CULLS A DANGER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 11

CULLS A DANGER

SMITH’S STORY OF RUN PUNS SPEED OF 300 M.P.H. THE SUN'S Special Reporter KAITAIA, Today. ••Naturally I am intensely pleased with the ‘Anzac's’ performance, ror even with ideal conditions I doubt whether she could have bettered that time by many miles an hour,” said ■•Wizard” Smith after a record-mak-ing run yesterday. -We were travelling at about 135 miles an hour when we crossed the starting line. and by the time we reached the three-mile peg we had hit a gait of 150 miles an hour. We maintained that speed until the finish. “There was a moderate cross-wind blowing At about the four-mile peg I could feel the pressure on my right arm and shoulder. In fact, they began to ache, and I got down lower in the cockpit and eased over toward Don. "It is undoubtedly a great beach, and I doubt if there is a better one in the world to run a 10-mile burst. There were a few patches of shell, but they did not appear to cut the tyres. I was more afraid of birds on the beach than the shells. We killed about half a-dozen, including a big greytack. It hit the top of the radiator, skidded along the bonnet and hit the back of the seat between Don and I. leaving a lot of feathers round the motor-meter. The birds were dangerous. “I am certain to be here about this time next year with a 2,000-h.p. machine which has already been ordered from England to attack Sir Henry Segrave's mile record. I expect to do 300 miles an hour.” Mr. and Mrs. Smith and party are leaving here tomorrow morning for Auckland, and will proceed to Rotorua for a rest before going South to the Oreti Beach, where Smith hopes to better his time for the mile.