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...Africa, took to building racing shells. His son Frederick Pocock built shells for Eton, Oxford, Cambridge. Another son, William, became the world's sculling champion, crew coach at Westminster School. Frederick Pocock's son 'George won the United Kingdom Handicap at 17, in a 26-lb. pine shell he had built himself. His daughter Lucy was women's sculling champion of England in 1910-11. In 1911, George Pocock and his brother Richard emigrated to the U. S., set themselves up in the shell-game at Vancouver, B. C. near a good supply of cedar...
Students have never numbered more than a half dozen since the school was organized on a graduate basis in 1914. Instruction is offered by staff members in such divergent fields as Forest Entomology. Wild-life Management, and the coddling of pine seedlings in special growing conditions...
...race, third in his second, 27th in his third; why he found Olympic competition the least enjoyable of his career; how he trained by running nine miles to work and back in Medford, Mass; how before the Brockton Marathon in 1911 he breakfasted on 12 oranges, a bag of pine nuts and a pound of caramels; how to dodge traffic in a marathon; and how he kept going between marathons as printer, scoutmaster, schoolteacher, soldier...
...water, daily ate five meals and took two baths. Their trip cost $1,400. For brakes they used canes which were four inches shorter when they arrived than when they started. On smooth level roads they went as fast as 20 m.p.h. Their highest speed: 40 m.p.h. down Torrey Pine Hill, near San Diego...
Congress Week. Not all of the 22,000 delegates to the American Bowling Congress bowl at the same time. They arrive in installments, bowl, post scores and depart. Until bowling alleys-pine, shellacked seven times-have been used for a fortnight or more, experts find them unsatisfactory. Consequently, earliest events scheduled at the Congress are those for the least competent entrants. Last week's competitors were mostly "booster" teams, from in or near New York. Best individual score of the week was 690, posted by one Jim Reinsmith of Syracuse...