The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-27
Beautiful Miss Beasley Ex-
cellent Sumter; Captain
Larry Mills Gives Profuse
Thrills

HI HID
When a boating town such as
Key West enjoys a boating show.
that show must fulfill all the re-
quirements of fastidious boat
knowers and still supply thrills
beyond mere boating. And that
is exactly what the Atlantic
Aquatic Stunt Team. sponsored
by the Key West Boat Club. did
yesterday at the Yacht Basin in
a shower of spray. whipping mo-
tors. Hopping boats. and flying
aquaplanes before a crowd esti-
mated at $500 persons.
Key West Boat Club opened
the show with L. p. Altman, Jr,
carrying an American flag around
the course to the accompaniment
of booming cannon. Then fol-
lowed H. A. Duffy in the Sonny
with Wilbert Moehrke and dog
Pup, clown cap n all, on the
aquaplane. Commodore Leonard
Roberts then stunted on the
plane and Miss Patricia Shannon
followed, towed by Duke Bowen
IN Miss Duke III.
Trick and fancy boat driving,
which stood the fast cupboard on
end and low on all sides, opened
the Atlantic Aquatic Stunt Team
show, and had Mills, Coke, Harri-
son and Miss Beasley in the boat.
With Jack Jacks plotting Carl
King lifted high above the water
on the high stills and twisted and
bent over the waves and boiling
wake.
Captain Larry Mills, one of the
most daring stunters in the coun-
Try, then exhibited in fancy ski
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the racing boat and even taking
off one ski and waving it in the
air, with the climax two amazing
jumps off the eight-foot high
jump stationed in the center of
the Basin. The crowd broke in
to a cheer and auto horns footed
loudly on each jump.
With Mills at the wheel Hand
some" Milton Coke then took the
aquaplane to give startling ex-
hibition of throwing the board
out over the water at high speed
from the lash of the boat. Stand
ing he shot far out on the whip
again and again. Gay Nineties'
George Fay in quite an outdated
bathing suit and in often strange
postureS kept the large and ap-
preciate crowd roaring through
out the number. Later Fay even
seized upon a table, tied it up
and mounted it, splashing and
humping over the water
Beautiful, blind Miss Leila Mae
Beasley in a, gorgeous pink ruff
fled bathing costume, with Larry
Mills, skidded around the Basin
together on skis. Miss BeaSley
mounted on Mills shoulders high
into the air to the cheers of the
crowd. Once they toppled from
the strain of the taut ropes and
bouncing waves but mounted
twice again. On her favorite skis
Miss BeaSley then showed how
much at ease she was on them
taking one and then the other of
while planning behind. Jumping
and leaping out of water also
showed her dexterity.
One of the highlightS was the
trapeze act with Mills and King
bearing the trapeze bar and Mil
ton Coke in Scotch plaid bathing
trunks tuning over and over il
around the course. High into the
air Mills then hurtled over the
Jump, this time with an aqua
plane, and spraying water far out
on both sides, whipping his aqua
plane all over the Basin.
Reckless" George Fay, trying
for a new worlds jumping rec
ord, barely made the top of the
lump, then sat down on it in g
surprise comic slit. Coke and
Mills followed with surprising
double ski ride. Harrison and
Fay were lowed behind. one with
an aquaplane, the other with g
tilt aquaplane, to close the show