Coast artillery fire antiaircraft guns in Fort MacArthur, California. Men on a sea coast. Battery B of 63rd Coast Artillerymen, preparing antiaircraft guns. Flying targets being fired at and targets hit. Antiaircraft guns, mounted on turrets, placed in a line on the coast. Antiaircraft guns fired at flying targets by the coast artillery men. The flying targets blown into pieces. A few soldiers on the coast watch. More antiaircraft guns fire at targets, and hit the targets, breaking the record. A few artillerymen prepare tents at night.
Sir Rabindranath Tagore, a Hindu poet, in Brooklyn, New York. Sir Rabindranath Tagore, a Hindu poet, with an official, in Brooklyn, New York. The two men converse as they move on a walkway. People gather on the side of the walkway.
Mechanics during the final stages of work of world's largest conduit, in New York City, New York. Workers during the final stages of phone lines laying work on the shore of Harlem River. A giant cast iron pipe section is lowered by a crane on the river shore. Mechanics working with phone wires. A few men stand inside the pipe and discuss. Mechanics at work. The workers with the aid of an equipment lower the giant cast iron pipe into the Harlem River. A worker who went underwater comes up and is helped by another worker.
French fliers take off in Bleriot 110 aircraft from Floyd Bennett Field, New York. French aviators Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos at Floyd Bennett Airfield. In a hangar at the field, men seen around the Bleriot 110, powered by a Hispano Suiza engine. Aviators Rossi and Codos board the aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off from Floyd Bennett Field to set new non-stop air record, flying from New York to Rayak, Syria in about 55 hours, and establishing a distance record of 5,657.4 miles.
America wins over Great Britain in the women's singles tennis match in Forest Hills, New York. A tennis match in progress in a court in West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, during the Wight Cup Classic Tournament. A large crowd watches the match. Helen Jacob of California plays against Margaret Scriven of England. Helen Jacob wins the match with a score of 5-7, 6-2, 7-5. Helen Jacob is awarded the trophy in a ceremony, by the officials. Helen Jacob holding the trophy flanked by the officials and Margaret Scriven.
A horse race at the racing spa in Saratoga Springs, New York. The horse racers prepare to begin the race at the racing spa in Saratoga Springs. Officials seated on the stands. The race begins and the horses race on the track. A few officials look through binoculars. Three race horses moving ahead on the muddy track. The American-bred horse Equipoise with rider Sonny Workman races past the stands and reaches the finishing line. Equipoise, which won the Wilson Stakes, with the rider Sonny Workman on it, beside an official.
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