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Smart, alert, pious, neat, athletic, Father Will is also sandy-haired, looks like a Texas ranger. He was born in Wooster, Ohio, studied at a seminary run by Fathers of the Precious Blood, was ordained in 1908 and given a parish in Fort Wayne, Ind., still his home diocese. For a time Father Arnold had the odd task of acting as chaplain for Catholics in the Wallace Circus, in winter quarters at Peru. Ind. In 1913, he applied to the chaplain bishop of his church for an appointment as army chaplain. He was going to try it only...
...Unlike Sir Thomas Lipton, Aircraft Magnate T. O. M. Sopwith, whose Endeavour II last week straggled valiantly in the wake of Harold Vanderbilt's Ranger (see p. 25), is not "first generation," is therefore a member in good standing...
After losing the first two races by 17 min. 5 sec. and 18 min. 32 sec. respectively. Skipper Sopwith spent $150 to have Endeavour II hauled out of the water at Bristol. Maybe, he thought, a lobster pot had fouled her hull. Ranger's skipper did likewise. But no lobster pot was holding Endeavour back. Her sea-hardened paint was smooth, her hull sleek. Ranger's newer paint, however, was spotted, and her hull had to be daubed and cemented. Back at sea, Ranger proceeded to give Endeavour a further view of her stern, although Skipper Vanderbilt...
Faced with the task of gaining six minutes on Ranger in a 15-mi. run down wind, Sopwith then tried a desperate alternative that offered at least a chance of catching up. He sailed far off the course to gamble on a better breeze. The hope, forlorn at best, was frustrated. When Ranger crossed the line, in a deafening uproar from the spectator fleet. Endeavour was barely visible in a gathering fog. She finished 17 min. 5 sec. later, beaten more thoroughly than any boat in an America's Cup race since James Bell's Thistle was beaten...
Second Race, around a triangle consisting of a ten-mile beat against a mild southwesterly breeze followed by two broad reaches, was more one-sided than the first. Ranger, outmaneuvered at the start, trailed Endeavour for the first hour, then took the lead and held it-10 min. ahead at the first mark, 16 min. ahead at the second, 18 min. ahead at the finish. Skipper Sopwith, discouraged, asked for a one-day postponement...