Too Tiny for Army, Made Himself Grow

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 43, 21 February 1938, Page 4

Too Tiny for Army, Made Himself Grow

HOW “GREAT SCOTT'* BECAME RIFLEMAN Charles Paul Scott walked proudly into the recruiting office at Whitehall, pulled himself up to his ful sft. <-sm. (in his socks) and heard the officer say “0.K." “But weren't you only sft. when you came before?" an observant official asked in astonishment. “Yes, sir, training has done it," Scott replied. And that's how “Great Scott"—his new nickname—came to be a rifleman in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. In the barrack room at Winchester Scott, whose home is at High road, Leyton, Essex, told the Daily Sketch his story. “I was determined to get in the army," he said. “When they repected me the first time I said ‘I will put on that extra height or know the reason why!’' “So I started training. At the Unemployed Men's Club at Leyton I practised every minute I could spare on the parallel bars and on the floor. “Playing football regularly and boxing helped a good deal. Putting on heights is only one of the accomplishments of- Rifleman Scott. Another is putting off weight. He now turns the scale at Bst. 31b., and in a few weeks is to enter the boxing ring at 7st. 101 b.