Evening star., 1941-05-16

Bill Jennings. Derby spon -
sored in Washington by The Eve
ming Star in cooperation with the
American Legion.
Prevented by the rules from enter
ing the race again after once having
won city championship, Bill,
nevertheless, is eager to do what
he can to help Washington get a
winner at the national finals of
the Derby to be held at Akron, Ohio.
The finals will be held August II,
more than a month after the WASH
ington race on Saturday, July II.
The 1910 champion will tell how
he built the speedy coaster racer
which last year survived six elimlna-
ton heats to emerge as the fastest
of the nearly $50 cars competing
on Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
Important questions on racer
construction will be answered and
an explanation of important rules
changes from last year also will be
given on the program by George
Haddock, Soap Box Derby editor and
member of the National Rules Com
mittee, and Bill Coyle, radio director
Of The Star and a member OF the
Soap Box Derby General Committee.
Limit on Racers Cost.
The Soap Box Derby is an event
for boys between the ages of II
and IS, inclusive, who live in Wash
ington or nearby Maryland and
Virginia. They must build coaster
racers according to specifications
outlined in the 1941 rule books, and
the cars must be constructed at a
cost not to exceed $40.
Rule books may be obtained after
boy registers at the Chevrolet
dealer nearest his home. To regis
ter. he should be accompanied by
one of his parents, or guardian.
Billy Warner, runner-up to Bill
Jennings in the 1910 race, was one
of 26 boys whose registrations were
cleared through Soap Box Derby
headquarters at The Star Building
this week.
Billy was II years old when he
won the Glass B championship in
1910. Glass B includes all boys II
and IL years old AS the class cham
pion he raced Bill Jennings, Glass A
winner. for the title of Washington
champion, and was nosed out in
very close race This year Billy will
race in Glass A, for boys 13, IA and
Is years old.
120 Entered So Far.
The addition of the following
names brings the early Derby roster
to a total of 100 entrants:
James T. Adams, II, 408 Diamond
avenue, Gaithersburg, Md; Jesse H.
Adams, 13, 408 Diamond avenue,
Gaithersburg; Edwin Becraft, IS,
Diamond avenue, Gaithersburg:
John Boothby, IA, $3.50 Lowell street
NV; Waters Chiswell, 13, 81 Brooks
avenue, Gaithersburg; Charles JAG
obs, l3, 4309 Chesapeake street NV;
Raymond Markham, 13. 1880 South
Dakota avenue NE; George Mars
den, IL, 6305 Broad Branch road,
Chevy Chase, Md; Herbert Mead,
IL, ATS Forty-eighth street NV:
Hilton r. Miller, 13, 1943 North Cleve-
land, Arlington, Va; Harold Nit
owitz, II, 1866 Tewkesbury place
NV: Richard H. Norair, IL, 5908
Thirty-second street NV; Arthur
F. Peck, IA, 7 Popular avenue, Ia
koma Park, Md; Billy Pickett, IL,
4611 Norwood drive, Bethesda, Md;
Paul R. Rupert, jr.. 13, 1919 North
Garfield street, Arlington; John
Barton Sabine, 13, 48 Oak place,
Bethesda; Robert Sheldon, IA, 2800
Evart street NE; William Beverly
Steele, IS 606 Butternut street NV;
Charles Weaver, Is. 1928 Monroe
street NV; Gene r. Winfield, IA,
Gal North Lincoln street, Arlington;
David Yaukey, 13, 4400 Maple ave-
nue., Bethesda, Md; John Younger,
IA. $40 Rolling road, Chevy Chase,
Nd; Billy Riggles, Is, East River
dale, Md; Frank Rolston, jr., Is,
1926 Shepherd street NE, and Joe
Blodgett, IS, Baltimore boulevard,
Berwyn, Md.
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