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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enterprising Pylon Club of Philadelphia, organization of sportsmen pilots, plays an all-aerial game. The hare is a plane on one side of which is painted a number unknown to the hound-pilots. The hare is given a five-minute start, is limited to county boundaries. Hounds try to corner the hare, then get within reading distance of the secret number-a maneuver requiring dogfight combat tactics...
...golfers have learned that the British Amateur golf championship takes a lot of luck. The elimination match rounds are only 18 holes, giving any unknown with one good round in his system a chance to knock over a celebrity. Only three U. S. golfers have ever won it: Walter Travis in 1904; Jess Sweetser in 1926, reeling with fever in a final against a player who did not know how to use a brassie; and Robert Tyre Jones II in 1930, beating down luck with mechanical golf...
Last week on the parklike Muirfield course near Edinburgh, with its gnarled trees and its fairways straight as streets, a U. S. unknown, Leonard Martin, beat last year's unknown winner, Eric Martin-Smith, and then was beaten himself by another unknown. The entire British Walker Cup team was eliminated short of the final round. All the U. S. players, none of them high-rated, were soon put out. From the quarter-finals on, the play was almost entirely among unknowns over a deserted course in howling wind & rain. In the finals lucky John De Forest, last year...
...immediate result has been to make remote the possibility of the conference at Lausanne, proposed by Premier MacDonald, to study the problems of the world's trade. So long as the next German government is an unknown quantity, its position in all international problems will be a problem in itself. If that government is dominated or controlled by the Nazis, the German attitude will almost certainly make a conference futile. Since France could hardly take part without assurances from Germany in regard to reparations, which no Nazi government could possibly give. And the snail-like foreign policy of this country...
...person unknown dynamited the Harbin power station, plunged this major Manchurian city into affrighting darkness...