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...smokes a pipe while driving, saw his flywheel jump overboard. France's Jeari Dupuy (Petit Parisien) hit a buoy. Horace Tennes, 21-year-old Northwestern undergraduate, driving his Hootnanny VI won at 52.6 m.p.h., three seconds ahead of the other collegian on the U. S. team, Philip Ellsworth of Bucknell, a mile ahead of the rest of the field...
Second race. Fighting to get back the lead he lost on the first lap, Dupuy tried to nose inside Tennes on the sharp turns, twice almost succeeded before Tennes won, with Ellsworth third...
...broke his own world record with a jump of 6 ft. ¼ in. Spitz, the only other highjumper who has made 6:8½ or better, crosses the bar scissors fashion. Marty goes over Western style, lying flat as he goes over. A tall, lean Californian who looks like Ellsworth Vines, he is a senior at Fresno State this year, plans to coach track when he graduates...
...visited the U. S., in 1921, he was a member of Suzanne Lenglen's entourage. It was his job to run out on the tennis court with smelling-salts when she felt indisposed. The last time he left the U. S., in 1932, he had just lost to Ellsworth Vines in the finals of the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills. He denounced tournament, courts, officials, vowed never to come back. Last week Cochet broke his vow when he and stubby little Martin Plaa, for five years trainer of French Davis Cup teams, started a five-week tour...
...Naval Academy's Board of Visitors for 1934-35 were Presidents Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid of Southern California; Kenneth Charles Morton Sills of Bowdoin; Marion Luther Brittain of Georgia Technology; Charles Russ Richards of Lehigh; Ralph Earle of Worcester Polytechnic; William Coleman Nevils of Georgetown and Dean Harry Ellsworth Clifford of Harvard Engineering School...