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...issue of Sept. 12 of TIME, there is an article entitled "Harmsworth Cup." The Harmsworth trophy is not a cup but a plaque, on which there is depicted a race between two power boats...
...engineer responsible for the design and development of these engines was the late Major Lionel M. Woolson. Chief Engineer of the Department of Aeronautics of the Packard Motor Car Co. Major Woolson was rarely given the credit due him for the important part he played in retaining the Harmsworth trophy...
Never in the history of motorboat races for the Harmsworth Cup (put up by the late Lord Northcliffe in 1903) has there been such hue & cry as there was last year about Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood's "Yankee trick." Wood in his Miss America IX crossed the starting line ahead of the gun for the second heat, thus prompting his rival, Kaye Don, who had won the first heat with Miss England II, to do likewise. Miss America IX and Miss England II were disqualified. A slower boat than either, driven by Gar Wood's brother George, circled...
...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...