Word: outboards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolph Spreckels, grandson of John Diedrich Spreckels, California sugar tycoon, was racing a borrowed outboard motorboat in a regatta on Green Lake, Seattle, when the throttle jammed. Roaring straight into the beach, the tiny craft leaped high as it struck, careened through a crowd of spectators, crashed on top of a sound truck. Sportsman Spreckels was catapulted into the air against a telephone pole where he hung by an arm impaled on one of the climbing spikes. Taken down unconscious, with the arm torn open from shoulder to wrist, he was hospitalized with one of the spectators...
...history of intercollegiate sports has any type of competition made such rapid strides toward popularity as outboard motor boat racing. When the starting gun echoes across the James River at Richmond, Va., next June 27 and 28 in the seventh annual National Intercollegiate Outboard Championships, more than forty universities and preparatory institutions will be represented...
Back in 1930, when the Colgate Outing Club of Colgate University bravely announced its intention to sponsor the first intercollegiate outboard regatta there was a dubious wagging of heads. Veteran outboard drivers throughout the country smiled tolerantly. The college boys, it seemed, were laboring under a hallucination. Wait until they, with oil-besmeared faces, experienced the pounding and physical battering unavoidable in an outboard hydroplane, it was murmured...
...Eastern Intercollegiate Outboard Association, which sponsors the annual national championship, holds only one event annually. This regatta is different from any other in that team competition has been injected, affording added interest. Individual and team championship trophics are awarded on the basis of the number of points scored in the four classes of outboard racing motors---A, B, C and F. First place counts 400 points, second place 300, third...
Samuel Crooks, who won the individual intercollegiate title last year under the colors of Rutgers, is ranked as one of the five best drivers in the United States. The time is not far distant, it is believed, when all colleges and universities will award letters in outboard racing. Columbia, Rutgers and Colgate thus far have awarded letters in this sport...