New Britain herald., 1925-03-23
DEALERS SEEK
 DODGE TROPHY Special Racing Boat Ready to Com- pete For Magnificent Me-
 morial Prize.
Swift & Ferguson, Inc, Heads Con-
 tingent Striving For Honors At Miami; Trophy is a Marvel.

Loyalty to the memory of a name has moved group of business men from every section of the country to take an unusual part in the Annual Southern boat race meeting to be held in Miami, Fla, during the week of March 18th.
 The name is that of the late Hor-, ace E. Dodge, automobile and manu-' facturer and pioneer in boat racing. The business men are Dodge Broth CTS Dealers, some 30 in number, headed by Swift &; Ferguson. Inc, New Britain, Conn.
 Horace F. Dodge, Jr., president of the Horace F. Dodge Boat Works, conceived the idea from which the present plan developed. As a me morial to his father, he has put up a magnificent trophy to the winner of special race of new and unique conditions to be run during the Miami meeting.
 The race will be under the rules of the American Power Boat Associa- tion and will be open to boats of all size and description, large and small boats 10 have an equal chance. This Is made possible by regulations per hitting engine power in proportion to the size of the boat. The race will be run in short heats, continu- ing until one boat has won four.
 Tho Dodge Memorial trophy is a silver model of a ship of the time of Columbus. designed and now being completed by Horny B, Culver, of New York. Authorities declare the trophy to be one of the most magni- ficent ever designed. MT. Culver. a lawyer whose hobby is antique ships and models, is making the silver ship an absolute replica of the Columbus type of ship and for this reason the trophy will be valuable from a his toric standpoint as well because of its exceptional beauty. Any museum, it is said, would be glad to have the trophy for permanent display pur- poses
 In the bronze base of the trophy is little compartment containing a beautiful vellum book on which will be inscribed the technical data re- garding the race and the boats that win the trophy from year to year.
 On account of the unusual value and beauty of the trophy and the novel nature of the race itself it is expected that competition in this event will be particularly keen. The trophy will never remain in the per manent possession of any winner, but is to be raced for over and over again.
 While young Horace F, Dodge is one of the most enthusiastic of all boat racers, he refuses pointedly to compete for his own trophy the first year. Swift & Ferguson, Inc, New Britain, dealer for Dodge Brothers and for many years friend of the Dodge families, determined that Dodge boat should be represented in the race nevertheless. Accordingly he began quiet preparations which have now terminated in the an nouncement that 30 Dodge Brothers Dealers. from cities in nearly every part of the country, have had a spe- cial boat built by the Dodge Boat Works and entered 1t in the race for the memorial trophy.
 The Dodge Brothers Dealers boat was designed by George r. Crouch, widely known race boat expert who recently joined the Horace F. Dodge Boat Works as vice president. and is said to give promise of exceptional speed. It is similar in appearance 10 the Dodge watercar, standard run about manufactured in large quan- titles by the Dodge Boat Works.
 Mir. Dodge is now in Europe and would undoubtedly receive tho sur prise of hiss life should Dodge built boat win the Dodge trophy after his emphatic instructions to "stay out."--advt.