The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-23
Indications Are That an Ameri.
can Motor Boat viii Win
, Again at Huntington and Es-
tabIish a Startling New
7 Worlds Record.


0osyisAn isfs. By TIE Pre-. puShsid,s %.
(The New YORK World.
r AwRENcE BUELL. Of Detroit.
Mich. 10 to drive Q new hydro
plano In tho Cadillaaua races.
This hydroplane the builders guaran-
teed TO 90 at o speed OF sixty-seven
miles an hour! And until Q few weeks
ago the fastest speed boat IN tho world
was Dixie W., with q record OF mile
at the rate Of forty-tivs miles AN hour!
II that Isn't chopping of time In
hunks. what Is It? In Europe for years
, the manufacturers OF crack engines
and designers Of swift speed boat hulls
have been working hard and entering
their boats in frequent competitions.
They have developed hydroplanss that
! were marveilously fast when compared
! to other speed soats. and the races at
Monaco have been the fastest and most
interesting In the world. They have
considered America out Of the running
and when the English boats have come
here and failed to take back the Inter-
i national Cup II has always been claimed
that something went wrong with thsir
engines.
This year. unless The foreign contend
ere have quietly developed something
like our new American speed marvsls,
the American boat viii win again ct
Huntington. and establish Q startling
; new worlds record.
I However. MI. Buell.. with his sixty.
seven-mile boat. won't have the race 10
. himself. There's Commodore Blackto
. 'cf the Atlantic Y. c.. whose baby
I Reliance Ill. captured champlo nsh.ps in
-FOUR different classes and made Q series
OF new worlds records in the recent
mississippi Valley Championship Re.
gstta. Although Baby Reliance LII.
: added nine miles an hour to the Dixie
. v. record on that occasion. her throttle
s. was less than half open. waily Van
Z Nostrand. who ran her, told me that he
: doesn't know how fast Baby Reliance
|. would have travelled at fun speed. The
Commodore In having q twenty six foot
boat tuned UP for tho intsrna !onal
. races. He confidently expects her to
make seventy miles an hour, 40 she
made sixty-nins miles an hour In Q trial
+. only last week.
., Think OF that--seventy miles an hour
=, IN boat Why. . few years ago that
! would have been considered plain witch
craft with fancy trimmings.
:THE nrst motor propelled boat her,
va thS AiuuDoH idNoE IuuOo IOuL
q. miles an hour and was considered
y . wonder. The historic Clermont pulled
I, on about seven! 4 few years ago q
!, gasoline motor speed boat that could
: travel fifteen miles AZ hour was
. record breaker. and when the rate wen
uD to eighteen people began TO wondei
!, n It was safe to whiz through water a
such . terrific speed. Twenty-Five milei
: an hour was supposed - be about tn
\ limit. and then sthe hydroplane cam,
along and went thirty. IL was rumore,
than a French hydroplane ON the Sem
4 had covered a short distance At the rat
Of thirty-hve miles AN hour. and no
body believed ~. And here We have al
American hydroplane builder guaran
tseing double that impossible speed.
! The reason Why, scientific study an
ssxperiment has enabled our boat builder
I. to improve the hulls until skin friction
and other resistance II practically don
: away with. The latest hydroplan
8 doesn't stand on It's ear like the earle
: types II lifts along Its entire lengt
F. until Just the little joys on the bottoi
/. touch the surface OF the water. an
these are cushioned with air bubbl,
forced downward through the bottol
Of the boat.
= It's only a short time ago that rorped
. boat destroyers began TO attain his
speed rates. When England turned OF
DESTROYER and claimed a speed
: Sorty-nye miles an hour for II the r
mark was made that this boat cou
= catch any OF the motor driven despatC
boats I'd like TO see that English d
. siroyer chasing Commodore Blaekton
(. Baby Reliance on a smooth sea.
-HE first speed bug probably
barerootod prehistoric man. Pro
j sblv a.. ro,l,yy vho coula GOV
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