Word: starter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work as an apprentice machinist in Peabody, Mass. Presently Jack Winchester became one of the first students in a Boston Y. M. C. A. automotive school. He worked on the first automobiles to reach the U. S. from abroad, learned to drive a "steamer," helped devise the first self-starter. In 1913 he landed a job as sales engineer for Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Standard now operates 12,000 trucks and 4,000 cars, second largest fleet in the U. S.* Jack Winchester is manager of the lot. He is also president of the New Jersey Motor Truck...
...member of the starting eleven his Freshman year. He also stroked the Varsity crew at New Londin in 1935. In the 190-pound class, he will be a welcome addition to the line. Glueck, a guard, who prepared at Exeter is in his Sophomore year. He was a starter on the Freshman eleven two years ago, and was out of College last season...
Cliff Wilson, by dint of better defensive play, ahs maintained a slight edge over Chief Boston, and will probably be the only Sophomore starter. Vernon Struck will undoubtedly complete the backfield quartet...
Charlie Kessler and Rus Allen look at present as though they will start the Amherst clash as guards, but no one will be surprised if Joe Neo shoves his way into the lineup before next Saturday. The pivot position has developed into a duel between last year's Eli starter, Bob Jones, and Henry Russell, a promising Sophomore. Jim Fearon, another second year man, may also see service this fall...
Lifeboat Racing attracts huge crowds, probably because it costs nothing to watch. Competing crews of six passenger and freight steamships last week splashed off at the starter's gun, pulled up New York Harbor off the Bay Ridge shore where 250,000 strollers, motorists and apartment residents were watching. Each boat's weight, ascertained before the start, was 5,500 lb., with crew and ballast...