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...Malcolm Campbell, record-holding auto speedster, was chosen chief of a volunteer squad organized at Reigate, England to chase British motor bandits...
Seven miles down the beach Sir Malcolm turned and came back, fighting a wind that pushed his wake of black smoke away from the foam at the water's edge. His average time for the two trips was 253.968 m.p.h., a new record. Pleased, Speedster Campbell held out his arm to show reporters that it was not shaking, said he planned to make another record the next day. Two days later he made records for five kilometers, five miles and ten kilometers...
Three days later, another flyer made a record in the No. 1 event of National Air Race week at Cleveland, the 100-mi. Thompson Trophy Race. Lowell Bayles, onetime coal miner, of Springfield, Mass., flying a Gee-Bee speedster, covered the 100 miles in 25 min. 23:88 sec. His average speed, 236 m.p.h., was 35 m.p.h. better than the late Charles W. ("Speed") Holman's when he won the race a year...
...Oldfield, king bee of the speedway buzz wagons, drove his Green Dragon around and around a dirt track at Barbee's Park in South Joplin. Clouds of choking dust failed to strangle cheers of the thousands (correct) in an inadequate frame grandstand and lining the track. An exhibition, Speedster Oldfield raced only against time. That...
...Brooklands, England, G. E. T. Eyston drove a supercharged M. G. Midget car 96.93 m.p.h. for one mile, breaking the world's record held by Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell. On crawling out of his Midget, Driver Eyston said he was disappointed because he had not gone 100 m.p.h., blamed a hoodoo...