The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-06-20
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-6rltish Officers
IN v. S. Give instruction In Gas
Defense.

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.
Ihls Is one Of three types of machine
guns with which the rate of fire can
De so synehronized with the revolu-
tons of the propeller of tractor air
plane that the gun can be fired by the
pilot Of a combat plane through the
revolving blades.
Alrplane propellers revolve at from
ooO to 1000 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 1t 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 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
nsh never before had much use for
our great game. They called 1t an ex-
aggerated form of FOUNDERS and won
dered what the noise was all about,
but the American and Canadian sol
diers in England have been educating
them.
"A regular league of eight teams has
started summer schedule, and the
English public is learning what 1t 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
Burke, the short-story writer, reports
a game In the London Star of May
2T.
"Iast week / discovered baseball.
The match between the Army and
Navy teams was my first glimpse of a
pastime that has captivated CONT
nent, and l can we'll understand its ap.
peal to a modern temperament. Be
neve me, it's good goods. And the
crowd l had heard and read much of
baseball fans and their method Of root
ing, 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 q superb subject for a Autograph
by Sir Frank Bragwyn.
"aThe game got hold Of me before
the first pitched ball. The players In
their hybrid costumes and huge gloves
the catcher in his a0s mask, and the
movements of the teams as they prac
ticed runs shook me with excitement
Then the game began and the roofing
began. In past years | have ATTENDED
various football matches In mining dis
tricts where the players came In for
certain amount of Raging, but the.
we're church services compared witt
the furious abuse and hazing handed
to any unfortunate who failed to pla!
ball.
"aThere was, for example, an explo
siye, reverberating "A-h-h-h-h-h" whici
have been practicing in my back yar'
ever since, buttwitheut oncSstatemn1
Its true quality. You should hav'
heard Admiral Sims, as college yei
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 Nav
theirs.
ayes: I've got 1t. From now on In
a fan. I'm going to see every Dasepal
match played anywhere near LONDON
shall never be able to watch with ea
c;tement a cricket or football mate
efter this; It'd be like tortoise race
Come along with me to the next mate
and ioin me in roofing and In kim
the umplSe.