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...soon received a reply from Angmagsalik that the Scotch trawler Lord Talbot would rescue them within two hours. Breaking waves quickly put the set out of commission. Pilot Hutchinson taxied the crippled ship to shore where the family and crew salvaged what they could before it turned turtle and sank in shallow water...
...suffered from Europe's mental depression and took his gloomy thoughts to Africa. While he and a friend struggled with a cotton plantation in Portuguese East Africa, Heuser filled his spare time writing, sent the result apologetically to German editors. When cotton's market price sank below cost, Heuser abandoned his plantation, went home to Germany to be an author, found himself taken as a lion out of Africa...
...tons (estimated cost $2,000,000) was maneuvering on the surface of the English Channel near Cherbourg, with several French bluejackets standing on her deck. Suddenly the Promethée began to go down by the stern.. Since her hatches were open, water poured in and she sank like a stone, carrying 62 men to their death. Her commander, a Lieut, du Mesnil, stepped out of the conning tower to see what the trouble was, just in time to save his skin...
...Hamilton, Bermuda: in 3 days 3 hr. 42 min. 29 sec., with a time allowance of, 5 hr. 53 min. 41 sec. Clarence Kozlay of West Orange, N. J. was drowned when the largest boat in the race, James H. Ottley's schooner Adriana, caught fire and sank 80 miles off Montauk. Four days after the race's end, the U. S. Coast Guard began hunting for the missing Bermuda fisherman Spanish Rose and the ketch Curlew, manned by six Brooklynites...
...with 69,76-145. After his third round 74, he was a stroke ahead of the field. Coming to the 18th green on his last round, his long iron shot stopped five feet from the pin. Extraordinarily deliberate, Perkins examined the putt carefully through his steel spectacles. Then he sank it for a birdie 3, a total of 289. It was five strokes better than Bobby Jones had guessed would win the tournament. Still deliberate, Perkins extracted the ball from the cup, gave it to his caddy, entered the locker room, straddled a bench, lighted a cigar, ordered a glass...