Athletes

Honors never come singly. The Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, Curtis D. Wilbur, became Secretary of the Navy. One of his first acts was to order all Navy athletes to Annapolis, to prepare for the Olympics. In a few days he was offered and had accepted a Vice Presidency on the American Olympic committee. It does not appear that he will personally perform in the games. Nevertheless, he is shortly to be presented with a tambourine--long the property of Matthew Strohm, for 42 years instructor of gymnastics at the Naval Academy. The Secretary of the Navy, then a Cadet at Annapolis, tickled this tambourine with his toe on June 6, 1888. The tambourine was nine feet, one inch from the ground, and the kick was a world's record.