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...drew a length ahead, two lengths, four lengths, five. The Chris Greene's purser appeared on deck with a big sign: "Chris Greene-Rah, Rah!" Thousands of people cheered from the leafy, sun-shot shores. At the finish the Betsy Ann was about 1000 feet behind. A true sportsman, Owner Way promptly boarded the Chris Greene and handed over the Betsy Ann's elk horns. The Senator Cordhill, another Pittsburgh packet, soon challenged the Chris Greene. Rivermen looked for a return of their Golden...
...Many a sportsman has his pilot's license, his private plane. But not until last week could he look forward to the prospect of a day at his flying country club. Miss Ruth Rowland Nichols, Junior Leaguer of Rye, N. Y., enthusiastic amateur aviatrix with a non-stop flight from New York to Miami to her credit, shouldered the task of promoting three clubs in New York and New Jersey, forerunners of a nation-wide chain of private and exclusive country clubs devoted to aeronautical sports. Associated with Promoter Nichols are such younger capitalists as William A. Rockefeller, William...
Died. Rody Patterson Marshall, 57, lawyer, sportsman, "poorman's attorney," estimated to have had some 20,000 clients, mostly penurious; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. No client defended by him against homicide charges ever got a death sentence...
...that you could take them with only a landing-net. They were so thick that there was not enough natural feed for them. Stinting their artificial diet made them so ravenous that they would strike at anything you dropped overboard-a cigarette butt, a finger. Mr. Pierce was a sportsman and permitted only flyfishing, with barbless hooks...
That beautiful magazine, The Sportsman, which is impeccable in taste and sportsmanship, printed Runner Paddock's remarks in its June issue. Editor Richard E. Danielson made the following comment...