New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
GOLD CUP RACES
TO Be TREAT FOR
MOTOR BOAT FANS
Course on Manhasset Bay
an Excellent One for
High Speed Craft.

Motor boat enthusiasts-and their
name is legion-especlally the support
ers of the high speed type, who delight
in breaking records or IN seeing them
broken, will soon have an opportunity
to witness what promises TO be the
most important series of races ever
held for the American Power Boat As
sociation's Gold Challenge Cup, which
are TO begin on Manhasset Bay next
Saturday, continuing on Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday.
This is new course, and sheltered,
as it is, on all sides except the north,
it should make an excellent one for
high speed craft
This will be the thirteenth series Of
races for this cup, which was first won
in 1904 by c. c. Riotte's Standard, q
60-foot l00-horsepower boat, represent
ing the Columbia Yacht Club. Her
speed was 23.6 miles an hour. This was
regarded as phenomenal speed at that
time. What is more surprising, how
ever, is the increase in speed that has
developed in eleven years, due to the
Improvement in hulls and engines, as
shown last year when Mrs. J. Stuart
Blackton's Baby Speed Demon II, only
20 feet long and equipped with 1870
horsepower engine, broke all records
by developing a speed of 5O49 miles
an hour and winning the gold cup,
which she now holds, representing the
Motor Boat Club of America. The Baby
Reliance V, owned by Commodore j..
Stuart Blackton. commodore of the
Motor Boat Club of America, covered
the same course Of thirty miles at the
rate Of so 81 miles an hour.
A complete list Of the former win
ners of the cup follows
Of Statute
Winner, owner club and date. course miles.
standard g, c Riotte Columbia -. 80.
y, lIfns' No. w. 5. Kilmci coum.
clip. J. WainI wight Chippewa w.
CHIP IL. j. Wainwright. Chippewa -. a...
CHIP t5D' II. j. Wainwright. chippewa -. o.as
Di. isYi II. E j. Schroeder chppera -. ..o
Di, is'i II. E. j. Schroeder. Thousand ~ ~
Dixie ,' iii. T < Durham Thousand -. ~,
Mt Hsl' f. I''i L. Hayden. fioai,nac -.
P. 81 :. q. ii. l. G. Miles. Thousand 49, ~,
AH isisNaS Deep stpi- Count M.nikoTsd w.
ton. Lake George Regatta Assocla- 40. Am
ton Q9lD .....................'' 80 oo'ts
Corrected time Nautical miles 1statute miles.
1t was the good old Dixie II, de-
signed by Clinton Crane, with her go
horsepower engine, that, IN 1908, hrst
increased the top speed-20.8-by ten
miles in one year, making her the fast
est motor boat in the world, for she COW
cred the thirty-mile course in 50 mill
utes Is seconds, or at speed OF 30.9
miles an hour. She had also won the
Harmsworth Cup, doing thirty-six miles
an hour at that time.
To decide the winner in this year S
races three heats, one on each after
noon, will be required, and on the last
day there will be mile trials for the
championship of North America. The
Long Island Sound section of the Amer
lean Power Boat Association will man
age the races, assisted by the Motor
Boat Club Of America, the present
holders of the Gold Cup.
These are the probable starters in
the 1915 races for the Gold Cup, any
one of which is expected to make more
than fifty miles an hour, as the owners
of several hope to do a mile minute
with their boats:
Length. Horse
Boat owner and club feet power.
Baby Speed Demon II. Mrs. J. S.
Blackton: NJ b. c. Of America. 20 200
Baby Reliance " J. 5. Blackton; At
HSWkeye. A. L. Judson Lake George. Is 800
Ankle Deep II. C. ;. MankowSh
Lake George Reg Association. ....... % 500
Buffalo Enquirer. w. J. Commons: Buf-
,i t1io Iok., III u Ford T,no,1 y -VO
Zee 'V''. 49, IS 400
Pete: Pan VII. James Simpson: Co.
-
Miss Detroit. Detroit syndicate; De-
tfoit Y. b. AssoCi alton .........-..... 25 go
Tech Jr.. C. Du POnt Wilmington 20 80
nddledy Wink. 7. Chesebrough: Hunt
HGtuu .......-.... ....-....s 4t.5 -JV
All these boats. except the Hawkeye,