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Weinberger's trunk fell into the hands of a man who dislikes railways but likes boats. He placed the trunk on a freight steamer bound for Frisco through the Canal...
Exactly 45 days, seven hours, and 31 minutes elapsed before the boat put into Frisco Bay. There at the dock was Weinberger, cheering it in, with scarcely time to repack his trunk and ship it back, since he is returning to the Law School...
...made the mistake of getting it over the plate to such a group of muscle merchants as Frisco Caspar, Flung Huey, and Greg Grupp. Bevies of base hits bounded through, around, and over such 'poon boys as Utrid, Tink, Poop, Twit, and Cuddlepoop. Since Feller missed his traveling connections, the entire CRIMSON executive board bore mound burdens...
...examine a speck on the horizon. On closer inspection, the speck turned out to be a boat, the size of those usually seen moored at yacht-club landings. To suggestions that he take the tiny craft in tow, rescue her crew, the Black Gull's captain, Leonard Frisco, explained why this was inadvisable. No derelict, the boat was the German yawl Stoertebeker. With five other minuscule vessels, which left Newport a fortnight before, she was bound for Bergen, Norway, in a transatlantic sailing race...
Smallest boat (49 ft.) in the race-sighted last week in midocean by Captain Frisco-had a skipper of a different stamp. Stoertebeker's Ludwig Schlimbach, until he retired, used to captain Hamburg-American liners across the Atlantic. Grizzled, 59, amused at the elegance of his competitors, Captain Schlimbach arrived at Newport three days before the race, barely managed to lay in enough supplies, rearrange his rigging, borrow water lights and a code book to qualify. Joked he before the start: "Next time I come mitout a boat...