MOTOR-BOAT SPEED RECORD
67.932 MILES AN HOUR ATTAINED.
RACING FOR HARMSWORTH CUP
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. • ■ Received Sept. 1, 11 p.m. New York, Aug. 31..
At Detroit, Gar Wood, in American VIII., won the first heat of the Harmsworth Cup motor-boat races, establishing a new world’s record of 67.932 miles per hour for six laps of a thirty-mile course. Estelle was fourth.
Tlie British entry, driven by an Eng->£ lishwoman, Miss Marion Carstairs, developed ignition trouble in the third.-: lap and did not complete the course Al- i though she may race ■in the second •» heat onxMonday, her performance can-,, not count for the cup, which will re-/i main in America because all the other entries are American.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1929, Page 9
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