Evening star., 1948-08-22
Van BIerck in Lead
lombardo Suffers
Engine Trouble
By Malcolm Lomborne, j.
Stor Sfoff Correspondent

olC1Ch VI TICCPOIt, IN. I =, tOOk Iilc
opening heat.
Between now and $40 pm. to-
morrow, when the second and final
heat will be held, the hard luck
fleet may get going again.
Guy Lombardo, the band leader
from Freeport, had starter trouble
with his Gold Cup Tempo vi and
didn't get started until Van Blercks
Aljo v had gone nearly four of the
six laps. Even If Lombardo wins
tomorrow, Van Blerck still could
take the Sweepstakes trophy. He
has only to finish second, Which
would tie the two Long Island
drivers on points. However, Lom-
bardo,s time today was so slow ne
hardly can make up for 1t tomor-
rowland ties are broken on faster
time.
Harry Lynn's new Gold Cup craft
Lahala, which won the Cambridge
Gold Cup last week, conked out on
the first lap with broken fuel line,
leaving the NaveSink River to Van
Blerck, until Lombardo showed.
Warren Avis and Robert Frosts
Miss Frostie of Detroit. the former
Notre Dame, suffered backflre and
explosion before the start and never
got out. Avis and his mechanic
were burned slightly.
Lombardo's Time Best.
Earlier, Lombardo won the open
ing heat for the Judge Emil Auer-
bach Memorial Trophy, but didn't
start in the second heat. In this
first race, Tempo was clocked at
1873 mph, the fastest time of the
day. Lahala was SO late in getting
out for the race that Driver Norman
Lauterbach couldn't overtake an
other 225-hydroplane, Bob Bogie's
Blitz II of Saranac Lake, N. Y,
which won. A third heat is carded
for tomorrow.
Up against some Of the fastest
company since campaigning in
Florida last winter, Joe Palmer of
Arlington, Va, led 9-boat field Of
135-cubic inch hydroplanes. These
smart little boats are racing for the
Pop" Cooper Memorial Cup. tro-
ply in honor of the famed Kansas
City 1875 driver who died recently
from injuries suffered in crackup
in Canada. The second and final
heat is slated tomorrow.
Palmer's Tommy Boy was second
over the starting line and in a few
hundred feet had moved into the
lead He steadily widened his lead
over Bob Bandy's Satan of Liberty,
Mo-, which finished second, and Bill
Luby's Choro of Troy, N. Y, which
finished third The winners aver
age speed for the five miles was
61.728 miles per hour.
In the outboard events, thousands
of spectators along the shores OF
this lovely harbor witnessed some
of the best racing of the day.
Stand-out outboarders were Frank
Desmond of Bernardsville. N. j.,
who won both heats for Class C
Amateurs and Gil Peterman Of NAL
verne, N. Y, Glass A Professionals,
and Don Whitfield, Montclair, N. j.,
Midget Glass, who took both their
heats.
Capitol Pilots Trail.
Hard luck was the order Of the
dav for most of the washington
outboard drivers who trailed up here
earlv today and yesterday. Dean
Wooster and Maize Rogers never
got to the line with their jobs.
Ike Hale, a hot Glass c driver,
had his engine washed out IN
wake before the start OF the tlrst
heat and was last to start. He
placed fourth. In the next heat,
Hale was second. This gave him a
final third place among the anna
teurS.
Hudson Moses, driving his new
Glass C. Job Miss Daphne III, placed
third in the first heat, but had en-
CINE trouble for the second neat
right at the start He withdrew
and ended in fourth spot on total
! points.
Auerbach Memorial Trophy: 111ipat unIimtsso' tso
Pre- frsepofs beat l. emRS l. Ei ui Harry Iyn1
Mafren var a0Ra'e4Sih; E AVIS, Detroit, Mich speed
IL sSe0af $@Ao '. speed 5S,s %Da: pon
cod3sr 3scg9l nch race Frst hsat
TOMMY Boy, Joe Palmer, Arlington, Va;
sstaqg d., Bop 1dH Bandy 4roI Liberty S MOS speed s
6i.79s n9lS mp.h. mp Isecond heat sunday1
Glass GutPesrdS Maverne Lons
Island; hisI i 2"Bili BarTett Hawthorns: u,
j.; 3-Lee Clarke New Haven, Conn,
speed 42.lsa heat mph pst.ruar o-garrett
as5eSeph s5eSep new; Wotovitz' Hartford, Conn:
speed 1925 mph s6ot Total wopoWits polnitts:
Glass c. outboards tamateurl. first
heat Erank scsoolerst 1so%ona
4 N Y; 3-Hudson Moses, Washington,
b. c. Speed, 531Ils mph, r,,
Washington, D. c.; 3-schoolcraft: Speed;
sa 500; seh0oferstt Ra sss a1 Hale 4ss Noes $$s
n Y; 3-LGuy Hamilton. Newbern' N c.
second heat: j., Pat F Pattersqn -, Rich- IStcn
Tsn spaed Biert 'SiS aSo; Baohner Bach 4es Hamilton
C. ogtO2s5d Tst
sGMorton DaIier' claymont, N. ]. Speed
L. /, N. Y; 2-Daller; 3-Broaddus.
Speed, STATS mph. Total points-Broad-
dus 625; Daller 525; Marsh 469.
Midget outboards topenl First heat
10 Don Whitfield. Montclair, N. j.; C"l
Jane Bartlett. Little Silver, N. j.: go
dorothy Mayer, College Point, N. Y. Speed
Second heat-W Whitfield; t2) Steve
Gaat Garfield, N; J.: 90 MAYER Speed
sSo b.rlept 4es asal 9GR'S 9sa "ni'heo
Judse AueEeash em5o trophy 6v E mss1 First
S FreepoTt L. +; q, Lahala. Harry ''Ia1 lynn, an
Lake Hopatcong, N. j.; (3l Miss Frostie.
Warren Avis, Detroit. Speed 73.l9S mph.
Second heat-O Blitz II. Bob Bosie,
saranac Lake N. Y; (2) Lahala; (3) Aljo
v, Joe Van Blerck, Freeport, L, l., N. Y.
Tempo VI did not start. Miss Frostie
did not fnish Speed 5s.s m.p.h
225-cubic-inch hydroplanes First heat
% Zip, Sid STREET., Kansas City; (2)
Yankee Doodle VII, Merlyn Culver. Day
ton: 90 Blitz II, Bob Bogie, saranac
Lake, N. Y. Speed 1928 m.p.h. Second
9l-cubic hydroplanes: First heat
Great ahS,afl Seek E n | Z, Piytna nane, Tnrsle.
Wallace Rowland, Havre De Grace. Md;
t3J Thumper. sarkis Kavookjan, Rumson.
N. J. Speed 4S,519 m.p.h.
Second heat--D Another Little Bea;
C2D Thumper; 90 Miss Fortune, Ed. Cam
PAMELA, Rumson, N ]. Speed 1892
m.ph Total points: Another Little Bea.
500; Thumper. 525: Flying Turtle. 46a
National Sweepstakes Us miles,: First
heat-D Aljo v. Vanblerck: co Tempo
VI. Lahala did not finish, All other