Emphasis Preaching Journal

Mr. Gar Wood was a genius inventor with many talents and racing speed boats was one of them. He built a series of sleek boats, one each year, christening them Miss America and adding a Roman numeral from I to X to identify its sequence-year. When his Miss America X raced against Sir Kay Don of England, the race was on the Saint Clair River along the edge of Marine City, Michigan, which was my home town. It was 1933 or '34. Thousands of people came from the Detroit area as well as many other places.