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GAR WOOD AND MISS AMERICA X. SPEED ‘OF 124.91 M.P.H. • (United Press Association—By Electric (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) ALGONA (Michigan) September 20. Gair Wood (drove Miss America X over a measured mile on St. • Clair river to-day at 124.91 miles an ihouf ijn an attempt to recapture the, speedboat record. , He went after the record with a •little preliminary “warming up” in a drizzle rain. He brought the big forty-eight cylinder boat upstream en th e first official trial at 124.41 miles an hour, and then shot downstream at 125.42 miles an hour. He started another trial upstream at 122.17, but gave up the attempt, however, at the end of the third mile. Wood’s performance of 124.91 miles an hour enabled :him to recapture the record. /.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1932, Page 6
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