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Two holiday weekend wins--one easy, one hard--put the Varsity wrestling squad up with the best in New England and reduced the teams of Dartmouth and Brown to comparative oblivion. On Saturday, Chief Boston's wrestlers swamped a lifeless Hanover squad, 25 to 7, and then returned to the Blockhouse yesterday to edge Brown, 19 to 15, by sweeping the top three classes.
Dartmouth's traditionally weak graplers followed the pattern of their predecessors, winning but one bout, drawing two, and dropping three by falls. Brown did considerably better and but for a default in the 121-pound class, where the Bruin contestant failed to make weight, might have shaded the Varsity.
Three hundred fifty fans, most of them standees, saw the more exciting Block-house proceedings. At 121, Coombs took a default but lost to his overweight opponent by a 7 to 2 count in a subsequent exhibition bout. Brown won a default in the 128-pound class and a pin in the next weight. Then Ray took a 4 to 0 decision at 145, but Conant was pinned at 155.
But Harvard won all the rest of the bouts to cage the match: Louria pinned with a crucifix in 4:59; Claflin took a 9 to 2 decision; Fuller bulled to an easy 13 to 2 win over Tony Travison of Providence.
Prior to the Varsity meet with Brown, Howie Schless' undefeated Yardlings cuffed the Brown Cubs, 31 to 3. Jim Fulton, Bob Abboud, Dave Smith, Charles Keith, and Heiny Dunker all took pins, while manager Moe Richardson subbed in the 145-pound class and caried off a 3 to 2 decision.
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