Word: pelorus
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...Pelorus Jackfish...
...your March 28 issue, on p. 29. you refer to a horse named Pelorus Jack. There is an interesting story behind this name, the details of which most any Australian can give you. The writer's memory of the story, related to him by an Australian pilot, is too uncertain to be quoted. Briefly, the story concerns a certain dolphin or jackfish, the existence of which is sworn to by many ship captains, which, meeting and swimming a few feet ahead of the ships served as a guide through the treacherous Pelorus straights on the inner route along...
...Aintree. The biggest steeplechaser in the year's biggest steeplechase-the 93rd Grand National last week at Aintree, England - was a Chestnut owned by C. P. Brocklehurst named Pelorus Jack. Waiting for the start, while the heavier jockeys stood beside their mounts to avoid tiring them, Pelorus Jack was well-behaved. He balked at one of the early jumps and unseated his rider. At the Canal Turn, a 6-ft. ditch and 5-ft. hedge of fir in front of a right-angle turn, Pelorus Jack was responsible for one of those moments of wild confusion which occur...
...Pelorus Jack cleared the jump. Then, riderless, he swung wildly across the track instead of turning the sharp corner. He crowded Heartbreak Hill, the favorite. He tripped Gregalach who won in 1929 and Grakle who won last year. He blundered into six others, knocking them down. He kicked Sea Soldier (a son of Man o'War), the only U. S.-bred horse in the race. When the field gathered itself from the confusion, a scattered line instead of a close cavalcade, the favorites were out of the running. A horse called Forbra, owned by a West-of-England bookmaker...
...have tasted Military and Naval training in college are not best qualified to judge its value, then who is? Are the aesthetes who spend most of their time at poetry, music, and afternoon tea; who do not know a howitzer from a latrine, an azimuth from a pelorus; in any position to critize intelligently the benefit that others may derive from instruction in ballistics or celestial navigation? No, they are not! On the other hand, all members of the R.O.T.C. have worn enough mufti in the progress of their liberal educations to be able to assign "culture" its large...