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...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 daylight was before the second heat of the Harmsworth in 1931, after Kaye Don had worsted Wood in the first trial. Race officials were so confident that Gar's eleven-year supremacy was about to end that...
...boats and grandstands on the banks of the St. Clair River near Marine City, Mich., when the mishap came so early last week. Just before the race, Horace E. Dodge decided to enter his three- year-old Delphine V, rebuilt for a speed of 85 m.p.h., to help Gar Wood's Miss America X, which has gone 124 m.p.h., defend the Cup against this year's British challenger, Hubert Scott-Paine's Miss Britain III. Fifteen minutes before the start, which had been postponed for three hours because of rough water, the Delphine V sputtered out from...
First Race. Powered with one Napier-Schneider Cup 1,375-h. p. engine, against the four 1 ,650-h. p. Packard motors in Gar Wood's 38½-ft. Miss America X, the 24½-ft. duralumin-hulled challenger was well known to be much slower, even if her maximum speed was 100 m.p.h., as re- ported. Her chance was to beat Miss America X on the turns, which Hubert Scott-Paine expected to make at full speed while Miss America X was laboriously slowing down and regaining speed. The water was smooth when the boats roared out across...
...second race, which turned out to be the most exciting of all Harmsworth Cup events. This time, his motors warmed up beforehand, Scott-Paine managed to get across the line first. At the first turn in the 7-mi. oval course Miss America X swerved past him. Thereafter Gar Wood patently tantalized Scott-Paine. Miss Britain III, leaping from the water every half mile, would inch up on Miss America X. Miss America X would spurt ahead, then relax. Neither boat broke records Miss America X averaged 86.937 statute m.p.h., Miss Britain III 85.789. But Scott-Paine was only...
...than boat-driver. Said he, after the first race: ''The best time of my life . . . the water was beautiful . . . my boat ran up to expectations. . . ." Unlike Kaye Don, whose Miss England III broke down last year in the Harmsworth races, Hubert Scott-Paine has no backer. Like Gar Wood, he builds his own boats, works on them with a staff of six mechanics with whom he shared quarters in Detroit last week. At 14. Hubert Scott-Paine ran away to sea. Before the War, : his early twenties, he became interested in airplanes, flew so recklessly that...