Word: dicks
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Franquemont, Chace and Padiak seem to have the best chances to do well in their classes. Chace, at heavyweight, will get his stiffest competition from Nichols of Navy, Paul Goble of Rutgers, and Dick Moore of Cornell. But Chace has already beaten both Moore and Goble during the regular season...
Corris' showdown with Buckley was postponed because of the Yalie's illness, but that didn't deter the Crimson record holder from lowering his Harvard record in the 200-yard breaststroke to 1:15.2. Corris followed the Blue's Dick Traver's torrid 1:02.8 pace for the first 100 and glided into the lead and won easily, relaxing over the last 50. If Buckley swims in the Easterns next weekend, he could well receive the surprise Corris was planning to spring on him Saturday...
...radical that it was classified as experimental (and therefore ineligible for the winner-take-all $3,000 prize), Thunderbird had been clocked at 65 m.p.h. in practice runs. That was enough to make it the prerace favorite, but there was no shortage of high-velocity competition. Miami Boatbuilder Dick Bertram was at the helm of his diesel-powered Brave Moppie, the 1965 world champion. Following in the example of his father, a champion hydroplane racer, Gar Wood Jr. was driving Orca, a needle-nosed, 47-ft. monster that packed 1,200 horses under its deck. British hopes were pinned...
...turned back to port. The rest wished they had. Owner-Driver John Raulerson and a crewman had to be pulled off his wallowing, 33-ft. Tin Fish by the Coast Guard (at week's end the empty boat was still floating somewhere in the Gulf Stream). World Champion Dick Bertram didn't even have time to radio for help. Brave Moppie was blasting along at 50 m.p.h. in second place, behind Thunderbird, when disaster struck. "A red warning light suddenly went on, meaning water in the bilge," Bertram said later. "In two minutes we were swimming." Speculation...
...start, Thunderbird churned back into Biscayne Bay, and Winner Wynne gratefully stepped ashore, muttering: "Now that was a wingding." Runner-up Langer, who finished 21 hours behind Wynne, could not have agreed more. "Where are the Band-Aids?" was the first question he asked on arrival in Miami. But Dick Bertram, who had lost $65,000 worth of boat and very nearly his life, could hardly wait to do it all over again. "If they made it any easier," he said, "It wouldn't be ocean racing-and I'd quit...