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...governing body of all motorboat races), is run according to strict rules, draws crowds of 100,000 or more to watch the winner get the checkered flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ironing Board Derby | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Eliot has an outboard motor boat, and two enterprising Bellboys have purchased an old motorboat that had been ravaged by fire and reconditioned it for the House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRE-RACE TRAINING PLACES ELIOT'S CREW IN THIN LEAD | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

...eights nearly crashed into a stanchion of Lars Anderson as its cox eagerly watched the tangle, and the motorboat following the race nearly ran down a laggard eight as it turned to come to the rescue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHIPWRECK CAUSES CHARLES RIVER JAM; BOAT DISMASTED | 5/4/1940 | See Source »

...wintry Manhattan last week went many of the millions of motorboat fans, whose summery sport has become in 35 years a $165,000,000 industry. Destination: the 35th annual National Motor Boat Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Elcos, Eurekas, Etc. | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Higgins, a 55-year-old Irishman, born in Omaha. An old Mississippi River racer, Higgins went after the record of the legendary river steamer Robert E. Lee for the 1,200-mile upriver run from New Orleans to St. Louis. In 1929 he broke it in his spoon-bow motorboat, And How III. Time: 87 hrs. In 1931, in Greyhound (a modified And How III), he whittled it to 72 hrs. 4 min. Because debris in the Mississippi had slowed his record-making run by twice crumpling his propellers, he added to the spoon bow a whale-belly stern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Elcos, Eurekas, Etc. | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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