ATTACK ON SPEED RECORD
MISS ENGLAND’S FEAT ECLIPSED AMERICANS CLAIM NEW HONOUR. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, January 27. At Miami Beach (Florida), Gar Wood to-day set the mark of 110.785 miles per hour in Miss America IX, to claim the world's speed boat record. On the second run Wood made 110.49 miles southward over a measured nautical mile course on Indian Creek. Later on the north-bound run, he made 111.08 miles per hour, the elapse time being 37.525ec. Sweeping was continued in an area of about a mile square, though it is too rough for divers to descend.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 19095, 29 January 1932, Page 7
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101ATTACK ON SPEED RECORD Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 19095, 29 January 1932, Page 7
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