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Adoniram Judson Wells Jr., aged 17, of Highland Park, Ill., graduate of Deerfield-Shields Township High School. Wells was valedictorian of his class, was active in school publications, dramatics, and track, and has shown originality in his chemistry laboratory at home...
...walks as little as possible on his way to and from practice, lies dozing beside the pool until called upon to swim. Like Miss McKean, he learned young, in Seattle's Green Lake. Last week, with Al Vande Weghe, 17-year-old Paterson, N. J. backstroke star, and Art Highland of Northwestern University, he was en route to Tokyo to enter the Japanese National Championships this month against the little yellow men who won almost every important swimming event in the 1932 Olympic Games...
DOUGLAS BOYD Highland Park...
...circle a log about the size of a small telegraph pole) went to an Armonk, N. Y. clansman named George Ross, after the caber had been sawed down several times so contestants could balance it. Further prizes were awarded to the best-dressed piper; the best-dressed lady in Highland costume; the best Highland flingers; winners at soccer, high-jumping, sack-racing and novice piping...
Patterned after the Cowal Games held annually at Dunoon, Scotland, for half a century to decide championships in Highland games, the Cowal Games of the U. S. started eleven years ago when Mr. Moore invited 30 Scottish friends to a free picnic. Three hundred appeared. The next year, Mr. Moore combined his picnic with an effort to raise funds for new uniforms for a bagpipe band, charged 50? admission. He had more guests than ever. The following year the Round Hill Scottish Games Association was formed to run the festival on Mr. Moore's estate. On Mr. Moore...