Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Sportsman Alain Gerbault (swimmer, poloist, tennis player, footballer, war ace) thought of going around the world,* he wanted to go alone, bought an English decked cutter, the Firecrest (39 feet, built in 1892), and put out of Havre across the Atlantic. That was in June, 1924. In The Fight of the Firecrest Sailor Gerbault gave the log of his 101-day voyage to Manhattan. In Quest of the Sun takes up the tale from there, tells how he completed his voyage round the earth...
...Maine team with Batch-elder catching him. Devens, because of his good work in the South has earned the first position among the Harvard moundsmen and is on the way to repeat his work of last year when he pitched the Freshman team through a successful season. The Sophomore ace is high among the strike-out wizards of the East, having fanned 26 men in 23 innings so far this season...
...Victorian thoroughness, played, his part well. He was an admirable snake in the grass with a most gracious smile for his puppets and a devastating frown for his enemies. In the midst of prodigious excitement and complication he seemed to keep a very clear head and came within an ace of being the victor. The comedy element in the guise of Sieur de Beringhen, Gordon Hart, was effective in spite of the fact that his elongated person did not particularly suggest a gourmand. Ernest Rowan as Chevalier de Mauprat was just a bit enthusiastic, but the high flavor...
Died. Lieut.-Col. William George Barker, 35, second ranking Canadian ace (52 enemy planes officially credited out of 68 shot down); when his new plane crashed in a test flight at Rockliffe Airdrome, Ottawa...
Last week the flyer thus described in his official citation for the Victoria Cross- Lieut.-Col. William George Barker, second-ranking Canadian Air Force ace-ascended again, at Rockcliffe Airdrome, Ottawa. Instead of enemies aloft he had an empty sky. Below were Government officials come to watch him put a new Fairchild biplane (he was Fairchild's Canadian chief) through test antics. Flying fast but low, he put his ship into a loop, over-taxed its ability at the top, could not get out of the spin that followed. So ended Col. William G. Barker, V. C., after having...