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...hours workmen in the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, R. I. hammered, sawed, used jacks. Still the Weetamoe stuck. A squall was coming up, the sun was going down. Workers and christeners went home, deferred the launching for two days. Finally afloat, the Weetamoe looked like a long-necked bird. Her line of keel, almost straight from the heel of the sternpost to the fore-end of the water line, gives her a decided gain in wetted surface over all the others, makes her fast in light airs, but hard to steer before the wind...
...home, Stevenson M. Crothers is a country squire, farms his land, keeps a pair of pointers for bird-shooting in the fall. He shoots clay birds on Saturdays, all the year round, at clubs in his district -Quaker City, North End Gun, Rocksburgh. He won the national championship in 1925, 1927, 1928, and he won it again last week with 193 hits out of 200-wonderful shooting in that kind of a wind, or no wind, for that matter. His father, Stevenson Crothers, shot too. So did his sister, Alice Crothers, who finished highest (161) of the three women entered...
Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture and Stravinsky's Fire Bird Interlude by Gabriel Pierne and the Colonne Orchestra of Paris (Columbia, 2 records, $2 each) - A fittingly flamboyant reading of Berlioz's noisy festival music; the second is contrastingly soft and mysterious in color...
...very casual presentation of exotic subject indicates how far aloof is The Sportsman's clientele from the mass of U. S. readers: "The Business of Cricking," "Badminton Takes Hold," "Alligators for Sport," "The Scientific Sport of Bird Banding," "In Praise of the Bilgeboard Scow." In the May issue, with a display of pride such as attends an epochal event, The Sportsman presents its "scoop": complete data and sail plans of Sir Thomas Lipton's challenging Shamrock V and the four U. S. contenders for the honor of defending the America's Cup in September-material never before...
...Author. Frank Bird Linderman, 61, went to Montana in 1885 as trapper, hunter and cowboy. For over 40 years he has lived in a cabin on Flathead Lake, knows the Indians as well as a white man can. He has been made a member of the Chippewas, of the Crees...