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...dear old Rutgers realized his ambition, a Spalding ball would have been found under his corpse. The first Davis Cup tennis matches (1900) were played with Wright & Ditson (Spalding) balls. And back in the days when the golfer was viewed with scornful alarm, Mr. Julian W. Curtiss, now Spalding president (Mr. Spalding died in 1915), visited London, learned golf, returned with the clubs and balls from which resulted the manufacture of early U. S. golf equipment...
...lead in transport manufacture. Close to them is Loening, who makes amphibians. Another amphibian maker is Sikorsky, whose development has been retarded by constant experiments for new designs. Fokkers, Ford-Stouts, Loenings and Sikor skys carry usually a dozen passengers, or their weight-equivalent in freight. Boeing and Curtiss have big planes in trial. Larger are the Keystone Patrician and the Chapman Airliner, both new developments. Each can carry 20 passengers and each shortly will make a transcontinental demonstration tour. Largest of course is Consolidated's new Admiral. Its wing spread is 100 feet, its body 60 feet long...
...Charles E. Mitchell and Gordon S. Rentschler (National City Bank, Manhattan). Jansen Noyes (Hemphill. Noyes & Co.). James C. Willson (Louisville), Thomas N. Dysart (Knight, Dysart & Gamble, St. Louis), Clement Melville Keys (Manhattan). He had watched recent mergers in the industry: Fokker and Western Air Express. Transcontinental Air Transport. Curtiss Corporations and Sikorsky. Keystone and Loening, Pratt and Whitney. Boeing and Niles, Bement and Pond...
...dozen passengers at 165 m.p.h. It has seats in its cabin for 20, plus a lounge, a kitchen and a washroom. With the 20 it can go 800 miles in seven hours. Altogether it makes a new competitor for the other great transport planes-Stout, Fokker. Boeing, Loening, Curtiss. Keystone and the new one Igor Sikorsky is designing...
Colombia's Lt. Benny. Lieutenant Benjamin Mendez, young Colombian flyer, affectionately called "Benny" at the Curtiss Flying Field where he trained, was still at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, last week. Three weeks ago he kissed Manhattan friends goodbye and started to fly to Bogota, Colombia, in his Curtiss seaplane, the Ricaurte (TIME, Dec. 3). He cleared the U. S., the Greater Antilles, Central America. Then two weeks ago he insisted on leading a fleet of welcoming planes into Colon Bay. Overeager to alight, he pitched into the water. Last week his Ricaurte was not yet repaired...