Word: meara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slingshot. Headed into the teeth of a 30 m. p. h. wind, Unguentine zoomed up 175 ft. without advancing more than 50 ft. Pilot Eaton landed without delay. His comment: "Plenty tough." Only one other pilot ventured a take-off that day. Jack O'Meara, who has glided up & down thermic currents over Manhattan, soared for 3 hr. 42 min., climbed to 3,259 ft., 45 ft. short of the U. S. altitude record. Other pilots & crews amused themselves as they do on windless days, playing baseball...
Most impressive flights of the first week were made in one day by O'Meara and Martin Schempp of Pittsburgh. Taking off from East Hill, O'Meara flew 38 mi. to Endicott, N. Y., breaking the U. S. distance record of 10.9 mi. made last year by famed Hawley Bowlus (who last week was absent, recuperating from an attempted suicide at his California home). He also thought his barograph would show a new U. S. altitude mark of 5,000 ft. or more. Pilot Schempp sailed from the same starting point 65 mi. to New Milford...
...world, made three goals for Tipperary. Tom Treacy, famed for a game he played in Dublin with a bloody bandage wrapped around his head, made another, with a shot from midfield that streaked directly into the New York goal. Most spectacular player on either team was Tom O'Meara of Toomevara, Tipperary's goal guard. He kept his stick so busy fending ball and players from his goal, that New York hurlers though they got 4 points with high goals, were only once able to thrash the ball through under the cross bar. Tipperary...