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Four players scored in what was basically a team victory. Center forward Barry Custer scored after only two and a half minutes of play in the first period, and Sam Thompson clinched the game with a second-period goal. After M.I.T. scored its lone goal in the third period, Dave Astor and Ben Heineman wrapped the game up with fourth-quarter goals...
...city's smog. But in the Los Angeles Times, Sports Columnist James Murray could regard the home team's travail with wry humor. "What was happening to the Dodgers," wrote Murray, "could only be described as a slump if you think of what happened to General Custer as a slump. I have seen happier people on the end of a rope than the Dodgers on the bus ride home. The players even cursed in whispers...
...They parked all around me, boxing me in," Buntin recalled later in the awed tones of a lone survivor of Custer's last stand. "There must have been a hundred or more in the square and side streets. Traffic came to a halt. Things got a bit ugly. Then the police arrived and sorted things...
...Black Hills, the fighters worked through the night. Twenty miles away, outside the town of Nemo, another fire raged. Said one fire boss grimly: "If them two sons of bitches come together and start crowning [i.e., spreading among the treetops], it won't stop till it gets to Custer, and we'll all look like Custer's men after the battle." At midmorning next day, the men were still fighting. Two Forest Service planes-a converted 6-24 and a Navy torpedo bomber-began bombing hot spots with 500-gal. loads of a slurry made of bentonite...
Wood, who played at number six, is the only other senior in the top six. He was unbeaten until the Yale match, and lost to Eli Rick Wallace only after a long and difficult fight. He and Weld, as well as Jim Cameron, Laurie Pratt and Scott Custer, will be missed...