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Show Strange as It Seems By John IIlxl ''swot W OX TWO TITLES ... Jmim Pilkinfton figuratively "hit tht jackpot" on th night of March 11, 1M2, when h won both tht national amateur heavyweight boxing and wrestling chempionihlpi at the old Madiion Square Garden arena In New York. But Pilklngton, an all-around athlete, did not reit on auch laurels. Four months later, at a regatta on Greenwood lake. New Jersey, he entered en-tered and won all the rowing events. Including the singles, doubles, slx-oared slx-oared gig and elght-oarcd shell, on a mile and a half courts." The doubles was declared a dead heat and had to be rowed over again a total of seven and a half miles at racing speed. Copyright, 1938, for The Telegram |