NEW RECORD SET
For Speed Boats EY MISS AMERICA X. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). ALGONA (Michigan), Sept. 20. Gar Wood drove Miss America the Tenth over a measured mile on the St. Clair River to-day, at 124.91 miles a:i hour, in the attempt to recapture tho si’.iicdboat record. Woods’ I'erftiimam-o, 124.91 miles an hour, enabled him to recaj ture the record, which had boon held by Kay Don (Britain). V r ood wont after the record with a littl'. preliminary warming up, in a <lrizz : c of rain. lie brought the big forty-eight cylinder boat upstream on (he first official trial at 124.91. Then ho shot downstream at 125.42. Ho started another trial upstream at 122.17. Ho gave up at the end of tho third mile.
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Grey River Argus, 22 September 1932, Page 5
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