Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year, the 1926 explorers are already afield. Despatches from the snow motors division of the expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce (TIME, Jan. 4) reported within the fortnight the breakdown of two "iron malamutes" (tractors). Husky-dogs have been substituted to freight supplies to Point Barrow, where Captain George Wilkins will arrive in April with his pilots and two Fokker planes. One pilot, Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson has flown over 60,000 miles all alone in the Alaskan airmail service between Fairbanks and McGrath. These men intend heading north and northwest from Point Barrow, exploring the "blind-spot...
...experience is an able forecast for a tennis season, things look especially bright for the Freshman netmen. B.H. Whitebeck Jr., brother of the Captain of the University team, is a promising candidate. He won the Roys' National Indoor Championship in 1923, the Harvard Interscholastics in 1924, and was captain of the Loomis net team for two years H.H. Lisker is another likely racquet-wielder. He captured the Interscholastic Championship of Rhode Island in 1924 and 1925, and was twice captain of the team which won the Gilden Cup in Providence, Robeson Bailey, winner of the Freshman championship in last fall...
Ellison, next year's hockey captain, played on his Freshman nine and won his H last year. Chase and Barbee both earned numerals last spring. Barbee pitched the whole Yale game, losing only by the close score...
Coach Harry Cowles will not have a great deal of experienced material from which to chose next season's squash team but he has a wealth of Freshman material coming up. Captain Debevoise's younger brother bids fair to rival the figure that his older brother has been cutting in squash circles for the past three years...
...Captain-elect P. M. Lenhart '27, who is fifth ranking player in the University, is likely to bud out into one of the best players in years. H. N. Rawlins '27 however, will probably set the pace for next year's team. He and Lenhart must show exceptional form next year in order to continue the unbroken string of victories which has been the record of the University team for the past three years...