The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-19
Fort Madison Launch Flies Through
the Water With the Speed Of
Frightened Her
ring.
IT TOOK TWO EVENTS
Independence Got Stuck In the Mud
and the Teaser Was Unable
to Beat the Iowa
Racer.


Peoria yesterday with his new boat,
the Mascot, his boat burning up the
water in a great burst of speed which
sent the craft through the waves
with the speed of frightened herring
pursued by an enraged jelly fish. A
Peoria dispatch tells of yesterdays
speed events as follows:
Mascot took the lead in the the
32-foot class, closely followed by
Teaser. Teaser, who before the fin
ish of the race had never been beaten,
overhauled the Fort Madison speeder
and came down the stretch on the
first lap of the mile triangle with Mas
cot 400 yards behind. AS the boats
went up the leg toward the first buoy,
the Mascot seemed to tear up the wa
as the pair disappeared in the dis
lance seemed to be gaining. When
the first boat was sighted on the way
back the spectators knew by the high
flying water that 1t was the Mascot,
and hundreds of water boats along
the course footed their horns and
blew their whistles, but no one was
convinced that the Mascot was the
winner until she came before the
judges boat after completing the
fifteen-mile run, with Teaser we'll be-
hind
The Wonder from Chicago failed to
enter, although she got h-r number
from the judges boat, and the race
for 32-footers was held for twenty
minutes. Blanche B. was the only
other starter, and her pilot said be-
fore the race that he could not keep
the wash out of his hull at full speed.
Easy For Mascot.
The same trio started in the event
for 26-footers, their being no entries
of boats of the real 32-foot class.
This race was for ten miles. and this
time the Mascot, running IL spectacu-
! lar fa-hion, with 6 feet e, her nose
clear of the river, and great waves
/ of water shooting up on each side
and behind. took the lead from Teas
/ er. her only serious competitor, az
| held it throughout She has maue
| slightly better time than on the fiji
J teen-mile run. % minutes and SO sec
onds for ten miles, which is consid-
cred fast time for 23-foot boat, al
though it does not make new record
for the 26-foot class.
ST Louisans among them some
who had dispaired of the appearance
of independence II. here, were delight.
ed when they awoke this morning
and found that the boat had come in
during the night. She arrived be.
fore dawn, towed by the Columbia OF
st. Louis. Koenig stated tonight that
he would make an effort to repair the
damage to his rudder and steering
apparatus before tomorrow afternoon
SO as to appear in the one-mile speed
trials to be held then.
Scripps, owner of scripps IL, de
cided to ship his boat back to Detroit
tonight, giving up trying to make re
pairs on the after part of her hull
which was leaking badly after the
accident, and to his clutch, which
stuck when the compact with the
snag came. Scripps said that his
boat was thrown more than feet II
the air when he struck the snag. The
motor was shut off at once; then Il
was found that the craft was leaking
badly.
Private boats and the police boa
went to the assistance of the injured
racers Immediately after the accident
At first it was thought that there hat
been collision between Scripps II
and Independence H. Scripps wa.
filling slowly when she was picked up
Columbia and A. Kron's Meteor towee
Independence out of the mud to /;
place of safety. Summaries:
Thirty-two foot class, fifteen miles
Mascot (25 feeD, won. Time
:41.2O. Teaser second. Blanche B
, third
Free-for-aI. twenty miles Hoosie
Boy of Rising Sun. Ind. won. Tim,
, -:45:1S. Lamb ". second Time
:4s:27. Also started-Scripps H., In
, dependence H., Red Wing. Hoosie
Boys time for the first five miles
n :11.29