SPEED ON THE WATER.
GAR WOOD CLAIMS NEW RECORD (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 8.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 5. A report from Miami Beach, Florida, states Gar Wood has claimed a newworld speed boat record with a twoway average of 111.712 miles an hour on the Indian Creek course. Here with Miss America IX. he recorded 112,434 miles an hour on the southward run over a nautical mile and 110,989 miles on the northward run. The elapsed time southward was 36.87 seconds and northward 37.35 seconds. The average speed, figured in statute miles, was 1.489 miles an hour faster than that recorded by Kay© Don at Lake Garda, Italy, last July. Before Wbod ,( S record becomes official it must be approved by the International Association and the Yachtspien’s Association of America.
Changes in the hull and the insta’•lation of superchargers brought the iigher speed, Gar Wood said.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1932, Page 5
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