New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-10
ANKLE DEEP FAIRLY
FLIES OVER COURSE
Develops Speed of Over Forty
four Miles an Hour in
Motor Boat Trial.
PETER PAN V BREAKS DOWN
Speed Demon Reliance Out OF
Trials Because Engines Are
Not Considered Big
Enough for Speed.

tFrom a staff Correspondent Of The Tribunel
Huntington, Long Island, July g.
While no official announcement has been
made by the committee in charge OF the
power boat elimination races here, I'M
mstakable signs point directly to the
Ankle Deep as one of the three boats
that will be selected as challengers for
the Harmsworth Cup. in English waters,
this year.
Driven by her owner, Count Casimir
Mankowski, the Ankle Deep went twice
around the fve-mile course to-day-the
first time in minutes 80 seconds and
the second time just one second faster.
This was at speed Of 1888 knots, or
44.O79 statute miles an hour. She has
done much better than that, but half a
gale from the southwark and nasty
sea retarded her over nearly half OF the
distance travelled to-day.
Her only competitor was James Simp-
sons Peter Pan V, which completed
about six miles and then broke down.
Her speed for one round Of five miles
was 1911 knots, or 1916 miles.
These runs were made after the COM
mittee had waited all the afternoon for
the entrants to appear. When Commo-
dore J. Stuart Blackton's flagship, the
Paula, arrived at $3.50 o'clock, towing the
Speed Demon Reliance and the .Ameri-
ca, their owner announced that he had
withdrawn the former from further
trials because her engines are not Of
sufficient power to drive her.
THE strike at Buffalo," said the COM
modore, prevented US from getting the
eight-cylinder engines that were de-
signed to drive that hull. SO We were
obliged to install six-cylinder engines,
which will not drive her more than for
ty-eight miles an hour on a straight
course. On a course with turns she cam
not make that speed.
II expect to get the new engines in
stalled in time to race at Buffalo. The
America will be at the starting line for
Thursdays trial. They could not get
the water into the starboard engine or
she would have started to-day"
Charles p. Tower, chairman of the
race committee, announced that one
more days grace will be given those
who desire to send their boats over the
course. So those here now, which ap-
pear TO be all that will come, are
TO be ready to start at p. m. to-mor-
row for the final trials. That means
the Ankle Deep, the America and the
Peter Pan V will be the only starters,
unless some OF the laggards turn up
Lawrence o. Bull arrived tonight and
told the committee that he would be
unable 10 bring his boat from Atlantic
City. Nothing has been heard OF A. e.
Smiths Hazel I'd or Henry Sutphen's
Elco plane.
Among the spectators on the commit
tee boat to-day was Richard G. Furuhol-
men, young naval architect from
Christiania, Norway, who is visiting the
American designers.
The Ankle Deep, which made the ten
mile run to-day, is a thirty-three-foot
hydroplane designed by Clinton Crane
and equipped with two eight-cylinder
3O0-horsepower engines.
In the last international race in Hunt
ington Bay she was leading the British
boat Maple Leaf ~ by about mile
when she twisted her shaft. Her owner,
so far, has declared that he will not
send his boat abroad. but there is a
chance that he will change his mind.