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...highest Japanese officer in China's former capital Nanking, His Highness Lieut. General Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, this week expressed to Third Secretary John M. Allison of the U. S. Embassy his apologies...
Since the middle of this waning football season, Californians have suspected that Coach Leonard ("Stub") Allison had a great football team at the University of California. Gauge of the fact was that California used only 14 plays, most of them power plays, yet so well executed and so well mixed by pot-bellied Quarterback John Meek that they remained effective. Key man of the California team is six-foot four-inch All-America Centre Bob Herwig, who snaps the ball unerringly, runs fast interference, and backs up the line on defense. Most likely California All-America this year is Halfback...
...pusher propellers mounted behind the big Allison engines lift Airacuda swiftly to more than 30,000 feet, speed it through the skies at an estimated 300 m.p.h. Many of the machine's details are still secret but revealed this week were Airacuda's wing spread, 70 ft. (25 ft. less than the Douglas DC-3), its length 58 ft. and its weight loaded around 15,000 Ibs. From each of the fighting snouts ahead of the engines bristle big 37 millimetre (about 1½ in.) guns (see cut) that throw 1 Ib. high explosive shells two miles. Cartridges...
...California's Coach Stub Allison sat on the sidelines gloomily nibbling his fingers as the University of Washington, 1936 Pacific Coast Conference champions, played his undefeated, untied, supposedly unbeatable team to a 0-to-0 standstill. Fortunately for nervous Coach Allison. the result did not affect California's top ranking in the Conference. California will perform in the Rose Bowl if it can defeat Oregon and Stanford as easily as it defeated other Conference opponents...
...Champion Jiro Yamagishi, quit because of a strained shoulder; at Southampton, L. I. For Riggs it was the third match he had won by default in eight days, having so defeated onetime Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood in the quarter-finals two days before and onetime U. S. Champion Wilmer Allison in the final of the Seabright tournament week before...