The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-02
FIRST RACE Of ITS
KIND PROMOTED
Some of the Boats Are Fine EX-
ampleS of Skilled Work
manship.
OCEAN RACING BECOMING
MORE POPULAR EACH YEAR
Entries Have Been Fewer Than
Expected, but Sufficient
for Race.
Tribune snecial snortInc Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
NEW YORK, June 1.-The entries
for the long distance ocean motor-b boat
race have closed with the secretary of
the Motor Boat Club of America. Two
entries were received, the Alias Craig,
owned by James Craig, and Eben Ste
vens and Idaho, owned By Peter Shields
of Philadelphia. This is the first race
of the kind ever proposed for motor
boats. and is held under the Joint
auspices of the Motor Boat Club Of
America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht
Club. The start will be made from the
club station - a - of the Motor Boat
Club Of America; at One Hundred and
Eighth street and Hudson river, on the
morning OF June S, and the contest
ants VIII be escorted for some distance
by various boats Of the fleet of the
club.
The boats entered for this race are
fine examples of the boat builder s art,
and are of n good, strong. seaworthy
type. Ailsa Craig is 80 feet 10 inches
In length over all; 30 feet on the water
line; 10 feet extreme breadth: total
draught . feet. She is strongly con
structed of oak and hard pine. and has
two masts She will carry 500 feet OF
canvas TO be used when weather con.
ditions are favorable or TO steady her
in bad weather. The motor is a so
horsepower, four-cylinder Craig. which.
under favorable weather conditions,
should give the boat a speed of eleven
or twelve miles per hour She will
carry 1000 gallons of gasoline, l75
gallons of water, and provisions suf.
icienJ to supply her crew for one
month. Idaho is so feet in length over
all; SO feet on the water line; breadth
mo c-rSr, ylEs1, ,tr,kt ~
inches. She is of different type from
the Ailsa Craig, being designed so as
to be suitable for cruising along shore,
after the race is over. She is equipped
with q 25-horse. power Standard motor.
and viii carry 500 gallons OF gasoline
and 80 gallons of water; she Will also
carry provisions for one month S sup
sail spread for emergencies. The tro-
ply for which these boats will com.
pete is a very massive silver cup, do
mated by James Gordon Bennett. who
IS an honorary member of the Motor
Boat Club Of America, and which cup
Is known as the Bermuda cup.
First Ocean Motor Race.
This event is the first long distance
open ocean race for motor boats, and
these two boats will be pioneers in
ocean racing. Long distance racing for
motor boats is becoming more and more
popular each year, and though other
races have been held, both here and
abroad. yet none have ever been so
long a distance or in the open sea. The
Marblehead race, which this year is
from New Rochelle to Marblehead, has
become classic and each year attracts
large entry list, but the distance is
only Approximately one-half that of the
distance in the New York Bermuda race
and is hardly ever out of sight of land.
The Trans-Mediterra race held
few years ago is the only foreign event
corresponding with the Bermuda race.
In that event the attempts made at
the time to negotiate the course In
boats uusuited for the work, proved a
great fiasco and was never repeated.
It's distance was approximately only
one-third Of the distance from New
York to Bermuda
The race to Bermuda will be watched
with keen interest, not alone by yachts
men Of this and foreign countries, but
also by naval officials, as the success.
ful termination Of the race will prove