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Pitching is their one weak area (Coach Nat Harris calls it "thin.") He does see Tom Rucker as a really "top flight hurler," however. Rucker, unfortunately, has been plagued by a sore...
...make a duffer blush: a smothered drive that carried only 100 yds. off the tee, a No. 5 iron that smacked into a tree and caromed back over his head. Before he finished the round he had dropped to third place, behind Dow Finsterwald and Player. To his caddie, Nat ("Iron Man") Avery, Palmer said sadly: "Well, Iron Man, we lost the tournament there." The caddie shook his head. "We ain't lost nothin', Mr. Arnold," said Iron Man. "We still got eight more holes to play." (Recalled Avery later: "He just look up at the sky like...
Among the single-word nicknames, less common in Harvard lore and legend, are "Mousetraps" for Engineering 274b, Sanitary Parasitology including rodents and rodent controls; "Stars" for Nat Sci 9 on Astronomy; "Rocks" for Nat Sci 10 on Geology; "Gladiators" for History 109, History of the Roman Empire; and "Wheels" occasionally heard for Physics...
...addition, George Wald's two-year-old Nat Sci 5, The Nature of Living Things, has been termed "Baby Bio" by its devotees. One of the best known nicknames was "Wagon Wheels" for Frederick Merk's now-defunct course on the History of the Westward Movement. Outsiders sometimes called it "Cowboys and Indians...
...Over the historic Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, England (first run in 1839), a 28-1 outsider, Kilmore, galloped home a winner by ten lengths, collecting $56,666, the biggest purse ever, for English Owner Nat Cohen. The twelve-year-old bay gelding, oldest horse to win in 39 years, slogged over a course made treacherous by rain, snow and hail that dumped 15 of the 32-horse starting field, was followed by Wyndburgh (starting odds 45-1), Mr. What (22-1) and Guy Navaree (100-1). The favorite, last year's winner Nicolaus Silver (8-1), lumbered home...