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Sportsmen. In a 40-h.p. Klemm-Daimler sport monoplane, Pilot Wolfram Hirth and Sportsman Oscar Weller reached Iceland on their way from Berlin to Chicago via Greenland and Labrador. The 770-lb. plane carried no radio, but Pilot Hirth carried a cigaret holder made from the fibula of his amputated left leg. At Iceland the sea looked so wide, their ship so small, that flyers Hirth & Weller decided to go back home...
Engagement Reported. Capt. Marshall Field III, onetime student at Eton College and Cambridge University, sportsman, head of Field, Glore & Co. (Chicago brokers), director of Guaranty Trust Co. (New York); to Audrey James Coats, London society beauty, widow of Dudley Coats, daughter of Mrs. Willie James who was an illustrious hostess in London and a close friend of Edward VII. The present Mrs. Marshall (Evelyn Marshall) Field III is in Reno, expecting a divorce early in August. Last week, Capt. Field made his first solo airplane flight, at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; flew 20 minutes, landed four times...
Friends of Publisher Patterson of the News know him for a good sportsman, a fair fighter. They wondered what his mental processes were when, three days after the baby-picture episode, the Daily News performed what looked like as spiteful a piece of journalism as has lately been performed...
...bear must have protection, why does not "Sportsman White" offer himself as a martyr to the cause and henceforth play personal guard to his "harmless" brownies...
...retraction" published by the Saturday Evening Post (issue of June 7) consisted of a letter from Sportsman White admitting he was technically incorrect in stating that all protection had been removed from Alaska's bears. He then analyzed what the "protection" amounted to: a closed season between June 20 and Sept. 1 on five small islands (not including large Kodiak, Admiralty, Chichagof and Baranof islands, the bears' principal homes) and on small sectors of the mainland...