Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate, according to the college chroniclers, the new era began in 1910 when Fred H. Harris of Brattleboro, Vermont, the first proficient ski runner and ski jumper to enter Dartmouth, awakened and organized those outdoor instincts which had been dormant so long. A gathering of some twenty-five students and a few faculty men discussed ways and means for getting the college out of doors in winter; and a public meeting shortly afterwards, gave birth to the Dartmouth Outing Club, with 50 or 60 enthusiastic members. On successive Saturdays this primeval flock of snowshoera waddled noisily forth from the campus...
...swimmers, in the current Olympic Games have likewise been concerned with learning how to compete rather than winning prizes. Japanese skiers in the Winter Olympic Games last February amused Lake Placid school children by turning awkward somersaults over jumps and falling down even on the level. Except for Broad-jumper Chuhei Nambu who holds the world's record, Nipponese track athletes did not excel last fortnight except in courage. Schoichiro Takenaka finished the 5,000-metre two laps behind the field in a daze of exhaustion but refused to collapse until he had finished...
...Palo Alto last fortnight was Levi Casey of the Los Angeles A. C. Last week the American Olympic Committee barred Hopper Casey from the U. S. team for "reasons best known to the Olympic Committee and the athlete himself." In his place they chose Sol ("Happy") Furth, hop, step & jumper of the Millrose A. C. On his way home to Gardiner, Maine, happy Hopper Furth did not learn of his selection till he arrived. He wired the Olympic Committee for funds, promptly started back to California...
...Indiana University, got a year's leave of absence, moved to Orange Park, Fla., with his wife and10-month-old son. From his friend Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes of the Yale Experimental Station he borrowed a 7½-month-old chimpanzee. He clothed his chimpanzee in cap, jumper and diaper, fed it with his child, kept it in the baby's room, where it spent long hours playing on the floor with Junior Kellogg...
This year, because qualifying tests were introduced to eliminate low-grade jumpers cluttering the field, entries have been reduced from 85 last year to 58. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Easter Hero, who was favorite last year, was retired at Upperville. Va., but the three horses who finished ahead?Grakle, Gregalach and Annandale?were entered again. Among the others were Sea Soldier, a nine-year-old gelding by Man O' War; "Jock" Whitney's Dusty Foot; Gordon Selfridge's steady jumper, Ruddyman; and four of Morgan D. Blair's horses?Ballyhanwood, Prince Cherry, Great Span and Aruntius...