Word: bowditch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writers of modern times have succeeded in resurrecting the romance of the clipper ships with as fine a touch as Alfred Stanford, already well known for his authorship of Navigator", the story of Salem's great Nathaniel Bowditch. "Invitation to Danger" deserves its place on the shelf next to that now well known novel...
...Explorer Wilkins and Flyer S. Alward Cheesman on Deception Island last week, preparing to attempt a South Pole flight. *Rendered possible by 80 pages of intricate computations and figures of George Washington Littlehales, 69, government hydrographic engineer, comfortably located in Washington. The Littlehales tables are to the avigator what Bowditch's tables are to the navigator. They aided Commander Byrd's North Polar flight...
Singles--Whitbeck defeated Hayes (A), 6-2, 6-2; Ingraham defeated Bowditch (A), 6-3, 7-5; Ward defeated Richardson (A), 6-2, 6-2; W. L. Breese '31 defeated Hicks (A), 6-3, 6-8, 6-3; J. L. Wage '30 defeated Notopulos (A), 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; R. L. Tower '31 defeated Clark...
Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29 defeated Hayes, star Amherst No. 1 man, in straight sets. In the doubles Arthur Ingraham Jr. '30 and E. B. Ward '30 finished a long battle to defeat Hayes and Bowditch...
Doubles--Ingraham and Ward defeated Hayes and Bowditch (A), 6-3, 7-9, 8-6; Whitbeck and F. K. Trask '30 defeated Richardson and, Hicks (A), 6-2, 6-3; Tower and W. L. Breese '31 defeated Niceson and Wyckoff...