Word: algonac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wood considers himself a mechanic. On the top of his Miami Beach home he built a mechanized observatory which is an amateur astronomer's dream. He calls speedboat racing a "mechanic's game." To the Chippewa Indians on a Canadian island opposite his summer home in Algonac, Mich., Gar Wood is Chief Kezhee-Neebe (Swift Water). Lanky, gaunt Chief Swift Water attends tribal festivities regularly, though in his initiation, which included finger pricking and the usual peace pipe, the feathers were omitted because the Gar Wood pate is never covered...
...m.p.h., came within 3 min. of the course record set by a higher-powered boat. Winner of Amateur Class A and one of 18 drivers to finish in a field of 66 starters, was Gar Wood Jr., 16-year-old son of the famed speedboating "Silver Fox of Algonac." Youngster Wood was followed down the river in his bucking cockleshell by: 1) his mother in an automobile; 2) his father's mechanic in a speedboat; 3) his father in an airplane...