Evening star., 1938-07-17
10000 EXPECTED
TO ATTEND MEET
Hyde, 0rme, Dyer and Fuller
Will Represent Capital
in Field of 90.

ny MhLSOLM LAMbORNE, Jr.
The mid-season regatta card crowded
with events every week end from now
on, will be headed next week near
Washington with the second annual
affair of the growing yacht club on
the tight little island of Solomons
down In Calvert County.
For an outfit that still is very
young the Solomons Island yacht Club
is going places. Anticipating a gallery
from land and sea of 10000 regratta
lovers. aficials headed by Commodore
Joseph Lore are banking on a field
OF 40 entries for the outboard and
inboard races that will be run on
Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Elaborate preparations that just about
will turn this fishing village inside
out are being made. including a
public address system running along
the shore line
Broadcast of the outboard events,
racing exclusively on Saturday, will be
from the pits which overlook near
perfect triangle in the creek and
around small Myleg Island This
course was voted natural by drivers
last year, situated as it is free from
rough water and strong tides. A pa
vilion on the river side will be the
site OF Sundays broadcast when the
1nboards race over a layout in the
Patuxent near Point Patience.
Will Represent District.
With little let-up those local circuit
drivers-Jack Hyde, Gardiner Orme,
Bill Dyer and Emery Fuller-who are
competing this week end at Havre de
Grace and Northeast, Nd, are plan
ming to be on hand, giving a District
representa- ton for both days. Hyde's
Spectre, Orme's Wooden Horse and
Fuller's Miss Pudd go into the 1885,
cubic-inch division, while young Dyer
enters his Johnson powered outboard
in the G Glass for professionals.
The Race Committee, the chaps who
share in all the work but none of the
glory, includes four Washington power
officials, James Endicott is chief
timer; Jack Anadale, chief scorer;
Harry E. Smith, chief starter,
and William Rogers, referee. James
s. Y. Tyson of Chestnut Hills, Pa, is
pit manager and surveyor and Charles
Reckner from Baltimore is chief meas
urer.
Beginning at l o'clock, two heats
Will be run for each of the midget,
A, B and c, including both amateur
and professional classes of outboa-ds.
Entries already have been received
from Harper Chance. Bob Rowland.
who came up from Norfolk last year
with three outfits, and those great
drivers from Jersey, Fred Jacoby and
Doug Fonda.
The famous Tyson sisters, Mollie
and Elsie, and the Deflbaugh sisters.
Irene and Frances, will be racing in
the midget division. The latter two
are fighting for first position this sea-
son in the National Women's Scoring
Championship symbolized by the
lone Ulrich Sutton Trophy.
Irene Now in Front.
Irene currently is in the lead, some
hundred points ahead of her sister.
Miss Elsie of the Chestnut Hills
Tysons is top driver of the family so
far this year and will be trying for
points that will place her higher than
fourth, as she now stands, in the
Sutton Cup and the Col. E. H. r.
Green Round Hill Trophy series.
Classes E, D and K for runabouts
and 81, l35 and 225 cubic inch for
the hydroplanes and a chance cruiser
race for the spectator fleet fill the
program on Sunday To date the
fashy 225 group will Include Frank
Muzzey in his Nittany Lion and Earl
Orem from Cambridge on the Eastern
Shore. Sixty-four- -year-old Frank
Dobson. who cleaned up in the run
aoouts last year with his $4,000 Miss
Severn, is expected to make his first
appearance with a new boat.
AS feature attraction and one
that has the natives betting their
available cash, handicap race ex-
clusively for the fast Solomons fish,
ing fleet will be staged. When all
other events have had their exit, at
least 40 boastful owners will give
their craft the wide-open throttle
over the outside course. There is a
strong possibility that many a long
winded argument will be settled con-
clusively in this event
George E. Townsend former Gold
Cup champion and adopted son of
Solomons Island, is regatta chairman.
The yacht club will hold large out
door party at Point Patience Hotel