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...International championship-no Americans dared compete. Favorite was little Gerard Cote, 27-year-old newsdealer of St. Hyacinthe, Que. Cote, recently voted Canada's No. i athlete, weighs only 128 lb. Three years ago, he won the International snow-shoe marathon in the record-breaking time of 1 hr. 3 min. 46 sec. Last year, without snowshoes, he outran America's best distance runners in both the Boston Marathon and the National A. A. U. Marathon. His time for the Boston run set a new world's record of 2 hr...
...Three years ago, when Snowshoer Cote set a new world's record, the thermometer registered 10° below zero-and he crossed the finish line with partially frozen feet and knees. Last week it was warmer, and Cote was in less of a hurry. His winning time: 1 hr...
Record time for the ride is 1 hr., 12 min., 54 sec., established last year by Vancouver's Dale Carpenter, University of Washington student. Last week young Carpenter tried to better his record. But the best he could do, after taking two bad spills, was finish fourth. Winner: 35-year-old Robert Brown, garage mechanic, winner in 1937 and runner-up last year. Of 20 starters, 14 finished-including beauteous Barbara Denny, daughter of Actor Reginald Denny, who streaked in last, sobbing hysterically...
Five years later, Speedster Jenkins won another bet: that he could drive from New York to San Francisco faster than he could travel by train. Although he had never been east of Cheyenne, Daredevil Jenkins scooted across the continent in 85 hr. 20 min. (train time: 100 hr.). So impressed was Studebaker Corp. it hired Jenkins to test its cars. So chagrined were the railroad companies (especially after a red-hot Hearstpaper ribbing), they put on faster transcontinental trains. But Jenkins embarrassed them again in 1931 when he drove a Studebaker, with a top speed of 90 m.p.h., from...
...airport he sees a "gymbal plane," sphere-shaped, rocket-propelled, shooting off on a 3 hr. 20 min. trip to San Francisco...