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Show English Champion Dead. The death is announced at the front of Captain W. F. C. Holland, one of the best known track athletes and oarsmen oars-men in England. He was a versatile track athlete, winning British championships cham-pionships at the lOU-yard, half-mile, mile and long jump. He rowed in the Oxford varsity eight for four years, and was president of Oxford Boating ciiib in 1SS9. He rowed number 7 in in the Leander crew which defeated de-feated Yaie. For several years afterwards after-wards he coached the Oxford crews, and for ten years before the war acted as judge at "the Henley regattas. |