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Improvement awards were given to Hank Abbot in the shot put, Lee Barnes in the 220 and 440, Dyke Benjamin in the distances, and Art Cahn...
...recent elections of the Harvard Rugby Club, Hank Keohane was named next year's team captain, succeding Hal Churchill. Other officers chosen were Richard O'Neil, president; Warren Young, vice-president; Richard Baker, secretary; and Jack Butterfield, treasurer...
...James Smith ran a blacksmith shop but seldom worked in it (he always said it was too much trouble holding the horse up). He liked guns better, and he could also scratch out a middling tune on the fiddle. Young Chris's closest companion was his older brother Hank, who regularly got one haircut a year (from his mother), boasted that he never changed his winter underwear in summer. The brothers spent most of their time hunting and fishing on the flats and marshy lands that flank the river. Chris Smith never bothered with high school; instead, he shoved...
...settled down to raise a family-four boys, two girls. As soon as the youngsters were old enough to hold a clamp, he set them to work in the waterfront boat shop. In 1896, two years after his success with his first naphtha-gas boat, he and Hank tried a 2-h.p. Sintz gasoline engine. "It never ran well," says Chris's son Jay, 74, "until Charles Sintz showed up from Grand Rapids two years later with a gadget he called a carburetor...
...Hank Abbot finished second behind Heptagonal champion Carl Shine of Penn, but he broke the University record with a 52 ft., 3 in. heave. Benjamin was a double winner, taking the mile in 4:14.8 and the two-mile in 9:13.0, and Joel Landau won both hurdle races. Sophomore Frank Yoemans emerged as a first-rate dash man, beating Penn's Dave Coffin and Cornell's George Ekstrom with...