Crisis at Columbia

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COLUMBIA DAILY SPECTATOH
 

Baseball,  Track   Win;  Tennis   Loses
 

  New England proved to be am-

bivalent to Columbia's baseball

hopes  this weokend as thc l.ion

varsity nine split its  two games,

beating Brown lĩ-5 at Providence ou

Friday, but losing to Ilar vurd 7-2

at Cambridge Saturday.

  The Lions shut out Brosvn for

the first seven innings on thcbril-



car"-:: .    ;Ls„.!:-v_bailandhis

eff(  ..^ cuntrol, while riding ona

fivc run lead.

  Cnlumbia scorcd its first threc

runs ĩn the fourth inning ona walk,

an error, a sacritice, a single by

Joc Díiedric, anothcr watk,  a

passed ball, and a sacrifice fly,

Thc Lions added
 

Hnlj li.
 

 with a

ivith Fri
 

lume run by

.k Stilllll'S' II.
 

i. tlii-
 

.  He
 

thcn prucccded to  give up three

hits and  three runs,  including a

home runbyChuckSkendarian.and

lcft th game  with  two outs and

the bases loudcd. Donnis Graham
 

TViO FACTORS in

ut Ld Wcatheis II.) and Bob Bo

bill bcfoic tiiing in the .ighth, a



Ltio  I.iuiis did "exceptĩo:
 

.'  tyir:.
 

runs, but endcd tln; iiiniiig.

  The Lions talliedthcwlnningrun

in the top of the ninth, when Gra-

hiim wulked,  wcnt to second on a

passed ball,  advanecd to third 011

a sacrifice bunt, andcamehomeon

a single by Bub Biondi.

  Luck, howcvcr, sccmed toaban-

don  the Lions at Cambridge—at

least it failed to mako itspresence

known.  Tho Crimson scored in

cach of the  first five innings,

wliilr pl.iyiiif.au ■iiiiif:lil di-ũ-ii.'.L.-",

aciordiiig to  Columbia coach Johr.

Balquist.

  Columbia's lon.ehighli_.hlac.ur-

red  in the fĩrst inning, whcn l.ion

caplaín Rich  Brown belled a d.ivo

to dcop left-ccntci- ficldfora homc

run.  Frank  Stimlcy tallied thc

Lions' only  other run in the top

tif tho tourth, whcn he walked, went

to third 011 a  singlc byBobBosson,

and  scored  on  a  sucrificc fly.

  Comtnonting on thc gamc.Coach

Balquist stated, "Our inconslstent

phiy  and ineffoctive  pitehing by

Paul lirosnitn were  largely re-

spousiblc  for our  loss to Ilar-

vard.*  The  Crimson also  proba-

bly ptayed their bcst  game nf the

year, Coach l.altiui.si .i.kli.'ii.

  Columbia's normall;   docilc

track lcam  scored a surpi'ising

80-Tl upsct  victory over Connec-



the Lions duringlhewinlcrsoason,

at Baker Field Saturday.

  Tho Lion.  scored upsets in the

hamme,- throw and pule vanll and
 

tield c

 Nagle
 


 

Heavies  Bow to Penn,   Yale;

Lighttveights Loseto Cornell
 

                     ;  Lane

scored a surprisĩng upset by fin-

ishing 1-2 in íhe hammar, defeat-

ing a  man who had beatcn them

bnth at the indoor meet.  Nagle,

junior Mike Busa, and Lanc man-

aged  to sweep tho di
 


 

; Paul
 

ame and Glenn Flug finished 1-2

in  the broad  jump   Sophomoi-e

Sleve Sprenklc scored another up-

_et by  winning the high jump e-
 

IVÍUl ■:
 

-,-ui.
 

 is  the poi-formance of junior

■pNllip Hesslein in the pule vault.

Hcssleín, who  only took up pole

vaultiiij; uarlior Ihis year and
 

had
 


 

I  fin.l
 

ivith ;

is thc n
 


 

13  :
 

                 Mri'.un i;aid.

'Hc has rcally filled  a  gap."

  Thc Lions also píched up points

in the quarter-mile, which soph-

amo.-c  Bob Douglas won with  a

Lim. uf 5U.2, ana  in thc mile and

Iwo mile runs , wilh junior Gary

Rosenbcrg fitiishing second inbolh,

Cohimbia also swept the lOOmcter

event,  wilh sophomore  Míke Me_-

zatcsUi, Burlingamo,  and  senĩor

John White scoring points in that
 

             mĩle relay. The

Columbia squad ot Mez-atesla, ju-

     Scott  Nordlicht, Whlte and

Douglas won the event in 3:24.6.
 

Tiio ic
 

s il.iii:
 

aged to prove how outelassed it i.

by other Eastern schools  as ít

was trounocd in two niatches this

weekend.  The Lions lost 8-1 to

Navy on Friday and 7-2 to Penr.

on Saturday, both matches being

played at  Coach Jerry  Ehrlich's

Fleet Sivlm and Tennis Club in the



  i\gainst Navy, firslsinglesplay-

cr Stove  Gottlieb was the only

player to wĩn, scoríng a 1-fi, 9-7,

7-5 víctory.  It was his first of

lllU MMSiltl.
 

             By MARK BLUMLER n



  Pí'n.r-; liiijlilylijutcdheavywcight j  1

_ri",s  siiuads swamped Columbia

and Yale on the Schuy Kill Rivei

in Philadelphia Saturday afternoon

on their way to their third con-

secutive Blackwell Cup victory.

  The Quaker varsity, oonsldercd

to be Ihe second strongest squad

in the Eastafterllarvard'spower-

ful crcw, galncd an easy victory

in the  Cup race.  They finĩshed

in the  fast  tíme ot 5:11.8, two

lengĩhs ahead  of the Elis,  who

in turn wcrc  fivc  lengths ahead

of the  Lĩons at the  finish line.

  Earlier  ĩn  the  afternoon thc

Penn freshmen scorcd an equally

Imprcssĩve violory,fĩnishingthrec

and  a halí lengths ahead of thc

Bulldogs in 5:52.3.  Columbiaoncc

agaín fĩnishcd  third,  two und  a

half  lengths farthcr  bchind the

Elis  in 6:17.3.  Yalc's timc wor

B:07.9.

  Thc Quakers also won the jun-

ior varslty race, by thrce lengths

 ver   Yalc.  Columbia does not



  The  Penn varsity  ivcre hclpcd

 y a favoring  taíl  wind and  a

 Hght current  in turning in onc

of the Easter times recorded over

the 2,000 moter course by a col-
 


 

. un.yui
 

 Against Penn ths

iose match,  Gotilieb's  eontesi

ith Hugh Curry. Gottlicblost 9-7,
 

N * SOPHOMORI_S
 

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  MASS   IN   A  FLAT
 

The p
 

5 their smoothness, c
 

  Thc  Quakors, opcning with

stroke of 40, took the lead imm.

diately.  The Bulldogs opencd al

    ut soon dropped to 30,  The
 

    ., who  rowed  a  steady  38

    ;e for most of the ra.e, man-

aged to stay  close  to the olher

two crews durĩng tho early going.

  By   Ihc   500-meter   mark,

however,  thero  was open water

between Columbia  and Yale, and

thc Bulldogs  were a lcngth bc-

hind Penn. TheQuakers.whodrop-
 

tlmii
 

.  36
 

                 reased their

lead while the Bulldogs alsopul-

led away from the Lions.

  By the 1500 melcr mark it was

clear that the Quakers were going

to win,  alĩhough  Uio Llis steppcd

up theĩr stroke rate inadesper-

ale but  futile attemp'. to overtake



  The defeat was Columbia's sec-

ond at  thc hands of thc  Quakors
 

Dti in Aimaijolis, Md.

 .weeping thc varsity, J.V., and

reshman cvents,  Cornell'5 light-

icight  crew  defeated  Columbia

nd M.I.T., and retained posses-

idn of the Geiger  Cup in races

    un thc Charles River Satur-
 

held

duy atternoon.

  ln the varsity coinpetition, thc

Lion  eights  rowed well and fin-

ished second with a limc of .:..7.2,

edging the engincers by onc sec-

ond.  Cornoll's rowers, however,

provcd to bc too poworful for both

opponcnts, flnishlng almost elcven

     (Continued on Pigc 7]
 

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