The Seaforth News, 1959-04-09, Page 7Broke Record
HaPf-Blind
gne-Handed !
The man at the 'wheel of the
giant racing car settled h his
Peat and gazed at the miles of
firm golden sand ahead. Some.
where • in the middle of the
stretch lay a measured mile, a
mile that at this moment meant
More than anything else in the
world to him, '
He aimed to race across it in
twenty seconds. If he succeeded
he could claim to be the fastest
man on earth.
With a Last look round to
make sure everything was all
right he got into gear and moved
tiff. Quickly the car gathered
speed. The 450 h.p. engine
screamed as the revolutions
mounted, Sixty, eighty, a hun-
dred miles an hour, and the dri-
ver's foot pressed harder an the
accelerator, A hundred and
twenty, forty, fifty; still he was
gathering momentum as the bea-
cons marking the start of the
measured distance rushed to•
wards him.
At last the car was going flat
out. It was traveling at a hun-
dred and eighty miles an hour,
the fastest speed at .which man
had ever driven, as it 'flashed
across the starting line,
The driver sat grim and tens.
„^r'es tingling as he kept
..settle wide open, hands
and arms taut as he gripped the
wheel to keep on course. Twenty
seconds: the culmination of
months of work and worry and
disappointment. At last,it seem.
ed, the goal was about to be.
reached.
A few hundred yards away the
spectators forgot the chill wind
that was blowing as they gazed
infascination at the machine
that was hurtling like a thunder,
bolt across'the sands. The drivel,
too, had no thought of the wind
as it screeched past his cockpit.
But suddenly, when the car:
was already half -way across the
measured distance, the wind
played a' dramatic part in the
proceedings.
An extra strong gust whipped
into the cockpit, under' the tri.•
ver's goggles and lifted them off
Half -blinded, he took a hand off
the wheel to push them away
so thathe could see. The move•
ment caused his foot to shift
slightly on the accelerator. The
ear slowed ,almost imperceptibly
as it ,neared the end of. the !nee.
sured distance.
And that was how Captain,
Malcolm Campbell gnashed the
world's motor speed record, '
driving one -handed and . half --
blinded. In the few seconds it
took him to adjusthis goggles
the vitalmeasured mile was be.
hind him and it was time to'
slow .down.
That gust of wind, scurrying
across Pendine 'Sands on a dull -
day in February, 1927,. had rob-
bed him of his ambition to cover
a measured mile at .a speed of
three miles a minute. But he.
had raised the record, Set up
on these same . sands a few
months earlier by Parry Thomas,
from 170.6 m.p.h. to. 174.2 m.p.h,
.At the same time he had raised
the kilometre record from 172
m.p.h. to 174.8 m.p.h.
Nowadays, when the motor
speed record stands at over 400
m.p.h. and Campbell's son, Don-
ald, has travelled at four miles
a minute on water, such speeds
seem ridiculously -low. Campbell
liimself made, at the end of his
record run, what now sounds a
naive remark whenhe said he
had found no difference driving
at 180 m.p.h. and 150 m.p.h:
He was speaking from experi-
ence of having touched 1$0
m.p.h. The fact that the records
do not show that speed is due.
to a series of mishaps that make
CENTER OF ATTRACTION — New York Yankee centerfielder
Mickey Mantle signsautographs as he leaves the clubhouse at
St. Petersburg. Mantle, who is out of. action because of a re-
currence of a shoulder injury, had just taken some heat treat-
ment.
this record runwell worthy' of
inclusion among the 'fantastic
stories of sport.
Today, so much room is re-
quired for working up speed
and slowing down that it seems
no . more really high-speed runs
can be attempted in Britain,
but thirty years ago the sandy
beaches along the Bay of Car-
marthen were ideal for record
attempts, and several were made
at Pendine. It was here that
Parry Thomas had set up the
existing record; and Campbell
decided it offered all the Turn -
ties he needed.
For various .reasons, one being
that few" • sightseeing holiday-
makers
olidaymakers would get in the way, it
was decided , to make the at-
tempt as early in the year as
possible, so Campbell set up
camp in January, 1927. Yet it
seemed his expedition was doom.
ed to fail, for day after day
weather conditions made any
serious speed runs too danger-
ous to contemplate.
Frost and fog covered the
country and, though Pendine
was spared most of these trou-
bles, Campbell and his team
had to contend 'with gales and
continuous rain.
At last there came a short
break in' the weather, and he'
decided to try his luck. The car,
fitted with a Napier aero -engine,
was wheeled on to the sands
and he -set off. As it was largely
a trial run, he was riot too hope-
ful of smashing the record on
this attempt.
.In fact, he covered the mile at
approximately 171 m.p.h., equal-
ling the existing figures. If he
could. do the return trip slightly
faster the record would be his.
Quickly, he turned the car
round and set off for' the mea-
sured mile again.
Then, suddenly, with half the
mile covered, the big car check-
ed and slowed. Sorrowfully, the
timekeepers announced the speed
for the return as only 163 m.p.h.
The record bid had failed.
Not until the vehicle came to
a standstill was the truth dis-
covered. Shells lying in the sand
had cut into the tires so badly'
• that one of them was practically
severed. By some instinct Camp-
bell, in themiddle of what must
otherwise have been a record'
run, had realized that disaster
was imminent. He slowed down
and switched off the engine.,
For days afterwards armies of
children were out on the sands
clearing the course of shells.
Huge mounds of them were col-
lected, but the weather remained..
obstinate.
At last, Campbell, becoming
DUSTING A DECADE OFF - Tony Zeit, who lost the middle-
weight crown to Marcel Carden in 1948, dusts •a decade of
time• from his gloves as he announces he's ready to come out
of retirement. Zale says he'd •lee willing to go round -and -round
With present champ; Sugar Ray Robinson. At •present, Zale
runs his own .retfaurant'in Chicago.
impatient, declared that unless
the weather improved within
twenty-four hours ..he would.
pack up and make his attempt
in Denmark.
Miraculously, the skies cleared
next day, though there was' still
a stiff wind, and by early after
noon all was readyfor the
attempt,
He set off for the mile, but had
not gone , far when he stopped
the car. Later he' said he had
had difficulty in changing gear,
but decided to cut short his ap
preach rather than go back to
his starting point: •
He moved off again, and this
time all went well. The kilo was
covered at 176 m,p,h. and the
mile at ,179 m.p.h. He was still
gaining speed at the end of the
run, so that false start, cutting
short his approach by a quarter
of a mile, had robbed him of the ,
magic 180 m.p.h. figures, al-
though he was travelling faster
than this at the end of the run.
The .incident o1 the goggles,
lowered his figures: for the re-'
turn to 173 m.p.h. for the kilo
and 169 for the mile., Again •a
mishap that no one could fore-
see had robbed him of the figures
he wanted.
But at least the record was .his.
Malcolm Campbell was satisfied.
Skiers Migrate -
From Snow to Water
If the pilot of a fast jet plane
could race the sun around the
globe, he would look dawn on
countless thousands- of happy
people enjoying the exciting
sport of water skiing on the
lakes, bays, rivers, lagoons, gulfs,
coves,;inlets, bayous, and :oceans
of many continents.
Water skiing today is un-
doubtedly the fastest-growing
sport, sweeping the world with
an overwhelming appeal as an
outlet for excitement and pleas-
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skiers cannot be accurately de-
termined, since . several million
have taken up the sport inre-
cent years. It is, however, an
established fact that water skiers
now considerably outnumber
snow skiers. This is remarkable
in that snow skiing is a rather
ancient sport compared to, water
skiing. • '
In Mexico, you will find still
another great area for skiing.
Acapulco, on Mexico's western
coast, is a thriving centre far
water skiing by natives and tour-
ists alike; they enjoy it from
sunup to sundown. • And you
can keep going south, for ski-
ing is enjoyed throughout Bra-
zil, Argentina, Peru, and Chile.
On our recent tour through
South America, my `'wife and I
found country •after country
where enthusiasm for water ski-
ing was just 'fantastic. In Bra-
zil, Peru, Colombia, and Uruguay
we found bodies of water teem-
ing with water skiers. They have
a series of lakes 86 miles tong
in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where
skiers enjoy the sport twelve
months of the year.
During a flight to Peru, the
captain of the plane spoke to us
about water skiing. He had learn-
ed to ski in Miami for the first
time and now skied frequently
in Lima. He arranged for us -to
meet some of his skiing friends,
and the password inevitably
seemed to be "Are 'yeti a water
skier, too?"
It was on our return journey,
however, that wereally had our
greatest thrill. We had just pass-
ed through the Miraflores locks
of the Panama Canal with Col-
onel Arnold, army engineer in
charge, He was pointing out the
tremendous size of the locks
when a flotilla of water skiers
came speeding by. Seeing this
impressive display at this most
important gateway between two
oceans only. strengthened our
convictions on the universality 0f
the sport. — From "Water Ski-
ing," by Dick Pope.
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the powers the bee has when it
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MERRY MENAGERIE
?Ill_ -.
CAW��1
• "What's she got that I haven't
got -not counting fleas?"
ISSUE 14 — 1959
SLEEP
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