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Carr's vault came at the end of a day of triumph of Pacific coast athletes. For the sixth time within the last seven years, a band of Californians won the track & field championship of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, held at Philadelphia. This year it was Stanford. Southern California, last year's champions, finished in fourth place, chiefly because it produced a sturdy youngster named Charles Borah, who left his nearest competitor ten yards behind in the 220-yard dash, four yards behind in the 100-yard dash...
That the southern coast of New England could not be successfully invaded by troops landed from a hostile fleet was the conclusion reached after the completion of last week's War Game between the United States Fleet under Admiral Charles F. Hughes and defending land forces under Major General Preston Brown. Theoretically, the invading fleet, known as the Blacks, with transports bearing 75,000 troops, reduced coast defense forts and landed some 20,000 men. But the defending army, known as the Blues, concentrated superior forces against the Black landing troops, prevented them from advancing inshore, dominated the situation...
...Journey. Captain Lindbergh took the shortest route to Paris- the great circle-cutting across Long Island Sound, Cape Cod, Nova Scotia, skirting the coast of Newfoundland. He later told some of his sky adventures to the aeronautically alert New York Times for syndication: "Shortly after leaving Newfoundland, I began to see icebergs. . . . Within an hour it became dark. Then I struck clouds and decided to try to get over them. For a while I succeeded at a height of 10,000 feet. I flew at this height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy...
...charge of aeronautics, announced that 23,310,355 miles had been flown by 1,536 commercial airplanes in the U. S. during 1926. His report included planes engaged in the mail service, passenger transport, exhibition flying, advertising, photography, crop dusting, etc. Adding the distance traveled by Army, Navy and Coast Guard planes, a total U. S. air mileage of 48,586,492 was recorded...
MYSTERIES-Knut Hamsun- Knopf ($2.50). "In the middle of the summer of 1891 a little Norwegian coast town was the scene of a series of most unusual events. A Stranger turned up in the town, a certain Nagel, a noteworthy and original charlatan, who did a heap of odd things and vanished again as suddenly as he had come...