Evening star., 1933-09-29
'S|X BOATS PR|MED
FOR CUP CONTEST
Residents Trophy Event
Expected to Produce Mile
a-Minute Speeds.
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wits End Bob Elder, Dayton, Ohio. sec
ond; Flyaway, Fred Jacoby. jr.. North
Bergen, N. j., third; Hells Angel, Lewis
Carlisle, East Islip. N. Y, fourth: Miss
: Liverpool, Cab Waller, jr.. Syracuse,
.. ter Bay N. Y, sixth; Dragon. Sam
: Crooks. Rumson, N. j., seventh; Yellow
: Jacket, Charles Wyckoff, Trenton, N. j.,
T. eighth; Atom, Herbert Senior. Wash
ington, D. c., ninth. Winners time:
sH:09.2. Speed Al .938 miles per hour.
! Flowers, Waller, Crooks and Senior
f. all beat starting gun, but turned i'm
, mediately to recross the line and avoid
(. disqualification.
/. Tyson's speed for the five miles
: averaged 36644 miles per hour. three
miles below the existing record for this
4 event, because of the rough water and
. sharp turns.
= Started Racing at IA.
E. Tyson is one Of the youngest pilots in
tpeed- boat racing He pushed his boat,
{, Half Pint, to victory in the class A
tace championships at Philadelphia last
. saturday. Tyson started his racing
career at the age OF IA.
: The first heat of the second race,
class A, division 2, for professional out
board drivers, was hotly contested. with
victory going to E. J. Stagner OF Bal
.timore, whose time for the f1ve miles
sHaS minutes 18 seconds.
:, Miss Maryland Codd of Towson, Nd,
.pnly woman entrant, finished third in
p field Of six entries in the professional
event.
Stagmer was running his first race
.es professional driver. carrying his
old amateur racing number E-9. Sec
,ond place in the first heat for profess
ieionals was won by Harry Kiefaber,
Dayton, Ohio.
Spectacle Is Brilliant.
A brilliant sun, climbing out OF a
tfain- washed sky, added to the brilliance
of the spectacle which has drawn ma
t:onally famed racing drivers from all
parts of the United States for the two
days of racing which have for their
climax competition for the $1,000 Presi-
tdents Cup.
/, Six Gold Cup racers. all believed
capable of making 10 miles per hour
,on the straightaway and one OF them
shctually timed at n in trial runs. were
tuned up today for the Presidents Cup
regatta.
) Thousands of spectators were gath
cred in East Potomac Park and aboard
sfiver craft of all descriptions anchored
along the race course as the gun was
fired at noon today for the first OF 26
separate races and heats to be run OH
to-day and tomorrow. In the number
And caliber of the boats entered this
years regatta promises to be the most
sbrilliant OF the annual speedboat clas-
ssics yet held.
Outboards to Start.
This afternoons card was to reach
D climax with the starting at 3:15 pm.
of the first heat Of the Presidents
Cup race for the trophy which
first was offered by the late President
Calvin Coolidge, is to be divided into
three heats Of is miles each, the first
to be run this afternoon and the Sec
jond and final tomorrow afternoon.
! Because of the difficulty of the course
the consensus among the drivers today
was that any one closely approaching
or surprising the mile-a-minute clip
set recently at the Gold Cup races in
Detroit would capture the Presidents
Trophy.
Thirteen events in all were sched
uled for this afternoon, five OF
them being the first heats OF as many
races, four of them being finals and
four icing single-heat races.
Georgetown Channel Course.
. All events will be run over course
which has been laid out in the George
town Channel Of the Potomac along
the, west shore Of East Potomac Park.
The start and fipish line is directly
In front Of stands for 5000 spectators
which have been erected along the
Speedway about midway between Hams
1Oant and the Tourists Camp.
Speeial buoya marking the race
sortrse have been placed under direc.
Sion Of Mat. j. D. Arthur, jr., District
Army engineer, the Regatta Commit
tee and the Coast Guard. Coast
Guardsmen will patrol the course ana
the Coast Guard cutter Apache Is
Serving as the judges, and timers boat.
Racing pits for the fast little out
board boats have been established on
both banks of the Potomac just belo"
She railroad bridge and pits for the IN
board boats, including the gold cup en-
tries, at the Navy Yard. .,.
Today'S race program Will close VIII
What is expected to be one OF the moS'
interesting of the general races OF TINS
Years meet, the cruiser chance race.
classifying the many cruisers that Will
1nter, the method of awarding the prizes
will be as follows: If there are 20 boats
IN the race, the one finishing first will
receive 20 chances, the second l9, ano
10 forth. The chances will be put into
q hat and drawn at the annual regatta
dinner tomorrow night The slip first
pulled from the hat will be that OF
first prize winner, the Mathematical
chances greatly favoring the first boats
10 finish.
Boats Especially Built.
The boats which will race for
The Presidents cup are built to eX-
act specifications to participate in just
two events each year: The gold CUP
race, which was run this year IN De.
troit. and the Presidents cup race
The rules of eligibility call for a maxi
mum cylinder displacement of 625 Gu.
bic inches and a maximum OF 35C
horsepower. The hull water-line length
must be not less than Is feet and the
beam not less than five and one-hal1
feet. Minimum weight must be 2,00C
pounds, exclusive of motor, gear-boA
and crew.
:, Keen interest centers in the Ethyl
Ruth III, hybrid" entered in the
Presidents cup event by John D. Shibe
owner Of the Philadelphia Athletics o1
the American League. The boat will
be driven by Armand D. Pugh Of Ard.
more. Pa, and Is favored to win If 8
tendency of "skittishness" does not
drive her off the course at high speeds
rs was the case during the gold cuI
race at Detroit.
Ethyl-Ruth Ill is a combination O
She engine Of Miss Philadelphia, which
capsized on turn during the Presi
dents cup race here two years ago
killing Lou Freitag, her mechanic, ant
6he hull Of Delphine vi. The new boa
has been clocked at II miles per hou
in trial runs, nearly II miles taste
than previous gold cup speeds.
Strong contenders are BNl Horn ant
George Refs, both of New York, pre-
Yious winners of the cup.
A new timing device is to be used fo
the first time in q motor boat race t,