Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-05-10
Tech, JR. 'S.FASTM|LE.
IS NOT OFFICIAL.
Properly Accredited Author
tiles Must Vouch for
dupont Boats Record
ALL ADMIT SHE
Is SPEEDY BOAT

The new Tech Jr.'s average mile OF
60 "a seconds, last Thursday, will /
not be accepted as an official record.
There must be an ofici~ trial over
some measured course with the tim
ing done by properly-accredited
committee and under strict Official
rules.
As the situation now stands, the
Tech .Ir. I'd is in the same position as
Commodore Jim Pughs Disturber ~.
About the same rate of speed as that
announced for the Tech Jr I'd is I
claimed for the Chicago boat. This
boat was built last year and, like the
old Tech Jr., was a candidate for the
role Of challenger to be sent to Cowes,
Eng. to bring back the international
Cup. A number of unsatisfactory
trials we're held at Huntingdon Bay
and the Disturber ~ was finally elect
ed to be sent abroad. The trial was
of such a nature that no figures went
on actual record. Because of the war
the international races at Cowes' Eng.
were Cancelled last year and the Dis
turber w was compelled to finish the
season without establishing the CO.
veted record.
Whatever the reliability of the
speed announcements of the new Tech
Jr.. she proved herself worthy Of a
boat of national consideration. There
seems to be no question that she
exceeds the builders speed guarantee
of So miles an hour. This means a
marked advance on the best official
records existing today. Sixty miles
an hour, or a mile'a minute, has been
the aim of builders, designers and
owners of this type of racing boats
Three years ago, when the Baby Speed
Demon II was first shown, at the New
York Motor Boat Show. all sorts OF
claims of having reached the mile-a-
minute record were made by the
builders. Ii was even claimed thai
she was a 50-miler. In the otficia
one-mile speed trials, held on Lake
George last summer, she attained ;
speed of Sis statute miles per hour
In the first days race at Lake George
she made 80 miles in Al minutes an'
Z seconds On the second day sh'
, made the course in 41.03 and in thu
third days races she made the 80
mile course i'm 43.O7. AT the Buffalo
. races, in the first race over a cours
. of % miles, she is accredited wit
an elapsed time of 80 minutes, tn
, Buffalo Inquirer beating her by on
|, | second. In the second race, cours
: 80 miles, only two out of five boat
. finished, the time for Baby Spec
v Demon IL being 3S.1S. In the thir
: days race the course was 50 mile
Speed Demon made the 35 miles
IL minutes and 2S seconds.
, Taking these records on which
l, base calculations and allowing fC
u inaccuracies in the timing at Penn
re grove on Thursday it would seem thi
~ the new speed wonder will become
d formidable rival of the old-timers tn
sI season. Her most dangerous compel
ie tor of the day is Disturber ~, Ji
Pugh's Chicago boat. which as y
- may be termed an unknown quantit
National speed men make gre
! claims for the Chicago boat. They a
y anxiously waiting for a sped bur'
y when she will be enabled TO ostabli
1 | for herself an official record. Gre
v things are expected of her. The col
v ing of the Tech Jr I'd with the pc
y Torrance on Thursday bids fair
I make these two the rival boats of [
~ country.
The season has not begun. The
- is no telling what the new crop
boats will bring forth. There a
other boats building of which lit
e. has been said and of which less
o known as to the probability. but
0 bent on reaching the coveted mile
o minute speed
0 The DUPONT boat is about 20 Il
o in length. The horsepower rating u