Although outboard racing had a few pioneering experiments back in 1925, its national championships are just starting their second decade.
Based on the progress since 1929 When country-wide titles were won larger craft.
One of these days—who knows?—a daredevil racing pilot may achieve a hundred miles an hour. Jean Dupuy, the French newspaper publisher, has driven an outboard 79.04 miles an hour and since 1930 ouf-boards have been going fifty miles an hour and better.
A comparison of the official outboard one-mile racing speeds in recent years shows what the growth in interest ju this sport has accomplished:
Class 1929, 37.75 28.70 7 " 4454. 5 New York "Times
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