Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-05
D. {. Man Competing
In Craft Wrecked
There in 1889
Crawford, Hyde to Try
For New Jersey Titles
Tomorrow, Sunday
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.

by MALCOLM LAMbOhNE, Jr.
Bill Dyer, the Capitals only pro-
fessional cupboard driver, will have
his fingers crossed as he rounds the
outer turn of the Hampton Va)
race course today, mindful that
things don't always come in pairs.
The 25-year-old Government clerk
knows if he can get around that
mark safely he will have escaped
jinx that has waited there for
him in the last three years. On
that turn, both in 1888 and 1889,
Dyer has met disaster in races of
Hampton Yacht Club which is at
tracing a quartet of local drivers.
A class c job was damaged the
first year as Dyer swung wide to
crash into a cruiser The next year
new class c boat which had been
run only 10 minutes repeated the
same stunt, this time splitting in
half on striking a fish boat.
Extensive Racing Month.
Dyer, with the same hull and en-
CINE of 1889, will 60 out for another
try this week end, the start of an
extensive month of racing for WASH
ington's four nationally prominent
speedsters.
Their events staged at Hampton
yesterday, Andy Crawford, owner
of the Ednandy w, and Jack Hyde,
owner of the Gypsy Lass, both rec
ord-breaking 135-cubic Inch hydro
planes. move on today to Lake Ho-
patcong, N. j., where they compete
for the New Jersey State champion
ship tomorrow and Sunday.
Ike Hale, who rounds out the
quartet of District circuit riders,
will team with Dyer in races this
week end in Virginia. He will use
the same boat in which he competed
IN the Hudson River Marathon in
May, but is prepared to try out
a new "supped-up" engine.
Time Trials on Today.
Time trials on the James River
at Richmond tomorrow and regular
heats Sunday, all under auspices
of the Virginia Power Boat Asso-
citation, will keep busy the cupboard
duet who have become the Damon
and Pythias of cupboard racing.
Long on friendship ashore, but
short on it when on the race course,
Crawford and Hyde are expected
to resume tomorrow their year-old
feud of who broke whose record.
The Washington racers leapt in ma
tional prominence when they sue
cessively broke new world speed
marks at various regattas last year.
While an account of the see
saving of record holdings would re-
quire days of research, the score
as it stands to date is this:
Hyde holds the 1-nile mark set
here last September.
Crawford holds the Smile COM
petitive record made in st. Peters,
burg, Fla, in March, and the emile
competitive from last September in
Detroit.
After Each Others Records.
Both men let it be known they're
out to lash away at the others rec
ords. Crawford, who was the lone
Washington entry at the Hopatcong
regatta last year, won the l35 races
in fast competition.
Hyde, incidentally, has shifted
from gear to direct steering system
on his Gypsy Lass. Crawford, who
has the latter arrangement on his
boat, finds it provides greater ma
neuverability.
Each week end through this
month will find the four Washing
tonians on the road.
Next week there will be the Cam
bridge Md show, the Havre de
Grace MD regatta, July 10 and
20; Northeast Md, July 81, and
Chestertown Md, July q and %.
The big blowoff will be from August
] to when Miles River Yacht Club
stages its regatta at St. Michaels
on the Eastern Shore.