Evening star., 1937-08-15


from New Jersey.
Governors Trophy at Stake.
THESE entries and many others
have been pouring in to Regatta
Chairman George Townsend, one
time A. P. B. A. president who divides
his time between New York and the
nearby Chesapeake Bay spot. Com
modore Joseph Lore, jr. announces
the donation Of trophies by the Gov
ernor OF Maryland to go to the win
Aer OF the chance cruiser race and
another by the Mayor OF Baltimore
for one Of the inboard events Is yet
to be selected.
Outboards will hold the spotlight
next Saturday when amateur and
professional drivers in A. B, G and
midget classes race in two heats over
an ideal course Of mile in the creek.
It's triangle that will be rough only
in shape as the course Is free from
tricky tides or any seas.
Sunday the inboard events will be
run on the Patuxent inside of Sandy
Point and close enough to shore to
accommodate the gallery Over a IL,
miles straightaway for miles, 225-
cuolc-lnch, class E runabouts class K
unlimited inboards and cruisers for
the chance race will do their stuff.
ID. c. Pilots Eager TO Compete.
F THE Race Committee decides to
put on race for the 135-cubic-
inch hydroplanes then Washington's
corps Of drivers will trail their craft
doWn Tor some keen tntra-c class rae
Ing. Jimmy Orme and Jack Schneider,
who placed second and third in the
225's at st. Micheals last week. and
Jack Hyde are awaiting word from
solomons on their request for a spot
on the program.
Commodore Ed Baltz OF Corinthian
Yacht Club. who placed second over
at Miles River to John Charles
Thomas Myne Two in the I and J
class runabouts, Is to cruise down
from West River in his yacht Fifty
Fifty. He will enter his runabout in
the unlimited division.
Commodore Baltz will be competing
against 63-year-old Dobson, winner
OF the first Vanderbilt auto trophy
back IN 1907. Proving that he hasn't
forgotten how to make an engine purr
be 1t on wheels or afloat, this insur-
ance company executive has in his
new $4,000 Miss Severn one of the
fastest inboards in this part of the
country. So fast in fact that it estab-
lished an unofficial worlds record in
class K of 57.179 mp at st. Michaels.
Both flying the New Jersey Out
board Association colors, Jacoby and
Fonda will renew their friendly rivalry
that has made them the most colorful
drivers in the game. Each is planning
to enter four boats for Saturdays
events. Frank Muzzey will race his
Nlttany Lion IN the class E inboards.
Old Dominion Regatta Today.
The fitty-seventh annual regatta Of
the Old Dominion Boat Club which
gets under way this afternoon of the
Alexandria club house promises to be
the biggest get-together Of water en-
thusiasts on the Potomac River so far
this season. Additional events for
outboards and sailing canoes are
being arranged by regatta heads as
last-minute requests from local boat
men come pouring in.
If sufficient number show up bv ?
o'clock, starting time for the affair,
then sail-equipped canoes from Wash
1ngton Canoe Club and outboards led
by T. NJ. Ofett's craft from Falls
Church will have a place on the card
that already includes races for eight
Dared boats, four -oared gigs, quadruple
sculls, cruising power craft, comets
and handicap sailing class.
Jack Marsh, former commodore OF
the Potomac River Sailing Associa-
ton, has been placed In charge of
sailing events that race over a 5000
yard course out in the river. Chairman
John Brookfield will be arranging
races for oarsmen Of Old Dominion
and Potomac Boat Clubs, who mix it
up for the first time this year.
Power races have been scheduled as
curtain events. In addition to out
boards. the Alexandria cruising fleet,
headed by Clarence Simpsons Jean
II, E. Ashby Warfield's Colonel and
the Beau King,I1I Of William Coakley,
will compete in a chance race.