Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-06-21
BROWNING GUN FOR
AIRCRAFT IS 0. K.
RATE OF FIRE SYNCHRONIZED
WITH REVOLUTIONS OF THE
TRACTOR PROPELLER.
BASEBALL CAPTURES LONDON
American Army and Navy Teams
Draw Big Crowds-British Officers
in U. S. Give instruction in Gas
Defense.


Draw Big Crowds-British Officers
in U. S. Give Instruction in Gas
Defense.
The Browning machine gun has sue
cessfully undergone a test to deter
mine its value for use with aircraft.
This is one of three types of machine
guns with which the rate of fire can
be so synchronized with the revolu-
tons of the propeller of a tractor air
plane that the gun can be fired by the
pilot of a combat plane through the
revolving blades.
Airplane propellers revolve at from
500 to 1900 revolutions per minute.
The machine gun is connected with
the airplane engine by a mechanical
or hydraulic device, and impulses from
the crank shaft are transmitted to the
machine gun. The rate of fire of the
machine gun is constant and its fire is
synchronized with the revolving pro
peller blades by wasting" a certain
percentage of the impulses it receives
from the airplane engine and by hav-
ing the remaining impulses trip or pull
the trigger so that the gun fires just
at the fraction Of the second when
the propeller blades are clear of the
line of fire.
The pilot operates the gun by means
Of a lever which controls the circuit
| and allows the impulses to trip the
trigger.
''As the latest wonder of the world
London has taken to baseball says
/ a committee on public information
representative in London. 1.-THE Eng
! lish never before had much use for
4 our great game. They called it an eX-
/ aggerated form of FOUNDERS and Won
desed what the noise was all about
4 but the American and Canadian sol
/ diers in England have been educating
1 them.
"a regular league of eight teams has
started a summer schedule, and the
English public is learning what it has
missed. Big crowds witness the game
which is played every Saturday, and
the sport bids fair to become widely
popular. Here is the way Thomas
Biarke, the short-story writer, reports
a game in the London Star of May
II.
last week 1 discovered baseball.
The match between the Army and
Navy teams was my first glimpse of a
pastime that has captivated CONT
nent, and can well understand its ap-
peal to a modern temperament. Be
lieve me, it's good goods. And the
crowd! / had heard and read much of
BASEBALL fans and their method of root
'3g, but my conceptions were nothing
near the real thing. The grandstands,
crowded with army and navy fans,
bristling with megaphones and tossing
hats and demoniac faces, would have
made a superb subject for lithograph
by Sir Frank Bragwyn.
".The game got hold of me before
the first pitched bali. The players in
their hybrid costumes and huge gloves,
tile catcher in his gas mask, and the
movements of the teams as they prac-
hced runs shook me with excitement
Then the game began and tho roofing
began. In past years I have attended
various football matches in mining dis
tricts where the players came in for q
certain amount of Raging, but they
were church services compared with
the furious abuse and hazing handed
10 any unfortunate who failed to play
ball.
There was, for example, an explo
sive, reverberating "A-h-h-h-h-h" which
I have been practcing in my back yart
ever since, but without once catching
its true quality. You should have
heard Admiral Sims, as college vel
leader, when the Navy made a home
run hit, with his alta boy; oh, alta
way to play ball." and when they go
an error he sure handed the Navy
theirs.
Eyes; I've got it. From now on Tn
fan. I'm going to see every baseball
match played anywhere near London
shall never be able to watch with ex
citement cricket or football mattel
after this; it'd be like a tortoise race
Come along with me to the next mattel
and join me in roofing and in killing
The umpire"