Word: kunkel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Illinois, dimly seen in fog that blanketed Chanute Field (Rantoul, Ill.), two rapid specks collided head on, crumpled, fell together 400 feet to earth where they wrecked themselves but did not catch fire. They were planes manned by four Army officers?Capt. Harold G. Foster, First Lieut. Henry W. Kunkel, First Lieut. Albert J. Clayton, Second Lieut. Ralph L. Lawter?all of whom were killed. A board of inquiry found that the pilots had approached each other at their ships' "blind angles," each being invisible from the other's cockpit...
...most outstanding match was that between Briggs and Harada, and the Kunkel brothers. The latter, getting away to an early start, took the first set at 6-3 before Briggs, who is fundamentally a back-court player, could get his net game going. Another factor which contributed to the reverse in this set was Briggs's failure to hold his service in the fourth game...
...second set, the Japanese star and his partner began to hit the ball harder, and contenting themselves for the most part with remaining in the back of the court, they depended on the severity of their drives to keep the Kunkel brothers from making any placements from the net position. Briggs and Harada took that set 6-1, and thereafter had the match well in hand, the score of the third and fourth sets being...
Harada and Briggs, after their rivalry in the singles tournament yesterday, will join forces today and compete in the second semi-final match with Paul and Raymond Kunkel. The former match will take place at 2.15 o'clock and the other at 2 o'clock. The finals will be placed off tomorrow at 2 o'clock...
...Kunkel's effort to take the offensive from the net was speedily squelched by Briggs' well-placed drives down the side lines. The former was thus forced to resort to a backcourt game, which is not his strongest style of play...