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...among unknowns over a deserted course in howling wind & rain. In the finals lucky John De Forest, last year's runner-up, son of Coal Tycoon Baron De Forest, defeated 22-year-old Eric Fiddian 3 & 1 in 6 hrs. 35 min. for the required 36 holes, the longest final in the tournament's history. The two boys were appointed at once to the last two places on the British Walker Cup team...
...Europe last week. With a working crew of 13 and Fraulein Antoine Strassman, German aviatrix, as "assistant purser" (because no passengers were allowed), the flying boat bent a safe zig-zag course from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, the first jump of 1,100 mi. being the longest. Favored by wind and sky, her twelve rebuilt Curtiss engines roaring in perfect chorus, the DO-X touched Southampton on the fifth day, pointed for Lake Constance, Switzerland whence had begun her stumbling ten-month flight...
...longest, closest match in the series, but not the best. That came the third afternoon, after Mrs. Hoover had seen Allison & Van Ryn win the doubles, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2, when young Frank Shields, substituted for Allison to show what he could do, beat Wright 8-6, 6-1, 8-10, 6-1. Hardest hitter in the U. S., Shields made it clear that Allison, whose game is amazingly improved this spring, was not yet sure of his place as No. 2 singles man on the team. When Vines disposed of Rainville...
...never sets on the Empire, British sport flyers are forever hopping & skipping about its sprawling domain on record-breaking distance flights. With small, slow, economical planes, the pilots achieve time records by steady plugging, frequent halts for refueling. Chief factors are the nerve and endurance of the flyer. Longest, toughest, favorite course is that from England via India to Australia. So long and so tough is it that Charles William Anderson Scott, after setting a new record last year, declared: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds!" But last week Lieut. Scott recovered his record...
...rail for a run of 163, then carelessly missed the first ball in an easy carom. It was Poensgen's turn to be nervous. He sniffed at a glass of ice-water, stared warily at the ceiling, plucked at the sleeves of his tight black silk jacket. His longest runs were 50 and 12. Soussa...