Pair Ponders Pond

Police yesterday caught two freshmen in the act of secret ice practice sessions for this summer's Tour de France bicycle race.

Neither Fred C. Sawyer '56 nor Robert C. Richardson '56 would admit how long they had been perfecting their new method for whipping cyclists into shape. But their reasoning seems to run that undesirable hills would not have to be climbed if the trainee contented himself with spinning his bicycle's wheels on ice.

At least that is where the two were--on the middle of an iceflow in Stoneham's Spot Pond with their bicycles--when police discovered them and hauled both man and machine to shore with life preservers.