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...world, transatlantic sailing appeals mostly to men .who, if they must live dangerously, have to supply their own danger. Biggest boat (72 ft. overall) in the Newport-to-Bergen race was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Caviar Tycoon Vadim Makaroff. Next biggest was Mistress, whose owner and skipper, George Emlen Roosevelt, is Commodore of the Cruising Club of America which sponsored the race, director in 20 companies, veteran of eleven blue-water races. Roderick Stephens Jr., who with his brother Olin won the last transatlantic race (1931) in Dorade, was sailing Philip Le Boutilliers new boat, Stormy Weather, designed...
...morning, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams put on a pair of old sneakers, hopped into a Star Class yacht, beat the Naval Academy's champion small-boat skipper, Midshipman David Seaman, by 50 yd. in a 2½ mi. race in Annapolis Harbor. In the afternoon, President Roosevelt snuggled down into the referee's launch, streaked up the river from Annapolis to watch three crews, two of them the ablest in the East, race 1¾ miles down the Severn for the Adams Cup. Pennsylvania had beaten Princeton, Yale, Columbia. Navy had beaten...
...other stars and would be stars were on deck and Coach Fred Mitchell started right in trying possible infield combinations. Frankle Owen, skipper of the 1934 Freshmen, Tommy Bilodeau, the double threat infielder and pitcher, Johnny Adzigian, highlight of last year's Varsity, Ben Prouty, famed for his base-stealing proclivities, and Mac MacTernan of the ex-Freshmen were some of the headliners who received their initial Varsity tryouts of the season yesterday afternoon...
...mooring mast on schedule early one morning last week to take her usual part in fleet maneuvers off the California coast. In command of the Navy's one & only dirigible and her 82 officers & men was Lieut. Commander Herbert Vincent ("Doc") Wiley. That grey-haired 43-year-old skipper, who looks a little like a youngish Herbert Hoover, was not feeling his usual cheery self. His father had died the week before...
...Captain Diggle as commodore in 1931. Last month, he, too, reached the age of retirement, and Cunard White Star officials looked around for a successor. Last week few seafarers were surprised when they chose for the job of commodore that salty old mariner Sir Edgar Theophilus Britten, longtime skipper of the Berengaria. Aide-de-camp to George V, who knighted him at a special investiture last year. Sir Edgar was particularly proud last week because as Britain's No. 1 sailor he is now certain to command her No. 1 ship, Queen Mary, when that 73,000-ton monster...