Aeronautics: On Rockne's Anniversary

A man strolled up to two pilots tinkering an old trimotored ship at Tulsa Airport one day last week.

"You're carrying a very precious cargo," the man remarked.

"I wish this trip was over," said one of the pilots.

The cargo was the Winnipeg "Toilers" basketball team, amateur champions of Canada, who had just been beaten for the A. A. U. title by the Tulsa "Diamond Oilers."

On the trip down, one of the pilots told an acquaintance, two cylinders of the port motor had repeatedly cut out. At times none of the motors of the...

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