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...airplane builder in earnest, he had his factory running full blast in 1912, producing planes for barnstormers and intrepid sportsmen. As early as 1913 he got the first of the government contracts on which he has since thrived. In 1917 came the first of the Martin bombers, first U. S.-designed airplane for Liberty engines. Since the War, Martin has produced hundreds of patrol boats and torpedo planes for the Navy, bombers for the Army, from his former Cleveland factory and his superb new plant near Baltimore. An unsuccessful mail plane was Martin's only non-military venture lately...
...sports which most foreigners identify with Mexico are second-rate bullfighting and revolutions. This is a gross injustice. Proud, excitable and much less torpid than they are reputed to be. Mexicans are ardent sportsmen, although they have invented no game of their own. Mexican boxing matches draw big crowds. Pelota (jai alai) gave rise to the game of fronton tennis, played with rackets instead of cestas. Yale's football coach, Reginald Root, got his experience coaching the first Mexico City University team which was good enough last year to hold Louisiana to 30 points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams...
...into the snow-covered hills. Breaking up into groups of four or five, the party tramped 15 miles through tangled underbrush, climbed rocky ledges, threaded swamps. They came back that night with one year-old wild dog. Explained Dr. Philip Gootenberg, president of New Jersey's Consolidated Sportsmen: "The dogs made fools of us. They are smarter than wolves. When we retraced our path we found the snow broken with prints. They had been following us. One pad print was more than three inches wide...
Each mongrel generation has grown wilder and more cunning. Hated for their destruction of game, they are also feared because an outbreak of rabies among them might ravage the whole district. As their next move, New Jersey sportsmen last week planned to set steel wolf traps through the Ramapos...
...Lake Placid local boys. Since the Mount Van Hoevenberg run is the only one in the U. S. and since it takes an immense amount of practice to become an expert bobber, it is natural that almost the only competent bobbers in the U. S. as yet are sportsmen of some means who live within a 20-mi. radius of Lake Placid. The four Stevens brothers manage a Lake Placid hotel which they inherited from their father. They win so many bob-sled races-last fortnight they took all the events in the national A. A. U. champion-ships-that...