Evening star., 1926-09-19
CIGARETTE N WINS
PRESIDENTS CUP
Makes Clean Sweep of Three
Heats in Potomac Regatta.
One Record Broken.

Travelling almost mile minute,
L. Gordon Hammerlsey's $4,000
duralumin racer, Cigarette w, proved
the class of the field of speed boats
gathered here for the first running Of
the Presidents Cup race, when she
flashed to the front yesterday in the
second and third heats Of the 45-mile
race and carried off the $4,000 gold
trophy, sponsored by President Cool
idge and placed in competition by
the Corinthian Yacht Club, which
conducted the regatta.
The long, cigar-shaped speedster,
hailing from the Columbia Yacht
Club of New York City, and one Of
the few all-metal racing boats in the
world, repeated her feat Of the day
before by showing her heels to her
competitors at the very start in each
Of the last two 15-mile trips around
the emile course. Once out in front,
she had things to herself in each Of
the heats, leaving the remainder of
the contestlng craft to fight it out
for second and third honors. Her av-
erage speed in the second heat was
53.7 miles an hour, and in the Anal
she was clocked at 52.s miles.
Mrs. Hugh Dillman's Horace was
driven to runner.up honors in the
final by E. F. Ericsson Of Toronto
when Miss Syndicate. Horace Dodgss
craft, broke her propeller shaft and
was forced to retire from the race
after leading for two laps. This gave
the Dillnlan boat, which took a third
and a fourth in the earlier heats.
second place in the fight for the
trophy. Greenwich Folly, winner of
the Gold Cup this year, was third In
the final and fourth in the second
heat, getting third position when the
points were totaled.
Gets in Later Race.
Miss Syndicate's mishap put her
out of the running for the principal
trophy after she had taken two sec
from coming back later in the day for
a special race Of six miles In which
she was piloted by Mrs. Defphine
Dodge Cromwell of New York against
Miss Okechobee. driven by Mrs. W.
j. Connors. Mrs. Connors, who
previously had taken first honors in
the Secretary Of the Nays Cup
race, took her racer across the finish
line a dozen lengths ahead of the
Dodge boat and thereby won the first
high speed race in which women
have competed against each other
The race for the Secretary Of the
Navy trophy, in which Mrs. Connors,
representing the Buffalo, \. Y,
Launch Club. evened matters with
Ericsson. who defeated her yesterday
in the Potomac River championship,
drew a select field that included, Also
Roy keyes' Curtiss Wilsold of the
Buffalo Launch Club, and Greenwich
Folly Of Greenwich, Conn. Curtiss
Wilgold took the lead at the start
and was ahead for two laps, but
pulled up with a bent shaft, leaving
the race to the other three. The win.
ner's time for the 24.mile Journey
was 81 minutes % As seconds. which
figures down to an average speed Of
50 miles and hour.
One Record Broken.
One world record was broken. This
was done in the Junior Presidents 8
Cup race in which Lady Helen II Of
Detroit showed the way to a fast
field of racers of the junior gold cup
type. Piloted by Dick Locke, she
covered the nine-mile course in 10
minutes. 4 seconds. averaging ABB
miles and hour. She lowered her
own time for the distance, having set
the record at 3s.s miles an hour at
Detroit on Labor day. Both Lady
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