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August 10, 1930
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ASHTON BROTHERS LOSE TO OLD AIKEN; Australian Poloists in Debut Beaten After Hard Struggle by 11 Goals to 6. RALLIES PROVE FRUITLESS Visitors Off Form at Start, but Show Flashes of Their Skill as They Strike Stride. Second Half Different Story. Meets Fast Old Aiken Drive. ASHTON BROTHERS LOSE TO OLD AIKEN
By Robert F. Kelley. Special To the New York Times
Vs Australian team (Ashton brothers)
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STICKS TO HIS CAMP DESK; President Preparing for Council With Governors on Thursday. HAS REPORTS FROM CAPITAL Summons Hyde and Stone for Conferences on Situation Over the Week-End. FOREST BURNING NEAR CAMP Surrounding Fields Give Vivid Picture of Drought--Mrs. Hoover's Garden Is Blighted. Spends Day in Work. To Apply Flood Relief System. HOOVER AT RAPIDAN SPEEDS UP RELIEF
By From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times
forest fire near camp
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WILLIAMS SHATTERS WORLD'S DASH MARK; Olympic Champion Runs 100 Meters in 0:10.3 at the Canadian Title Games. FITZPATRICK ALSO VICTOR Carries Off Crown in 200-Meter Sprint at Toronto--Pickard Keeps Vault Honors. Mark Set In 1921. WILLIAMS SHATTERS WORLD'S DASH MARK
By Unknown Author
TORONTO, Ont., Aug. 9.--Percy Williams of Vancouver, Canada's Olympic sprint champion, broke the world's record for the 100-meter dash today, covering the distance in 0:10.3.
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Suggests Mortgage Plan.
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Notable Births
1930Barry Unsworth, English-Italian author and academic (died 2012)[†]
Barry Unsworth FRSL was an English writer known for his historical fiction. He published 17 novels, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger.