Word: raine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others fought electrical storms through the night. Second to land next morning was the Chevrolet entry (at Jamestown, N. Dak., 410 mi.) after her crew had thrown overboard all ballast including spare clothing to let the basket clear a high tension wire. An hour later, few miles away, the rain-sogged City of Omaha fouled a farmer's fence, spilled her crew to the ground. Army No. 1, an early favorite, downed next at 600 mi. after a terrific battle with storms...
Meanwhile "The Harmony Twins" Lieut. Wilfred J. Paul and Sergeant John Bishop-let the drag ropes of Army No. 2 down within grasp of two farm boys near Gull Lake long enough to get directions to Regina. On they sailed for another eight hours, finally being beaten down by rain at the end of 29 hr. near Hatton, Sask. about 1,000 mi. northwest of Omaha. Surely a record for bags of 35,000 cu. ft., their distance possibly beat the U. S. record of 1,072 mi. for balloons of any size...
...same time final details for Class Day were made known. Besides the Orchestras of Ruby Newman, which will play for dancing at Eliot and Lowell Houses in the evening, two Philippine Marimba bands will play supper music in the courtyards of Leverett and Winthrop Houses. In case of rain they will play in the Common Rooms of the Houses instead of the courtyards, where it is planned to set up tables, which may be reserved in advance. Ruby Newman's Orchestras will play indoors for the dancing, but their music will be relayed to the courtyards. The tables will...
...another unknown. The entire British Walker Cup team was eliminated short of the final round. All the U. S. players, none of them high-rated, were soon put out. From the quarter-finals on, the play was almost entirely among unknowns over a deserted course in howling wind & rain. In the finals lucky John De Forest, last year's runner-up, son of Coal Tycoon Baron De Forest, defeated 22-year-old Eric Fiddian 3 & 1 in 6 hrs. 35 min. for the required 36 holes, the longest final in the tournament's history. The two boys were...
Meanwhile at Saunton in Devonshire it was raining, too, as a flock of U. S. women, fresh from a team victory over British women (TIME, May 30). qualified for the women's British Open golf championship. The rain stopped long enough to let Miss Maureen Orcutt play around in the phenomenal scores of 73 & 78, winning the medal and putting the U. S. flag alone on a British golf club's flagstaff for the first time in history...