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...jolly Pittsburgher who won the Cuba Cup last year, Edwin, Jahncke, son of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Jahncke-were well in front last week by the time the boats started the last race of the Cuba Cup series. In a close finish, the Shields brothers' Gull nosed out Skipper Iselin's Ace for first place. They had won the second race also, but a disqualification in the first, for fouling a buoy, left them tied with the Zelda of Nassau for second with 16 points. Harkness Edwards, who finished third in the last race with...
...course. On the last leg, Jahncke's Tempe III drew close in a puff of wind that Ace missed; the catspaw died with the Iselin boat still in front, 1 min., 15 sec. at the finish. Later in the day, to make the U. S. sweep complete, Ace, Gull, Tempe III and Winsome won a team race against four Cuban star boats, 24 points...
...number of bullet hard leather pellets stuffed with feathers. "These are the famous feather balls," said Mr. Campbell. "They were in vogue until 1858 when they were replaced by the hard rubber 'gutties.' They have a cover of horse leather soaked in oil and are filled with gull feathers. It took a top hat full of feathers to stuff one ball. They are a wee bit hard." Pride of the collection are a group of early 19th Century clubs from the bench of the late great Hugh Philip of Scotland. "Just as fine a piece of skill this...
...pilots entered in the meet, 29 qualified for the first time, by making five-minute flights, for the three-gull emblem denoting the soaring pilot. While all motorless flight is technically gliding, there is a popular distinction between gliding and soaring. Gliding is simple descent, like coasting, from an altitude achieved by climbing a hill or being towed kite-wise into the air by an automobile or airplane. Soaring is sustained or climbing flight by use of up-currents in the air. Except for instruction there is small interest in gliding. But soaring appeals to its following as an exalted...
Meanwhile "The Harmony Twins" Lieut. Wilfred J. Paul and Sergeant John Bishop-let the drag ropes of Army No. 2 down within grasp of two farm boys near Gull Lake long enough to get directions to Regina. On they sailed for another eight hours, finally being beaten down by rain at the end of 29 hr. near Hatton, Sask. about 1,000 mi. northwest of Omaha. Surely a record for bags of 35,000 cu. ft., their distance possibly beat the U. S. record of 1,072 mi. for balloons of any size...