Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07

KEENAN, S. COLLIER o.
- Hampton, W. and ROLAND
Geary of the Maryland
Yacht Club shared frs
honors yesterday in the opening
regatta of the cupboard and in
board motor boat season, each
winning two first places. The
races, staged in the Tidal Basin
entertained a large crowd of water
sport lovers who braved blazing
sun to watch the speedy craft &c
through their PAGES.
Collier won the Class c and Glass L
cupboard races, the fastest classes Will
this type OF spcedster, negotiating tne
Glass c three-lap distance in SIX MIN
utes nine seconds, and the tour-iaE
Glass D course in seven minutes ano
81 seconds. At times, he nit the Az
mile n-hour mark when his craft
numbered Els, Numbered down the
stretches.
Geary flashed across the winner III
the free for all and the cupboard and
inboard races. He rounded the four
lap course in the free for all in SIX
minutes 56 seconds TO lead varied
field.
Outboards Show Speed.
Cupboard boats clearly demonstrated
superiority in speed yesterday When
three pilots in these craft finished one
two and three. Geary again was tne
winner, His time, five minutes ana u
seconds for the three-lap course, was
considered good. IL.
everett Meeks, a 14-year-old pllG'
won the opening race, the slower CIa"s
cupboard race, from Herbert Senior
Meeks' boat Wasp HI, easily OUT
distanced Seniors larger boat.
Paul Hoffman of Baltimore won lhe
Glass B cupboard race.
The family cupboard race, Whlcn IN
cluded boats designed to carry Two OF
more persons, was won by Jonn Asxei y
of washington, who used Johnson
motor.
Andrew Duffy piloted Stanley Hor-
ner's handsome Dodge inboard racer 70
victory in the inboard event, hnlshlng
the three laps in Ave minutes SIX ana
one-half seconds.
Exhibition Is Tie.
A special exhibition race was stageo
by Commodore E. G. Baltz ana j. h
Mitchell president and secretary, re-
spectively, of the chesapeake ana 70
tonnac Power Boat Association, unoer
whose auspices the regatta was ne.o.
It was declared a tie, both drivers tax
ine the duel lightly, beating the gun
ami losing mucn ground with sweeping
turns. 49,
OF the local spcedboat pilots, John
Z-.er-v end Edward SaSnett made the
bis -f1owingS, the former winning the
f9nily cupboard and finishing tnird IN
tna outboards and inboards and the
lat er taking second in the Glass D ana
G cupboard affairs.
Wni,a none of the races was close,
to throng Of several hundred people
VS. thrilled by the races. An account
CT the races was given by MltcheA
through a public address system.
The Summaries.
CLASS A OUTBoARD RACE q Iap)- Won
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RG efzsS Pf9P o5rrb9HRD RACE g ..esW Ea
S y sa94s.t;. IN Hso; third John zsvsFly'
ceaHy. in hi second, Hunter Grime es
'h FHMfI sS'0 oUTBoARD q iapsl.W0n By
Joan zeverIy, in johnson; second, r s.
Steeiman: in A-N-116o2 third e. G. Gricr'
1i 65fs.rBsoAARps AND INBoARps Is Ispslaa
Won oy Roland qnayy' t n H-5 john ec 2eT
sTIy lp }G5Rsqn To Tlm: .o! no
V.asb Won nv Andrew Duffy, in Dodge;
second, E. C. Grier, in Mullen Steel. Time
o'S STpECyAI EXHIBITION C2-lapD OUT
BOARD RACE-Tie between; Commodore
Baltz and j. H. Mitchell No time TAKEN