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...Michael Wayland, 18, who outshot 1,694 opponents at Vandalia, Ohio, by breaking 99 of 100 targets to take trap-shooting's most prized trophy, the Grand American Handicap, and more than $8,000 in prize money...
...World War I to take subsidies from the British government to spread propaganda, and Sir Roderick Jones, Reuters' chief and its biggest stockholder, was happy to double for a time as British Director of Propaganda. Reuters' reputation as the "official" government news service soon became an added handicap, and by 1926, Sir Roderick was forced to sell a controlling interest in the agency to Britain's provincial papers. Its troubles increased as A.P. Boss Kent Cooper expanded his international service and broke up the cartel run by "Reuters Rex," Havas (the French agency) and Wolff (German), which...
...tournament, over Bill Talbert, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; in Spring Lake, NJ. ¶The U.S. yacht Malabar XIII, the 4,4OO-mi. international race from Havana to San Sebastian, Spain; in 28 days, arriving 48 hours ahead of its nearest rival. ¶Palestinian, the $57,100 Brooklyn Handicap, one of U.S. racing's oldest stakes (first running: 1887), over Sheilas Reward, by a length; in New York. ¶ David Stanley of Los Angeles, the national public links golf championship, over Ralph Vranesic of Denver, 1 up on the 38th hole; in Milwaukee. ¶Stella Walsh...
...Citation, the $56,250 American Handicap, first stakes victory in his latest comeback campaign, over stablemate Bewitch, by half a length; at Inglewood, Calif. The victory, worth $33,050, brought Citation's lifetime earnings...
...Early Handicap. But the Skyrocket had started its career with a handicap. Unlike the X-1, it was designed to take off and climb with its own power. A turbojet engine was crammed into the narrow needle-nosed fuselage. There were rocket motors too, for speed runs, but they gulped fuel at a ton a minute from tanks cut down to accommodate the powerful turbojet and its accessories. Rocket thrust was never available to the pilot long enough for the plane to approach top speed...