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Racing to circle the world in 18 days, John Henry Mears has adopted the number 13 as a talisman. Reasons: 1) There are 13 letters in the name of the airplane (City of New York) which carries Racer Mears and Capt. Charles B. D. Collyer across Europe and Asia; 2) the 13 letters in the name of J. D. Rockefeller, who gave each of the globe-circlers a lucky dime; 3) the 13 letters in the name of Standard Oil Co., which "brought Mr. Rockefeller no ill luck"; 4) the first letter of "Mears" is the 13th of the alphabet...
Here a stretch of rough water called forth desperate efforts, threw two capsized sportsmen to the waiting rescue ships, gave a comfortable lead to a seaworthy Corker sea sled driven by Charles P. Stevens of Albany, N. H. Racer Stevens never lost his head. His time: 14 hrs., 5 minutes, 37 seconds...
Captain Malcolm Campbell, big-jawed, handsome British automobile racer, drove his Campbell-Napier Blue Bird car one mile with the wind over the hard sands of Daytona Beach, Fla. Speed: 214.79 m.p.h. He drove it back a mile against the wind. Speed: 199.66 m.p.h. Thus, he set a new official automobile record of 206.95 m.p.h. The old record had been made a year ago by Major H. O. D. Seagrave, also British, in a Sunbeam car going 203.79 m.p.h...
...under her stern projected a bronze colored tail, raising her out of water, reducing hull resistance. Miss America V, world's record holding hydroplane, arrived but was not admitted. The show space was already overcrowded. She was removed to the show rooms of her owner Gar Wood, famed racer and manufacturer. The Greenwich Folly of George H. Townsend, President of Boyce Motometer Co., winner last August of the Gold Cup, greatest of all motor boat speed prizes, was absent. But there were numerous speedy Chris-Craft, numerous Dodge Water Cars, sometimes raised to specially built speed efficiency and raced...
...ambition of most motor racers is to open a motor repair or accessory shop when they break down physically. Albert Champion, shrewd and foreseeing, abandoned racing while he still was healthy. He imported spark plugs and sold them to the then small and experimenting U. S. motor manufacturers. Twenty years ago he began a small factory in Boston to make them himself. William Crapo Durant, planning to organize General Motors, built a factory with him at Flint, Mich., and the fame of Albert Champion, racer, faded behind the greater fame of his initials which trademarked the spark plugs he made...