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...taken on three different days. Though one credit will be given for ROTC drill, additional exercise on the same day cannot be counted. Fradd recently spoke at a physical training orientation meeting along with Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, who presented the coaching staff to freshmen. Arlie V. Bock, professor of Hygiene, described College medical facilities...
Along 30 miles of river, on either side of the mining and tourist town of Salida (pop. 5,000), Theo Bock, 43, and Erich Seidel, 26, members of the Munich Kayak Club, scrambled along the bank, noting treacherous crosscurrents, whirlpools, lurking rocks. Their Teutonic thoroughness was warranted...
...keel-wetter for last week's race, a 300-yd. water slalom was run off at Salida. Its course, laid out by Experts Bock and Seidel, was marked by a dozen sets of red and green poles. Boats had to pass the poles to right or left, according to color. Young Erich Seidel, Germany's white-water and slalom champion, threaded his kayak skillfully through the course and won with ease, while several less-practiced contestants upset in the swift water. Then the boatmen got a briefing on the main race. Besides the two Germans, there were three...
...boatmen began shoving off from Big Bend, five miles north of Salida, into the chilly (52° F.) torrent. The first big test, Bear Creek Rapids, which a week earlier dashed a boatman to death, lived up to its bad reputation by capsizing the first starter. Soon Theo Bock lost his lead to France's Roger Paris, who kept his kayak ahead for 15 miles until he hit right-angling Tin Cup Rapids and got ducked...
Swan Song. The worst was yet to come. Five miles above the finish waited murderous Cottonwood Rapids, where the clawing waters, leaping up in snarling talons, funnel through a 20-ft. passage. Thousands of spectators had gathered there for the climax. First through was Bock, showing the strain in his taut face, then Paris, spilling again. Then came Champion Seidel, flashing his two-bladed paddle and maneuvering his tight-fitting craft by swinging his hips, hula-like, to meet crosscurrents. He shot through with expert ease, emerged from angry Cottonwood to come in fourth at the finish...