Evening star., 1933-07-31
ACCIDENTS THRILL
REGATTA THR0NG
Boy Drowned as Sand Bar
SkidS-Boat Runs Amuck
at Herald Harbor.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
Y ERALD HARBOR, Md, July
IL 31.-A colorful chapter
one that reads in places
like the plot for a movie
thriller-goes into the history of
Eastern power boat racing follow
ing the Tri-City Regatta which
closed it's annual two-day stand
on the Severn River yesterday.
A runaway outboard motor boat that
imperiled the lives Of several hundred
bathers and boating enthusiasts, dar-
ing driving, spills, q near crash be-
tween two speed boats and the Coast
Guard patrol boat Apache and the
drowning of a 12-year-old youngSter
served to keep the gallery of some 1000
people on raw edge throughout the
afternoon.
Boat Loses Driver.
4 N outboard boat driven by Sam
~ uel Greer of Ardmore, Pa, threw
Greer from the pilots seat in
rounding buoy in one Of the class c
heats and then continued up the back
stretch for half mile turned and zig
Jagged in crazy fashion through a
score or more of boats at anchor and
then headed for q group Of several
hundred bathers who stood helpless in
its path.
Bearing down upon the horrifed
crowd at a 40-mile- an-hour pace, the
boat sTerved a split second before
plunging headlong into the mass of
screaming people and crashed into the
piling beneath a diving platform that
was packed with swimmers. A score
were hurled into the waters by the i'm
pact, but none was injured.
A thrill almost as great as the run
away boat incident was produced in the
race for inboard motor boats up to
225 horsepower, when the Queen Anne,
driven by w. T. D. Gibbs, wealthy
Baltimorean. forced the Ketchme, op-
Grated by r. H. Dale Of WASHINGTON,
almost rs yards off its course, both
boats narrowly averting a crash with
the steel Coast Guard cutter Apache
Boy Scout Drowned.
4 12-YEAR-OLD spectator, Samuel
n Cinquegrani, Baltimore Boy Scout,
drowned when sand bar on
which he was standing apparently col
lapsed and threw him into the water.
He sank without an outcry and his
body was not recovered until 80 min
utes later. Sailors from the Apache
tried for two hours to revive him, but
to no avail.
The summaries:
=, Class A outboards thnai heat) Won by
ssaaya MaaMana a, Cod tunnamed) Of Toxson, Nd:
Hampton. Va Time 5hn minutes Hs.p5ns' i5s .eef OF
:, Glass B outboards (frst heat,-Won by
Bstimofe Md shird s'a5@eT g0ssph PSy saSndefs H
-; Century Of Washington. D. c. Time. 1
Charles ohis wy:Eeis Dixie I'd, Of Psiladei. 4y
Md 1hFd Em1E sas%sr M0er. Re Of
OF Richmond. Va. Time. minutes AZ
John sassnets Sass 11S' II of affa'WM0a WassiDa.on Sy
3 2, C; SECOND. z: q. Land tHaii-Pintl Of
Ies ot Norfolk Va Time' i Gnt Minutes eahih 5a
Glass outboards final heatD-won by
sssesa saas H shelton Rt "asnlanssH
yamss5 siehm0nd. VA n'foi Time. Ssms' mlaases mules
Anne Of BaltImore. Nd: second lsDs freeman gesn
fssf sean s aH1PnS of %esse.l x th T
FTee-ior-a outboards third heat)-Won
BY Charles Cabot (Felix Kitten of New
Haven. Cpnn.; second, W. H. Whitaker
Quaker City Kid of Elkins Park N j.:
third. vernon Shelton tSea Doe) Of East
port. Nd. Time. 3 minutes AZ seconds.
Free r-all outboards final heat)-Won
by Charles Cabot tFelix Kitten Of New
Haven. Conn; second. w. H. Whitaker
Quaker City Kid of Elkins Park. N J.;
Md; Time: 3 minutes 45+s seconds.
Up to 225 horsepower inboards-Won by
Howard G.. Shaffner (Howdy) of Severna
Park. Md; second. Walter Hasslinger miss
Long Point Of Baltimore, Md; third, Free
man Collier tC-Me-Go) Richmond, Va
Time. 3 minutes 4.s seconds.
Special unlimited race for outboards
built prior to 1931-Won by Emery Cox
tMoanin' Lol Of Norfolk Va; second. e
A. Lane fHalf-Pint) Of Hampton. Va; third.
j. Rectner tunnamedb of Baltimore. Time
4 minutes "a seconds.
Unlimited inboards-Won by Howard G.
Shaffner tHowdyl of Severena Park Md;
second. R. H. Dale (Ketchme) Of Wash
ington, D.. C.: third. Freeman Collier &C.
Me-Gol Of Richmond, Va. Time min
utes "a seconds.