Word: harmsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sort. The English press has been kind, and in almost every case has stated that the American public should not be indicted for the behavior of its representative. ... A Detroit manufacturer has declared that he will furnish Don with an English boat, powered with Rolls-Royce engines, under the Harmsworth rules that a driver must represent the country of his citizenship in a boat of local manufacture. This gesture, if carried out, will help to re-establish American sportsmanship after the blow dealt it by Gar Wood. JOHN PRENTIS WOOD...
...read in several of the Detroit newspapers that some of America's leading motor magnates, industrialists and sportsmen admirers of Kaye Don are forming a syndicate, financing it with American money to see that Kaye Don has a boat to enter in the Harmsworth race in 1932. Boat to race under British Flag and to try to take cup from...
Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood had entered his Miss America IX. His brother George was to drive Miss America VIII, the boat which won the Harmsworth Cup in 1929 but which is obviously outclassed by later models. Before the race, silver-haired, sharp-faced Gar Wood was confident he would win. He was quoted as saying that Kaye Don would learn something when "George gives him the wash...
...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...
...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 II. Her stern was cracked apart, her deck ripped off but her Rolls-Royce motors were practically undamaged...