Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-11

adding to the festive appearance O the water front and harbor. .Th breakwater, off the end of which thf motor boats were to start and finish was packed with eager onlookers ion before the first preliminary gun iron the committee boat. the Igloo. kindl. offered to the regatta committee b, Dr. F. D. Rogers. of Providence. com modore of the visiting yacht club.
 The competing craft were early or the course and the purr of the high powered engines of the hydroplare. and speed boats joined with the stead, chug -chug of the more moderate mc l. torboats. When Class c boats, mak- ing less than IF miles an hour. wer started off there was a lane of vessel half a mile long. Out farther, tn racing course took the motors in pas, the little fleet of United States des- troyers. It led past the breakwater tc the can buoy 8 mile and a quarte' out, and then straight back to tn starting line
 Six boats came up to the flag in ths Class C race and in the course of five r~iles- two trips out around the buoy the competitors had abundant chance ,U try out the merits of their -rspec
 tive craft. Edward F. DarrelFs Vida I navigated by the owner, was far in | the lead when the boats finished. witl
 the other boats in this order: Kanigo |
 ond, Lulu B, Herbert Brown. Mystic l third: Aloha, C. O. Bristol. Avondale | R. l., fourth; Ricka, August Schneider Stonington, fifth: the Dido, Charles '. Mason. Jr.. Stonington.. sixth. This was the way the boats finished
 the Vida's time being 44.17 and that or
 the Dido, s.19 minutes longer, but il did not decide the winners of tho
 handsome silver trophy cups offered | in this race as in Class A. for first
 and second places. Glass B was
 omitted from the racing programme
 a ten mile race for boats making frop | 12 to IS miles0 The boats were han l shown by each. time allowance be- | ing thus arrived at. with the provision ] of disqualification if more than two | per cent out of the way. And So th'
 race went to the Dido, the last boat | in, with the Aloha second. KanieC l Lulu B sixth.
 The hydroplane race brought thu keenest interest as these spray fling ing speed wonders plowed along ~itf 1 their roaring exhausts. Five times out and back they steered their course 1 Moose. II. Frank J. Gregory of New ] York owner. was the six cylinder phe-
 nomenon of the race and his time wal | 36.13- He hit up speed of close tc 1 Z9 miles an hour dI times, ana cas- | fly ran along at 25. The second bosi | to complete the course was the Hare owned by Robert Moore of New Lon
 don, in 37.24; third. the Hadje, Harry T. Darlington. Jr., Pittsburg, 41s5s: fourth. the Elreba. Harry J. Darling ton.
 The Minnehaha III, a new hydro plane entered by Harry McNutt oi
 Mystic. did not finish because of fou
 with the Hadje.
 The incident happened on the first leg out. McNutt was running his boa alone and the combined care of engine 1 and tiller was too strenuous. His lit tie spseder wabbled in It's course anC | then suddenly 1t gave a sudden swervt out of its course and the flying Hadje bumped it. The blow was slantine and so neither craft was badly hurt although the Minnehaha leaked. Il was going .splendidly when the aect- dent occurred, which 1t seemed to peo- pie on shore might easily have sunk en both light hIIlls.
 The handicapper's allowance gave the Elreba the race. the Hare seccnt place the Bull Moose II third and th' Hadje fourth The regatta committe'
 was Prof. Chauncey B. Rice. chair man: Lorenzo D. Fairbrother, seere tary; Edward F. Darrell and Harr,
 w. Babcock-