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Only by a swift and sure forward passing attack, with Slagle doing the tossing, was Princeton able to win in the second half. Completing seven out of nine passes, the Tigers finally triumphed, 20 to 0, but the score does not show how evenly the teams were matched...
Sleeked with sandpaper and rubbed down until not so much as a varnish blister marred its swift stream lines, a U. S. seaplane took off at the Bayshore aerodrome near Baltimore, slithered like a curving bullet round the seven laps of the 50 meter Schneider Trophy course. "Click!" went the timing instruments. Officials figured for a moment-announced that Lieut. Jame Doolittle had covered the course at an average speed of 232,573 miles per hour, which was 43,753 miles an hour faster than the previous (unofficial) world record for seaplanes set at Bayshore a year...
...Swift was thereby entitled to choose a picture from the Grand Central Art Galleries...
Every year the supporters of the Gallery are rewarded for their in vestment with a free lottery of selected paintings. Mr. Swift chose the only Sargent in the Gallery, a portrait valued at $15,000. The second name was Charles Clifton, President of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, who chose Heavy Weather, a marine painting by Irving Wiles. The third, James Parmelee of Washington, acquired Lilian Hale's Spring Reverie...
...pounds to spring; the casts of 18-year-old Harkins flew 400 feet (he was far behind the rest, though for his tools he did better than any). Gehrig "mitt" smiled. and He took a "pegged" it. "pill" in his Farther than the bait, straighter than the drive, as swift as the arrow, flew his ball. On the ninth hole, by a single shot, he beat Diegel, received first prize - a golden wrist watch...