The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1907-01-19
" FLAG TO- FLAG"
MOTORBOAT RACE
Will Be from the Screaming American
Eagle at Miami to the Roaring
British Lion at Nassau.


Entries for the third annual motor
boat carnival. on Lake Worth, Palm
Beach, January % to February l, are
numerous this year. For the first time
the middle west will be represented in
the Florida speed tests, as E. c. Baynes,
of Bay City, Mich, has entered his fast
boat, Secret" This boat, according to
reports, is good for p miles per hour,
and will undoubtedly be entered in the
''flag-to-tiag" international races from
the American to the Brltis! 1ag-Miami
To Nassau. Mr.. Baynes succeeded the
past summer in winning nearly all the
races his boat was entered for in the
middle west, and as she is constructed
somewhat on the hydroplane plan, she
will be watched with great interest in
her efforts in the south. Mr.. Baynes
says that the "Secret," while IL motor
boat proper, combines the theory of q
hydroplane.
Among other entries that will be posi-
tive starters will be the Sparrow"
which is Pennsylvania boat and is con-
sidered by Quaker City experts re
markable speed monster III smooth wa
ter. Chicago also cones to the front
with an entry which will be new idea
in motorboat construction, entered hy
p F. Smith, of the Marker Heavier
Navigation Company. He viii enter
what he calls q hydrocurve hull boat in
behalf of his company. The "Zuest, ;"
an Italian boat, which was prominent
contender ut Monte-C Carlo, will probably
also enter.
Commodore Edward j. Schroeder, of
the Motorboat Club of America, is now
in Florida with his fast Splinter, the
Dixie" which lie expects will win the
Sir Thomas Dewar shield Mr.. Schro-
der will also have competition from the
fast boat, Simplex" entered by A. ID.
Proctor Smith, who is one of the eXecu-
tive committee of the Palm Beach
Power Boat Association.
1t is quite likely that Smith 4 Mabley
will also make an entry
Lieutenant Hugh L. Willoughby, of
Newport, has made an entry of a very
fast boat which he built himself; so has
II. L. Willoughby, Jr., made an entry
1t was the intention of W. X. Van
Er hn &c %
the association, to have fast foreign
= boat in the races, but he has written
that his plans misrarried, and that while
abroad this Writer he would possibly
get the fastest boat procurable for the
1908 caraTal.
Antng many other entries, mostly
F5rida owned boats, are the following
- b J. Southall, Mann.
George Gingras, Rockledge.
Captain Goggin, Rockledge.
g. +. Paddison, Eau Gallie.
w. +. Hostetter. West Palm Beach.
James DuBarry, West Palm Beach.
Captain A. T. Rose, West Palm Beach.
George d. Dewey, Fort Lauderdale-
James X. Clarke, Ardmore Pa.
I. Yates, Hamburg, \. Y.
DIR. Warren Sneden, Jensen.
Daytona will he well represented in
these motorboat races at Palm Beach.
as the following entries will show: ".
W. Austin, E. T. Conrad, d. P. Merrill,
John Van Dorm, d. d. Rodgers and Ed
ward White, all of whom are members
of the Halifax River Yacht Club
Daytona expects to capture many
prizes among the middle class boats.
Preparations are progressing nicely for
the annual event, and the settings for
the night illumination water display,
"The Carnival of Venice" are being
rapidly completed. II is doubtful if any
tournament east or south has seen bet
ter racing in motorbOatS than will be
seen at Palm Beach January % to Feb
ruary l, and the fact that numerous
cruising power boats have come to Flori-
da for the Palm Beach regatta proves
the wide interest in the same; and OF
course the flag to-fiag" race-Miami to
Nassau-is also a powerful attraction to
power boat people.