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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shearn 1L., runner-up in last year's University epee tournament, won the University foils championship yesterday when three straight wins in the final round put him ahead of J. K. Watson 1L, who took second place. Both were members of the University team last year and in the elimination contests yesterday, were tied with D. F. Cavers 1L and A. G. Carrillo '26. In the play-off, Shearn was undefeated while Carrillo succeeded in winning one close bout from Watson...
...York, May 7.--The Harvard polo team defeated Virginia Military Institute 11 to 0 in its first round match of the outdoor Intercollegiates, played this afternoon at Fort Hamilton, Long Island...
...achievement by making a late and wild throw to first which let Hill go all the way to third, Todd of course scoring on the play. Samborski walked, and Hill raced in with the fifth run when Robinson uncorked a wild pitch. Toulmin grounded out, ending the round and, as far as Harvard batting wa concerned, the game...
...Service pilots; W. T. Van Norman, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The construction of a balloon is comparatively simple. It consists of a huge bag some 30 or more feet in diameter, spherical in cut but assuming an egg shaped form with the bigger end at the top; round the gas bag is the load ring from which are suspended a series of cables holding the basket; the basket much resembles a housewife's market basket- only much bigger, some 3% feet high, 3 feet wide and 3% feet long. In the basket are ballast, instruments, warm clothing, food...
Ballooning is perhaps the one outdoor sport where brains count for everything. The pilots study meteorological conditions round their particular starting point for months. True the wind is the sole driving, force, but its direction and intensity vary from height to height. The: thing is to keep the craft at that altitude where the wind effects are most: favorable. Suppose a balloon im equilibrium at a certain height. The: sun may come out, heat the hydrogen, contained within the gas, cause it to rise too high. The unskilled pilot: may let out gas in too much of a hurry, drop...