Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wealth has armed armies, financed nations, shaped policies, to the Duchess of Marchena, relative of the Kings of Spain; at Chateau de Balincourt, near Paris. Divorced. Mrs. Gene Gowen from Albert I. Gowen; in Chicago. The charge was neglect. Two years ago, the Gowens honeymooned in their 98-ft. yacht, Speejacks, crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific, weathered a China Sea monsoon, slipped through the teeth of reefs, limped back to Manhattan while the world gasped at a young couple that could endure such storms, such hazards. Died. Laura Opper, painter of portraits and benefactor of painters; in Manhattan. Her work...
While beaten English golfers were stowing their clubs at Garden City and beaten English poloists were stowing their mallets at Meadow Brook, victorious English sailors stowed their canvas at Oyster Bay, L. I. In the final International 6-Metre Yacht Races, U. S. boats had brought the point to tals to: U. S., 11 1/4; England, 104 1/4; However, there had 'been a foul. The English protested. The U. S. bowed. Another race was sailed. England won handily. Points : England, 108 1/4 ; U. S., 107. Having won last year on the Solent, the English were entitled to permanent possession...
Baby Bootlegger, owned and driven by C. S. Bragg of the Columbia Yacht Club, N. Y., was second. Miss Columbia, built and launched last Spring by a committee of the Columbia Yacht Club, driven by Charles F. Chapman, hailed as "the fleetest boat of all time," finished third...
...Oyster Bay, L. I., British and U. S. yachtsmen ran up the sails of their two quartets of 6-meter yachts, thrashed up and down Long Island Sound practicing for the International Races to be held there under the auspices of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club beginning Sept...
Across the Sound and westward, eleven smaller yachts (15 ft. 6 in. at the waterline) stretched away in a series of five International Star Class Races. Their host for the first race was the Larchmont Yacht Club...