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Meanwhile three other dual meets found Dunster, Kirkland, and Winthrop taking Adams, Eliot, and Leverett. The Deacon-Mastadon splashfest proved to be a nip and tuck battle which found Kirkland waterboy's turning in a fast 1:52.8 in the final 200-yard free style relay to win the meet...
...Snavely didn't stop at crossing his legs and swinging his foot to indicate a kick; he even sent in messages by the trainer and the colored waterboy. Many a time a quarter-back had his knee reinforced with adhesive tape while his brain was reinforced with a couple of fast-mumbled signals...
...people who want the river are, of course, southern Californians who get only 15 inches of rain in an average year. Their greatest waterboy of all time was a Grand Old Man, the late William Mulholland. He fetched them a river from the snowy slopes of the Sierras by way of the Owens Valley Aqueduct ($25,000,000). And when the people of the Los Angeles region promptly multiplied to 3,000,000, he set out to fetch them the Colorado at a cost of $200,000,000. In charge of Engineer Frank Elwin Weymouth, the job gave work...
Prettiest run of the afternoon was executed by a Crimson waterboy who, while sprinting toward the sidelines after a time-out, crossed the last wide stripe on his managerial afterdeck, on a brilliant five-yard squish...
...Nobody was more surprised or pleased than Democrat Garner who, up to that time, had had no close ties, personal or political, with the California publisher. Then Boss James A. Farley made a deal at Chicago with the Hearst forces, and Garner was nominated for Vice President-"just the waterboy on the team," as he later called himself. Neither Publisher Hearst nor Nominee Roosevelt understood the calibre of their man. If Publisher Hearst expected John Garner to become a supporter of Hearstian policies he was mistaken. During the few months after the new Vice President took office, Mr. Hearst...