Records

In Philadelphia, excited about the election, 13,000 people swarmed onto a field where West Philadelphia High School was playing football against Central High. The score was 0 to 0 at the end of the first half; policemen tried to clear the field, but the people stayed. The football teams went away and finished their game the next day on another field.

In July, 1926, five Peruvian Boy Scouts set out from Chepin, Peru, to win a prize by walking to New York. Two died. Two returned home, ill. Last week, one, Augusto Flores, arrived in Manhattan. The prize had been withdrawn.

In order to show his players how to handle a wet football, famed Coach Chick Meehan of New York University drenched several with a garden hose and gave them to his squad for practice, on a sunny afternoon.

One Joseph Marchette in Yonkers, N. Y., wanted a robin pie; he quickly shot a robin. The robin was taken away from him and he was given a fine of $77.50.

A white hen of Puyallup, Wash., laid 330 eggs in 365 days.

Gene Shank, who once held the record for looping-the-loop in an airplane, flew after a flock of blue teal in an airplane. He went 80 miles an hour; the ducks went much faster.