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Doolittle. Short and compact is the Army's best flyer, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle. Able was he, in a college boxing tournament at the University of California some years ago, to hold his own-and a little more than his own-against strapping Eric Pedley, eight-goal California poloist (see p. 64). At the Cleveland Air Show last month. Flyer Doolittle flew the wings off a ship, diving at 200 m.p.h. Floating down in his parachute he laughed at the episode and took up another stunting ship immediately. The Army Air Corps has a questionnaire which flyers must fill...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and Winston Guest of Long Island with Eric Pedley and Elmer J. Boeseka Jr. of California prevented the college-boy Old Aikens, green-shirted national junior champions (TIME, Aug. 5), from becoming the year's outstanding U. S. polo team. by galloping through them, 18 goals to 8, in the final of the Waterbury Cup matches at Meadow Brook. Both teams were put out early in the open championship, won last fortnight by Irish Captain C. T. I. Roark's four...
Those responsible were the purple-shirted followers of Captain "Carty" Burke, of the Midwick Country Club. With Eric Pedley heading the attack, they fell upon the Wanderers, a team captained by Thomas Hitchcock Jr., famed internationalist, in the finals of the national open championship at Meadow Brook, L. I., and bore off the title 6 goals to 5. Hitchcock, relying on Louis E. Stoddard, onetime internationalist, at back, twice tied the count with spectacular efforts- one a blow from midfield. At the desperate finish, his play was "as a wild man's," but without support. The Midwicks rode together...
Substitutes: Eric Pedley, Midwick Country Club, Calif.; Robert E. Strawbridge Jr., Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Earle Hopping, Bryn Mawr...
...Thomas N. McCarter, wife of the President of the Rumson Country Club, awaited the victors in front of the clubhouse. When they rode up, she presented her congratulations and a trophy to each of the following: E. G. Miller, A. P. Perkins, C. F. Burke, Eric Pedley, likely member of the U. S. "Big Four" (TIME...