Evening star., 1938-09-17
RACING SHIPPERS
AWAIT REGATTA'S
GUN AT 1;5 Pm.
$4,000 Presidents Cup
Competition to Climax
8-Day Program.
HAMS POINT SEATS
ARE READY FOR CROWDS
Crowning of Queen, Fireworks
Display and Pageant on Program
for Spectators.

A cannon's boom across the water
this afternoon will start the Presidents
Cup Regatta, the Capitals annual
classic Of the waterways.
The regatta begins with a sailboat
race at 1:35 pm. today and closes
a week from tomorrow with the final
heats Of the race for the Presidents
Cup and the $4,000 trophy that goes
with it.
Before the week of aquatic sport
Is done, queen will have been
crowned and $4,000 worth of fire
works will have been shot of.
At least ITS small sailing boats will
race along the Potomac in opening the
regatta-the greatest fleet of little craft
south of New York this season.
The weather forecast was cloudy
with the probability of occasional
showers. Only light winds were in
prospect, and regatta officials have an
nounced that if the breeze is too light.
the boats will sail but one lap instead
Of two.
Shippers on Hand.
The Capital and Corinthian Yacht
Clubs are being overtaxed with skip
pers, trailers and their boats that
have come from such distant points
as San Juan, Puerto Rico. To ac-
commodate the overflow permission
has been given the Race Committee
to allow canoe sailers to tie up their
craft at the Airport Basin.
Seating accommodations were COM
pleted this morning around Hams
Point for spectators of the races.
Other accommodations are almost
ready at the Arlington Memorial
Bridge Water Gate for view of the
pageant Thursday night.
The program and times of the starts
Of today's races are: 1885 pm, 2O-foot
open class; lao pm, 2O-foot re-
stricted class (chine boats); albatross,
LAS pm; comet. so pm; Hampton,
1:55 pm; snipe, 2 pm; canoes, open,
classes and c. 2:05 pm; Handicap
A, 2:1o pm; Handicap B, 2:10 pm;
moth Zone lap), 2:20 pm; intercol-
legiate dinghy Zone lap). 2:25 pm.
The start Is in the Potomac off the
lower end of Potomac Park Just above
Hains Point. The course is about
the bell buoy off the tip of Hams
Point to a marker off the tip Of the
War College grounds and return.
Sailboats Race Tomorrow.
Sailboat races tomorrow will be-
gin at $50 am. and continue most
Of the day. The Star will give away
$500 worth of cups in prizes, which
will be awarded at pm. at the Cap.
itai Yacht Club.
Thursdays pageant will be the oc.
casion for crowning Miss Betty Reed,
queen Of the regatta She will ar
rive by airplane from Smith College,
Massachusetts,.
Tickets for the fireworks display
and the pageant can be obtained for
SO and IS cents and $3.50 a box at
the Willard Hotel, the American
Automobile Association and the Key
stone Automobile Club.
The pageant will be colorful
nautical display of singing dancing
and merrymaking, set in the realm
OF King Neptune, the ruler of the
sea. 1t will be presented in a spe-
cially built undersea theater, OPEN
ing with sea chanty sung by old
salts surrounded by Tritons and
Nereids before Neptune's throne.
| The Nereids will give an acrobatic
dance. Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Edison will crown Miss Reed
Motorboats will race Friday from
1880 am. to 430 pm. OF Hams
\ Point.