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Tommy Milfon, champion racing driver of the early '20s, crashed with another car at a Detroit street crossing; one woman was killed. ∙ ∙ Driving in San Diego, Al Schacht, longtime "Clown Prince" of baseball, collided with a motorcycle. The cyclist and passenger were fatally injured. ∙ ∙ Banjo King Eddie Peabody, submarine veteran of World War I, is now a lieutenant commander in the Navy, running entertainments at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. ∙ ∙ Oldtime Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries is playing himself in a movie now in the works in Hollywood. Other members...
...Funsters' Bike Club has been in training for weeks in preparation for the exhaustive 90-mile bike race to Smith. The training has consisted of a thorough study of the road map to Northampton, so that no cyclist will lose his way and his energy on a blind road. The second phase of the intensive training begins soon and consists of lining up six Smith girls who will be expected to provide six free meals to each contestant. Just before the race the Funsters will fill themselves with beer so that none will be tempted to touch the evil liquor...
Other dispatches of last week told of a French night patrol which captured three Germans. When they got back to a French dugout and could see, Captive Kurt Stöpel, German cyclist, recognized Captor Robert Oubron, French cyclist, against whom he had often pedaled in international races...
...until each was exhausted. The bicycle operated a dynamo which was connected with a number of electric lamps and a wattmeter which measured the amount of energy each subject was capable of expending. After about 30 days of this sort of thing, the scientists began to feed each cyclist daily glasses of chilled orange and lemon juice containing unflavored gelatin, made from the bones of animals. The men were given 60 grams (two ounces) of gelatin, the women 45 grams...
...their amazement, the scientists discovered that practically every one of the men doubled his energy output after drinking the gelatin mixture. One cyclist increased his output from 90 watts to 225 watts, enough to win a marathon. "The results," said Dr. Ray, "varied from 37% to 240% increases...