124.91 m. p. h.

Carving a wide white scar up & down Detroit's Lake St. Clair one morning last week roared brown-hulled Miss America X, her four Packard motors tuning up within 200 r. p. m. of their maximum 2,700. Timers clocked the flying wedge of smoke and spray at an average of 124.91 m. p. h. for two statute miles--a new world's record, 5.16 m. p. h. faster than Kaye Don's time in Miss England III last spring on Loch Lomond. Climbing out of his boat, the old silver fox of U. S.-speed-boating, Gar Wood, defender of the Harmsworth Trophy, smiled contentedly. He had kept a promise to his country and himself.

"Heartiest congratulations," cabled Kaye Don, who last fortnight acquired a U. S. bride but lost the backing of his patron, Charles Cheers Wakefield, Lord Wakefield. Chairman of C. C. Wakefield & Co. Ltd. (lubricants), the aging Lord has for years subsidized Britons speeding by air, land and sea. Far-hopping James Allan Mollison and the late Sir Henry Segrave were his proteges. Now he thinks the publicity not worth the outlay.

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