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Show RATINGS INCOREEOT.- Shown' at Rocent Motor Boat Carnival! on the Hudson. Tribune Special Sporting Service. 1 NEW YORK, Sept. 29. If the recenti motor boat carnival on the Hudson river has shown anything conclusive? thus far, it has ahofni that he Tating measurements fixed by the American Power Boat Association are open t to serious censure, and an effort is being: mado to bring about a change. It is said that any superficial examination. of tho results of any race will show , jH that; uo two boats perform truly ac-cordnic ac-cordnic to their- ratings. Under tixejB conditions boats never can be brought locether and classified so that ttrej will producd' interesting contests, ana IH unless so brought together the "sport must die. The difficulty has been. tliat ther sport, has; been largely con-Tolled con-Tolled for trade purposes, and no one Vm has had the courage to speak out and, protest against tho mamiest unfair- Vm nother thing the motor boat car-nival car-nival has shown is that no boatcan make the time claimed lor it. When, , there is a test, there is always some excuse, somo reason alleged for tho failure to equal its best. TJnti this vear there has nnvor been an atteraph IH to secure real records, and these ret-ords ret-ords mado this year show m beyoud question that the speed ot motor VM lloats has been .exaggerated when. times -woro taken in unomcial tests. The motor 'boat is too important and, jH influential a factor both in futura commercial and sporting activities to. be trifled with, and it is umo that an effort was mad? to show its possibiii-ties possibiii-ties on a moro substautial basis. Marathon Raco Postponed. CHICAGO, Sept. 29. The annual "Marathon race, scheduled for today has boon postponed till Monday on ac rH count of wet weather. jl |