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...riot when some 600 Boston husbands took exception to the distribution of prizes. Last week, loafers on the Common waited hopefully but the knitting bee caused no trouble even when the judges awarded one of the six prizes to a man. He was bald, tidy, dignified John Farnum Cann. His contribution - all the knitters made little chunks which were later pinned together in a large U. S. flag - was a red stripe...
...fair candidate for the title of No. 1 U. S. male knitter, John Farnum Cann, unlike the Prince of Wales who took up knitting during the War but soon gave it up for polo, has knitted all his life. He learned 56 years ago when, at the age of 10 in Yarmouth. N. S., his mother found that his five brothers and two sisters wore out their stockings faster than she could supply them. From stockings, Knitter Cann progressed to sweaters, caps, and fancy afghans. He grew up, married a girl who liked to knit, adopted the profession of male...
...While Knitter John Cann was distinguishing himself in Boston last week, Canner David Hippie was likewise distinguishing himself in Chicago. A 45-year-old bachelor who runs a fruit farm near Elgin, Ill., Canner Hippie, competing with 100 women in the Cook County Fair, got first prize for a jar of his blackberry...
Winthrop 5, Eliot 2. Brigham (E) defeated Holmes (W), 6-1, 6-2; Glike (W) defeated Cann (E), 6-4, 6-2; Williams (W) defeated Brooks (E), 6-4, 6-4; Poet (W) defeated Brandwene (E), 6-1, 6-1; Bolles (W) defeated Shakleton (E), 6-3, 7-5; Burbank (W) defeated Trevelyan (E), 1-6, 6-1, 6-3; Wolf (E) defeated Weber...
Score--Brooks 14, Eliot 12. Substitutions--Brooks: Burnstein. Points--Lyons 4, Corey 6, Borkum 4, Cann 4, Hodson 2, Shapiro 4, Clos 2. Referee--Dennis. WINTHROP KIRKLAND Howe, r.f. l.f., Millar Polon, l.f. r.f., Robinson Maiullo, c. c., Seder Zdanowicz, r.g. l.g., Miller Sapienza, l.g. r.g., Jewell...