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...Shires was suspended from the White Sox. Charles Francis Adams Jr., Harvard student, son of the Secretary of the Navy, was arrested for speeding at Old Saybrook, Conn. He did not mention in court his illustrious relationship. Fine: $1. Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, pugilist, driving his new Lancia racer at a terrific pace through Thuringia, steered to avoid an urchin, crashed into a building, climbed out of the wreck with minor flesh cuts...
...same man, and the fresh water mark of 92.834 set by his brother last summer in Detroit. The man was Garfield Wood, Gar Wood for short, and this was his answer to the disappointing race of a fortnight ago, won on points by the British speedfiend and automobile racer Henry O'Neil Dehane Segrave in a leaky boat at 61 m. p. h. With his record hung up, Gar Wood stepped out of his boat, forgot it, and set to work designing another boat to go even faster. His first racer was a panting dinghy that the experimental...
Karl W. Fasold (Pathe). He turned his crank while Racer Frank Lockhart's car, upset by a blow-out in a time-trial last year, somersaulted over his head in one of its giant bounds...
...only U. S.-bred winner (U. S.-owned horses have won it twice: Stephen Sanford's Sergeant Murphy, 1923; A. Charles Schwartz's Jack Horner, 1926). Rubio was shipped to England as a racer, failed to do well, was sold for $75, hauled a hotel omnibus for a year, and then, in 1908, came to glory. There was Moifaa, an ugly grey gelding, shipped from New Zealand with high hopes in 1904. There was a shipwreck. Moifaa was believed drowned. But one fine morning two Irishmen-fishermen-found the horse on a barren island. They trained...
Leonard Seppalla, of Nome, Alaska, oldtime musher, drove his Siberian husky dogs to their third consecutive victory in the New England sled-dog racing championship, last week at Laconia, N. H. Emil St. Goddard, of The Pas, Manitoba, recognized as Seppalla's master as a racer, finished second with a team of wolfhounds which lacked speed and stamina for the three-day trudge over a 128-mile course...