The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-26
DETROIT READY FOR COLD CUP
 YACHT RACES
MISS Detroit III, Built By Popular Subscription, Re lied on to Hold Champion ship With D. Y. C.-Win- ner Must Make 70 Miles an Hour.


 lenge Cup, which carries the cham pionship of the American Power Boat association, Aug. 30, 31 and Sept. 2. On Sunday, Sept. 1 the hydroplanes will try for the One-mile Champion ship of North America trophy. The races are being conducted for the A. P. B. A. by Detroit Yacht Club, G. A. Wood having won the cup in the 1917 races at Minneapolis with his Miss De- troit II. Being a member of the D. Y. C. that club will conduct the re- gatta-
 For the first time the hydroplanes in their 90 mile dash for the most fa- nous power boat trophies will race statute or land miles instead of the customory nautical mile, this having been changed since the last race. The course is laid in the American chan mel of the Detroit River, being a five mile loop between the American shore and Belle Isle. Extending slightly into Lake St. Clair thirty mile heats will be run each day. The race is decided on the point system, each boat getting one point for starting and a point for each entrant that she de- feats.
 This Is the second time that Detroit he's staged the Gold cup regatta, the 1916 event having been held here due to the victory of the original Miss De- troit, in 1915 at Manhassett Bay, N. Y. The Detroit event was the first time that the cup had ever been de- tended west of Buffalo. Minneapolis took the cup in 1916 and defended it last year.
 Detroit is making a strenuous effort to retain the cup and prevent its re- turn to eastern waters. Realizing that Miss Detroit II, powered with the same engine that carried the first Miss Detroit to victory in 1915, might not be equal to the task of rewinn:ng the cup, power boat enthusiasts at the suggestion of Commodore A. A. Schantz, of the Detroit Yacht Club, planned for a new challenger last winter This boat has been complet- ed and was launched Aug. II, at Al gorac. Mich. It is known as the Miss Detroit III.
 Miss Detroit III has been built by popular subscription, the donors to the fund having given sums ranging from BIO to S1,5OO The original Miss Detroit and the Miss Minneapolis were also civic projects built and raced by subscription. The three Miss De troits and the Miss Minneapolis are all from the ships of Chris Smith, the Algonac boat builder who has pro- duced the championship hydroplane for the last seven years and expects Miss Detroit III to repeat.
 This new boat showed unusual speed in the first trial trip after he1 launching and while her builder vii not set an estimate on her speed 1T the race he expects her to be faster than the Miss Minneapolis whicf showed almost 60 miles an hour 1T 1916. Unusual interest is attached to th' Miss Detroit III because she is pow cred with an aviation engine. A 12 cylinder Curtiss, which Glenn Curtis used in the Miss Miami hydroplan with indifferent success was obtain ed for the boat. Chris" Smith bull a hull around this engine and als adapted the engine, designed for pro polling a plane through the air t pushing a boat through the water Smith changed the oiling syster throughout and made other changes the engine that gives it ample spec to retain the cup.
 One craft that is doped to win tn race by eastern followers of this aqua tic sport is the WhipPo Will, owr ed and driven by Commodore A. Judson. of New York city. presider of the American Power Boat associa ton. This hydro also mounts a |: icylindcr engine but much heavier an larger than the Miss Detroit III an last fall she was credited with show ing 70 miles an hour on her home wi ters Lake George in series of mi trials This is probably the large boat ever entered in the Gold GU races
 Miss Minneapolis, entered by u Miss Minneapolis Power Boat associi ton Is the challenger and the Miss D. troit, sponsored by the Miss Detro Power Boat association will defer the cup, The Miss Detroit III flyiT the burgee of the Detroit Yacht clu Whip-Po' Will entered by the Lal George, N. Y. club, Hawkeye, namt by the Lake George Regatta associ tion and a dark horse craft from Il Toronto Motor Boat Club, make up il field.
 Gar Wood who owns Miss D troit IT, has been selected by the D. C. to drive the Miss Detroit III. Wo' has spent four months watching ov the new craft while smith built h and was one of the heaviest contrib tors. Wood is particularly anxio to win with this. craft as his broth Twin" Wood. from Minneapolis W be at the helm of Miss Minneapo1 Er. W. T.. sanborn. who 1lGNy t Miss Detroit in 1916. will sub Wood behind the wheel of the c defender.
 No admission is charged to see { Gold cup races in Detroit. When last event was held here 100000 pc pie lined the Belle Isle and Americ shores to watch the hydroplane six the water for 30 minutes. With t popular support of the boat t:s co triDutors numbering more than 20 as large If not larger crowd is pected. The races were origina planned to start Saturday instead
 Friday but the, dates were. altered permit Toronto to stage its motor bt events in connection with Ontario position Sept. 4, and 6. All boats entered for Detroit, with the
 ception of Miss Minneapolis, will
 shipped to Toronto after the races Labor Day. The Gopher craft n also compete in Ontario's capital e