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...Wood was quoted as follows in an interview after the races: "Sure I'm happy. I asked for a postponement of the start. . . . My request was denied and it made me angry. When Eddie Edenburn, chairman of the race committee, told me Don would not agree ... I told him . . . I was coming down the river and make a false start purposely. I told him when I did, Don likely would follow me. If he did, I knew it meant disqualification of both Miss America IX and Miss England II but there was still Miss America VIII. ... If Don wanted...
Other reports conflicted with Gar Wood's second-day statements. Chairman Eddie Edenburn of the race committee said: "I was at Gar Wood's boat well before the race. . . . Gar was incensed. ... He told me he was going to cross the line before the gun. . . . There was no time [to warn Don]. . . ." Spectators said Wood, shouting to watchers on the bank, had described his start as "an old Yankee trick...
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