Evening star., 1948-08-23
Gold Cuppers, Failure
AT Red Bank, 10 Try
Again al Detroit
By MoIeoIm Lomborne, Jr.
Stor Stoff Cesyespoodent


RED BANK, N. j.. Aug. 23.-A
hexed Gold Cup fleet headed foi
Detroit today for next week ends
Gold Cup races, after suffering new
blows in the windup here yesterday
of the National Sweepstakes Re-
gatta. long rated one of the major
speedboat shows of the country.
The National Sweepstakes Trophy
was awarded Joe Van Blerck OF
Freeport, Long Island, owner and
driver OF the 225-cubic-inch hydro
plane Aljo w, craft with much
less speed than the supposedly pow.
erful Gold Cuppers.
Trouble is that you can't bet on
the big racers to stay in the grind
Guy Lombardo, for instance, failed
to get his Tempo vi from Freeport
N. Y, out for the second and final
heat. He blamed battery and fuel
line woes. up to then Van Blerck
had 400 points and Lombardo 900
In the windup race Harry Lynn's
Lahala OF Lake Hopatcong, N. j.,
led a disappointingly small field,
but because the huge racer did not
compete Saturday she dropped to
second on final points. Van Blerck s
second gave him winning TOO tai
lies. Just to confuse matters more,
Lombardo drove for Lynn in this
race.
Lahala Badly Damaged.
And to make it complete. Lahala
threw a prop through her bottom
and had to be beached during the
running of the single heat for the
Red Bank Gold Cup. She was
finally towed ashort by the Coast
Guard, with Driver Norman Lauter-
bach and Owner Lynn sitting glum-
ly in the cockpit of the sos 900 job.
Another 255 hydroplane came
through in this race, winning first
place. She was Sid Streit's Z-Z-Zip
Of Kansas City, Mo. Tempo, with
Lombardo finally back in his own
boat, came out late for this race,
out dropped out when the Missouri
racer finished ahead.
In the third and final heat for
the Judge Emil Auerbach Memorial
Trophy race, Tempo roared to first
place, with Lahala second. But the
prize went to Lahala on points.
Lombardo chalked up the fastest
heat speed of the week end-76.055
n.p.h.
One of the best races of the day
was in the 135-cubic-inch hydro
plane event which was named in
honor Of the late Jack Pop" Cooper
If Kansas City. Joe Palmer of Ar
ington, who last raced against
Cooper in Florida last winter, won
The concluding heat at an average
speed of just over 60 m.p.h.
Palmer Has 800 Points.
Palmer's Tommy Boy led the field
so his total was a whop-
ping 800 points. Bob Bandy's Satan
If Liberty, Mo-. flashed across the
finish line a matter of few seconds
oack of Palmer. This gave him two
seconds.
Thousands of spectators lined the
shores of Navesink River and
,iewed the races from pleasure
,oats of all sizes and descriptions.
officials said a new record for a
National Sweepstakes had been set
in the number of starters in all
events.
Spills marred otherwise very ex-
cellent outboard racing. Harold
Curry of Richmond went over in
the first heat of Glass B. outboard
nydroplanes The same thing hap
pened to Emil Mayer of College
Point, N. Y, in the first heat.
Lawrence Buedel of Essex, Nd,
dipped over after he tried to get
out of the way of Skiff Connor OF
Baltimore, who was making later
start. The wash from Buedel's boat
washed oWt the Baltimore driver.