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They Came Unprepared.

MOT one of the Upton boats came
N to this side of the Atlantic pre-
pared for the grueling test
ahead of them In the case of the
last Shamrock this was notoriously
true. In almost every detail, except
her hull, she was close to 20 years
behind Enterprise in development.
The foregoing is but one reason,
albeit an important one, for the
failure of the Upton challenges. Many
others can be cited, and the best way
of illustrating them is to show the
reasons why the Endeavour has a far
better chance of taking home the "old
mug than any of the Shamrocks ever
possessed.
The first is liberalization of the con-
ditions under which the match will be
sailed. Any history of the trophy will
show that the New York Yacht Club
could hardly be called generous in the
terms it offered the challenger. AS
years went by these became fairer, but
it was very slow process.
Beginning with the 1914 challenge,
these terms finally reached a sports
manlike basis. but the British did not
Immediately take advantage of the
even break offered, and, when they did
in 1880. the American yachtmen had
too great jump on them to be over
come in single year. However, this
gap should be decidedly less noticeable
in the present match.
In 1914 the New York Yacht Club
offered Upton the opportunity of
racing boats built to any one of sew
eral large sloop classes under the
American or universal rating measure
ment rule. Glass H was decided upon,
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and Yankee, with which to defend

and Yankee, with which to defend
the trophy.
The Endeavour, despite the liberali-
zation of the rules. still has several
handicaps to overcome, not the least
of which is the trip across the ocean
at the most critical time of the sea-
son. A challenger is able now to tune
up against boats of the same class in
home waters. but, on arrival here, the
tuning-up process must be gone
through again. and without the bene-
fit of trial horse" of the same class,
unless the New York Yacht Club Of
fers Sopwith one of our unsolicited
boats.
Then, again. unfamiliarity with the
course, waters. tide and wind condi-
tions will not help the challenger.
Still. when all is balanced, the fact
remains that Endeavour is a good
boat and the biggest threat to Amer
ican yachting supremacy since 1887
or 1893. Her chances are by no
means hopeless and the prospect is
bright for a boat race-something the
last challenger did not provide. Good
luck to Tom Sopwith is the wish OF
many. many American yachtsmen,
who would not be sorry to see him
succeed. but above all they want to
see a real yacht race!
tCopyright 1884. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, 1nc.)
Evening star., 1934-06-29
LAr ROD AND STREAM
-b by PERRY MILLERzNc>,<

n EPoRTS from all salt water
- fishing grounds state that
hardhead are furnishing ex-
l. y cellent sport, many anglers
becoming tired of pulling in
these fish. Catches from 100 to 400
are being made, and the best part Of
1t is that fishing is best at places only
a short distance from Washington.
Capt. Stewell Dixon at Galesville.
on West River. reports 410 hardhead
landed on Three Sisters, off the mouth
of West River.
Capt. c. F. Willoughby at Ridge,
Md. (St. Jeromes Creek. reports
good catches of hardhead of Point
no-Point Light, with a showing of sea
trout. On Southwest Middles blues
are being landed by trollers.
Capt. Preston Woodburn took a
party across the bay and flshed of
Hoopers Island Light and landed 800
pounds of hardhead.
Gooses, one of the favorite spots
on nearby Chesapeake Bay, proved in
teresting to a party of enthusiastic
Waltonites, including Cliff Lanham.
Leo Murray. Louis Kolodon. Carl
Bond, J. o. Patton and George Muir
ray. So fast and furiously did the
fish take the bait that the anglers
cut short their outing They had
count Of 1873 hardhead and trout.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt was the guest last Sunday
and Monday of Cornelius Bull at his
Summer place near Leonardtown.
The secretary is reported to have
landed many hardhead and a few
bluefish early in the morning.
Capts. Harry Jones, Norman Gass,
Walter Cheseldine and Robert Dare,
using the lower Potomac River from
Tall Timbers to Blackistones Island,
all report good catches.
The schedule department of the
Capital Transit Co., fishing at GooSes.
landed 303 hardhead and 6 large
trout. They fished from Capt. Robert
Evening star., 1934-06-29

boat events to be held. The annual
50-mile handicap cruiser race of the
Maryland Yacht Club from Baltimore
to Havre de Grace will end Saturday
morning. This event is for the Gov.
Ritchie trophy.
The club will again stage mile trials
for both the cupboard and inboard
classes, and this year there will be
separate approved race courses.
Last year in the outboard events
the highest speed ever made in COM
petition was recorded by the Racing
Committee, of which Charles F. Chap
man of New York was the official
timer. The record could not be al
lowed, however, because of the fact
that the race was over a smile
course, and not over the 123 mile
official outboard course. This year
any records made at the regatta will
stand as official marks as the racing
will be over the standard course.
The sailboat races to be held Fri
day, July 20, are expected to be the
largest ever held in the Upper Chesa-
peake Bay. Shippers of a large num-
Der Of star boats have already signi-
fled their intention of taking part.
Evening star., 1934-06-29

Tegler's boat, piloted by his son John.
A. H. G. Mears at Wachapreague,
Va, reports 20 channel bass, the
largest 81 pounds. we're landed during
the last week, with catches of $50 to
200 croakers per boat and many sea
bass, founders and kings.
A report from Capt Purnell at
Crisfeld states that plenty Of fish are
now being landed.
Kennedy Roe, local angler, fishing
with Capt. Delmos Haddaway of
Tilghman Island, landed 6-pound
trout.
w. L. Santman. fishing at the
mouth Of the PatuXent River with a
party Of three companions, landed
l12 hardhead and trout.
Evening star., 1934-06-29
BY LEONARD M. FOwLE, JR.

n EXPORT, R. l., June 90
M Three American class J
v sloops, the largest single
- masted racing yachts in
active competition, have con-
cluded the first of several series
of races off Newport, R. l., to
prepare them for the most Sc
rious threat to this country's
possession of the Americas Cup
in close to so years.
This is the fifteenth challenge
from the British Isles since the
schooner America won the Hundred
Guinea Cup in race around the Isle
of Wight August %. 1851.
The present challenge comes in the
name of the Royal Yacht Squadron,
England's Oldest and most exclusive
yacht club, and was issued on the
behalf of Thomas Octave Murdoch
Sopwith. Mr.. Sopwith is an entirely
different type of challenger than Sir
Thomas Upton.
The Irish baronet had many fine
qualities which endeared him to the
American public as few foreigners
ever have been; but, when all is said
and done, Sir Tom was not really
yachtSman. Although willing to
spend a good deal of money in search
of his ideal, he never actually under
stood the fine points of the game or
the proposition he was up against in
trying to lift the worlds oldest and
most famous sporting trophy. If he
did, he never put this knowledge into
practice.
Only once in five challenges did
Upton ever come near winning the
Americas Cup. That was in 1920,
when Shamrock " Won two races
from the Resolute, sailed by Charles
Francis Adams, only to be beaten in
three straight contests thereafter.
None of the other Shamrocks had a
ghost of show against the American
craft, and none was more outclaSsed
than his last challenger, Sham
rock Y.
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Oarsnen Under
Hecox Recalled

fYUST about this time 20 years
ago candidates for the Analos-
tan and Potomac Boat Club
crews were starting preparation for
the season. Clarence Hecox, still
active in the rowing game, was the
Analostan Club coach.
Among oarsmen identified with
one or the other clubs we're Nc
Kinney, Schafer, Hutchingson,
Imirie, Boryer, Hardie, Chamber
line, Powell, Thrall and Mueller.
An informal regatta was held
between the clubs as candidates
began tryouts. william E. McKin-
ney served as referee. with John
Hadley Doyle and Clarence Hecox,
starters. Among other officials
were E. Richmond Gasch, Claude
Zappone, John J. Nolan, Maj. D.
Spencer Bliss and Capt. John G.
Evans.
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Chance to Experiment.

~ URING that period we have built
but one sloop to the j class
Rainbow-so the English have
had more opportunity to experiment
with the boats than we. This matter
Of experience with Class j sloops Is
the first big reason for the improved
British chances.
A second is of similar nature, and
concerns rigs, sails, gear and other re-
finements. Shamrock V was trounced
by Enterprise in 1880 far more by
reason of her old-fashioned rigging,
poor sails and lack of modern gear
than by any radical fault with her
hull All four American yacht de-
signers in 1880 made use of aeronauti-
cal principles in the design OF rigs and
sails, but none more so than Startling
Burgess, whose Enterprise had every
adaptation of aerodynamics to sailing
yachts that money could possibly buy.
Shamrock v had none.
Endeavour. on the other hand, GER
tainly will make use of these prtnci-
Piles as far as the somewhat limited
rules will allow. Thomas Sopwith
happens to be an airplane manufac-
turer, and his engineers. almost by the
score, have been set to work on the
boat, planning new types of sails and
rigging. Her mast. unlike those of
Rainbow and Weetamoe, will not be
streamlined Sopwith. unlike Upton.
is sparing no expense in his challenge.
A third big reason for better chances
Of British success is Thomas o. M.
Sopwith himself. Sopwith used to be
an aviator. Any one familiar with
that profession will tell you that it
requires nerve, daring, organization
and attention to detail-four points
which happen to be the attributes of
a successful racing skipper Although
latecomer to the game of yachting.
Tom Sopwith today is recognized as
one of the best shippers the British
Isles possess.
With the exception of Shamrock w,
no challenger has been sailed by an
Evening star., 1934-06-29
ENGLAND OUT TO RECOUP
IT'S PRESTIGE ON WATER
Sopwith, Challenger, Great Sailor and Far More
Formidable to Deal With Than Land Lub.
ber Lipton-Handicaps Lifted.

but the Irish baronet and his designer.
Charles J. Nicholson, sent over rule
beater or freak" boat, which had to
allow Resolute very large handicap.
In 1880, with Class J sloops desig-
mated and the contest sailed for the
first time without time allowance, the
British found themselves at disad-
vantage because they never had con-
structed a racing craft of any size
under the American measurement rule
Prof1ting by their experience four
years ago, the British have. since 1880,
built two Class sloops, Velsheda and
Endeavour, both of which had no difh-
Guilty in easily outclassing Shamrock v
despite great improvements made in
that boat.
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Great Race Big Desire.

/ACHTSMEN should not interpret
this to mean that the America s
Cup is as good as lost to the
New York Yacht Club after 83 years.
On the contrary, this observer be-
lieves. and many yachtsmen think,
that the cup will go back into Tif-
fany's vaults at the end of Septem-
Der. The recent series off Newport
showed that the club has at its dis
posal three crackerjack American
Glass j sloops in Rainbow, Weetamoe
Evening star., 1934-06-29
Would Help British Prestige.


CTILL another item, and an impor-
tant one, too, is that the 1884
challenger Is in dead earnest. The
British commonwealth of nations is
striving nightly to regain the prestige
of the old British Empire throughout
the world The British have met
success in many fields, including
sport-you may remember they hold
the Davis Cup. But the sea and all
things pertaining to it are inseparable
from British tradition.
Few things would help British pres
tige more than winning the America S
Cup, so they have set their hearts
upon it. The last thing they desire
Is another fiasco like 1880. They may
not succeed this Fall in lifting the
trophy, but we are assured that an
other challenge soon will follow If this
one fails. Four or five British yacht
men besides Sopwith would like q
whack at the "old mug"
The new challenger is a normal sort
Of Glass ] sloop. despite rumors to the
contrary, Nicholson having learned
that attempts to beat the rule are
seldom successful. She is a pretty
boat, with long. graceful overhangs
at the bow and stern, much resem-
bling Rainbow save that her stern is
drawn out finer. In her hull there
are certain refinements that suggest
the use of streamlining. but they are
SO faint as to be imperceptible to all
but the very experienced eye.
She has proved that she is a splen-
did boat by her success against Vel
sheda, craft which defeated the i'm
proved Shamrock v as badly as En-
terprise defeated the last challenger
in her original state Above deck
and that is where the 1894 match
probably will be decided-Sopwith
and his designer are conducting vari-
GUS experiments with sails and rig
ging, so that the challenger probably
will have several new minor wrinkles,
but nothing radical is expected at this
writing.
There are other reasons why En-
deavour's chances are rosy when COM
pared with the Shamrock'S, but those
already mentioned are the major ones.
Evening star., 1934-06-29
America Yacht Cup Defenders Face Most Dangerous Threat Fifty Years

amateur skipper, and it Is recognized
axiom in yachting-strange as it may
seem to the layman-that good
amateur helmsman is better than the
best professional. Moreover, Sopwith
is planning a fine afterguard for the
another aid.
Evening star., 1934-06-29
YACHT RACE TO EDLU
Officially Declared Winner IL

UmclaIIy Declared Winner In
Long Ocean Contest.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, June 29 LPD.
r. j. Schaefer's Edlu, skippered by
Robert N Bavier, has been officially
declared the winner in Glass A of
the ocean race from New London,
which started Sunday.
Edlu also won the Bermuda Trophy
for the best corrected time, which
was SO hours AZ minutes So seconds.
Russell A. Alger, jrs Baccarat
was declared the winner in Glass B
with corrected time of 79:52:44. with
Lawrence NJ. Reeves ketch Astarte
the Glass C victor with a corrected
time of 98:46:05.
Evening star., 1934-06-29
"a CHEVROLET "19.1 Miles per Gallon

sMv "a Master Six Sedan which has gone $500
miles, soes 1911 miles per gallon Super She'll This 10
IL more miles per gallon than I've gotten with any other
Gasoline also soothness of performance and its
high antknock qualities, reports Harry Iheiss Sprns
dale, Conn.
Evening star., 1934-06-29

held.
The Sassnet brothers, Ed and Bud.
are planning to get competition July
4, either at Chestertown, Md. or
Trenton. N. J. They also figure to
get action in the regatta at Hampton.
Va, July and 8.
Although the Havre de Grace
Yacht Club regatta. July 81 and %,
is expected to draw several drivers
Of this section. the first really big
affair hereabout for the Washington
pilots will be the annual Tri-City
regatta to be held Saturday and Sun
day, July % and 20. at Herald Harbor.
This event always draws many Wash
ington contestants and spectators and
usually abounds in thrills.
Evening star., 1934-06-29
''21 Miles per Gallon"

IA FORD VS "21 Miles per Gallon"
ith your charged gasoline I'm getting II miles to-
the Gallon in my Ford, and Is even broken In
yet" reports W. H. Rausch, Lake Katonah. NY.
AIRFI IOW DESOTO "1S Miles per Gallon"
sWhen bought my AirAow DeSoto they guaranteed me
I'd Get Is miles gallon. Super-She giving me IT,
and just miles a gallon more cah that reai
sayna It's gasoline I've Frederick
Trenknnann, Stamford, Conn.
Evening star., 1934-06-29

A fine program has been arranged
for the Tri-City affair. Starting at
2:30 pm there will be seven events
on July % and beginning at 10 am.
July 29 there will be Is contests,
Evening star., 1934-06-29

THREE 10-mile heats for the ma
tional 125-cubic inch class
championship. won last year by
s. Mortimer Auerbach of Atlantic
City, at Stone Harbor, N. j., and two
l0-mile heats for the Eastern 225
cubic inch class title. will be high
spots of the racing program for the
Havre de Grace Yacht Club regatta.
There also will be sailboat races. The
225-racers. a class newly adopted by
the American Power Boat Association,
will be making their debut.
Open events for classes A. B and
F outboards will be held on the two
day regatta schedule. with all the out
board races booked for Saturday. A
special 12s-mile standard course
will be surveyed for the outboards
on the Susquehanna. which at the
point of competition affords ideal
water conditions for record-breaking
performances.
Runabout races and a cruiser ham
dicap are among the other power
Evening star., 1934-06-29

RENWOOD BEACH-Kenwood boats. ar
ranged by William Woodward. fishing on
Gooses; large fast boat Phone Prince
Evening star., 1934-06-29

This new Super-Shell.b by Shell'developed
"Re.making Process" is actually super
charged with as many as 5000 additional
firing charges per gallon.
1t is these extra firing charges that are
giving Shell users, according to their state
ments, more mileage than even their car
makers estimates!
We invite you to try it. 1t is not only
high anti-knock gasoline, but is also adjusted
for weather, Shell development Of years
standing. No matter where or when you
drive, it is "just right" for your car.
Super.Shell is on sale at all Shell Stations
at no extra cost.
Test it yourself. Be sure you have full
tank; that's the only way you can check
your mileage accurately.
Evening star., 1934-06-29
Read these Owners Statements

'33 PLYMOUTH 1920 Miles per Gallon"
"Drvna home Florida, got between 1920 miles per
GALLON with your Super Shell in Pymouth-a mile
and half more per gallon than they said I'd get when
boueht the says Mrs. A. Dewitt Mead Daren, Conn.,
'34 PONTIAC s "16H Miles per Gallon"
The Pontiac people told should get Is miles per GAL
lon In my Pontiac 5passeneer sedan On trip re-
Gently AVERAGED 16H with your Super-Shel, ex-
claims Mrs. ]. A. Keynes, Old Greenwich, Conn.
Evening star., 1934-06-29
Regatta Program Extensive,
But D. C.. Pilots Now Lookings '
Mainly to Tri-City Contests

time being taken out for lunch. There
will be outboard apd inboard tests,
hydroplane races and other interest,"
ing tests.
Cash or trophies will go to the
boats finishing first. second and third
in the open outboard events. The
Severn River Yacht Club medal will
be awarded the first boat finishing
In each event owned and driven by
q Severn River resident.
Here's the official program:
July $3.50 pm. family outboard.
feTycf eur p o05 Tophn p as class ys ns
laps: $40 pm, class A outboard. open,
trophy or cash. final heat four laps. 3;35
pm class oYtboard smateHr m eur. trophy. ply;
laps. GTsi 4:25 pm. family out6oard' service
motor, trophy. final heat. four laps, 4;5O
Jply class BE SuifSosrd isSs PRO so
an Class B outboard,. professional, cash;
outboard. professional. cash, onrst. heat,
amateur cash first heat: four LAPS 20
heat, four laps IL noon. A. inboard.
up to 1o6-cubic inches. trophy, final heat,
board open. cash or trophy. first heat.
four laps. 2:20 pm, class outboard,
open. cash or trophy. Anal heat four laps.
2:4O pm, A, B. c.. D inboard runa bouts.
up to '201 cubic inches. trophy. fnal heat,
surfboat race, trophy e-half mile. 3;a5
first heat. four laps. 3:55 pm 125 cubic
inch hydroplsne. trophy. final heat. four
laps 415 pm. E. F, G inboard run
abouts trophy final heat, four laDs. :35
pm H I inboard runabouts. trophy. Anal
heat. four laps. 455 pm. grand free
for-all trophy. final heat. four laps.
Evening star., 1934-06-29

w WASHINGTON speed boat
AZ pilots are giving "em the
wv gun" these days on the
' ' Potomac in preparation
for repattas soon to be
Evening star., 1934-06-29

NEOST CAR MAKERS make statements
lVl concerning the mileage you can rea-
sonably expect your car to deliver.
For example, one new eight has an adver'
tised gasoline consumption of one gallon for
IS miles, another of one gallon for 20 miles.
Naturally, this mileage is based on tests
conducted under a given set of conditions.
Now-as everyone knows, it is the explo-
sions, or firing charges, inside the cylinders
that produce the power to turn the wheels
of your car.
1t is only logical that gasoline which is
capable of additional firing charges per gallon
will drive your car farther per gallon.
Shell has succeeded in developing such
gasoline . . one that owners claim is giving
them from to 2 more miles per gallon.
Evening star., 1934-06-29

n URING that period we have built
but one sloop to the class
RainbOw-SO the English have
Evening star., 1934-10-22
laziness
BY ANGELO PATRI.
THEODORE was II years old and


THEODORE was 70 years old and
L much was expected of him.
He was intelligent and healthy and,
according to his teachers and rela-
tives, too lazy to get out Of his own
way.
Now, children are not really lazy
They are the most active creatures
ON earth. They are tireless once their
energy Is harnessed to interest. Then
what was the matter with Theodore?
Why didn't he work?
Theodore had acquired the habit
of doing nothing that he could help
because he had been allowed to do
Just that. His father was slow
moving gentleman who hated to get
out of his chair and therefore stayed
in it on all possible occasions. His
mother had adjusted herself rather
well to her lazy husband. Theodore
caught the notion that there was no
use in doing anything one did not
have to do. He had acquired lazi-
ness. Not that he was lazy. For
from it.
why didn't you do your home
WOrk, IntOQOre!
II left my book downstairs and
couldn't get it"
Couldn't get it? What do you
'uean by saying you couldn't get it?"
1T was downstairs"
You see nobody in Theodore's fam
lily ever went after anything that was
not quite at hand, so book that was
opa diobt of ctairS ou,ou uoc unit q
out of Theodore's reach. When his
mother was told of that she said: Il
know it. He's just as lazy as lazy
can be. But what can I do about it?
I'd have to keep after him every min
ute and I'm worn out trying to dc
what have to do now"
TheodoreS was an extreme case
Few people are lazy as all this, but
many and many child who is called
lazy is not really so. He has taken
on the appearance Of laZiness, he has
formed the habit of doing nothing
simply because he was allowed to de
so, that being the easiest way for the
household.
Usually a lazy child is an ailins
child. Natural activity drives hin
into doing whatever comes to hand
Illness slows him down. Illness l.
usually easy to detect. The chile
moves languidly, his eyes are dull
his tongue is coated. He does not ca
and he does not play with any spirit
Treat him for the illness and the lazi
ness disappears along with 1t.
The child who has acquired laZines
for any reason is not so easy TO cure
He usually has to be taken out of hi
environment and placed where tn
people about him stimulate him int
action. A good boarding school, ;
year or so with an understandin!
relative, will help him get to work.
Guard the convalescent chill
against acquiring laziness. 1t is no
easy for a child who has been i'll t.
forget the illness and lay hold o
health. He clingS to the petting. tn
consideration and the general allow
ances that are made for illness. Un
less the sick room atmosphere and it
routine are wiped out as soon as pos
sible the child is in danger of pro
longing his helpleSSneSS and MAXIM
a habit of it. He also has acquired
| lazineSS.
LazineSS is a symptom of condi
tion and it is durable.
Copyright. 1934D