Notes

P: At Hackensack, N. J., one Willie Schaeffer, who calls himself "the strongest man," held two airplanes on ropes, one in each hand, and kept them down though they were roaring to get up. P: In Wiesbaden, Dr. Alexander Alekhine won his fourth straight game from E. D. Bogoljubow, needs only two games out of the required series of 30 to keep the world chess championship. Said he: "Even the most confirmed opponent of the contention that the game is threatened with death through draws, could not have hoped for such a development." Play will be continued next week at Heidelberg.

P: In Madrid, Bullfighter Sydney Franklin of Brooklyn, N. Y., said that promoters had asked him to fight a bull in Manhattan "without bloodshed." Inquired Spanish critics grimly: "Would the bull keep the rules?"

P: In Chicago an eminent bookmaker estimated from his chronicles that one million dollars would be bet on the World Series. Last week's odds favored Philadelphia's Athletics11-to-10.

P: The biggest privately owned yacht in the world is the Orion, 333 ft. long and 46 1/2 ft. wide. Last week it arrived in the U. S. from the builder's yards at Kiel on its first trip; on board was Owner Julius Forstmann, textile tycoon of Passaic, N. J. The Orion is a white ship, one-funnelled, 3,096 tons, 1,800 h. p. (twin Diesels), with a crew of 54 officers and men (including a purser, a doctor). She cruised to the U. S. from Kiel via the Barbados and Havana. This autumn Yachtsman Forstmann will take his family and friends around the world.

P: A flotilla of outboard motorboats, droning like happy bees, started up the Mississippi from New Orleans trying to beat the new record of 87 hr. 31 min. to St. Louis.

P: John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and Winston Guest of Long Island with Eric Pedley and Elmer J. Boeseka Jr. of California prevented the college-boy Old Aikens, green-shirted national junior champions (TIME, Aug. 5), from becoming the year's outstanding U. S. polo team. by galloping through them, 18 goals to 8, in the final of the Waterbury Cup matches at Meadow Brook. Both teams were put out early in the open championship, won last fortnight by Irish Captain C. T. I. Roark's four.