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...afternoon, with airs so light that the 17-ft. Manchester one-design sloops were sometimes impossible to steer, Bellport drifted into a marker, received another disqualification, withdrew. Ruth Sears, who had finished second in the first race, found a puff on the last leg of the three-mile triangular course and won. Next day the breeze was brisk in the morning, light in the afternoon. Ruth Sears won the first race, Lorna Whittelsey the second. In the third race of the day the Sears boat only needed to finish two places ahead of Miss Whittelsey for enough points...
...line in two more or less regular rows. Starter Steve Phillips could not see from his low starting stand that one of the horses had broken into a gallop when he sent last week's twelve away on the first score. Going to the first turn of the triangular track, Fred Egan edged Brown Berry out of the ruck. He watched Mary Reynolds slip into the lead, watched horse after horse try to catch her, break irritably into a gallop and be taken to the outside to calm down. Last to try it was tough little Brown Berry. Mary...
...Major General Leonard Wood ordered the U. S. flag struck over Havana's Morro Castle. Up went the Cuban flag (blue & white stripes, a triangular red field with one white star). Cuba's Independence Day came & went last week and seldom had Cubans felt less independent. In the eastern provinces of Santa Clara, Camaguey and Oriente rebellion was smoldering precisely as it did 40 years ago when Spain was Cuba's tyrant. Some 2,000 insurrectos were hiding out in the hills at war with the regime of Dictator Gerardo Machado. They were mostly well-horsed, wellarmed...
Conditions for the race were excellent; only a slight breeze was blowing, and almost absolute calm prevailed. It was Coach Whiteside's first opportunity to test out the crew which he rehabilitated last week. Since the return of Bacon to number 6 after the triangular regatta a fortnight ago, Varsity practice has consisted only in easy paddles designed to reorient the crews and to get Bacon back into shape by easy stages...
...Brown '34, president of the Club. The meet is open to amateur pilots who have not flown over 200 hours, and will take place Wednesday at the Boston Municipal Airport at 2 o'clock. There will be seven events including a novice race, bomb dropping, a triangular closed course race, precision landings, and an obstacle race. Brown and C. C. Rumsey '33 will compete in the more difficult events...