Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-03-28
RNIVAL FOR
IOTOR BOATS.
week Sport on the Hudson Is
BeinS Planned for Early
in June.

a motor-Roat carnival on the u
son river is how being discussed by the
members of the National Association
of Engine and Boat Manufacturers.
The plan was talked over informally
at the annual meeting of the eXecu
tive committee in this city, and at the
next meeting, which will be held
within a month, definite plans will
be arranged.
The proposition is to hold a weeks
series of races, including contests for
all classes of boats, closing with an
evening carnival and probably a dis
play of fireworks. The first or second
week in June has been proposed as the
most suitable time for the event, and
the headquarters for the start of the
races will, in all probability, be from
the Columbia Yacht Club, foot of West
Eighty-sixth street. The Association
of Boat Manufacturers may anchor a
large barge off the clubhouse ncar the
starting and finishing mark.
One of the most interesting features
about the carnival will be the races
for the acknowledgements boats,
those designed chiefly for pleasure
use. Most of the racing last season
was restricted to the high-powered
boats, and while some of the pleasure
type craft did enter a few events,
they were usually at a disadvantage,
eve with the handicap allowance
granted. The spirit of the race was
lost when high-powered boats mel
those of low power, for in such an
ever the interest was conferred entirely
in the actual speed made by the fast
est boat, and although a slow boat
might win on its heavy handicap al
lowance, it did not really earn the
mark of honor that would have been
granted to it had the same boat won
without the necessity of a handicap in
a class where all the racing boats we're
of equal calibre.
This phase of motor boat racing,
which has been much neglected, ex-
cept by some of the yacht clubs on
Jamaica Bay, and at Palm Beach 10 a
limited extent last month, will be
made n of the prominent features OF
the coming carnival. Events will be
arranged for all classes of boats, and
if enough entries are received they
will be classified according to length
and also by horse power. The aces
for these slower boats will be from
two to ten miles, as those distances
will show their capabilities fully as
we'll as longer distances, and the class
flying of competing boats by horse
power will furnish a good illustration
of the ability of small powered boats
to maintain a stated speed per hour.
In this respect the carnival will Writ
ually be a motor boat exhibition with
practical results.
The racing courses will be carefully
surveyed by government surveyors, SO
there will be no question of the actual
speed made by the winners. For the
high-speed boats longer contests will
be provided. The regular thirty-mile
course, used last year from the Col
umbia Yacht Club for the challenge
cup and other events, will be raced
over, and it lis quite probable that a
race to Poughkeepsie and back will
be added. Several owners of the fast
new boats that will be seen in the
races this season are anxious to beat,
if possible, the admirable record made
last October by the Xpdnc, owned by
the late Frank Croker, and in which
he won the race to Poughkeepsie and
back, doing 281s miles an hour.