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...Adams eleven, which has fasted victory only once, has three outstanding gridsters in linemen Orman Brown and Paul Counihan and backfieldman Hubert "Flash" Hauck...
...summary: HARVARD CLARK Morse, Adzigian, r.f. r.f. French, Perry, Merry, Comfort, Ernst, l.f. l.f., Vinciguerra, Brierly Boys, c. c., Brierly, Graham Fletcher, Bates, r.g. r.g., O'Connor, Nelson Henderson, Grady, l.g. Porter, Burwick, Orman...
Everybody feared that another missing bag, the Goodyear XI carrying Frank A. Trotter and Ward Tunte Van Orman, might have been blown into the Atlantic. For Pilot Van Orman, champion of two Bennett races and a veteran of many others, it would not have been strange to find himself at sea. Once in a European race he was carried out in the dead of night, signaled a passing steamer with a flashlight, alighted safely on deck...
More than a week passed before a lineman discovered the last missing team between Sudbury and Abitibi Canyon in Northern Ontario. Grounded in a thunderstorm about 550 mi. from the start, Balloonists Trotter & Van Orman had plunged through the bush until they stumbled on power lines of Ontario Hydro-Electric Co. Shrewdly they had chopped down a pole, knowing that soon a lineman would be sent to repair the break. On the stump they left a note saying that they were following the line south. Finding the note the lineman hurried after, found them huddled in a shanty, their clothes...
Still sailing northwards were: Ward T. Van Orman & Frank A. Trotter (U. S.); Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. Settle (last year's winner) & Charles H. Kendall (U. S.) who wirelessed that they were approaching Lake Huron; Philippe Quersin & Martial van Schelle (Belgium); Captain Franciszek Hynek & Lieut. Zbigniew Burzynski (Poland). A steamer sighted an unrecognized balloon over the Straits of Mackinac...