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David M. Geoder, age 17, of 458 Willow road, Winnetka, Ill. He attended New Trier High School. He is the son of Lealie M. Gooder, vice-president in charge of sales for the V. P. Blakely Printing Company, and a trustee of Northwestern University. He ranked first in scholarship among the boys in his graduating class, and won the Harvard Club if Chicago Award for Scholarship for three years in high school. He was a member of the track team. In high school he was elected to the honor society in recognition of scholastic ability and leadership...
James Tobin, age 17, of 916 West Hill street, Champaign, Ill. He is the son of Louis M. Tobin, Director of Publicity, Athletic Association, University of Illinois. He was the highest ranking student in his class at University High School, Urbana, Ill., and was a leader in school activities. He was editor-in-chief of the school yearbook, was class Commencement orator, was elected head of the Junior class, was Senior chairman of the school assembly, was business manager of the dramatic club, and was a member of the basketball team. He was first in his district in the national...
...life Mary grasped at straws, and as her love affairs were tragedies of unfulfillment, so her ill-organized conspiracies and arid plots were the politics, not of passion, but of despair...
...fast motion, he ambled back to the finish line, received a wreath of roses and an embrace from the weather-beaten driver with whom he had earned $18.000 (winner's share of the $33,000 purse) for his owner, Edward I J. Baker of St. Charles. Ill...
...group of Eastern sportsmen organized the Grand Circuit, which became to trotting what the major leagues are to baseball. The Grand Circuit, a series of meetings on mile tracks, last year included eight cities, this year nine (Toledo, Cleveland, Toronto, Salem, N. H., Goshen, Springfield, Ill., Syracuse, Indianapolis, Lexington, Ky.). There are 200 minor circuits in the U. S., thousands of trotting races on half-mile courses at county fairs. There are about 700 owners and breeders of trotters and four times as many trainers, second trainers, grooms and stable boys. Compared to thoroughbred racing, the economics of harness racing...