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...headstart ticked away, Pilot Howard watched the clock, listened nervously for the roar of Colonel Turner's low-wing monoplane. Just as time was about up, he heard it, saw the golden Wedell-Williams racer streaking out of the murk for the finish. Ever the showman, Pilot Turner zoomed into a grandiloquent flourish over the stands, banked off into the haze, landed. Excitedly, the timers calibrated their watches, finally announced the closest Bendix finish in history. Pilot Howard had won the 2,046-mi. race by 23½ seconds. Third was handsome Russell Thaw, son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry...
...thousands of trotting races on half-mile courses at county fairs. There are about 700 owners and breeders of trotters and four times as many trainers, second trainers, grooms and stable boys. Compared to thoroughbred racing, the economics of harness racing are small-scale. Greyhound, outstanding harness racer of the year, has earned $27,000, while Discovery has been earning $64,000. Guy McKinney, trotting's biggest money win ner for a single season, won $60,000 in 1926, compared to Gallant Fox's $308.000 in 1930. At the Fasig-Tipton Old Glory sales of yearling trotters held...
...away from home, became a mechanic, a waiter in an insane asylum and later trainer to Barney Oldfield in the days when Oldfield was a bicycle racer...
Married. Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, 21, daughter of Sir Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton. 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham; and Whitney Straight, 22, Manhattan socialite automobile racer; in London, four days after the marriage of her brother, Viscount Maidstone, to Countess Gladys Széchényi (TIME, July...
Born in San Diego, Calif, of an old Castilian family, Bert Acosta was a professional automobile racer at 13. In 1910, aged 15, he learned to fly in a ship he built himself as a copy of a Curtiss "pusher." Year later he began working for Glenn Curtiss, went to Canada in 1914 to teach Royal Air Force students to fly. Afterward he taught U. S. Army pilots, became a captain in the Wartime Air Service, returned to Curtiss after the Armistice...