Word: gar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event of U. S. motorboat racing, in years when no one challenges Gar Wood for the Harmsworth Trophy, is the race for the Gold Cup in which specifications, changed from year to year, place definite limits on the size and power of competing craft. Put up in 1904, the Gold Cup cost $730, is gold plate on silver. Experts estimate that motorboat enthusiasts have spent $40,000,000 trying to win it. Last week, on Lake George, N. Y., five long-nosed hydroplanes zoomed over the dark green water getting ready for the start. On the eve of the race...
Pack-jammed with German ham actors and actresses, a creaking bus coughed and sputtered across Hanover last week amid dense fog toward the troupe's next one-night stand. ";Ich kann gar nichts sehen. I can't see a thing" grumbled the bus driver. Just then he crashed through a railway safety gate, jammed his bus on the tracks...
...West Point, Army gave its young Coach Gar Davidson the jitters for three periods, finally managed to beat Washburn...
...near Malibu Beach with a group of monkeys which he hopes will be the nucleus of a private zoo. The monkeys are named after famed auto-racers whom their owner thinks they resemble. Another Miller hobby is radio; he has a dozen sets. He has designed marine engines for Gar AYood, contemplated making an airplane motor until he lost interest in flying three years ago because he thought it was too dangerous. He never rides in his racing cars, owns a small sedan which he drives with timid caution...
...Class C boat, Dorchart III, the 23-year-old driver averaged 44.2 m.p.h., came within 3 min. of the course record set by a higher-powered boat. Winner of Amateur Class A and one of 18 drivers to finish in a field of 66 starters, was Gar Wood Jr., 16-year-old son of the famed speedboating "Silver Fox of Algonac." Youngster Wood was followed down the river in his bucking cockleshell by: 1) his mother in an automobile; 2) his father's mechanic in a speedboat; 3) his father in an airplane...