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...volume King William collection owned by St. John's. Among famed alumni: Fairfax and Lawrence Washington (nephews of George Washington) George Washington Parke Custis (adopted son), Reverdy Johnson, U. S. Attorney General (1849-50) under Zachary Taylor, and Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, national director of Prohibition, who when McDowell Hall caught fire in 1909, formed a bucket brigade, rushed into the burning building, saved the King William books from the fate of the John Harvard books in the Harvard fire...
Turfman Willis Sharpe Kilmer, owner of world's largest money-winner Sun Beau ($356,044), hired the handlers of the late famed Australian gelding Phar Lap- Trainer Treve ("Tommy") Woodcock, Veterinary Walter Nielsen and Jockey Willie Elliot will be given a free hand with eight or ten Kilmer horses. Unlike U. S. trainers who give their horses stiff, frequent tests for speed, Australia's Trainer Woodcock believes in long loping canters to build stamina, stretch muscles. Rich, hearty Turfman Kilmer was not rich until after he had built up his father's proprietary medicine business (Swamp-root...
Like his name, which in Javanese means "Wink of the Sky" (Lightning), Phar Lap's death was sudden, frightful, mysterious. His trainer, Tommy Woodcock, who always slept within a few feet of Phar Lap's stall, had gone into the stall early in the morning and found Phar Lap lying down. He had called Phar Lap's veterinary, Dr. Walter Nielsen. They diagnosed colic. As the big, long-legged carcass stiffened, Dr. Nielsen took out its stomach and entrails. These told him that Phar Lap had been ill two days...
Yale will put into effect a policy of retrenchment in its athletics this Winter and Spring, it was announced recently by Harold F. Woodcock, general manager of Yale athletics. The most important change in the policy is the discontinuing of the usual spring trips to the South taken by the baseball, tennis, track, and lacrosse teams...
...Identify the following, indicating briefly the part each played in the news of the past month: 1. George W. Olvany. 2. Hiram Johnson. 3. Amos W. W. Woodcock. 4. Duke of Manchester. 5. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. 6. Viscount of Ickornshaw. 7. Jana Lucia Deletz. 8. Mukden. 9. Albert C. Ritchie. 10. Theodore Dreiser...