Evening star., 1941-05-25
More Than 100 Prizes
Will Go 10 Winners
In Soap Box Derby
Committee Is Working
On Number and Kind
To Be Awarded

More than 100 prizes, in addition
to the trophies won by the l94l
Washington champion. will be
awarded to winners in the District S
fourth annual Soap Box Derby.
Last year the survivors of the
afternoons elimination heats won
100 awards. Every competitor re-
ceived a steel racing helmet and a
racing Jersey bearing the official
Soap Box Derby insignia to keep
as souvenirs of a day of thrills and
/ excitement.
Emblematic of the Washington
championship is the silver trophy
donated by NJ. E. Coyle, general
manager of the Chevrolet Motor
Co., which co-operates with The
Evening Star and the American Le-
gion in sponsoring the coaster race
for boys. This year the Washing
ton champion will be given this
trophy on which his name will be
/ engraved, as we'll as all the heat
prizes he has won in progressing
to the finals.
Prizes Increased Each Year.
The Derby Prize Committee is
working now on the number and
kinds of awards to be made for the
! l94l race. Each year more prizes
are offered, and 1941 will be no eX-
ception.
Winners of the first fight of
elimination heats will receive bronze
medals. In 1910 there were 70
winners of the first elimination
heats. Present indications of the
number of registrations for the 194l
Derby forecast a record number Of
racers. At present there are more
than twice as many boys registered
as there were last year at this time.
To those who won their second
heats in le40 small silver cups
were awarded. Altogether, "a Of
this type of prize we're given out.
To the eight winners Of the third
round went sports goods valued at
$40, while those boys who came in
second in this round received s.
worth of sports goods.
The finalists in class A, for boys
49, IA and Is. and in class B, for
II and II year olds, raced for
medals Gold medals went to first
place winners, silver to the second
place winners, and bronze to those
who came in third.
Trophy for d. c. Champion.
The Washington champion re-
ceives the Coyle Trophy. a trip to
Akron to compete in the national
finals, and a WristWatch racing
equipment and one of the best
times of his life when he gets to
Akron. All expenses of his trip
are paid by The Star, which also
paws the transportation and other
expenses of one of the parents of
the boy to Akron.
Runner-up in the 1910 Derby re-
ceived a bicycle. This went to Billy
Warner. class B champion defeated
by Bill Jennings for the city cham
pionship. Another bicycle was
awarded to the boy. who won third
place in the city standings, while a
portable radio was given for fourth
place.
Special prizes included two wrist
watches, donated by Sidney Sell
niger, jeWeler, for the two best de-
signed cars in the Washington
Derby These were won last year
by Gene Bean and Raymond Burke.
Herrold Brooks, jr, won fountain
pen and pencil set for the best up
holstered car.
Bill Warner, last years runner-up,
was featured on the weekly Derby
radio program heard yesterday at
1890 pm. over Station WRC. Next
weeks program will be heard at the
same time over the same station.
One more Derby entrant whose
name has been entered on the rolls
at headquarters at The Star is Guy
G. Garman, IA, Nokesville, Va. Total
registrants to date are 157.
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