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...line four minutes ahead of the schooner Brilliant. When the race was over, however, neither had won, for brand new Kirawan, finishing third, beat them both by her 13-hr. time allowance. Time of the winner was 4 days, 20 hr., very slow because of a 50 m.p.h. gale which swooped down on the fleet in the Gulf Stream, made the race the roughest in 13 years, forced six yachts to scuttle back to the U. S. with split sails, broken rigging...
...Fleetwing of George & Franklin Osgood. Choosing December as the windiest month, these three schooners set off with professional crews, many a misgiving in a rising wind. Vesta and Henrietta had their cockpits boarded over but not Fleetwing. On the eighth day, wallowing through a heavy gale at night, Fleetwing shipped a sea which carried eight men overboard. Two were swept back by the next comber, but the rest were lost. Despite this tragedy, Fleetwing finished second, 40 minutes ahead of Vesta and only eight hours behind Henrietta, winner in 13 days...
...their food and clothing. Somehow they floated Girl Pat again. Last week they wallowed into Dakar, French Senegal, for supplies. The French port authorities debated nabbing her but decided to wait for definite orders. Before these came, Girl Pat slipped out of the harbor in the teeth of a gale. Behind her in the hospital she left her mate, who said nothing...
...Scout, convoy on the first lap, had left the Ranpura's side and H. M. S. Veteran was waiting in harbor to begin the second lap, when the treasure ship steamed into the Bay of Gibraltar last week in the midst of a stiff southeaster. The gale picked up the helpless Ranpura, swept it aground on Punta Mala ("Bad Spot") in the northwest corner of the bay. Three Admiralty tugs rushed" to the rescue, but their steel hawsers snapped repeatedly in the foaming seas...
Original sets by Edward Melcharth, famous London director, will provide a background for Dunster House actors in "Marriage a la Mode" tomorrow night. The production is being managed and directed by Robert Gale Noyes, author and composer of last year's opers and well known for his before-the-curtain talks. A Lawrence Lowell '77, president-emeritus, will be a guest at the House Dinner preceding the play and subsequent festivities...