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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bleeding from a head wound Pilot Leopold Galli, onetime first-string pilot in the French Air Corps, described how five Rebel pursuit ships dived at him as he approached Bilbao along the coastline at about 600 ft. Their bullets halted his port engine, wounded pilot and a woman passenger. Not pausing to let down his wheels, he dove for a pancake landing in a field...
...three holes after the first five, Shute by three holes after the first 1 8. In the afternoon, McSpaden worked his way back to a lead of 2 up with three to play. Shute evened the match on the 35th green. On the 36th, needing to hole a 4-ft. putt for the title. McSpaden watched his ball graze the side of the cup and stay out. On the extra hole. Shute had a putt of the same distance for a 4 to his opponent's 5. He holed it to be come one of five professionals who have...
...fourth round, Major A. J. Evans, whose famed book The Escaping Club tells how he got out of a German prison camp during the War, failed to escape from Wilford Wehrle of Racine, Wis. All square after being 3 down, the major needed a 12-ft. putt to halve the 18th hole. Addressing the ball, he moved it too slightly for anyone but himself to see, picked it up, conceded hole & match...
...Wehrle in the round of eight and a Staffordshire miner named Charles Stowe in the semi-finals the same day. Next day a hard-fought 36-hole final against a 50-year-old Ulsterman named Lionel Munn ended on the 34th green when Sweeny sank a 20-ft. putt for match & title...
...favorites to win the team title were Columbia, which last won the outdoor I. C. 4-A in 1879, and Pittsburgh, which never had won. Mainstays of both colleges were Negroes: Columbia's Captain Benjamin Washington Johnson and Pitt's tall (6 ft. 4 in.) John Y. Woodruff, neither of whom had won an I. C. 4-A title. When fleet little Ben Johnson not only whizzed home first in .the 100-yd. dash and won the broad jump, but also reeled off a 220-yd. semifinal in a near-record 21 sec., Columbia thought the championships already...