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...mixed up with rebels in Genoa and, under the spell of a revolutionary temptress, ran arms for Naples until he learned that his captain had also been swayed by the same charmer and in the same fashion as himself. A captain at 21, he drove his Silver Racer on record runs to China, married a lovely, shrewd little French-Canadian girl, was not unfaithful to her except with native women, piled up a fortune of $35,000. During the Civil War the raiding Alabama destroyed his ship. He enlisted in the Union Army, took his son on a voyage running...
...Orleans lumber tycoon named Harry Palmerton Williams and a barnstorming pilot named James Robert Wedell, organized Wedell-Williams Air Service Corp., set out to design planes and run an airline. In a Wedell-Williams Racer Jimmy Wedell presently broke the world's landplane speed record. Meanwhile, Tycoon Williams sank $1,000,000 in the firm, made it the world's biggest privately-owned airplane service, flying several routes near New Orleans...
Reason for Jim's flight was to "ferry" to England a special racer in which he hoped to enter the Johannesburg Air Race. A low-wing Bellanca with a Wasp Jr. engine, the plane was built as Colonel James Fitzmaurice's entry in the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race to Australia, was disqualified on technicalities. Changes made for Captain Mollison delayed his departure from the U. S. until after the Johannesburg Race came to its sorry conclusion. He decided to fly across anyway to see if he could beat the time of the Johannesburg Race's winner...
...Wonder horse of the season is a 7-year-old named Action. When Trainer Jacobs bought him for the customary $1,000 six months ago, Action was not only the cheapest kind of plater but, apparently, superannuated and a cripple. Rejuvenated, and converted from a steeplechaser into a flat racer by his new owner, he won eleven out of his next 13 starts. Last week Action had earned $22,685, was a leader in the handicap division, racing's highest...
...small coterie of yachtsmen who knew the history of ocean racing, one boat was vastly more interesting than any of the others. She was the slim, 53-ft. yawl Dorade, winner of one transatlantic, two Fastnet races, generally regarded on the Atlantic as the finest ocean racer ever built. Brought to the Pacific especially for last week's race, she cost her new owner, James Leary Flood, some...