Word: gerkin
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After our prolonged vacation, we again break out the cobwebbed pen and dip it in the inks of time. So much has happened that we could almost write a history on the subject of Kelvin "Kewpie" O'Donnell alone. For instance, Kirby G. (for Gerkin) Pickle spent his last confederate dollar taking a gal home in a taxi, Napoleon "Tommy" Thomas received a picture from a Texas belle (pronounced "bell") who calls herself "the body." The Count be Wright learned how to swim (dog paddle), Rudy Trummer had a date, S.C. won the Rose Bowl...
Houser (U. S. C.), Gerkin (Cal), Baker (Swarthmore), Hoffman (Stan), Phillips (Cal), Norton (Georgetown...
...first I.C.A.A.A.A. record to fall was the shot put mark, which Houser the Southern California phenomenon shattered with ease. His heave of 49ft, 11 3-4 in, bettered the old mark of 49 feet 9 5-8 inches set by Ralph Hills of Princeton at Philadelphia last spring. Gerkin of California placed second, Hoffman of the Stanford Cardinals was third, Alekski another Trojan took fourth, and Pratt, the Crimson weight tosser captured the last qualifying place...
...University of Southern California heavyweight broke his second record of the day, this time his own, when he tossed the discus 151 feet 3 3-8 inches. Gerkin and Hoffman finished close behind him in the platter sailing even. In the pole vault Barnes, Olympic and Association champion, was the cynosure of all eyes in the Stadium but he was content to qualify along with four others at the 12 foot mark...
...east has no Ralph Hills this year to head off the Pacific slope, but Houser of Southern California, the Olympic champion, and Gerkin of California probably will know they have been in battle before emerging from the week-end competition. Houser is a great little man. He is one of the three wonderful small men, and by small men I mean less than 190 pounds, who have made history in the I. C. A. A. A. A. shot putting competition. The others are Beattle of Columbia and B. F. Whitney of Dartmouth, whose places carried them to the crest before...