Crítica
- A Collapse Occurred at the Government House of Uruguay
- Aviator Byrd Proposes to Make a Flight to the South Pole
- Scheduling the Paraguay-Argentina Match for Today Was a Fixture Error
This page of Crítica from 19 October 1926 carried three foreign reports. A correspondent in Montevideo reported a collapse at Uruguay's Government House: 14 cavalrymen of the Blandengues Artigas battalion fell five meters into the basement, five were named as injured, and military doctors arrived quickly. An Associated Press dispatch from Philadelphia quoted Richard Byrd, whom it presented as the man who reached the North Pole by airplane. Byrd said he might also try for the South Pole, though the plan was not final, and that the flight would be much harder than his Arctic one because it would require a 2,000-mile nonstop flight. From Santiago, Agencia Austral described a quarrelsome extraordinary session of the South American Football Congress. After two hours, the Congress postponed the Argentina–Paraguay match to the following day, and the headline blamed the original date on a fixture error.
Translation
A Collapse Occurred at the Government House of Uruguay
(From our correspondent)
[?] this, 14 cavalry soldiers belonging to the Blandengues Artigas battalion plunged into the basement from a height of five meters. The following were injured: Lázaro Alberti, Juvenal Doranza, Braulio Valdes, Ademar Vaz and César Cardizo. The doctors of the Military Health Service arrived quickly. The injured were attended by … Within one or Tw… … The Present C… Will Disappear from Russia
Aviator Byrd Proposes to Make a Flight to the South Pole
Flight to the … The famous Yankee pilot, who cross… …roplane, says that the crossing of the Pole … difficulties than that of the nor… TWO THOUSAND MILES WITHOUT …
(Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA, 19. — In a speech he delivered last night, the aviator Byrd, who reached the North Pole by airplane, said it was possible that he would also try to reach the South Pole, although for now his plan was not definitive. He stated that the difficulties of carrying out this flight were much greater than those he had faced on his flight to the North Pole, since it would be necessary to make a nonstop flight of 2,000 miles, whereas in the feat already accomplished he had only
Scheduling the Paraguay-Argentina Match for Today Was a Fixture Error
…extraordinary session, agreed to postpone the said match, adopting oth… THE FIXTURE WILL HAVE OTHER …
(Agencia Austral)
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, 19. — At the extraordinary session of the South American Football Congress, after two hours of long deliberations, an agreement was adopted to postpone until tomorrow the match that the Argentines were to play today against the Paraguayans. To reach this result, resolutions were adopted, then reconsidered, only to be adopted again; the meeting passed from a session of the Congress to a session of the Committee, numerous recesses were held, a secret session was requested at every step, the discussion turned bitter, and there were endless other incidents, owing to the determination of some to observe the regula-
Context
The Estévez Palace as Uruguay's seat of government
In 1926 the building the correspondent called the Government House was the Estévez Palace on Montevideo's Plaza Independencia, which served as Uruguay's seat of government from 1880 to 1985. It began as a private residence: the Argentine investor Francisco Estévez had it built in the 1870s as a palace on a city block he owned. President Lorenzo Latorre later designated it the seat of government, and the building was remodeled for that purpose. The building history consulted here says nothing about a collapse in 1926 or any repairs that followed, so among the sources consulted, the number of soldiers who fell and the injuries come only from this dispatch. The presidency did not leave the palace in the years after the accident. It stayed until 1985, when President Julio María Sanguinetti moved the seat of government to the Liberty Building, almost sixty years after this report.
From a Philadelphia speech to the 1929 South Pole flight
Byrd spoke in Philadelphia about five months after his flight of May 1926. His career depended on wealthy patrons, spectacular flights, and the income and fame he hoped to earn from writing and lecturing. He told his audience that a South Pole attempt was possible but not settled. Two years later the plan became real. In 1928 Byrd mounted the first Antarctic aviation expedition, with the stated aim of flying over the South Pole. He flew to the Pole on 28–29 November 1929 as one of a four-man crew. The actual flight to the Pole and back covered 1,560 miles, according to a later biographical account. That figure is shorter than the 2,000-mile nonstop flight Byrd described in 1926, but it was the same kind of long flight across the ice that he had told his audience would be harder than the Arctic trip.
The North Pole flight the dispatch took for granted
The Associated Press introduced Byrd simply as the aviator who had reached the North Pole by airplane. That was the claim he made in 1926. Byrd and his co-pilot took off from Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, and he and the pilot Floyd Bennett flew north on 9 May 1926. On their return Byrd announced that they had been the first to reach the North Pole by air. Later research has cast grave doubt on that claim, partly because of what his airplane could actually do. The 1926 dispatch reflects the public acceptance of the flight at the time. Byrd used that accepted feat as the measure when he said a South Pole flight would be much harder.
The 1926 South American Championship and the postponed match
The match in this dispatch belonged to the 1926 South American Championship in Santiago. The tournament was a round-robin in which each team played every other team once. Brazil withdrew before it began, leaving five teams, and every match was played at the Estadio Sport de Ñuñoa. The tournament belonged to the South American football confederation, which the national associations founded in 1916, and the dispatch shows its delegates rewriting the schedule in session. The reference records confirm that the date moved as the paper reported. Three days after Uruguay beat Chile on 17 October, Argentina met Paraguay and won 8–0, with four goals from Gabino Sosa. That match fell on 20 October, the day after this dispatch. The sources consulted give the results but not the reasons for the rescheduling. For the procedural dispute, including the repeated votes, the recesses, the requests for secret sessions and the insistence on the rules, this report is the only account among the sources consulted.
Original
Ocurrió un Desmoronamiento en la Casa de Gobierno del Uruguay
[?] ello, 14 soldados de caballeria, pertenecientes al batallón Blandengues Artigas, se precipitaron al sótano desde cinco metros de altura, resultando heridos: Lázaro Alberti, Juvenal Doranza, Braulio Valdes, Ademar Vaz y César Cardizo. Los médicos de la Sanidad Militar llegaron rápidamenteLos heridos fueron atendidos por Dentro de uno o Do Desaparecerá de Rusa el Actual C
El Aviador Byrd se Propone Efectuar un Vuelo al Polo Sur
Vuelo al El famoso piloto yanqui, que atraves roplano, dice que la travesía del Polo dificultades que la del nor DOS MIL MILLAS SIN E (Associated Press) FILADELFIA, 19. - En un discurso que pronunció, anoche, el aviador Byrd, que llegó al Polo Norte en aeroplano, dijo que era posible que tratara también de llegar al Polo Sur, aunque, por ahora, su proyecto no era definitivo. Declaró que las dificultades para realizar este vuelo eran muchos mayores que las que se le presentaron en su vuelo al Polo Norte, pues era necesario efectuar un vuelo sin etapas de 2. 000 millas, mientras que en la hazaña ya realizada, sólo tuvo
La Fijación del Match Paraguay-Argentina para Hoy Fué Error de Fixture
sión extraordinaria, acordó postergar ferido encuentro, adoptando otr EL FIXTURE TENDRA OTRAS (Agencia Austral) SANTIAGO DE CHILE, 19. - En la sesión extraordinaria del Congreso SudAmericano de Football, después de dos horas de largas deliberaciones, se adoptó el acuerdo de postergar para mañana el match que debian realizar hoy los argentinos con los paraguayos. Para llegar a este resultado, se tomaron resoluciones, que se reconsideraron para luego volverse a tomar, pasándose de sesión de Congreso a sesión de Comité, realizándose numerosos cuartos intermedios, pidiéndose a cada paso sesión secreta, agriándose la discusión y otro sin fin de incidencias, debido al espíritu de algunos de observar los regla -
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