CHALLENGE FOR TROPHY.
Kaye Don to Pilot Famous Boat in America. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, August 11. Kaye Don. who holds the world’s water speed record, leaves England to-morrow for America, where he will challenge the American holder. Gar Wood, for possession of the British international trophy He will pilot the speed boat Miss England 11. The Harmsworth trophy was won last year by Garfield A. Wood in his boat Miss America IX.. with a speed of 77 390 miles an hour. Kaye Don, Britain’s famous speed motorist, attained a speed of 101 49 miles an hour on April 2 of this /ear at the Buenos Aires Exhibition.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 191, 13 August 1931, Page 1
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110CHALLENGE FOR TROPHY. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 191, 13 August 1931, Page 1
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