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Duck soup, a 24-foot shark owned by Sid Dakin of the Toronto Boulevard Yacht Club, has a practice run on Lake Ontario for The Toronto Daily Star Gold (...)
Duck soup, a 24-foot shark owned by Sid Dakin of the Toronto Boulevard Yacht Club, has a practice run on Lake Ontario for The Toronto Daily Star Gold (...)

Duck soup, a 24-foot shark owned by Sid Dakin of the Toronto Boulevard Yacht Club, has a practice run on Lake Ontario for The Toronto Daily Star Gold (...)

Date7/31/1968
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Original Toronto Star caption: Duck soup; a 24-foot shark owned by Sid Dakin of the Toronto Boulevard Yacht Club; has a practice run on Lake Ontario for The Toronto Daily Star Gold Cup Championship tomorrow. The event is for shark class boats and Dakin is a strong favorite since he has won the North American shark titile the last two years. Thirty boats have entered and the sailing begins at 11.30 a.m. on Humber Bay.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0097204F
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