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...putting out into Great South Bay to catch weakfish, with his son Robert. Actor Victor Moore (Of Thee I Sing's Vice President Alexander Throttlebottom) lost control of his outboard motorboat, Embobora II, when its tiller inexplicably came loose in his hand. Down upon him bore a dory. There was a smash-bang amidships and the next thing Alexander Throttlebottom knew he was thrashing about beneath his own overturned craft. He tried to duck out on one side only to crack his head on wreckage, see stars. Down he went again, coming up on the other side. Breathless...
...Harvard bridge, the Jayvees had piled up a 1 1-2 length lead over the Midshipmen; but just beyond the bridge they intercepted the wash of an outboard motorboat so that they were almost forced to stop rowing, and the Navy overhauled them by a length...
...quarter of a mile from the finish a police launch that was chasing the speedy outboard motorboat gave the Crimson crew another wash, and the Midshipmen. rowing at 36, got ahead by a deck Stroke Drury raised the Crimson beat from 33 as soon as the wash had subsided; and Coxswain Littlefield spurred the crew by telling them that there were only ten strokes to go when there were actually twenty. Drury and his crew responded with what was the best sprint witnessed this year on the Charles; and they nosed out the Midshipmen by a bare quarter-length...
...William Feldhusen, Stapleton, N. Y. garage mechanic, in his Class C outboard motorboat Miss Staten Island: the sixth annual 132¼ mi. Albany-to-New York race; in 3 hr. 15 min. 22 sec. Weeks beforehand, Feldhusen familiarized himself with the course-over which he had raced four times-by getting a job as deckhand on a river liner. More than half his time allowance-21 min.-was wasted when magneto trouble delayed him at the start. He overtook Cab Walier of Syracuse a mile from the end, finished 100 yards ahead, with severe bruises and cuts on his left...
...observers might easily infer that New York State's $250,000 served chiefly to entertain the hill-sliding Stevens brothers. But sliding down a hill is less a vocation for the Stevens family than a recreation from more vigorous exertions. J. Hubert Stevens is an expert aviator, golfer, outboard motorboat racer. Curtis is good at golf and motorboating, prefers the latter. Raymond Stevens pitched ably on the 1914 Yale baseball team. Every autumn all four Stevens brothers spend two months hunting and trapping in the Adirondacks or wilder Canada. Other expert U. S. bobbers are Henry ("Hank") Homburger, Saranac...