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...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...
...Smyrna, Fla. on the shiny black surface of Indian River, a dozen tiny boats, responsive as walnut-shells, noisy as airplanes, wheeled, bounced and scudded around a ten-mile boomerang-shaped course. They were Class-X outboard motorboats, competing in the first international outboard races ever held...
...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...
Ranged in cases around the hall will be the Lindbergh equipment: parachutes, electrically heated clothes, sun helmets, mosquito netting, emergency food rations, landing flares, sextant, chronometers, goggles, stove, tent, cooking utensils, sledge, sea anchors, collapsible rubber boat with mast & sail, emergency outboard motor, fur boots, rifles, revolvers, ammunition, wireless sets, ship's log, maps, charts...