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...Stephenson's big sloop, Velsheda, with which he may challenge for the America's cup next year: her fifth victory in a row, in the Royal Clyde Yacht Club regatta, with King George's Britannia second and Shamrock V a poor third; at Hunter's Quay, Scotland. ¶ The New York Athletic Club Relay team: four of their five races at the A. A. U. Championships, where Glenn Cunningham set a U. S. record for the 1,500 meter run; in Chicago. ¶ The New York Giants: a doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals; both games...
...using an electric torch instead of the traditional bull's-eye lantern, is hot on the trail. He ferrets around the underground passages and false doors of the Pyke country mansion, barely prevents the death of another member of the gang and of an innocent young girl (June Clyde), whose father had been associated with the Scarlet Ring. The gunfire having ceased, she is about to be married to her fiance. "Will you give me away?'' she asks Sherlock Holmes. "I never give a lady away," replies the gallant detective...
Born. To Hugh Herndon Jr., aviator who flew around the world in 1931 with Clyde Pangborn; and Mary Ellen Farley Herndon; a son; in Norwalk, Conn...
ERNESTINE CLYDE MANNERS...
...July, 1931 Hugh Herndon Jr., youthful Manhattan socialite, and Clyde Edward Pangborn, hard-bitten barnstormer, took off from New York City for a speed flight around the world. They finished it in October, following a series of misadventures in Japan where they were arrested for traversing forbidden military territory. They distinguished themselves as the first flyers to cross the Pacific nonstop, a feat which has not been duplicated. Soon after their return Pilot Pangborn broke into print with a grievance against his partner, alleging that Herndon had forced him into a disadvantageous contract shortly before the takeoff, when Pangborn...