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...John Rushworth Jellicoe was born in 1859, joined the British Navy 13 years later. Sir John Jellicoe commanded the British Grand Fleet (1914-1916), and while personally worshiped by British tars, was considered by some experts to have let the German fleet slip through his fingers at the battle of Jutland (1916). Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa became Admiral of the Fleet in 1919. In 1920 he was sent as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief to New Zealand, returning in 1924, to be created, in 1925 Viscount Brocas of Southampton and Earl Jellicoe...
Cocky little boats with pale sails, maneuvering this way and that on quiet water like a fleet of river butterflies, swerved at the sound of a gun and passed between a committee yacht and a red buoy, putting out of Larchmont harbor into Long Island Sound. They were the interclub sloops (Marconi-rigged yachts, 19½ feet on the water line), the new racing boats; and their appearance meant that the yacht-racing season had begun again in Eastern waters. Soon the boats of the other classes -the graceful, low-leaning "S" boats with their big spread of canvas...
...presence of President P. A. S. Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine Co. in London, where last week he was shrewdly consummating the $35,000,000 sale of half his fleet to British operators, caused concern to U. S. shippers. They felt that this sale- of the British-registered but U. S. operated and underwritten White Star line's 500,000 gross tonnage- meant further disintegration of the U.S. merchant marine. It may be that President Franklin will use the sales proceeds to wipe out an International Mercantile Marine indebtedness of almost like amount or, and more probably...
...FOURTH QUEEN?Isabel Paterson?Boni, Liveright ($2). Strapping Jack Montague?as virginally bashful a youth as ever scuttled galleons for Queen Elizabeth?looms while setting sail with the English fleet to obliterate the Spanish Armada. Authoress Paterson unsqueamishly relates that soon after embryo sailor Jack left port he "retched up his vitals"?a fair sample of the book's teeming archaisms...
Swatting their visitors about the head, neck and shoulders, wobbling their netted sticks in that peculiar fashion invented by the Indians but copied to perfection by clever palefaces, flirting the hard little ball hither and yon over the field and running, running, running at a pace too fleet and steady even for fit Britishers, the Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.) lacrosse players last week plunked home 11 goals to 8 plunked by an invading combination from Oxford and Cambridge. Surprise and delight were universal. Just previously, the formidable British dozen had crushed Pennsylvania...