Evening star., 1953-09-21
Injured SIo-Mo Pilot
Awaits Cup Award
Al White House
Bx MoLeolm Lomhorne. Ir.

Lou Fageol, his leg still in a
bandage, pays q visit to the
White House tomorrow to receive
for Stanley Sayres Of Seattle the
$4,000 Presidents Cup from
President Eisenhower.
The 48-year-old Kent (Ohio)
businessman and ace driver of
-Mo-Shun v earned that priv
ilege late yesterday on the chop
py, debriS-ladened Potomac when
he stood OF a bold bid by Chuck
Thompson Of Detroit. driving
Jack Schafer's Such Crust III,
who sought to be the first Gold
Cup driver to win the prize four
times.
In the final heat Of the feature
race, witnessed by an estimated
$1,000 spectators, Such Crust led
all the way for the Is miles and
chalked up a new Presidents
Cup heat record of 93.61S miles
an hour.
Hurt In Near Collision.
But Fageol, his leg bleeding
profuSely for the five laps after
striking it against a bolt in
near collision with Such Crust
on the first lower turn, still had
enough points from his victory
in. the second heat yesterday and
Saturdays trumpS to win the
prize.
Under the Gold Cup rules, |
Such Crust won 400 bonus points |
for the fastest heat, while Slo-
Mo-Shun added another 400 for
the fastest speed for the three
heats, 90.70S-a new Presidents
Cup record. The final score was
slo-Mo-Shun, 1,500; Such Crust
III, 1,194; Such Crust v, driven
by Bill Cantrell, 652: Gale II, Lee
Schoenith of Detroit, 563: Frank
Sales Miss Wayne of Detroit,
driven by Doc Terry. 307: AL Fall
Ions Miss Great Lakes II of De-
troit. Danny Foster at the wheel.
300; George Simons' Miss United I
States, 95: Guy Lombardo's
Tempo VI, II; Horace Dodge's
MY Sweetie, no points. 4
Catapulted from Boat.
Fageol. on returning to the
Naval Air Station pits, was sent
to the hospital for stitches in
his leg. He followed by about
an hour Walter Kade of Detroit, [
driver Of the Dodge boat who
was catapulted from his cockpit
on the rough back stretch. My
Sweetie ended up. after a loud
backfire, near the committee
boat, the Coast Guard cutter
Marion. Kade. in danger of
being run down by the d., other
Gold Cuppers was taken from
the river by the Coast Guard
and sent to the hospital for
treatment of fractured foot.
In the final heat, Thompson
gunned Such Crust III over the
start in the lead and there he
remained for five laps. Fageol
sought in vain to close the gap,
which ranged from the 300
yards down to a hair-raising few
feet on the lower turn.
Wins by 800 Yards.
Fageol won the second heat
by a good 800 yards over Such
Crust v. with Such Crust III,
third. Fallon's Miss Great Lakes
II, which was rated high after
giving Slo-Mo a real race on
Saturday. dropped out on the
first lap with a big hole in her
hull, caused by submerged drift
wood. Foster had to beach the
boat at the pits to keep from
sinking. The same thing hap
pened to the Fallon boat Labor
Day in the Silver Cup regatta
In Detroit.
In other classes. Frank Koc-
sis of Silver Spring. Md. was
the only Washington area driver
to win heat. He led a small
field Of Pacific One-designs in
the second heat. which gave him
enough points for a third-place
trophy. Kocsis failed to get out
for the first heat. The winner on
total points was Billy Brown Of
Hopewell, Va, driving Wanton
Duchess.
Mike Hare Takes Second.
Mike Hare Of Washington did
even better, winning a second
place in the 266-cubic Inch hy-
droS. The winner was Ed
Aleksandrowicz of Baltimore. Joe
Falmer's Tommy Boy" of Ar
lington limped into the pits with
a. stopped-up water intake and
couldn't get out for the second
heat. .....
In the 48-hydros, Commodore
Paul Price of Capital Power AS
sociation received a third-place
trophy by virtue of a third and
fourth. w. H. Harrison of Nor
folk won with two firsts and fell
low-townsman Rudy Browning
was second.