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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hano Bay, did it descend. Then Pilots Ward T. Van Orman and Walter W. Horgan stepped out of their basket under the U. S. balloon, Goodyear III, telegraphed their position back to Antwerp, were declared winners of the annual Gordon Bennett Trophy race,* having covered 528 miles. Their nearest competitor was the U. S. Army S-16, which had caught a more southerly wind current and been blown across Germany to Krakow, 373 miles from Antwerp. The Belgica was third, 279 miles, and another Belgian bag, the Prince Leopold (winner in 1925), fourth with 192 miles. Great concern was felt...
Burns, though his average has fallen 11 points since last week, still leads the Crimson stickmen with an average of 411, and promises to remain above the 400 mark for the remainder of the season. Captain Todd and Zarakov, his nearest rivals among the regulars, have been hitting consistently in the past two games, but not quite often enough to maintain their averages of a week ago. Todd is still ahead of the Harvard third baseman, but his hitting mark has shrunk from .367 to .351. Zarakov at present is meeting the ball for an average of .326, whereas...
...following facts, calling attention to the War Department's plan to extend military training in every educational institution in the state: J. Massachusetts stands first in the number of public school boys taking military drill. Over 19,000 is the number in this state, while in California. Massachusetts nearest competitor in the matter of schoolboys taking military drill, only 8000 are so listed. 2. The War, Department has plans afoot to extend compulsory military training into every school and college of any importance within the state. 3. Compulsory military training, the survey reports, without exemption, is unlawful in Massachusetts according...
Exeter won the Harvard Interscholastic Tennis Tournament which closed yesterday afternoon on the Divinity Courts, scoring 13 points against 12 by its nearest rival. Loomis Institute. The individual championship went to Seligson of Columbia Grammar School, New York...
...press tirade against the Nationalist Witos Cabinet, rushed without warning upon his house, surrounded it, called to Pilsudski to come out and be thrashed. Thick-witted, they had not cut his telephone wire. With a lion's leap the Marshal seized the instrument, shouted the number of the nearest army barracks, bellowed a command to the astonished officer who answered. True Poles, every soldier in the barracks seized his gun, rushed frenziedly to the rescue of the man who symbolizes Polish freedom - whatever his extragavances of temperament and despite the fact that the Germans captured and imprisoned...