Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20
Cup Race Thrills Climaxed
By Death of Pilot Freitae

the river bottom, officials Immediately
postponed all races and silenced the
shrill whine Of darting cupboard racers
warming up for the next event. Miss
Philadelphia, half sunk and with keel
up. was towed to the Navy Yard, where
her side was crushed as heavy crane
lifted her clear of the water.
FL Largarto, which flashed to victory
Friday when HotSy Totsy stove in her
side and lost the lead, took the lead at
the start yesterday and never lost it.
Seven Cross Starting Line.
Seven boats crossed the starting line
for the second heat of the Presidents
Cup race yesterday afternoon. One
of them, Miss Columbia, Red Bank,
N. j., was newcomer, entering in
place of the Arctic Tern II of Phila-
delphia, withdrawn after finishing last
in the first heat Friday.
Only four of the seven were able to
finish without accident. Hotsy Totsy
made it real race for two laps and
then dropped out with motor trouble
She returned on the fourth lap, with a
mechanic struggling with the engine,
and limped around through the seventh
lap, only to drop out once more and then
to respond to flag from the judges
be in the running in event third heat
was run. Bill Horne's Delphine ",
from Hampton, Va. dropped out on
the third lap and made fast to the sea-
wall near the War College.
This left Richard Loynes' Califor-
MAN, Long Beach, Calf, to finish Sec
ond and Wannamaker's Louisa to fin
ish third. The Louisa was fourth in
the first heat Friday and the Califor-
MAN fifth. Theodore Halls Miss Co.
lumbia finished fourth.
Freitag's fellow pilots in the Presi-
Dental race met Immediately after the
race and voted, out of respect to his
memory, to cancel the third heat. The
judges then decided to award the COW
eted $4,000 gold cup to Reiss, and he
is to receive it from President Hoover
at the White House on Wednesday,
according to present plans.
On the basis of points for the two
completed heats, Californian was
named for second place and Hotsy
Totsy for third.
Blaze Causes Excitement.
The first excitement of the afternoon
came in the second race, when DR.. Paul
S Burnham of Wilmington, Del, went
out on the second lap of hydroplane
race with his motor compartment and
control cockpit a sheet of flames fol-
lowing the backfiring of his motor
He coolly headed of the course, out
Of the path of his wife's boat, Chotsie
III, cut his ignition and went to work
with hand fire extinguisher, getting
the blaze under control before patrol
boats reached him.
One of the greatest thrills Of the day
however, came late in the afternoon
when a large field of tiny outboards
jockeyed for favorable starting posi-
lions in a five-mile race for Glass
cupboard boats just after the starting
gun cracked, Nagel, driving his little
black and white Miss Wildwood con-
sistent place winner in previous con-
tests, close by the judges boat, was
crowded by another racer
AS Nagel swung aside his tiny shell
leaped sideways out of the water, came
down upside down and rolled over
twice. Grimes, close behind, could not
swing clear. He missed Nagel, who had
been thrown clear, by a hands breadth
and crashed clear across Miss Wildwood
amidships. tearing the bottom of his
boat open. Both boats, sinking, we're
towed ashore by Coast Guard patrol
boats. Nagel and Grimes were unin-
jured.
In the second most important race
of the afternoon for the big silver
Secretary of the Navy Cup. postponed
from just after the Presidents Cup race
until shortly before sunset, c. Roy Keys,
Buffalo, N. Y, drove his mahogany
Carsnaught to its third straight victory
in this race, giving him his third
straight leg and permanent possession
John, NJ. Rutherford, Port washing
ton, N. Y, brought MS Why Not In for