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Show .MOTOR BOATS WILL TRY THE NIAGARA RAPIDS Headed by 'Percy C. Jones, son of the late "Golden Rule" mayor of Toledo, who has entered Nomad II as the first contender con-tender for the difficult feat, eleven applicants ap-plicants have exprosscd a desire to compete com-pete In the coming attempt by motor boats to breast the Niagara rapids. The contest Is ono of the most extraordinary over proposed, requiring, as It. docs, the traversing of one of this most powerful of whirlpools, and a $500 gold cup, given by J. A, Fenton, and a cash bonus of $1000 by tho Power Bontlng magazine, are the inducements for the best time made. |