Records

In Miami Beach. Last fortnight, when Garfield Arthur ("Gar"') Wood began his winter occupation of trying to better Kaye Don's speedboat record of 110.223 m.p.h. he failed by a couple of watch ticks. Last week he lowered the hull of his Miss America IX to make her cut through ripples instead of bounce over them, then claimed he had beaten the world's record by more than the requisite .5 m.p.h./- He covered the Indian Creek course of one nautical mile (6.080 ft.) southward in 36.87 sec., northward in 37.35 sec. and computed his average speed, subject to official confirmation, as 111.712 land m.p.h. In Manhattan-- Joie Ray's greatest mile race was run in 1925. His time--4 min. 12 sec.--equalled the indoor world's record set ten days earlier by Paavo Nurmi. Lasi week Gene Venizke, a 23-year-old German-American of Boyerstown, Pa., who was unknown two years ago and no better than a steady pacesetter last year, beat a crack field in a mile race for the Wanamaker Memorial Trophy. His time, 4 min. 11, sec., became the new world's record.

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