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the heat that was run yesterday
afternoon.
Dodge to Join Race.
Horace Dodge announced that he
would race both his Gold Cup craft.
driving one himself and placing Bill
Horn, Newport News, Va, sportsman,
in the other.
Water whipped to dangerous chop
piness by stiff breeze that quartered
across the regatta course early this aft
ernoon presaged bother for the Dodge
boats in the Presidents Cup race.
Throughout the morning the little
outboard motor boats slithered and
oucked the choppy waters of the George
town Channel, and half a dozen of
them were forced out of races. Balky
motors, too, marred the morning races.
In one instance only two of four start
ers managed to limp across the finish
standings with the Race Committee
aboard the Coast Guard cutter Apache
only one boat competed in a race.
Shortly before noon race officials were
notified that President Hoover, who had
been invited to attend the running Of
the final heats of the Presidents Cup
race, would not be able to attend to see
the finish of the classic for the cup
donated in 1926 by President Coolidge
and now a yearly fixture in Potomac
River boating
Lewis Carlisle Wins.
Lewis Carlisle of East Islip, N. Y,
in a class c outboard, won the first
nf fnr ton
managing to get around the course
ahead of S. D. Hardy, jr., of Norfolk,
Va, in spite of motor trouble. Two
other starters were forced out by motor
trouble and were towed to their pits
by Coast Guard patrol boats. Car
isles speed for the miles was 34.615
miles per hour.
In the second event, the only starter
was Gerald E. Reed of Fishers Land
ing, N. Y, who raced around the course
alone when other contestants misunder-
stood the starting gun for the five
minute gun announcing the race. Other
starters tried to get into the race when
the finish gun sounded as Reed flashed
across the finish line, but they were
waved back after going half way around
the course. Reeds speed was 1895
miles per hour.
Al LIE IliIlc VI COQdy ulloIldp, El
Lagarto had been favored to repeat its
victory of last year in the final two
heats today However. Dodge had both
his big gold cup boats in shape and
had hoped to make a real race of the
second and third heats.
While his Delphine Nv, winner Of the
gold cup off Montauk Point, Long Island,
earlier this year, gave Ell Lagarto some
competition yesterday afternoon in the
first heat, the boat Dodge put most
store by, Delphine v, which he drove
himself, was unable to get going in the
first heat, Jagged far behind the other
two boats and did not cross the finish
line.
Before the first of today's races,
at 1890 am, there were hundreds
Of spectators lining the south seawall
at Hains Point at the point where loud
speakers, operated from the officials
boat, the Coast Guard cutter Apache,
anchored midway of the course. were
watching the little outboard boats
tuning up. Hundreds more were on
river steamers, Government craft and
private pleasure craft inside the course
and fringing its outer edges.
Secondary features of today's program
include the running of the final heats
the biggest of the runabouts; the final
heat Of the hydroplane class, the final
heat of the All-Washington SweepStake,
the first heat of which was won yes
terday by Gardner Orme, and the last
race of the day, the Potomac River
Grand Free-for-all.