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...Explorer Wilkins and Flyer S. Alward Cheesman on Deception Island last week, preparing to attempt a South Pole flight. *Rendered possible by 80 pages of intricate computations and figures of George Washington Littlehales, 69, government hydrographic engineer, comfortably located in Washington. The Littlehales tables are to the avigator what Bowditch's tables are to the navigator. They aided Commander Byrd's North Polar flight...
Singles--Whitbeck defeated Hayes (A), 6-2, 6-2; Ingraham defeated Bowditch (A), 6-3, 7-5; Ward defeated Richardson (A), 6-2, 6-2; W. L. Breese '31 defeated Hicks (A), 6-3, 6-8, 6-3; J. L. Wage '30 defeated Notopulos (A), 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; R. L. Tower '31 defeated Clark...
Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29 defeated Hayes, star Amherst No. 1 man, in straight sets. In the doubles Arthur Ingraham Jr. '30 and E. B. Ward '30 finished a long battle to defeat Hayes and Bowditch...
Doubles--Ingraham and Ward defeated Hayes and Bowditch (A), 6-3, 7-9, 8-6; Whitbeck and F. K. Trask '30 defeated Richardson and, Hicks (A), 6-2, 6-3; Tower and W. L. Breese '31 defeated Niceson and Wyckoff...
Nathaniel Bowditch made his fortune as actuary of the Massachusetts Life Insurance Co.; his fame, as translator-commentator of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste. Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch increased his patrimony by practicing law in Boston. He wrote his father's biography. His brother was Henry Ingersoll (all Nathaniel's children had Ingersoll for middle name) Bowditch (1808-92), Harvard medical professor, discoverer of the "all-or-nothing" reaction of the heart muscle,* inventor of a way to drain chests in pleurisy. The only Bowditch now living sufficiently famed for Who's Who recognition...