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...yard medley swim on Saturday Harms, Fordham's only entrant in this week's meet, placed first, with Meriam of Pennsylvania second and his team mate Rowland third. Wohl of Syracuse was winner in the 50-yard back stroke, with Arnold of Brown second, and Harms third...
...Brown, M. I. T., Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Michigan. The latter two, added to Minnesota and Northwestern, bring the number of Big Ten teams up to four, while the first four, complemented by Springfield, Syracuse, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, and Princeton, set the Eastern total at nine. McGill is the sole Canadian entrant so far while Leland Stanford is coming here all the way from the Pacific Coast...
...Curtiss Tanager, entrant in the Guggenheim Fund Safe Aircraft Competition, passed all its preliminary tests last week at Mitchel Field, L. I. It enters the finals with only one possible rival, a Handley-Page biplane similar in many respects to the Curtiss entry. Both planes have automatic wing slots. Frederick Handley Page has filed suit in Brooklyn for triple the amount of any prize the Tanager may win. He claims that the Curtiss plane is using wing slots on which he has a patent, without his warrant. The Curtiss company is expected to file counteraction claiming infringement of six basic...
...Cooke of Arcola, N. Y. Veteran tennis players appeared last week on the courts at Forest Hills, L. I., for the national veterans championship. In the first round, swarthy Franklin Pierce Adams, 47, New York World colyumist ("The Conning Tower") was eliminated 6-0, 6-0 by an unseeded entrant. The eight seeded players survived together to the quarterfinals. The finals were won by Clarence M. Charest, of Washington, D. C. who learned to play left-handed when he lost his right arm in a shooting accident twelve years ago. He defeated Jean Baptist Adore of Dallas...
Died. Marvel Crosson. 25, of San Diego. Cal., aviatrix, woman's altitude record holder (23,996 ft.); near Wellton, Ariz.. when she, an entrant in the Women's Air Derby (see pp. 18 & 50) jumped from her dead-motored airplane...