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...only thing that stood between Chicago Black Hawk Bobby Hull and goal No. 51 was the entire National Hockey League. By rights, even that should not have been enough. Hull, 27, has muscles (biceps: 171 in.) bigger than Cassius Clay's, a top speed of 23 m.p.h. and a lefthanded slap shot that is quicker (118 m.p.h.) than Sandy Koufax's fastball. By early this month he had used all three to easily tie the N.H.L.'s season record of 50 goals scored-but then the drought...
Every team in the league double-teamed, brutally body-checked him out of plays, and all but filed down his skates. Moaned Hull: "You turn away from one man and there's still another on you." With Chicago's hopes for its first N.H.L. pennant riding on him, it looked as if the 51st were a quintessential jinx...
...Bobby Hull, 27: his 50th goal of the season, tying Maurice Richard's (and his own) National Hockey League record, as the Chicago Black Hawks beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-4; at Chicago...
...rest of the fleet consisted mostly of standard inboards and outboards that might have come from a showroom window. But Jerry Langer's No. 10 was strictly do-it-yourself. An out-board-engine dealer from Miami Beach, Langer had borrowed a Fiberglas mold, poured himself a hull, tacked two ordinary 90-h.p. motors on the back. Just before the race, he decided that he didn't like the pitch of his propellers, so he took a hammer and pounded away until they looked "about right...
...m.p.h. in second place, behind Thunderbird, when disaster struck. "A red warning light suddenly went on, meaning water in the bilge," Bertram said later. "In two minutes we were swimming." Speculation was that one of Moppie's 550-h.p. diesels had pounded its way clear through her hull-nobody would ever know for sure, because she sank like a rock in 90 fathoms of water. That gave second place to Charles Gardner in Surfury-but with true British sportsmanship, he hove to, hauled Bertram and his two-man crew aboard, and abandoned the race to ferry them back...