Evening star., 1940-09-27
Three Former Winners Field Of Eight Start Presidents Cup Race
One Heat Tomorrow,
Two Sunday, Slated
For $4,000 Mug
225-Cubic-Ineh Hydro
Championship Among
Featured Events
By MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.

BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.
A near-record field Of eight start
ers, including five veterans of past
regattas, will receive starting gun
from the Coast Guard cutter Calypso
tomorrow at $50 pm. as the l4th
annual Presidents Cup Regatta
opened today with outboard events
goes into high gear.
Spanning more than a decade OF
Presidents Cup competition, the
entry list numbers three former
holders Of the $4,000 cup which the
late President Coolidge sponsored IA
years ago.
Only one of three heats will be
run tomorrow over a six-lap course
tOtaling Is miles The second and
third heats are slated for Sunday
at 2:30 pm. and 4:35 pm. In be-
tween events, ranging from a water
ski contest to the national cham
pionship for 225-cubic- inch hydro
planes will afford spectators Inning
East Potomac Park seawall the
greatest marine show Of the year.
How Field Shapes Up.
The tentative lineup for tomor-
rows feature Presidents Cup contest
shapes up like this:
MY Sin, Zalmon G.. Simmons OF
Greenwich, Conn, winner 1899 Gold
Cup.
Notre Dame, Herbert Mendelson.
Detroit. Mich, winner 1885 and 1887
Presidents Cup.
Miss Syndicate. Horace Dodge OF
Detroit, winner 1927 Presidents Cup
Hotsy-Totsy, Sidney Allen of
Southampton. Long Island, winner
1880 Presidents Cup
Hermes, Noble Lanier, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Mercury, Marion Cooper of Louis
vile, KY.
Why Worry, Bill Cantrell, Louis
vile, unsuccessful entrant last year.
King Staten, Joe S. Brown, Louis
vile.
Rated as one of the fastest Gold
Cup boats af1oat, My Sin. competed
here last year, but a chance bit Of
driftWood the first day out put a
temporary end to Simmons am
bitions. Hard luck trailed the
wealthy sportsman again last month
for the Gold Cup event and he was
unable to finish the race.
Simmons has his fingers crossed
for this week ends show.
Notre Dame Most Feared.
OF Notre Dame. much has been
written. She still is the meanest
Gold Cup boat racer must beat
Mendelson in the last six years has
spared no expense in improvements
on the needle-nosed craft The
Notre Dame of today is a far cry
from the racer that won the Presi-
dents Cup in 1885.
Horace Dodge raced his Miss Syn
dicate to an average of 5162 miles
an hour in the event here in 1927.
She's out this time for one last swing
at the gold mug at time when boats
are crowding 100 miles an hour.
Several hundred dollars and lot
of tinkering brought the late Vic
Kliesrath's Hotsy-Totsy fame this
year when 36-year-old Sidney Allen.
Long Island cinema operator, raced
her to victory in the Gold Cup
classic. It was the story of the tor
toise and the hare Hotsy-Totsy
plugged along in each heat. never
faltering, while My Sin. Notre Dame
and others dropped out with engine
trouble.
Why Worry was another hard luck
entry last year OF Cantrell. SIM
mons this week had this to say:
Hes the guy to watch"
Second only to the Presidents Cup
contest in thrills and high speeds
are the 225's which promise to at
tract one of the largest fields of the
week end. Of the 16 entered. eight
will be eligible for the John Charles
Thomas Trophy event for the class
title Sunday.
Cooper and Schrafft Appear.
They include Gibson Bradfeld's
Hep-Cat. Barnesville, Ohio: John
Glennon's Wild Goose II. West
Chester, Pa: Tom Chatfelds Viper
New York City: Jack Coopers Tops
III, Kansas City, Mo: David For
mans Eaglet III. Buffalo. N. Y:
George Schrafft's Chrissie ", New
ton. Mass: c. Frank Ripp's Meadow
mere, Rockville Center, N. Y, and
Andy Crawford Ednandy w, WASH
1ngton.
Only boats that have competed in
six or more American Power Boat
Association sanctioned regattas dur
ing the year and have placed among
the first 10 drivers in the country are
eligible for the Thomas prize. In the
event drivers haven't qualified in
number Of races, the A. P. B. A..
championship for 225s tomorrow will
serve as qualifying event.
OF the lot two stand out as the
country's speediest drivers. One IS
Jack Pop" Cooper of Kansas City.
Mo, 1887 class champion. and young
George Schrafft. Newton Mass
college boy. who won the title in
1888 and 1889. Both are entered
here. according to Race Chairman
Aubrey Bogeley.
Tomorrows show opens at 1910
pm. and on Sunday at the same
time.
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