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...rule of the Harmsworth Cup races states that any boat which starts more than five seconds before the gun shall be disqualified. Gar Wood's boat crossed the starting line nine seconds before the gun -the first time he has ever crossed the line too soon in five Harmsworth Cup races. Just behind him, seven seconds ahead of the gun, came Miss England II. Safely behind both was Miss America VIII, which crossed the line just after the signal, sure to win the race since both the others were disqualified. A moment later, the 500,000 people who were...
...Gar 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...
...Said Gar Wood, at a luncheon given for Don next day: "We did not know that we had gone over the line more than five seconds ahead of the gun until we were signalled with a red flag at the judges stand. . . ." But when confronted by interviewers, Wood began to weep. He said: "We wanted to get over first. . . . I've been racing for years and we've done the best we could to carry the American flag on our boats in a sportsmanlike way. . . ." He said he had been misquoted, misunderstood, misjudged...
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...
...after Miss England's mishap the Detroit race officials reconsidered their intention of cancelling the third heat. George Wood ran Miss America VIII slowly over three laps of the 30-mile course. But the name of Gar Wood's 13-year-old son, Garfield Arthur Wood Jr., in whose name Miss America VIII was entered, was not engraved on the tall, gold Harmsworth Cup. Whether or not it will be is up to the Yachtsmen's Association of America which will meet to ponder the problem soon. The crew of a tugboat salvaged Miss England...