Scholars

¶ Three members of Temple University's basketball team are six feet five or taller, one is six feet four, and the other, Howard ("Shorty") Black, almost six feet two. In Manhattan last week the Templars were not only too tall but too fast for Colorado University, whose team they defeated, 60-to-36, in the final game of a tourney which metropolitan basketball writers hope to develop as an annual "basketball world series" (TIME, March 21).

Temple's Don Shields was the star of the tourney, Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White its No. 1 box-office attraction. A better football than basketball player, Rhodes Scholar-designate White grinned his way through the final game, once turned to a teammate and audibly asked, "How do you like this part of the country, my friend?" Day after the final, Whizzer visited the New York Stock Exchange. Trading (such as there was) stopped five full minutes while brokers cheered him.

¶ Thirty-year-old Harry Florian Wolf is the best U. S. amateur squash tennis player. Serious son of a Montclair, N. J handkerchief maker, Harry Wolf went to Williams, where he played no squash tennis but by diligent study won a Phi Beta Kappa key, by diligent bridge-playing won a wife. After college he settled down to a steady routine of handkerchiefs, squash and bridge, has been monotonously successful in all three.

Last week in Brooklyn, Harry Wolf won his ninth successive national amateur squash tennis championship, proving himself as unbeatable in this sport as Jay Gould once was in court tennis, Clarence Pell in racquets. With his angled power game he beat his Montclair Athletic Club-mate Philip Moore (son of an English racquets professional from whom Wolf first learned the game at 14) in straight games, 15-8, 15-12, 15-8.

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