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...Barr, with his customary long cigar in his mouth, was rammed by the Kaiser's Meteor when the Kaiser, at the helm, tried to substitute Royal prerogative for racing etiquet and kept across Ingomar's bow although he did not have right of way. Outmoded as a racer, Ingomar was owned for a while by the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna's sporting son Daniel, later used as a houseboat by Spencer Borden, only recently refitted for sea service...
Meekly Sculptor Hardiman made another model. Abundantly supplied with photographs from amateur critics, he gave the Field Marshal a slouching seat and set him on a nervous, long-necked racer. This second model was passed by the Office of Works, last week drew a second storm of protest from British horsemen...
...Spaniards Miguel Ratonocito and Miguel Pericote, the Japanese Miki Kuchi. Although his Christian name might be understood as an affront to Irish dignity, he has been respectfully reviewed in the Irish Statesman by Poet-Painter George ("AE") Russell. Great lover, soldier, sailor, singer, toreador, tycoon, jockey, prizefighter, automobile racer, aviator, farmer, scholar, Mickey Mouse lives in a world in which space, time and the laws of physics are null. He can reach inside a bull's mouth, pull out his teeth and use them for castanets. He can lead a band or play violin solos; his ingenuity is limitless...
...Segrave's best: 98.76 m. p. h. After breaking the record, one June day last year in Lake Windermere, Major Segrave forced Miss England II to 101.11 m. p. h., struck a water-logged tree branch, hurtled to his death. Last week the reconditioned Miss England II carried Racer Kaye Don 100 m. p. h. on Lough Neagh, Ireland, in a trial preparatory to attempting the world's record at Buenos Aires before the Prince of Wales. The sea-flea (outboard hydroplane) record: 50.9 m. p. h., by Ray Pregenzer of Antioch...
...slow swells of Newport water remains problematical. She is a modern, but not a strikingly original boat; there are comparatively few tricks in her rigging, few experiments, and it is this that constitutes her main point of difference from Enterprise, the most radically experimental racer ever built, and one of the most expensive...