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...starting gun boomed, stepped out in front and to windward of Shamrock V, from which a ton of lead ballast had been removed. Strategically, Enterprise kept her advantage, tacking with Shamrock V, keeping her rival out of the wind and at a disadvantage as a hawk follows a pigeon. Unable to shake off the defender, outraced, outmaneuvred, Shamrock V trailed nearly 6 min. behind at the first marker. At the end of the reach on the second leg she was 10 min. astern the more smartly handled Enterprise. Again the winner, Skipper Vanderbilt sailed his tall white sloop across...
...July 11, 1897 the Oernen (Eagle) with its three occupants cast off from Danes Island, Spitsbergen, sailed north, was lost forever. Of a number of carrier pigeons taken along, one made its way home with a cheery message despatched 12 hr. after the takeoff. A number of message-buoys were also recovered, one as late as September 1912, but only two contained notes, both written prior to the one borne by the pigeon. Since November 1897, numerous expeditions have gone in search of the Andree party. It was rightly assumed that the winds had borne them far east...
Last week Molly Pitcher was home again in the pigeon hospital at Fort Monmouth. Said Thomas Ross: ''She's just a pitiful little handful of skin and bones and she hasn't got many feathers left but she's coming along. She'll fly again...
...Home of pigeon-flying is Belgium. In the first half of the 19th Century, fanciers banded together, formed clubs to breed a fast racing bird. Today Belgium has 300,000 fanciers, seven million carriers. Greatest annual event is a race held over the concours national 500 mi. from Toulouse to Brussels. Winners are painted in oils. Many a proud household has a stuffed champion over the mantelpiece. Belgian patriots last month celebrated the centenary of Belgium's independence with a pigeon race. Starting from Algiers, the birds flew across the Mediterranean, over France, a distance...
...Reputed world's champion pigeon flight: From Vanceboro, Maine, to San Antonio, Tex. (2,100 airline miles) by an army pigeon...