Don v. Wood

When the Prince of Wales was in Buenos Aires last month, it was known he wanted to take a speed boat ride with famed Kaye Don in Miss England II (TIME, March 30). Although the Argentine Navy offered to sweep clear a course on the Parana River, the prospect aroused anxiety in British and Argentine sporting publics. Miss England II was the boat in which the late Sir Henry Segrave was killed last year when she hit a floating branch and sank on Lake Windermere (TIME, June 23). Wales got no ride. Last week, with H. R. H. safely attending social functions in Brazil, Kaye Don drove Miss England II up the estuary of the Parana River, three miles of which Government launches had dragged for driftwood. On the last of three trips, he drove a mile and back at 103.49 m.p.h., a new record. In Miami, Gar Wood of Detroit, who had set the previous record last fortnight in Miss America IX at 102.256 nautical* m. p. h. commented: "We'll see about it."

*A nautical mile is 800.27 ft. longer than a statute mile.

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