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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leonard Seppalla, of Nome, Alaska, oldtime musher, drove his Siberian husky dogs to their third consecutive victory in the New England sled-dog racing championship, last week at Laconia, N. H. Emil St. Goddard, of The Pas, Manitoba, recognized as Seppalla's master as a racer, finished second with a team of wolfhounds which lacked speed and stamina for the three-day trudge over a 128-mile course...
...gold racquets bat which proclaims a man amateur racquets champion of the land has been handed back and forth between Clarence C. Pell and Stanley G. Mortimer ever since 1914. Last week, at the Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo, N. Y., Mr. Mortimer, who had the bat last year, had to admit that Mr. Pell's traditionally terrific service was more terrific than ever. To Mr. Pell went match, bat and title...
Five of New York's fields are in Manhattan's close neighborhood. Roosevelt and Curtiss fields are on Long Island, an hour from Manhattan rail and mail terminals. Hadley Field, at New Brunswick, N. J., is also an hour away; and the Teterboro, N. J., port is about the same time-distance. Newark, N. J., with its new, partially completed $7,000,000 port is some-what closer. All are inconvenient to reach. And that inconvenience impedes air travel and even mail service. Air mail is generally slower than train mail between Manhattan and Boston, Albany, Philadelphia...
Then there was trouble of landing N. A. T.'s large Douglas mail transports on Newark's at present narrow runways. Pitcairn agreed to use its small mail planes on a shuttle service between Newark and Hadley Field, shortest air mail service in the world...
Married. Thomas Nesbitt McCarter Jr., of Rumson, N. J., son of the president of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey; and Suzanne M. Pierson, Manhattan & Newport socialite; in Palm Beach...