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...scrawny, 17-year-old boy with a strong British accent got his first job as floor sweeper and general retoucher in the Chicago lithographic firm of Shober & Carqueville. A year later he was a scene painter for the Chicago Opera, priming the enormous backdrops with a large brush dipped in glue. This job he attacked so earnestly that at the end of his first day's work he fell in a dead faint on the floor. His name was Albert Sterner, born a U. S. citizen, in England, of naturalized parents...
...three feints are made at passing the ball to other players before it finally leaves Shober's hands. And when he does pass it to another back the latter promptly passes it to somebody else. It becomes exceedingly complicated to the opposition. Even the officials run around in a state of confusion for they do not know where the ball is half the time, either...
Javelin Throw.--Won by Miller (H); second, Peine (P); third, Shober (H). Distance, 148ft...
Princeton College Cricket Club has organized for the season and the following-named officers have been elected: Captain, John B. Shober; directors, John Jay Archer of Baltimore, Richard Norris and Henry Grier Bryant of Philadelphia. Matches have been arranged with the Trenton, Newark, and Chestnut Hill clubs, and with Trinity, Columbia and Harvard colleges and the University of Pennsylvania...
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