New-York tribune., 1905-02-24
Sports
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DpOR1SffeN'
TRYING MOTOR BOATS.
Everybody Rides on the Lagoon at
the Sp0rtsmen's ShO7c.

Are YOU going for a ride is the ,nost~frequent
question heard at the Motor Boat and Sportsmens
Show at the Garden. The lake, which takes up
nearly all the main floor, furnishes room for
few Of the Rotor boats to speed at the Same time
and gives q good opportunity of showing what
the boats can do. Another large crowd gathered
at the show throughout the day yesterday. and in
the evening the throng became greater 1t
with difficulty that the spectators forced their
way about, and from the way the exhibitors of the
many motor boats were kept busy it was evident
that the boats coming in for the biggest share
of interest.
Captain Stephen Van Allen the rife shot arrest
ed on Wednesday a charge of violating the pro-
visions of the sanitary code discharged by
Magistrate Flammer in the jefferson Market Court
yesterday and was back giving his clever perform
ances last evening. but he not shooting any
more glass balls from the mouth of his assistant.
When the roundsman who made the arrest told
of this feat the magistrate said; II should say
that it violation. should think that it
would upset the nervous systems Of the spectators
TO watch such dangerous exhibition"
Van Allen invited Magistrate Flammer to come
up to the Garden and how harmless his feats
with the rife were. but the magistrate did not
show any enthusiasm over the idea
Frederick W. Vanderbilt bought 32-foot cleo
trio launch from the Electric Launch Company
yesterday The order calls for a boat of special
design finished in mahogany, with low Venetian
cabin. 1t will be taken his summer home in the
AdrondAcks
w H. Ketcham president of the American Power
Boat Association, who starts for Florida to-day
This is the greatest exhibition of the motor boat
ever known" said Mr.. Ketcham. but 1 quite
confident ii is pigmy compared with the shows
we sha! have in the future. Eventually l believe
alcohol will be used instead of gasOlene. OF course
racing is a sport in which all interested
and although l wouldn't to predict just how
fas* the motor boat will go, in time. l am quite
sure. 1t will close to the railroad speed of
few years ago.
The life saving performance has come in for
impersonates a girl is rescued from "a watery
grave" the crowd simply goes wild. The real
Indians are also attracting interest.
The first heat OF the fitting cleverly
won. in 81 minutes by Harold r. Hare and II. c.
kinck, jr., from j. J. Rattenbrun jr.. and H. L.
Danburg. In the second trial heat, however. Rat
tenbrun and Danburg turned the tables Hare and
hlnck The various swimming contests came in
for applause
II. w Fletcher. the automobiIist. said he proposed
to drive De Dietrich motor boat this He has
sold two S0-horsepower engines to E r. Thomas
be used a twin-screw boat that he is having
built for racing.
The trout hy casting contest for distance. limited
TO youths under twenty years old, went H
Cruckshank. with IS feet. l.. Smith with 81 feet
was first in the contest for fly casting for dis
tance only for those who had never cast more than
angler. made a cast of 60 feet 9 inches with a two
ounce rod $4 feet long. This is a worlds record.
put as II was not made in competition II be
allowed. although all the officials present