Word: outboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles H. Johnson of Cranberry Lake, N. J.: the seventh annual outboard-motor boat marathon down the Hudson River from Albany to New York (132¼ mi.) in 2 hr., 59 min., 38 sec. In his Class C boat, Dorchart III, the 23-year-old driver averaged 44.2 m.p.h., came within 3 min. of the course record set by a higher-powered boat. Winner of Amateur Class A and one of 18 drivers to finish in a field of 66 starters, was Gar Wood Jr., 16-year-old son of the famed speedboating "Silver Fox of Algonac." Youngster Wood...
...warm, exciting routine of swimming and horse-racing, parties and roulette which constitute social life on the east coast of Florida, outboard motorboat racing this winter assumed an international air. After the first series of races at New Smyrna (TIME, March 12), there began a round of entertaining at Palm Beach. John Sanford gave a party for the Italian drivers-Prince Carlo Maurizio Ruspoli, Count Theo Rossi de Montelera, Antonio Becchi. The French drivers- Publisher Jean Dupuy, Baron Alain de Rothschild, Marquis Gonzalo de la Gan-dara-had a tea given them by Mrs. Frederick E. Guest. Last week...
...jury which included Amelia Earhart Putnam, Madam Secretary Perkins (who voted by mail from a catalog) and Professor John Dewey found most beautiful a section of spring, an outboard propeller, a ring of ball bearings. The voting public chose a larger propeller, a triple mirror, a metal measure...
...Garda, Italy last summer, they had so much fun that they asked the European drivers to compete in the U. S., got Florida yacht clubs and hotelmen to put up $15,000 for expenses & prizes. On hand at New Smyrna were not all the best pilots in Europe where outboard racing is a more socialite pastime than in the U. S. There were enough, however, to make the series, after next summer's Gold Cup races, the most important U. S. motorboat contest of the year. Parisian Publisher Jean Dupuy is a director of the sporting Cote...
After last week's races, the drivers tinkered their boats for the rest of the series: three races at Palm Beach this weekend, four more at Miami Beach a week later, the final of which will determine the outboard champion. Climax of the regatta will be a race at Miami between big inboard motorboats - Italy's 12-litre class against U. S. Gold Cup craft, like Horace E. Dodge's Delphine VI, John Shibe's new Miss Philadelphia, for the Vincent Bendix Trophy...