"Master of Squop" about Severin Drix. 4 photos:

• Severin Drix '68 (page 23)
• Drix executes a shot in the championship match (page 24)
• Referee Dave Lockwood oversees a delicate shot (page 25) [with Sunshine and Severin Drix]
• 'Sunshine' shoots; Drix and spectators bend to watch (page 25)

• Spring Fashions
• 'If all that the campus has to decide at the election tomorrow Is set forth in the statements presented today, the Daily suggests that the student body could better spend their holiday playing a ripping, no-keeps game of Tiddly-winks, and that the several candidates might well spend the day at tlt-tat-toe and Peter Rabbit rhymes.'

• Title: The Berry Patch
• THE WINNERS
• At this time, brothers, we extend
  Congratulations without end
  To you brave sporting brothers who
  Brought honor home to Nu Nu Nu.
  The trophies which you won shall grace
  The shelf above our fireplace;
  Your pictures shall be framed and hung;
  Who won the University crowns—by jinks?—
  In ping-pong, bridge, and tiddly-winks
• — I. Pheal Phulish

• Title: Dyer Repeats His Warning 'Watch Out for Brooklyn'
• "Mr. Rickey hasn't been playing tiddlywinks up there at San Francisco."

• Title: Tiddlywinks, Anyone?
• To the Editor:
• Four or six members of the Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society (All-England champions and holders of the Prince Philip Inter-university Trophy) are planning a tour of the States from July to September 1962. We are keen to accept any challenge from your side of the Atlantic and would appreciate any help or publicity you can give us.
  
  Any further information may be obtained from the Society, located in St. Hugh's College, Oxford University.
• —Elizabeth King
  Honorary Secretary
  OUTS

"Groups Exhibit at Straight"

• Willard Straight Hall will present its annual Activities Fair in the Memorial Room today and tomorrow.
  
  Forty-three groups will take part in the affair, including such diverse groups as the Ayn Rand Club and Octagon. Someone representing the Tiddly-winks Club, which has achieved provisional recognition by the Scheduling and Coordinating Activities Review Board, also applied for

"Tiddlywinks"/"New Sport Being Formed at Cornell" by Adele S. Diamond

• The center of an intercollegiate tiddlywinks conspiracy is developing at Cornell this fall.
  
  Severin A. Drix '68, one of its founders, said there are two aims for the team: to play tiddlywinks and to prove an organization can exist with such minimal bureaucracy as to be not even slightly obnoxious.
  
  The web has grown to 70 members and applicants, who have never seen an official rulebook because they can't find one. Drix and a friend,, Richard Nowagrodzki [sic] '69, derived the rules they use from two magazine human-interest stories and observation in the Brox High School of Science lunchroom. [more]

"Harvard Squidgers Outscore Red Team"

• The Cornell tiddlywinks team dropped its first match to a strong Harvard squad last week.
  
  The Big Red's newest team was beaten 43½-19½ by the more experienced Harvard squidgers. Only the pair of Captain Severin Drix and Richard Garson managed to win one of the nine matches for Cornell.
  
  The Harvard team won with one man squopping (preventing one's opponent from shooting by covering his winks) and one man squidging (shooting the winks into the cup) [complete]

"Tiddlywinks Squad Beats MIT Team"

• The Cornell tiddlywinks team defeated a squad from MIT, 37-19, winning all but one of the eight sub-matches, held in the middle of the Arts quad Saturday afternoon. THe match attracted a sparse crowd which, at its height, number [sic] 12 students and four dogs.
  
  The Cornell team led by Severin Drix and Richard Nowogrodzki downed the Engineers with inspired strategy and accurate squidging. The team's record is now even at 1-1 after and [sic] early season loss to Harvard. [complete]

• Power Shortage
• What will sustain a governing structure is power. Nobody can maintain interest in a group whose major functions include allocating funds for the tiddlywinks team. Nobody can maintain interest, as we have seen at Cornell, in an oldstyle student government.

• Title: Under the Sun
• By Dave Golomb
• If Cornell had AstroTurf, all four of those games could have been played on the same field, on the same day, rain or no rain. They could play lacrosse there, all kinds of football, soccer, tiddlywinks, rugby, polo, field hockey and all those other Big Red sports we know and love so well.

"The Rules". Inset box

• For those planning to attend this weekend's Continental Tiddlywinks Championships who are unsure of whether the tiddly is winked or the wink is tiddlied, here is a brief explanation of the rules of the game:
  
  A team is composed of six players, two per game in a three-game match.
  
  A game generally lasts 20 minutes of regulation time, after which each player takes five shots. At the end of these extra rounds, the player with the most winks in the cup wins.
  
  A player may, however, win before regulation time expires if he "pots out." Potting out is a condition reached not by artificial stimulation but by flipping all six winks into the "pot" (cup). If just one player pots out, he and his teammate win.
  
  Potting out sounds simple, since experienced players can pot a shot from just about anywhere on the table. Nevertheless, complex rules generally keep players from shooting for the cup on every shot.
  
  A player who tries to pot out immediately is likely to have gome of his pieces "squopped." When all of your winks are either potted or squopped, you're dead.
  
  A wink is squopped when part or all of it is covered by an opponent's wink. It cannot then be tiddled (flipped). Since you must pot all six winks to pot out, a player who rushes to pot five winks and then has his sixth squopped can only sit idly by while his foes proceed to pot out all six.
  
  But the strategy does not stop here. All is not lost when your wink is squopped, if other winks remain free, since an experienced player can strike a squopped wink in such a manner that the foe's wink is in turn squopped, while the trapped wink is knocked free, a technique known as "walking."
  
  Thus, the bulk of the 20--minute regulation time is usually spent squopping and walking rather than potting, in preparation for the strategy-filled five final rounds.
  
  Tournament format calls for two round-robin pools of five teams each. Each team is then pitted against its counterpart in the finals, i.e., the winners of each pool play each other, the second place finishers play each other, and so on.

• Lynah Gluttons Feast on Eagle
• Madame Sosostris' Pix:
• Sports gluttons rejoice! In perhaps the biggest weekend for sports all year, you can stuff yourself on 16 thrilling hours of tiddlywinks, then top it off with a dessert of hockey. And if you're also a glutton for punishment, you can listen to the basketball team on the radio. Such a weekend slate had Madame Sosostris nothing short of delirious. But before she could rush off to line up for the big events, she had the arduous task of picking this week's events, no easy task since the continent's best squoppers, the ECAC's finest stickers and the Ivy League's worst shooters will be going at it. [...]
• And now, what you've all been panting for, the tiddlywinks forecast. In a mild surprise, Somerville, Mass, will win, proving to the world that a winker is not washed up at 22.