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...boorish cheat. In football, it is ethical to render an adversary senseless by hard tackling; it would be easy but unfair to win a rubber of bridge in the same way. A question of ethics in sport was internationally discussed last week after the conclusion of the Harmsworth Cup (motor boat) races in Detroit...
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...
...Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., and John Van Ryn of Philadelphia: the U. S. tennis doubles championship; by beating Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin 6-4. 8-6. 6-3 in the finals at Chestnut Hill, Mass. ¶ Kaye Don, in Miss England II: the first heat of the Harmsworth Trophy Race, for speedboats, at 89:913 m.p.h.; beating famed Gar Wood of Detroit, in Miss America IX, and his brother George in Miss America VIII; at Detroit. In the second heat, watched by a crowd of 500,000 and won by George Wood, both Kaye Don and Gar Wood were...