Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-06
MALLARD TAKES
BOAT ING HONORS
Beardsley's speeder Carries On
Ramser Trophy and The
Argus Cup Yesterday.
NINE IN A 1o-MILE RACE
Course Is Travelled In So Minutes and
20 Seconds-Midget Davenport,
Second, But Disqualified.

The Labor day races which vert
pulled of by the Island City Boating
association yesterday afternoon proved
the best and most interesting that
have ever been given by the club and
the large numbers who thronged the
banks on this side of the river were
well satisfied with them. There were
four races, two speed races, one handi-
cap and a novelty race. The feature
race of the day was the second one,
Glass B, free-for-all, IN which two fine
loving cups were the trophies. The
race was a combination Of two races,
the general free-for-all and the Island
City free-for-all
There Were Nine Entries.
The Ramser trophy was the prize for
the first boat to cross the line and the
Argus trophy was the prize for the
first boat belonging to the Rock Island
club to finish, and it fell to local
speedster to win, the boat, the Mallard,
owned by c. l.. Beardsley, winning the
race from all competitors. The course
was 10 miles and was made in SO min
utes and 25 seconds by the winner
The Midget of Davenport afterwards
disuualified) was second, the Scamp
III. of Davenport, third and the PerfeX
of Moline, fourth. The Midget, it was
found, was not owned by boat club
owner and was not being run by mem
bers of any boating club, and so 1t was
ruled out of all races.
Scamp III. Was Handicapped.
The Scamp III, known to be the
IN q I not
In the country. did its racing yester-
day with only two of its four cylinders
In commission. The other two mad
been injured recently and the cylinders
and pistons had been removed. leaving
The case open. The engine, OF course,
deyeloped less than half Its usual
mower. hut even at that the Daven-
mort boat ran the fastest of any of the
boats in the harbor and had 1t not
been for additional engine troubles and
4 poor start, it might easily have won
the free-for-all.
The first race of the afternoon was
for boats under % feet in length ana
the Scamp III. took that easily over
field of seven starters. The time was
1889. The disqualified Midget finished
second. the Imp of Davenport third
and the Perfex of Moline fourth.
The I. C. B. A handicap, in which
another splendid cup was the prize
was won by the Richard B. The Nal
lard finished second. the Nawanada
third and the Jewell II; fourth. The
winners actual time was 2O:36.
Lemon Race Good
The "lemon race" third on the pro
gram, supplied no end of amusement
for the spectators. The contestants
tied their boats to the judges boa
while another launch went up the river
throwing air-tight cans of small slzt
right and left The object of the race
was to see which boat could collec
the most of these cans. AT the sho
of the gun the contestants had TO star
their engines and take up their WORK
Some aimed straight up the river am
took everything within their reach
Some tried to zig-zag around after TN
cans and several nearly fell out
their boats reaching for the eluslv
prizes. When all the cans mad oeel
picked I'D, it was found that Commo
dore G. A. Jencke. in the Myrtle, ma
secured 10: r. E. Snow, in the Ell Car
itan. had the same number, and Hel
man Sieghartner, in the Josephine, ma
II and Charles Kolls, in the NaWs
dana. had T. The two high men oreN
lots for first prize and Snow won IN
reward was Is gallons OF gasoline. II
nr,ze for Commodore Jencke was L
gallons of gasoline.