Evening star., 1927-09-18
The Story the Week Has Told
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Midways UNITED States territory,
Z.4S0 miles; to Honolulu, LAO miles:
TO San Francisco. 2,400 miles; to Har.
: Dor Grace. Newfoundland. in four
hops, totaling 3,797 miles But to
! the worlds relief the greatest adyen.
ture has ended at Toxic. Hone of
establishing new world -girdling rec.
/ ORD was destroyed by failure of ar.
rangements for delivery of a supply
or gasoline and oil at Sand Island.
ana apparently these pleasantly obsti-
nate persons were at last impressed
by the almost universal opinion that
TO attempt q flight from Toxic to
sand Island would be rash beyond
] justification.
sand Island is only mile and three.
quarters long by seven-eighths of
mile wide. Its highest point of land
is hill 43 feet above sea level, and
the lighthouse surmounting the hill is
only 81 feet high. The light is of
only 16O candle power with a range
of only nine miles. Obviously it would
require the most skillfulsna vigation or
the rarest of luck to hit Sand Island
by airp!ane, and, though Brock and
Schlee have very pretty knack of
for navigation, they may scarcely be
considered in the category of highly
skilled navigators. AT this season,
moreover, the expectation for such a
Hight is OF adverse winds of an av-
erage velocity of about 10 miles.
Sand Island is cable station Con-
ceivably, landing might be made on
the coral formation without serious
mishap, but the 25 inhabitants of the
island cable company employes) all
turning to, as no doubt they would,
would have their work cut out for
them to make a runway suitable for
taking off. Yes, Brock and Schlee do
well to content themselves with their
achievement on landing at Kasumi-
gaura Field, an achievement emitting
them to rank with the first heroes of
aviation. 1t sufficiently demonstrates
the possibility of super-volation of the
planet within the near future, and it
is the finest demonstrati ton to date of
aerial endurance possibilities Of men
and equipment. Had shipping been
available for immediate voyage from
Yokohama to Honolulu, Brock and
Schlee might yet have established a
world-girdling record, but 1t was not.
So the French have lifted the
Davis Cup, the international tennis
trophy put up in 1900 by Dwight f.
Davis. one time a tennis wizard, now
Secretary of War. On Friday week,
in the singles, Tilden beat Cochet and
Lacoste beat Johnston. while In the
doubles Tilden and Hunter beat Bo-
rotra and Brugnon in a vigorously
fought match, Tilden starring. The
next day Lacoste beat Tilden and
Cochet beat Johnston. The French
youths thoroughly deserved their tri-
umph, and without any reservations
the country felicitates them upon il
1t will be recalled that in 1920 Tilden
and Johnston journeyed to Australia
and there won back for us the Davis
Cup. and that every year since then
until the present one they success
fully defended it. The United States
has won the cup 10 times, the British
Empire II times {Australia times
and Great Britain times) and France
once.
Saturday week, at international
Field, Meadow Brook Club, Westbury,
Long Island, the American polo team
won, 13 TO g.. the first game of the
series for the international Polo Cup.
1t was an overwhelming victory.
] stated in a recent issue that the
makeup Of the American polo team
had been decided upon as follows:
No ], Guest; No. 2, Hitchcock; No. 3,
Cowdin. and back, Milburn. 1t was,
however, later decided that j. Wat
son Webb and Malcolm Stevenson
should return to their old places at
No. / and No. 8, respectively. partly
because they had "come back" and
were again playing in their old form.
and partly because of their expert.
ence in international competition, an
experience lacking to Cowdin and
Guest.
The second game was played on
Thursday. 1t was for the most part
very evenly fought match. finally
won by the American four, s to 5.
So the cup remains with us.
All, but those delightful ponies.
\
The League Assembly.-TheL League
Assembly is devoting most of its at.
tention to those battling questions of
disarmament, security and arbitration.
Apparently BRAND and Chamberlain
wished for soft-pedal on those ques'
tions. But the delegates of the small
countries would not have it SO. They