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Last fall "Jock" Whitney decided to do something concrete about it. He set up a $10,000,000 foundation, announced that $100,000 would be made available in 1950 for "Opportunity Fellowships." Eligible: any young U.S. citizen "of exceptional promise [who had] not had full opportunity to develop his talents because of arbitrary barriers, such as racial or cultural background or region of residence...
...year-old Pittsburgh native was graduated from Pitt in 1938. Playing tackle under Jock Sutherland, he was a member of Pitt's 1936 Rose Bowl eleven and the undefeated Panther team...
Losses that set the Crimson back and out of the meet were in the freestyle events, while exceptional times by Bob Berke gave him only hair-breadth seconds in the 220 and 440, and Captain Joe Fox lost to Indian junior Jock McIntyre by a nose...
Captain Joe Fox and Bob Berke should win the four freestyle races. Berke will have little trouble in the 220 and 440, and Fox has been doing better this year than Jock McIntyre in the 50 and 100. The Indian star, however, is sure of at least second in both sprints. Shep Brown in the 50 and Norm Watkins in the 100 will have to show peak form to take thirds, and Doug Kinney and Bob Tolf in the 220 and 440 to take seconds. The breaststroke is all Dartmouth; Harvard can get only third. The backstroke will...
...know that nobody stays in the handicap division and keeps the record clean. That goes for Man o' War too.* Citation will be lucky if he wins half of 'em from now on." Others thought that Jockey Brooks had shipped his whip too soon, that a jock like cagey Eddie Arcaro might have ridden the big horse home in front. Since Eddie had not yet signed for a mount in the Santa Anita Handicap, some even speculated that he might yet be Citation's pilot for the big race...