sam Howe's brother Ralph, the national intercollegiate champ, when Harvard and Yale clash in February. The Ellis have won the top three matches for the last two years, but this year the Crimson could beat the best Yale team in history...
...Nicklaus is the slowest player I've ever seen," Sarazen, a two-time Open champ (1922, 1932), told a group of scholarship-winning caddies in Boston. "Slow play becomes a disease. My most vivid memories of slow players are that they vanish quickly from the scene." Sarazen said that he and an 80-year-old partner can still go 18 holes in 2½ hours; Nicklaus has been known to take a good deal longer...