Antonio Scarfoglio, Captain, Italian Zust

A 21-year-old Italian, Scarfoglio was the youngest racer in the Great Auto Race of 1908.  His father, a prominent writer and newspaper editor in Naples, objected to his son entering the car race.  So Scarfoglio countered with a plan to drive a motorboat across the Atlantic Ocean.  The son won and arrived at the starting line – an instant hero to New York’s six hundred thousand Italian immigrants.

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