Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-17 | Page 15 | Don's Confinement to Jail Recalls Time Gar Wood Ducked Him in River

Dons Don's Confinement to J Jail ail Recalls Time Gar Gm Wood Ducked Him in River I By PAUL GALLICO NEW YORK July 17 One One sees by byl the bythe the papers that Kaye Don the British race driver W was lS awarded four months month in a British jug for manslaughter which ought just about to finish his run of bad luck I never knew Don in connection with his automobile r racing cing game with which he had considerable suc sue cess But I did watch him try with utter futility to match wits and skill and engines with the Gray Fox of oC Algonac Gar Wood in the great Harmsworth cup races The first year old Wood outwitted Don and nearly drowned him The second year Dons Don's boat went belched flame lame and black oil smoke and stopped slopped dead Through all aU of ot these adventures and misadventures misad ventures Don preserved the herb herlo- comic demeanor of the true British adventurer half halt heroic and half hall funny Cunny But whatever you have to say about the guy that he was careless careless care care- less stupid or overbearing one thing you c could uld not say say that that he was was was' ever afraid Rare Don was the typical pink and white Englishman with the be Charlie Chaplin mustache and nd the tho stare stage accent nut But he he heWIS was WIS' a arand grand rand figure of a man man that Sunday Sunday Sun Sun Sun- day In September of 1931 when he brought his Miss En England land n II the sliver bullet back to the Judges Judge's stand the winner over Wood In the first of the three h heats a s of of the Harmsworth cup race He lie had bad led Wood around all the wa way the American driving In ing the old Miss 1155 America II which was before the days of the four coupled motors and had beaten him 5 soundly The sun was setting on the Detroit river and Don stood up in the cockpIt cockpit cockpit cock cock- pit of his silver boat in his white monkey suit his arms folded across his chest his helmet off and his yellow yel yellow low head bare in the setting sun The water was blue e the sun blood blood- red red and and his boat gleaming silver The river was lined with gayly clad craft whipping bunting from bow to stern and Don that day ay was every inch the hero and the victor and Ic played I Ithe the role right up to the hilt There was no mistaking who had won the therace therace therace race that day The next time 1 I saw Don which I was two days later he had substituted for his helmet a dunce cap through which stuck long furry cars and he was sopping wet wet and full of the Detroit river Gar Gas Wood had first suckered him Into disqualification tion and then sank him T The e methods used by Wood were not esp especially creditable to his honor but still l less s creditable to Dons Don's thinking That was the fa famous famous race In which Gar Wood lured I IDon Don over the starting line seconds ahead of the gun causing them both to be bc disqualified and permitting his brother in an Inferior craft to cruise around the the course at rowboat rowboat- speed and win fhe the heat However before the two boats could be stopped Wood managed to waggle wale his stern at Don going around a turn urn and sink lInk him with his wash Miss 1 England II shot straight up Into lLIto the air and then just jUt as straight down to the bottom bot hot tom torn of the river and that was the end of the Harmsworth cup races races raced for that year