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...blue water race failed to encounter a mysterious school of whales reported by a fishing captain off the New Jersey coast, reported no fatalities. Most serious accident was one which befell Mason B. Rumney on the Baccarat. When a large wave hit the rudder, he was tossed into the cockpit by the tiller, broke two ribs. The Vamarie arrived with her radio set out of order, her navigating instruments broken by high seas. Slowest boats in last week's race were Robert P. Baruch's Zingara and Dainty, owned by a Bermuda blacksmith named Al Darrell. They were...
...Brooklyn Navy Yard finished refurbishing an old 3O-ft. gig, fastened two swivel chairs in its stern cockpit, and installed a water cooler between them. When President Roosevelt boards the Houston at the end of this month the gig will be swinging from the cruiser's davits. ready as a fishing boat whenever the President feels inclined to cast a line overboard on his holiday journey to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Pacific Coast, Hawaii...
...buoys so sharply that it resembled an oldtime cinema comedian turning a street corner, got away fast and held the lead for one complete circuit of the course. Tennes, away third, passed Everett on the first lap, caught Dupuy on the second. Chewing gum furiously, hunched in his cockpit like a football lineman, he drew away steadily for the next four laps, roared across the finish line with nearly a mile of open water behind him. Outboard motorboat racing depends partly on the motor, partly on the driver's skill. Tennes' cockleshell Hootnanny VI had a good motor...
...Austro-Hungarian monarchy is not fantastic. Prince von Starhemberg and his following are Monarchists and make no secret of it. What does Mussolini think about that? ... It is all very dangerous. No one in England yet realizes, 1 imagine, the strength of the forces gathering around this cockpit of the Powers." So from Vienna last week wrote Sir Philip Gibbs, a British journalist with such an imposing reputation that he does not hesitate to advise the British Government. In Prague three days later the Habsburg restoration talk was taken up by Czechoslovakia's eternal Foreign Minister, Eduard Benes. Said...
...twin-engined bomber with a crew of three and the southbound mail, landed at Daytona Beach, Fla. It was five hours late, and fuel in the right wing tank was running low. When it took off again Private Ernest Bair Sell was in the middle cockpit, pumping fuel by hand. At 500 ft. both engines quit. The plane plumped into a cypress swamp. Private Sell's head was mortally smashed...