Bad Baby

Garfield ("Gar") Wood of Detroit builds speedboats -- faster speedboats every year bearing the name "Baby Gar" and a numeral. One day last week the Baby Gar VII slowed down to 40 miles an hour, with intent to turn around a buoy in the Havana open speedboat contest. Just ahead, the speedboat Miss Palm Beach was making the same turn. Splash went a wave slowing up Miss Palm Beach by a split second. Crash went Baby Gar VII into Miss Palm Beach, throwing overboard her own pilot, George Wood, brother of Gar. With her motors roaring, Baby Gar VII churned round in a circle, her rudder jammed hard over. George Wood caught a rope dragging from her, climbed aboard, cut the spark. Then Baby Gar VII sank under him.