A number of people attempted to achieve speed records on beaches, and not all survived. And this wasn't Ocean City, Maryland, in a modern July. The local author

A number of people attempted to achieve speed records on beaches, and not all survived. And this wasn't Ocean City, Maryland, in a modern July. The local authorities would have had something to say if anyone, even a millionaire (when a million was a lot) had tried this on an occupied stretch of beach.