SPORTS AND PASTIMES
CAR RACING AT BROOKJLANDS WORLD’S RECORDS BROKEN. • . (United Press Association.). (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) . LONDON, October.3l. Despite a high and treacherous wind, an Australian, John Cobb, driving a monster Napier-Railton car at Brooklands, lowered the world’s records for the standing start kilometre at 88.14 miles per hour, and the standing start mile at ]O2 52 At the end of the mile Cobb was travelling at nearly 150 miles per hour, which is dangerously close to Brooklands track safety limit. His last gear change was made at 100 miles pei houx. UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS NEW ZEALANDER PROMINENT. LONDON, October 31. At the Cambridge University freshmen’s sports the . New Zealander L Williams won the three-mile race in 16Jmm. BOXING THE MIDDLE-WEIGHT TITLE. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BOSTON, October 31. Vince Dundee, of Baltimore, won the middle-weight title to-night, gaming the decision over Lou Brouillard m rounds.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22100, 2 November 1933, Page 4
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