"Hoover! Hoover!!" shrieked the crowd at St. Catharine's on the shore of Lake Ontario last week. They were cheering, not for a Cabinet member, but for a sunburned man whose body rose out of the middle of a boat as narrow as a needle and whose arms, pulling, stretching, pulling, drew his craft past that of Johnny Durnan to win the single sculls of the Canadian HenleyWalter Hoover, no relative of the fleshy U. S. Secretary of Commerce.
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