Show 41 t SMASHES YEAR 59 BOAT MARK 1 CLIPS CLIP THREE HOURS Loses Loses' Abut About 20 Hours on 1154 Mile on Repairs ST ST. I July AD Thc AP The year old speed record on oil Mississippi of the ones proud t E. E lt Loe an epochal from New Orleans to St. St Louis Louis' h t had become a a. tradition ccle- ccle cee- cee in and story fell today to frail gasolIne sp speedboat of mod mod- tarn design Tie Robert flobert E E. Leos Leo's mark of or 90 hours and ind 14 minutes which had withstood of Ot many mod modern ern draft was shattered by the Bo Be IeM owned by bP Dr Louis LeRoy of T Tean nn which pulled up at municipal dock at a. a m sn ting the 1154 the the- wind course of Mississippi iri S hours nail and 31 minutes THIRD ATTEMPT AT RECORD It ft wa as a grueling t tile the of modern river boats gt the coal burning typo such as asas I as the flobert U hi Lee Dr LeRoy had made Vo t previous attempts to the record and tho tIlo Bogle was able abla to clip chip less than three hours off the old mark in a trip beset with adversities Because of the arly ly h hour of tile the Boats Boat's arrival only a small of hand find hall bali its va On to achievement Dr LoRoy lARoy and his Harvey Brown and Bob Hunters went immediately to a hoLt hoti ho- ho Lt ti to foi rest Dr LeRoy estimated lost twenty hour n trip due to delays for lor repairs supplies Including two two propeller changes The speed for the entire distance was Ices than miles an hour TRACES FOR NICKEL BET The Bogie left New Orleans at p. p m. m Sunday racing with tho 3 cht Martha Jams for p a cent fi-cent bet Th Martha Jane was forced to ta drop dropout dropout out at Natchez Miss because of fl tor trouble but the Bogle plied piled piled-on on t toward wards li record t Th BOb rt E. E Lees Lee's record was made in a thrilling race with the jacket Natchez tho winner reaching St. Louis on July 4 1870 about six she ahead of Its rival The Tho captain cap cap- tam tain ot the Lee had arranged for re refueling re- re fueling at several points from fast which were ere lashed alongside thol ee as the coal was aa transferred rhe he Natcher in the absence of such Arrangements had to tow coal barges upstream J. J |