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First race. Miguel Barella, captain of the Spanish team, failed to get his motor going in time to start. Britain's Joseph C. Turner, who smokes a pipe while driving, saw his flywheel jump overboard. France's Jeari Dupuy (Petit Parisien) hit a buoy. Horace Tennes, 21-year-old Northwestern undergraduate, driving his Hootnanny VI won at 52.6 m.p.h., three seconds ahead of the other collegian on the U. S. team, Philip Ellsworth of Bucknell, a mile ahead of the rest of the field...
...ships at sea, to police at every port, the French Secret Service flashed descriptions of the Founder-Swindler, asking his arrest. The Dutch steamer Alpherat promptly radioed that a passenger who seemed to fit the description had jumped overboard with a life buoy the evening before, eight miles from the Island of Teneriffe. Shrugged seasoned French operatives, "It has always been like that. Alexandre always escapes...
...international speedboat trophy early in the century, the Harmsworth is a cheap bronze plaque, perhaps 15 by 18 inches, and mounted on a bar wood base. It represents a bit of rough water and an early speedboat, more resembling a fishing dory than anything else, going around a course buoy. Sports writers out of Detroit may be excused for misnaming the trophy because of the fact that for 13 years the bronze has rarely left the precincts of the Detroit Yacht Club where it is housed during Gar Wood's speed monarchy. The last time the plaque saw open...
...Trophy for Motor Boats was presented by the late Sir Alfred Harmsworth to the Royal Motor Yacht Club of England, which put it up for competition in 1903. Approximate cost: ?1,000. It is 27¼ by 125 in., represents two displacement power boats (not one) rounding a can buoy in a rough sea. During the War the base was damaged in London. It now rests on a base made in 1928 from the timbers of Miss America I, with which Gar Wood returned the trophy...
...hurricane by the time it crashed headlong upon storm-racked Cape Hatteras and started up the coast. Before it left North Carolina it had dragged the Diamond Shoals lightship six miles out of position, piled the four-masted schooner Kohler up on Gull Shoals. With a breeches buoy across a quarter-mile of snowy surf Coast Guardsmen took off nine men, a woman, a dog, two cats...