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Show RIVER SPEEDBOAT BEATSAST TRAIN TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITEP BEATEN IN RUN I FROM AL-BAN AL-BAN Y TO NEW YORK G,r Wood Drives Craft Down Hudson ,n Two Hours and Fifty-Eight Minutes; Trial Run Sets New Record New York.-Gar Wood, driving his motor speed boat Baby Gar IV, heat I the time of the crack Twentieth Century Cen-tury Limited between Albany and New York City. . Wood's time between the ralro.ad bridge at Albany and the Columbia Yacht club at Eighty-sixth stree , Manhattan, was given out by the official of-ficial observer In the boat at 2 hours and 58 minutes. The Twentieth Century's Cen-tury's official time between Albany station and the Grand Central terminal termin-al is 3 hours and 10 minutes. The first section of the Twentieth Century Limited arrived In New York at 9:30, completing the trip from Albany Al-bany In 3 hours and 39 minutes. , Officers of the New York Central isused a statement after Wood's successful suc-cessful race against the train's time that the Twentieth Century. Limited would not enter into a race. The train would adhere to its regular schedule at all times, they said. The train's time was thirty minutes min-utes behind its ordinary running time for this trip because it had left Albany Al-bany forty minutes ahead of its usual usu-al schedule and was compelled to "loaf" on its journey to be assured of a clear track ahead and not Interfere Inter-fere with the regular movements of other trains. Richard F. Hoyt who stole a march on Wood by sending his speed boat, the Teaser, over the course, racing against time from Manhattan to Albany Al-bany recently, covered the same distance dis-tance in 2 hours and 20 minutes. The day after the Teaser's performance perform-ance Wood offered to bet Hoyt $25,-000 $25,-000 'or any other sporty amount" that either of his boats could beat the Teaser over the same course. Hoyt did not accept the challenge. |