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Henry F. Atherton 1L snagged the first place as the Senior oarsmen neared the finish line, of the one mile course, while Harvey Picker, winer of the Junior Singles the day before, and Thomas J. Darcey '37, winner of the 155 pound competition last year, tied for the second berth...
...Harvey Picker 2GB, crossed the finish line one length ahead of Peter F. Cunningham '39, in the rain yesterday to win the Junior Singles in 5:25 time. Both will be entered in the Senior race today...
Senior Singles, at 4:30 o'clock: Ivan M. Korbel '39; Henry F. Atherton 1L; Thomas J. Darcey '37; Harvey Picker 2GB; and Peter F. Cunningham...
Last week La Pasionaria de Texas was up to her small ears in a pecan pickers' strike. In a good year San Antonio's 147 pecan shelleries shell 21,000,000 lb. of pecans.* No successful machine has ever been invented to pick pecan meat from pecan shells and the "world's largest pecan shelling centre'' depends upon the family labor of Mexicans and Tex-Mexes (U. S.-born Mexicans). Wages were recently cut from (7? per lb. to 6? for halves, from 6? to 5? for broken pieces -which means that a pecan picker...
...played his last football game (nine minutes for charity) five weeks before his 66th birthday. Last week in Manhattan, at a luncheon of the Touchdown Club, Footballer Heffelfinger's embattled head was crowned with a final wreath. Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Walter Camp's successor as All-America picker, called him "the greatest football player that ever lived." Last week many a band of potential football heroes clashed on U. S. gridirons...