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...golf tournament played at St. Augustine, Fla. in 1925. The man he was playing against hooked his shot, waved his club angrily. The next thing Mr. Evans knew he was lying on the fairway with a painful lump rapidly rising on his forehead. The club-waver was curly-haired Clair Maxwell. Life's president. A year later Mr. Evans quit his sportwriting job and was working for his assailant. He became Life's managing editor, is still its cinema critic...
Carving a wide white scar up & down Detroit's Lake St. Clair one morning last week roared brown-hulled Miss America X, her four Packard motors tuning up within 200 r. p. m. of their maximum 2,700. Timers clocked the flying wedge of smoke and spray at an average of 124.91 m. p. h. for two statute miles-a new world's record, 5.16 m. p. h. faster than Kaye Don's time in Miss England III last spring on Loch Lomond. Climbing out of his boat, the old silver fox of U. S.-speed-boating...
...Cleveland last week men and women began knotting themselves into a mob before a branch office of the Associated Charities on St. Clair Avenue. Most of them were jobless. Donato Ferrante and Ben Favorito, their leaders, told them Associated Charities were deliberately starving them. The crowd yelled their assent to direct action. They would raid the branch office, get the wherewithal for one square meal. Suddenly six squads of police trotted up, threw themselves about the office. The mob of 800 was about to charge when the police set off tear gas. The raiders fell back blubbering. Police clubs broke...
First Race. To be as sure as they could of smooth water on the seven-mile oval course in Lake St. Clair, Mich., the committee named an unprecedented hour -6:30 a. m.-for the start. Rain that began before dawn caused a half-hour postponement. Thousands of boats had gathered in the dark, were anchored around the course. Along Grosse Point's Lake Shore Drive waited 200,000 spectators. At 6:55 a. m. when the five-minute gun sounded an inshore breeze was kicking up whitecaps-hard as riffles of concrete to a boat traveling more than...
...Bendix Trophy, Los Angeles to Cleveland. For that race, as for the Thompson and Aerol Trophy races at the end of the meet, designers had been working for a year, building fat little craft with stubby low wings. Into the California dawn roared five such craft: Clair Vance's Flying Wing, Jimmy Wedell, Jimmy Haizlip and Roscoe Turner in Wedell-Williams Speedsters, Lee Gehlbach in a stubby "Gee-Bee" (Granville Bros.). Over the Mojave Desert Vance had to drop out his cockpit awash with gasoline from a leaking tank...