The Washington times., 1933-07-21

and $3.50 mark them down TO
shores of the Severn.
Thrills are promised, and
plenty of 'em. AS for speed, you
have it on the authority Of Eddie,
Bill and Jack that speed is the
Tri-City's middle name. Fun?
Well, you just leave that little
matter to the trio Of hosts for
the occasion: they never fail!
Eddie is Commodore Edwin C..
Baltz, Bill is Vice Commodore
William c. Shelton, and Jack is
Vice Vice Commodore Cor words
to that effect) John A. Anadale.
All are of the Potomac and Ches-
apeake Boat Association, which
organization along with the
Herald Harbor Regatta ASsocia-
ton annually sponsors the Tri-
City Regatta.
This is the seventh annual Tri-
City Regatta and is promised as
bigger and better than any of the
six which have preceded it. AS
L. Gordon Leech puts it: "You
may use all the superlatives in
the language and you will be alb
solutely right"
Speed Assured
One glance at the list of speed
craft which will contend in the
Herald Harbor events, indicates
that plenty of speed will be on
tap. Where there is speed there
must be thrills, just as where
there are corks there must be
bottles.
E. F. Dobson's Pep I, John
Brammel's Pep II, and E. c.
Chase's Pep III are synonymous
with speed. Each is rated as a
craft capable of go miles per
hour, or better. The last named
tipped off SO miles per hour in
winning the Virginia Gold Cup,
last year, while defeating no less
as a speeding craft than Horace
E. Dodge's Delphine vi.
There are others.
Howard E. Young, Severna
Park, Md, will have his Chris
craft, Howdy, in grand shape for
he Tri-City. Walter T. Hass-
linger. of Baltimore, figured he
can go with the best of them with
his Miss Long Point. Robert H.
Snadecki, Westover, Va, will up
hold the honor of the Old Domin-
ion with his Pigeon, Bearcat II.
Another speedy craft from
Severna Park, sure to be in the
running, is c. P. Recl.ner's Rex, jr.
Russell Kelsey will have his Dodge
ready for. the issue, as will r. M.
Whitlock, of Epping Forest, Md.
A Big Shot Boat
DR.. Cecil Bagley, Baltimore,
who won the recent Albany to
New York, Hudson River, speed.
boat marathon will be on hand to
show how speed craft should be
handled in tight races. He has
entered his marathon winner,
Chotsie II. s. King Fultol, COM
modore of the Berkeley Hills
Yacht Club, Richmond, plans to
bring three or four, possibly six,
of Richmol- VS. best speedboats.
However, there is one fly in tt :
well-known ointment: Great fear
prevails lest Charles Dutch" Mil
ler fail to appear with III 225 h. p.
ChriScraft, The Northern Spy.
We should explain that name
of "Dutch's" boat.
The craft is not nam after
an apple; nor is it named after
a Federal spy in the Civi. War.
No, indeed. On the contrary, it
is named after an alleged Russian
spy Dutch" and his comrades al
ways suspected was in the trans
portation troops camp in North
Russia during the World War.
Dutch" you know, was one OF
several hundred transportation
troops Of the United States Army
who seen their duty and done it
on the Kola Peninsula, on the
.a"t shore of The White Sea, at
the top of the world.
Prizes For Dutch"
Since the alleged Russian spy
was the northernmost of all spies,
he became THE Northern Spy.
And that's how "Dutch's" boat
got it's name, boys and girls, be.
lieve it or not. If the craft is
as fast as Russians on retreat, all
other speedcraft might just as
we'll stay away from the Tri-City
Regatta, and Dutch" might just
as we'll hire a van right now to
bring home the 80 pieces of silver
offered in the way of trophies at
Herald Harbor, not to mention
the purchase Of a new pocket.
book to house the $685. in cash
to be given winners.
Incidentally. the Miller craft is
a good match for Dutch" out.
weighing him by only a few
pounds.
The press room of the Times
Herald, over which Dutch" pre-
sides, is with him to a man in
his speedboat ambitions and vocif-
erously SCOTS at even a faint
suggestion that Dutch" will fail
to appear.
However. the fear exists, and
that's that.