Word: nickersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these horseless hunters are young, red-blooded suburbanites who find the sport inexpensive outdoor exercise for fall and winter Sundays. Some are middle-aged beaglers-notably the Buckrams' walrusy Hoffman Nickerson (Harvard '11) and his British bride of a year, whose enthusiasm for beagling dates back to her pigtail days...
Last week the Nickersons and their fellow Buckramites motored up to Dutchess County for the first big chase of the season: a joint meet of the Buckram Beagles and the Redington Foot Beagles owned by John K. Cowperthwaite of Far Hills, N. J. Prey of the week-end was not the mere jackrabbit or the lowly cottontail, but the rare European hare (giant of the rabbit family),† which has been known to run twelve miles in one direction before turning to circle home. In the three years that the two packs have hunted this region, bound they like bandersnatches...
Crimson Varsity runners beat the Boston University track team in the three and one-half mile cross country race by eight points at Nickerson Field yesterday afternoon. I go of the opposing team came in first in 18:56 min. followed by C. Langdon Burwell '40 of Harvard who finished in 19 min. flat...
...clock Friday afternoon, seven of Jaakko Mikkola's harriers will board the bus for the trip to Nickerson Field, the site of their first competition of the season, with Boston University. The coach expects a good showing from his men, most of whom are on their way back into form. W. Penn Tuttle '40, will captain the team; others running will be: Richard Wing '40, E. Langdon Burwell '41, Lightbody '40, Malcolm Mackenzie '41, Eugene V. Clark '40, and Frank L. Porter...
...Yankee fishermen put out in their dories, as coolly as if it had been a working morning on the Banks. With no time to get their oilskins, they piled overboard in their underclothes, all except 62-year-old Frank Nickerson. He fell dead on the deck of the Parker and his shipmates took his body along. The Rose went down in five minutes, the Parker in 25, leaving 47 men and twelve dories alone on the empty...