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...semi-finals, Sterne held a commanding lead over Pitt's Larry O'Loughlin, but let him off the hook and bowed, 10-15, 11-15, 18-16, 15-9, 15-9. At one point, Sterne was leading 2-0 in games and 8-1 in the crucial third game...
...tournament, no one outclassed Niederhoffer. Once again, though, he lost in the semi-finals, this time by the narrow margin of 15-12 in the fifth game to four-time champion Henri Salaun. Niederhoffer could not quite equal Salaun'sl gamesmanship in a match interrupted by so many lets that the referee reprimanded both players for unsportsmanlike conduct...
...Niederhoffer never won the national squash championship while at Harvard, though he reached the semi-finals twice. In the 1963 nationals, he upset former champ Sam Howe in the second round, 15-14, 15-14, 15-14. In each game, Howe reached 14 points, Niederhoffer tied the game. Howe called for one point rather than three, and Niederhoffer won. But in the semis Niederhoffer was outclassed by the eventual tournament winner, Ben Heckscher...
Niederhoffer, though suffering with the flu, eked past Hetherington on the semi-finals and needed only to top Vehslage for the title. He breezed past Vehslage in the first game, 15-7, but then nearly collapsed from exhaustion and lost the next three games with hardly a struggle...
Niederhoffer, despite strong competition from Canadian champion Colin Adair, advanced to the semi-finals without losing a game. There he faced the old nemesis of his college days, Ralph Howe, in what must be considered a classic match...