Sport: Outboard Race

The wind-vane on the Delaware & Hudson Building in Albany, N. Y., is a miniature of Hendrick Hudson's good ship Half-Moon. Early one morning last week this vane stood very still. It was a fine calm morning, but the Hudson River at Albany was not calm. By the pier of the Albany Yacht Club, the river's grey-green surface had been transformed into dirty, bubbly whipped cream. A fleet of 133 little launches, each with an outboard motor attached, was milling about, racing its engines, darting hither and yon like a swarm of...

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