Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-14 | Page 11 | Outboard Boats to Aim at 24 Marks This Year

OUTBOARD BOATS TO AIM AT 24 21 l fARIS THIS YEAR YEARLine Line Drawn Between Pro Amateur Classes Worlds World's Record NEW YORK YORK April 14 UP UP-As UP As a result of the tile new outboard motor motorboat motorboat motorboat boat racing rules only 24 records remain on the books for drivers to aim at this tills season With the tile mile 10 competition dim dim- mated and the tile drivers placed in two classes amateur and professional but 12 marks will be recognized In each division six ix in the one-mile one trials and six sL In the mile five events This simplification by the racing commission of the National Outboard Outboard Outboard Out Out- board association was greeted with approval by drivers throughout the countr country Like LUe every other sport said ono one prominent eastern castein official Outboard racing now has but one dividing iding line Placing the tile drivers In n either professional proCessional or amateur groups was good for both the sport and its iu followers CREATE LARGER FIELDS Cutting the number of divisions to towo two wo is expected not Ilot only to create larger fields in outboard races in Ill 1931 but also to increase competition The mile mlle trials with only two heats re required required required re- re instead of oC six should draw a larger arger number of record seekers Through the tile elimination of the six heats eats the tile number of time trials may maybe maybe be bc increased at regattas Every Everyone one of the existing outboard outboard out- out board records was established during during during dur dur- ing 1930 1930 tile the greatest year ear the tile sport has enjoyed The worlds world's record of or miles lC per hour Is held by Ray Pre Pre- genzer Jr of Antioch Ill H. H G. G Ferguson Fer- Fer guson juson California veteran holds the worlds world's competition speed mark of miles per hour established on Salton sea last November in the skip skip- pin pine Blue Streak