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First heat--won by Schwarts (Northwestern); second, Hall (Brown). Time--24 sec. (equals national collegiate record) Second heat--won by Harrisch (Northwestern); second, Hosmer (Michigan) third, McShane (N. Y. U). Time--24 1-5 sec, Third heat--won by Walker (Michigan); second, Dolgos (Columbia); third McKelvey (Stanford). Time--24 3-5 sec Fourth heat--won by Wilson (Northwestern); second, Smith (Michigan). Time--24 4-5 sec, Fifth heat--won by Walker (Michigan); second, Stinson (Pennsylvania). Time...
...Looking back I was stunned to see the rear engine enveloped in flames, which even as I looked, stretched out like a giant blowlamp rearwards over the seat occupied by Elwood Hosmer and beyond the rudder and tail. In the darkness the whole machine must have appeared like a grotesque red comet. The whole situation seemed like a nightmare and quite unreal. Even now I find it difficult to realize we were in a blazing airplane over mid-Atlantic at midnight . . . seemed impossible to put down safely in the dark on a burning seaplane which still had a ton overload...
With Courtney: Canadian-banker Hosmer, his backer; Mechanic Pierce; Radio-operator Gilmour...
...Hosmer, Yale '25: "Harvard is too split up. There should be a central campus and less individuality in the place...
...route on which were lost Nungesser and Coli, and the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, Courtney steered for the Azores. Head winds and thick weather fought with him. Cautious, he turned his ship and came down on the Spanish coast. With him came down a navigator, a mechanic and E. B. Hosmer, rich Montrealer who had paid him huge, sums ($10,000 was quoted) for a ride across the Atlantic...