Word: pitman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, staged a comeback in his encounter with Pitman of Yale, when a stubbornly contested three set match ended with a score of 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 in favor of the Crimson leader. Pitman stormed through the first set, using his fast flat first serve with great effect on the hard surface. Whitbeck, recovering in a fast second set, won it 6-4 and went into the third with terrific strokes which wilted Pitman's three-game lead and took...
...summary HARVARD LOISF F. A Burnett. No. 1 No. 1. Needham Cotton. No. 2 No. 2. Furber Clark, back back. Pitman...
HARVARD 101ST FIELD ARTILLERY Burnett, No. 1 No. 1, Needham Cotton, No. 2 No. 2, Furber Clark, back back, Pitman...
Captain Charles Robert Senhouse Pitman lamented the slaughter that has been wrought on gorillas, of which he estimated there were but 100 left in Uganda. He reported that there were perhaps 150 white rhinoceroses still at large and called attention to their placid, inquisitive, harmless nature. He said, as all big game hunters know, that the water buffalo was still the terror of the water holes. And he said (here was where the slayers of large animals rejoiced) that elephants are far from dwindling in Uganda...
With their trigger-fingers itching, elephant slayers prospective and proved pondered this story from Captain Pitman: A ranger fired one .256-calibre bullet into an elephant standing in a clearing on a slope. Down fell the elephant dead, and rolled down the slope. Like any good hunter in any good story, the ranger hurried to the spot. There he found, not one dead elephant, but four dead elephants. Explanation: the shot elephant had killed two others on its downhill roll. The fourth had chosen that spot to die of bullets, evidently a month before...