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The first came in the semifinals, when Little and Johnny Goodman, U. S. Open Champion in 1933, came to the 27th hole. Little and Goodman were roommates at Cleveland's Country Club. It had been a friendly good-natured match in which, while the two joked and chatted their...
"Enemy In Sight!" In July 1914, just eight days before the World War broke, George V reviewed 228 war boats off Spithead in the greatest steam-past of his reign. Last week he scanned 160 war boats, including the Australian flagship, H. M. A. S. Australia which recently brought H...
Vamarie, the sleek ketch in which Vadim Makaroff carries on the seagoing tradition established by his Russian-admiral father, was first into port. Since she was scratch boat in the fleet of six that had sailed out of Newport, bound across the Atlantic for Bergen, Norway 19, days before, that...
Smallest boat (49 ft.) in the race-sighted last week in midocean by Captain Frisco-had a skipper of a different stamp. Stoertebeker's Ludwig Schlimbach, until he retired, used to captain Hamburg-American liners across the Atlantic. Grizzled, 59, amused at the elegance of his competitors, Captain Schlimbach...
Yachtsmen surmised that Stoertebeker, sighted once before and sailing east on the 40th parallel, was by last week about 600 miles behind the leaders who should reach port this week but who, because of handicaps, may not win the race.