The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-06-22
Mississippi Valley Power Boat
Association Regatta.
BIG EVENT At DUBUQUE, IA.
City Is Making Elaborate Plans for
the Great Regatta, and Worlds
Records Are Expected To
Be Broken.


the widespread national attention
being directed to. the annua
regatta this year of the Mississippi:
Valley Power Boat association al
Dubuque, Iowa, July 3, 4, S and 6
Two score of the greatest marine rae
ing machines in the country will b<
entered and fifty thousand people from
all parts of the country are expected
to be present to see worlds record
broken as predicted by w. H. Fauber
inventor of the hydroplane, the new
demon of speed.
In no field, excepting the conquest
of air, has there been the wonderful
development during the past two on
three years that has been seen in mo-
tor boats A few years ago boat
making ten miles an hour was consid'
cred a millionaire's delight. Now the
same boat is tub" and the million.
aire toys, instead, with a hydroplane
which will skim over the water almost
at lightning speed-50 to IS miles an
hour.
The Mississippi Valley races at
Dubuque will be the first American
competition of these new high power
ed marine racers. The greatest boats
produced in America this year have
been entered, including Dixie w.
speed SIS miles an hour, Vita H.
speed so miles an hour, RED Top Ill.,
speed so miles an hour, Yankee"
with 600 horse power motors and
speed estimated at between so and SIS
miles an hour. Besides these there
will be many other great boats, all in
the international defender class, which
it cost fortune to build and which
are expected to trim the French and
English speed fiends in later races
All of these boats will receive their
first public trials in the Dubuque races.
1t will in fact be virtually the elimina-
ton for the International events to
follow.
Boaters and visitors will come to
Dubuque from all sections and from all
directions. The cruise of power boats
will be one of the big features of the
regattas. Power boats will begin to
leave the farther reaches of the Miss.
issippi, lower Mississippi, Missouri,
Ohio, st. Criox, Illinois and other riv.
ers late in June, bound for the regat.
ia city and scores of boats will come
from the great lakes. AS the fleets
progress the boats will be joined by
others until the night of July 2, when
the northern fleet anchors at Cass.
vile, Wis, the northern rendezvous and
the southern fleet anchors at Bellevue,
the southern rendezvous, there will be
hundreds of boats of all description
all ready to follow the reception fleet
which will come out from Dubuque to
meet them, back into the harbor the
morning Of July Srd. The 3rd will be
devoted to the reception Of visitors
and the big races start the afternoon
of July 4th. This day the 4O.foot
class for such boats as Dixie w."
"Eph," RED Top IT," "Hoosier Boy"
"DistQrber H." Vita IT," and Yankee"
viii race for the championship and
prizes of $1,000 cash and the Webb
$1,000 silver cup. The same day the
20-foot class, considered by many the
most spectacular, will race and speed
as high as 40 miles an hour is prom.
Used for these boats which are no
longer than fish pole. In the even.
ing an illuminated boat parade will
be held and an aquatic fireworks dis.
play which it is promised will be the
greatest ever seen in the west
On July 5th the 80 and sc foot
classes will be run and another H.
Illuminated parade will be held in the
evening, together with fireworks On
the 9Th the handicap for winners will
be one of the big features, as will
also the race against time by the
champion. 1ntermingled with these
principal events will be dozens OF
lesser races which will not be so fast,
but which will be filled with specta,
cular features
Dubuque is making elaborate plans
to entertain this great American event
Dubuque homes will be thrown open
to visitors, and official guides will be
everywhere, while an information
bureau is to be established down
town. All available camping ground
has been leased in the vicinity
of the city for the visiting fleet and
hundreds are expected to camp out
within short distance Of the race
course. There will be many excursion
trains and dozens by large steamboats,
will carry crowds to the regatta city,
anchoring off the race course during
the events.
Illustrative that .hydroplane racing
is in reality a millionaire's sport and
the hydroplane itself a millionaire's
is the entrance of the dix
lie w" in these races. She was built
In New York for Frederick K. Burn.
ham, vice-commodore of the Motor
Boat club of America, and owner OF