Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emanuel Madruzzo, "Cardinal and Archbishop of Trent and Secular Prince of the Trentino" had "a suite of 500 gentlemen splendidly attired in rich and bizarre liveries" and "squandered his wealth, since in him the race [of Madruzzo] would be extinguished and the principality left without an heir...
Twenty-seven days after she sailed from Sandy Hook, New York, Azara, a 113-foot schooner, hove languidly into sight of Santander, Spain, and was towed across the finish line. The winner of the race, Elena, had made the same voyage in 16 days, 21 hours (TIME, Aug. 6). Azara's major trouble was running into calm seas. In one four-day period she moved only 20 miles. But her owners, George J. and Francis E. Baker of Detroit, gallant sportsmen, refused to unseal her engines and use them, even though the fresh water supply was running...
...Metre Run. Won by Ray Barbuti of the U. S. 47 4/5 sec. Before the race he drank a cherry eggnog. At the finish he dived into the tape, sprawled upon the cinder track, was severely cut. But that was the way in which he conquered James Ball of Canada by an eyelash...
...another day His Majesty had an opportunity to climb aboard the Nina and say: "I am the King of Spain," to which young Elihu Root Jr. of Manhattan replied: "We had recognized Your Majesty." Nina, tiniest of all the yachts and first to finish in the race from New York to Santander, won the Queen's cup for boats of less than 55 feet waterline length. She had crossed the Atlantic in 24 days. Said her skipper. Paul Hammond: "We carried all the sail we could, but we did not drive the yacht and we shortened sail whenever the weather...
...daughter of the Elena's owner, wrote a seaworthy account of the voyage for the New York Times. She told of one rough afternoon and night: "The ship heeled over until the lee rail was awash and now and then as she shipped seas over the stern the water raced down the scuppers. "When I turned in for the night the sky was covered with ominous black clouds. The sea seemed infinitely large, while our little boat had shrunk in size since we left New York. At 4:30 a. m. heavy squalls struck us unexpectedly with terrific force...