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...lost upon crew experts who hall the Harvard sweepers as sprint champions of the East is the significance of their consistently slow stroke over the short distances. Although the Elis flashed by Cornell to cast grave doubts on the Bollesmen's mythical title, sportsmen are picking the Chace-paced eight to come into its element in the long distance stretch at New London...
...folded in 1931. Fired by the idea, the two of them decided to do something about it. Last fall Cook left Hornblower & Weeks, McCoy left Ringling Bros. McCoy threw $100,000 of his own money into the venture, acquired 51% of the stock. Cook approached 150 sportsmen and men of substance to buy the remaining 49%, landed...
...heartier elements in human nature. Last week, as director of the Institute of American Sporting Art, Inc., he staged a big show of sporting art in Chicago for just those elements. Director Zoeller, who had spent five years preparing for this show, was sure he could never lure sportsmen into an art gallery. Accordingly he displayed his 298 pieces-ranging from a bulging bronze called Shot-Putter (Why Not?) to a sentimental painting of ducks at dusk-in the Midland Club Hotel, posted them around a cellophane pond on which floated a fleet of wooden decoys. At the opening...
...Since sportsmen naturally like the art they own to reflect accurately the sport they love, most of the show was almost photographic. Most popular works: the hunting and fishing oils of 76-year-old Frank W. Benson, who is said to have earned $1,000,000 from duck pictures alone; Edward Herbert Miner's Man o' War and Four of His Famous Get; the winter canvases of A. Sheldon Pennoyer, who dashes down ski slopes as easily as he dashes off brush strokes; big-game wood carvings by Blackfoot Indian John Louis Clarke (Man-Who-Talks...
...laid at the New Haven Sportsmen's show early this week with two results. First, the Cassowary that gave birth had its name changed from Charlie to Catherine; and second, its owners decided that Harlow's reputation as an ornithologist should be recognized by Yale...