Word: hrs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first trans-Atlantic race since 1905 when the Atlantic, skippered by Capt. Charles Barr, won the Kaiser's Cup by crossing from Sandy Hook to England in 12 days, 4 hrs. 1 min., 19 sec. This year, this same Atlantic, repainted many times and retrimmed, has as skipper the direct descendant of two U. S. Presidents - Charles Francis Adams, 62, brother of the late historian Henry Adams. Skipper Adams, yachtsmen agree, is the canniest amateur salt alive. He sailed the Resolute in the last defense of the America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock...
Endurance (Germany)-Hugo Kaulen, 87 hrs...
Died. Alfred Fronvall, French aviator, who last February set a world record by looping his plane 1,100 times in 4 hrs. 56 min.; in a collision; at the Villa Coublay airdrome, Paris...
Here a stretch of rough water called forth desperate efforts, threw two capsized sportsmen to the waiting rescue ships, gave a comfortable lead to a seaworthy Corker sea sled driven by Charles P. Stevens of Albany, N. H. Racer Stevens never lost his head. His time: 14 hrs., 5 minutes, 37 seconds...
...over the side of a twelve-ft. dinghy and chugged 233 nautical miles from New York to Boston to test the reliability of the newly discovered, much-criticized outboard motor. A power cruiser accompanying the dinghy broke down twice, three times. Pioneer Day completed the course. His time: 52 hrs., 47 minutes...