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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Henry S. Bauer of the Dollar Liner President Van Buren, endurance floating champion, went for a swim off Juhu, the Lido of Bombay. India. An off-shore current, too strong to swim against, carried him far to sea. Composing himself. Captain Bauer simply floated about waiting for a shoreward current, was picked up after several hours by fishermen...
Glenna Collett Vare, five times national golf champion, who suffered the ignominy of a 10 & 8 defeat in last month's national finals, felt better last week. Winning the Berthyllyn Cup at Huntington Valley (Philadelphia) from Edith Quier, she dropped two strokes at the second hole and then, after two pars, made a hole-in-one, her first. Her 144-yd. No. 3 iron shot landed seven feet from the cup, bounced twice, plopped straight in. The match ended on the 12th green, 8 & 6 but Mrs. Vare played out the bye holes because her first nine score...
When Benny Leonard retired as lightweight champion of the world in 1924. only one man (Ritchie Mitchell) had mussed his sleek brown hair in many a long battle. Last week in Madison Square Garden, Benny Leonard was wiping stringy thin hair out of his eyes 30 seconds after tough Jimmy McLarnin began to hit him. The pudgy Canadian welter- weight shook his head at the hardest blows Leonard's bowarms could deliver. What was left, at 36, of the cleverest boxer the lightweight division ever knew was knocked down in the second round. In the sixth he could...
Married. Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., 20, U. S. tennis champion; and one Verle Low, 21; at Pasadena, Calif. They set out for Australia on a four-month exhibition tour with other U. S. tennists (Wilmer Allison, John Van Ryn, Keith Gledhill...
...After 40 hr. in the air they were forced down with a defective valve near the Polish-Latvian frontier-about 921 mi. from Basle. Pilot Van Orman's Good-year VIII was second with 830 mi., France's Petit Mousse third with 739 mi. Near Warsaw the champion Navy bag drifted so low that laborers seized a drag rope, were hauling the ship down until angry Pilot Settle threw a sand bag at their heads...