Evening star., 1933-09-26
Eight of Noted Racing Craft
to Be Shipped Here To-
morrow Afternoon.
FOUR COLLEGE WINNERS
TO COMPETE SATURDAY
Corinthian Club to Hold Open
House for Officials on
Friday.

Nearly $50 Of the country's fastest
| speed boats will begin arriving in
Washington tomorrow for the Presi-
dents Cup Regatta, to be held here Fri
day and Saturday afternoons.
Eight Of the most noted racing craft
Of the Gold Cup class will be shipped
here beginning tomorrow afternoon,
when three Of Horace E. Dodge's Del
phines, the Nv, VII and TX, and George
G. Reis's prize-winning El Lagarto are
expected to reach the local pits. John
Rutherford's Imp, John D. Shibe's
Ethyl and e. T. Chase's Arctic
Tern, which also will face the starters
gun for the Presidents Cup, probably
will arrive tomorrow night or Thurs
day morning
-Four Collegians Coming.
In addition to the God Cup star
drivers who will appear here after
making marine racing history this
Summer. Washington will have an op-
portunity to see in action the four
collegians who swept the amateur
events in the Eastern and American
;; Power Boat Association championships
In Philadelphia last Saturday
They are Paul Hyatt, graduate OF
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. who
won the Sir Thomas Upton Trophy,
most priced of all amateur outboard
trophies; Sammy Crooks of Rutgers,
who won both the class B and c races;
Tommy Tyson, Stevens Tech freshman,
and Jimmy Nunnelly, University of
Michigan sophomore.
Local hopes in the class c outboard
. v,in
Sasnett, who, after several years of
heartbreaking losses, has begun to win
consistently during the past Summer.
He won the class C event at Red Bank.
N. j., in his Sas III, after one of the
largest and most hotly driven outboard
contests in the East
Final plans for the regatta program
VIII be made at two meetings TO-DAY:
the first of chairmen of all committees
at the Willard Hotel at pm, and the
second. OF the Race Committee, headed
by j; Gordon Leech, at the Willard at
8 o'clock this evening.
Ihe regatta program will get under
way "A hours In advance of the start
ing gun for the first race. The first
assembly OF visiting racing boat pilots
Is TO be held at noon Thursday at
headquarters In the Willard Hotel
The Corinthian Yacht Club will hold
open house for Government and regatta
ofhcials. competing owners. drivers and
guests Friday, with Commodore r. Ly-
man sexton as host. The National
Press Club will be host to the officials
and contestants Saturday night.
After the first meeting Thursday
noon, there will be a special luncheon
for the Racing Committee and Gold
Cup drivers by the Press Club at 1890
pm. A reception for officials and driv-
ers will be held at the Willard Thurs
day night. A swimming and diving
contest will be held at the Shoreham
Hotel as a part Of the general enter
tainment program on Thursday night.
Breakfast Opens Program.
Fridays program will open with a
breakfast at the National Press Club
for drivers and mechanics The start
ing gun for the first race will be fired
at noon and 13 races will be run during
the course Of the afternoon. the last
scheduled to start at 4:35 pm.
Racing on Saturday will begin at
l3 races being scheduled The climax
will come at 2:15 pm. Saturday. when
the starting gun will be fired for the
Presidents Cup race.
Regatta officials today announced the
appointment of a Women's Reception
Committee, headed by Mrs Edward c.
Baltz. chairman, for the Corinthian
clubs open house Friday. The COM
nlittee includes Mrs r. Lyman Sexton,
Mrs Robert B. Patterson, Mrs. G..
Bache Gill. Mrs Harry w. Smith, Mrs.
william c. Shelton, Mrs. George
Schwegman, Mrs. Dorsey W. Hyde, jr.;;
Mrs. John A. Remon, Mrs. Harry w.
Kellams, Mrs. William P. Burns, Mrs.
E. Herbert Block. Mrs Margaret NJ
Kyle, Mrs Sam Scrivener, jr., and Mrs.
Peter Nyce.