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...what it used to be. There were the usual stunts, and a record Labor Day crowd of 55,000. But this year's show, compressed into four days instead of ten, was only a few cuts above the Memorial Day Sweepstakes at Indianapolis. Biggest disappointment was the fourth annual Bendix Trophy Race...
...Bendix. Major figure of last year's races was gaudy, swashbuckling Roscoe Turner, who won the Bendix Trophy hands down. Strong favorite to win this year's Bendix, Colonel Turner (California National Guard) was scratched 15 minutes before the start by a leaky fuel tank. Three pilots were left in the race. Flying the famed red-and-black Wedell-Williams "44," a drawling Atlantan named Douglas Davis took off from Burbank before dawn without breakfast. Headwinds, rain and fog cut his speed to 212 m. p. h., brought him to Cleveland an hour behind the course record but in plenty...
Consolation. Because Winner Davis failed to continue to New York for the extra $2,500, which would have been his had he broken the coast-to-coast record, Manufacturer Vincent Bendix dangled before Col. Turner a $3,500 "consolation prize" if he beat his own record. Last year Col. Turner crossed the U. S. in 10 hr. 4 min. 55 sec. behind a 600-h. p. Wasp Sr. This year in his dull-gold Wedell-Williams racer he had a 1,000-h. p. supercharged Hornet which he hoped would carry him from coast to coast in 9 hours...
...excited about last week. For the regatta, Italy had sent over three boats of the 12-litre class which raced against the closest U. S. equivalent -Gold Cup craft, with superchargers. A minute before the third and last heat of the 12-litre race, for the Vincent Bendix Trophy, Count Rossi de Montelera. heading for the starting line in his red Barracuda, smashed into a little rowboat which he had failed to notice in his path. In the rowboat were the Marquis de la Gandara and his mechanic. They were fished out safe and sound but officials refused to give...
...will determine the outboard champion. Climax of the regatta will be a race at Miami between big inboard motorboats - Italy's 12-litre class against U. S. Gold Cup craft, like Horace E. Dodge's Delphine VI, John Shibe's new Miss Philadelphia, for the Vincent Bendix Trophy...