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...Robert Black and Louis Reichers landed in their 13th day of endurance flying, hinted that rivals had tampered with their fuel. At St. Louis, Forest O'Brine and Dale ("Red") Jackson, former record holders, approached their 400th hour in their attempt to beat the Hunter brothers' 558 hrs...
...wore leather socks next his skin. Every hour he drank a half-pint glass of lemonade containing eight teaspoonfuls of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, and cracked ice. Other records: London to Brighton?5 hr. 53 min. 43 sec., 1924; 100 mi. at Bulawayo, S. F.?14 hrs...
Eight Hours in 1918 Sirs: TIME'S timely news anent the Hunter Boys in Chicago endurance flight over 500 hrs. no doubt will be chronicled. Newsy news in connection: the first "endurance"? flight-no refueling ship was then known: in September 1918, U. S. Naval Air Station at Killingholme, England, a N.C. 2, two Liberty-motor flying boat, Curtiss type, built at Naval Aircraft factory, Philadelphia. Four men, oil, fuel, water, armament (machine guns and two bombs), with detonator device fixed, rations and even two carrier pigeons. Total weight: 10,440 Ibs. Flying full-load weight, specially groomed, flew...
...Page 3, by MacHale 5, by Sondheim 4. Passed ball-Chaiklin. Hit by pitcher-Page (Moulton), Sondheim (Lupien). Hits-off Page 1 in 2 innings, off MacHale 7 in 7 innings. Left on bases-Harvard 6, Brown 8. Losing pitcher-MacHale. Umpires-Devron and Finnell. Time of game-2 hrs...
...base hits--McGrath, Home runs--Walker. Stolen bases--Wilner, Walker, Graupner. Double plays--Wilner to Callaghan. Base on balls--off Masters 2, off Devens 2. Struck out--by Devens 9, by Masters 9. Umpires--Livingston and Wasner. Time of game--2 hrs...