The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1907-02-02
LONG DISTANCE
ENDURANCE TEST
For the Commodore Allen Trophy by
Motor Boats from Palm Beach to
Dayt0na TO Be Exciting.


ply, the prlze that goes to the winner
of the 200-mile motor boat race from
Palm Beach to Daytona, was on exhibi-
ton in Daytona Monday at the jewelry
store of George H. Clark & Sons. The
historical value of the cup, as originally
and exclusively published in the Ga
zette-News, needs no repeating at our
hands. Its history is entwined with the
valor of the American navy. but the
race for its possession and the course
over which the boats will speed in their
battle for what the Spanish lost, makes
1t an object of more than passing in
tereSt
The race from Palm Beach to the Day
iona Halifax River Yacht Club will be
the center of interest 1t is to be
handicap event, and with an unequaled
standard on which to base the handicap
ping the finish at the Halifax River
Yacht Club here should be close and ex-
citing enough to stir the blood of the
most blase and to arose the enthusiasm
of the lovers of the neat, uim, clean
cut craft to the highest point.
All the past week the boats that will
take part i'll this unique contest have
been racing in the various events that
marked tho Lake Worth regatta
Watchful eyes were upon them all the
while, and their average speed accurate
ly computed from the showings they
made. Handicaps will be based upon
actual performances in these sh Grter-
distanced races at Lake Worth.
The boats which have a speed Of
from fifteen miles an hour up, will then
proceed on the race to reach the COM
modious quarters of the Halifax River
Yacht Club in Daytona. OF which Com
modore J. ii. Allen is the ranking officer.
This will be one of the longest moor
boat races ever run, the Hudson river
contests being for but l40 miles while
the course from Palm Beach to Dlytona
The start of this distance race will be
made immediately after the close of the
regatta this week on Lake Worth, and
the Miami regatta, which Immediately
follows.
The official start will be made from
before the Hotel Royal Puincianna, the
boats scuddlng northward through a
canal into Jupiter river. Thence they
push their way, ever northward. to
Hobe Sound
From Hobe Sound the trim water
racers trace their way through the Mar
rows and out into the broad, sweeping
waters of the Indian river. Then they
follow along this beautiful stream,
through the canals, winding along zig
tagging, tortuous channels, on up around
the island known as Grants Farm and
up to quiet, beautiful palm-shcltered
ROckledge.
And here some rare sport again awaits
the racers, an interval of shorter races
breaking the monotonv of the long hard
phil.
Sweeping out into a magnificent
stretch of water before the remodeled
ROckledge hotel, the Indian river fur
nishes an ideal racing place for short
events, stretch almost limitlesS to
north and south, and about two miles
across.
Rockledge is to be made point of
control in the long distance events. The
time of each boat will be taken as it
enters and, after the Rockledge events
have been concluded, will be started on
toward Daytona, with the same time IN
tervals between their StartlngS as cX-
listed between them as they arrived at
Rockledgc. This will make the long dis
lance continues both As to racing time
and the relative positions of the boats.
After the Rockledge events the racers
move on up the Indian river, pass IL
tusville, through the famous llaul-Nvcr
into the Mosquito Lagoon.
Across this broad, sweeping lagoon
they will dash, thence through the Oak
Hill canal, and out into the Hilisboruugh
river. Up the Hillsborough river they
will skim to Mosquito Inlet, marked by
its tall, tapering lighthouse, and famous
because it marks the end of that world
renowned automobile speedway, the
Ormond-Daytona beach.
From this point they enter the Hall
fax and then comes the last dash of the
long race, into the quarters of the Hall
fax River Yacht Club, where the 200
mile endurance ends.
The first boat in wins the event, and
Commodore J. H. Allen, of the Halifax
River Yacht Club, will, on behalf of his
organization, present the beautiful
trophy, a most fitting gift for the victor,
because it itself is the fruit of the vic
tory won by the Urited States navy off
Santiago Harbor.
But the trophy, clustered1about with
war memories, as it is, can be held by
the victor for one year. Three times
must he win it to secure permanent pos
session of this, the Commodore Allen
Trophy.
Yet each winner i'll the successive an
nual runnings-off of this event. will be
presented with silver medal, wrought
of the same captured silver as is the
trophy, and appropriately designed and
so whether or not three successive win
nings of the event make the trophy his,
he will have substantial evidence of his