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...match since 1909, U. S. captain. Opposite were Major Austin H. Williams, Capt. C. T. I. Roark and Capt. Claude E. Pert, British No. 1, unconventionally drawn back a little to get a swifter rush when the white willow ball, tossed between the teams, began the play. Behind, Major Eric G. Atkinson guarding the far goal posts...
...said: "This will be a team and not just four players. ... All of England is behind us and it is a united effort All the players are fit and well and quite ready to begin playing fast games as soon as the ponies are in condition." The men-Maj. Eric G. Atkinson (captain of the team), Maj. Austin H. Williams, Capt. Claude E. Pert, Capt. Richard George, Lieut. Humphrey P. Guinness- kept in condition by heaving medicine balls around the decks of the Minnetonka. Which of these five will be selected for the team of four is not yet decided...
Columbia took the lead at the start at Poughkeepsie, but was soon passed by California. Just before the three-mile (three-quarters) mark, Stroke Eric Lambert raised the beat in the Columbia boat, killed California in a mighty struggle. Then along came the giants from Washington, thrashing down the turgid current almightily. But the youngsters from Columbia, averaging 19 years in age, had something left-an unbelievable spurt that Washington failed to catch by three-quarters of a boat-length. It was Columbia's first victory in the intercollegiate four-mile regatta since 1914. The winning time...
...absurd. To dare this hovering was a brave thing and Author Fuller's feat of bringing Alma credibly through from naive immigrant to disillusioned but still saintly New England housekeeper, is a remarkable one. Her repeated rejections, by men so various as Niels, a brutish fellow immigrant, and Eric Rasmussen, a now prosperous childhood friend in distant Walla Walla; her capture of a paralytic Civil War veteran; and the one proposal of her lifetime from the genteel but seedy "young master" of her final situation, would be ludicrous, were not Alma's extreme case handled with purpose...
Those receiving the University Scholarships were Forest Duane Comfort, of Cambridge; Herbert Graham Espy, of Oxford, California; Anna Forward Faull, of Cambridge; Robert Erwie McConnell, of Brookings, South Dakota; and Waldemar Eric Metzenthin, of Denton, Texas...