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...Winship and Del Ames, who took third and fourth in the downhill at Williams, are expected to make a good showing. Ames, a yardling, is the only man on the team entered in all four events. Tommy Thomas is a good racer and very graceful on his skis; he has spent a summer skiing in Chile...
Builder is Andrew Jackson 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...
Great Britain's famed, red-haired racer and designer, Hubert Scott-Paine, last September demonstrated a 70-foot, triple-engined mosquito which could lug two torpedo tubes, two guns, a crew of 16, at 47 knots (54.1 miles) per hour-well above the best speeds expected from the U. S. boats still abuilding. For eleven mosquitoes and twelve subchasers based on "Ginger Dick" Scott-Paine's designs, the Navy last week let a $5,000,000 contract to the Electric Boat Co., which makes most of the Navy's submarines. When these and the twelve...
Died. Count Enrico Rossi di Montelera, 66, head of the famed Italian wine firm of Martini & Rossi, uncle of speedboat-racer Count Theo Rossi; in Turin...
Died. John Sanford, 88, millionaire carpet manufacturer and horse racer, father of Poloist Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford; in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where he had gone to attend the Diamond Jubilee of the Saratoga Racing Association...