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Then came that sad day in August 1923, when George Christian, returning from Alaska on the transport Henderson, had a digestive upset from some canned food or from some crab meat given him by the good people of Sitka. The upset would not have been serious if one night in San Francisco President Harding, whom he was accompanying, had not suddenly died of the same indisposition...
...been quietly transferred from his important post as chief of the Far Eastern section of the Foreign Office, will in the future busy himself with the Near East. And a Moscow court last week gave stiff jail sentences to four Russian coastguardsmen who last July killed three Japanese crab fishermen...
...Frame '30, of New York, senior singles title holder of last year, retained his championship in the closing and perhaps closest race of the afternoon, when after having caught a crab at the start, he drew up to the front and sped across the finish line of the short 300-yard sprint. He was closely followed by J. G. Park, who had qualified for this race by winning the men's Novice Singles, and by S. D. Peirce '32, Frame's time of 1 minute and 1 second is short only three seconds of his record time of last year...
Park's excellent time in the first of Friday's events, the novice singles, one minute, three seconds, gave him the victory over W. H. Holcombe, Harvard Varsity bow oar, who caught a crab a few strokes from the finish line. Park took this race from the winners of the five preliminary heats on Thursday, which desposed of a record turnout for one event. His brother, T. L. M. Park captured the men's broad compromise battle in fine style. Holcombe started a favorite for the novice singles sprint, as he turned in remarkable time...
...satisfied to let Yale set the pace. From time to time, fencing with Bill Garnsey in the stern of the other shell, he sent his beat up, dropped it again when Yale answered the challenge. Finally, after two miles and a half, Quarrier, Yale No. 4, caught a crab. It was the break that Cassedy had been waiting for. This time when the Harvard beat went up, the bow of the Harvard shell began to creep along Yale's gunwhale slowly & steadily until the boats were even half a mile from the finish. They stayed that way for quarter...