| Show I CES CES CLASH FOR BOAT HONORS OUT I I JO io LIFT CROWN FROM AMERICA I ubert rt Scott Paine Seeks IGar Oar Car Woods Wood's Harmsworth I Championship li i By Br JAMES C. C AUSTIN t United Ft Press Sports Writer it ALGONAC Mich Sept A 2 Dai David L battle the result of which IS of oi present conceptions Illy n. n fowe plants lants in speedboat racing tarS r o 0 on P S St. St Clair river here toda today the Scott Paine representing torri yI at Motor Yacht club challenges Sid Arthur Wood the titleholder supremacy in speed on n water and andr r British Brith international trophy the r r known as the Harmsworth in commemoration of oC its by Alfred Allred Harmsworth Lord nor or British publisher After ter one ne years year's trial of races begin begin- Isi g at it t 6 a. a m. m im protest from the thouy thou thou- y who annually view the contests forced resumption of the afternoon The objection of this plan that by afternoon the wind has had hade I M e to roughen t the course which not aly ily is dangerous but nak mak makes for lor lower speeds rOCKET MOTORBOAT 1 ch challenger lenger Miss Britain III lIT is iset et motorboat of revolutionary sign She Is powered with a single pier motor developing 1375 horse Officials of the committee i icer the eight day K carnival of which the trophy ire ice ce is the dominant feature have lIed her a steel plank on water cause she has only two inches of e board or distance from the watern water- water n Be se to the deck Defending the AmerI American n right to the rown own is Gar Woods Wood's tremendous Miss merIca X Compared with her weight f seven tons Scott Paines challener challen challen- er t s seemed emed tiny The challengers challenger's tIght right is only pounds Scotts Scott Scott- lines line's s 's craft crat was designed and built bunt mine jibe weeks and four days das Woods Wood's ed i t has a rebuilt hull The greatest difference between the theo thero ro fo o boats boats and and the difference that ay 1 revolutionize re power boat racing ij ls the motors While Scott Paines Paine's iper aper w will develop only 1375 horse nr the Miss America X is powered ith four Packard engines each cattle ca ca- ca ible ble of developing eloping at least 1600 horse ower and possibly 50 or horse sw r more than that Nearly four nae aes is as 35 many horse power drive the themer mer merican can craft U LT MISS 1155 ENGLAND I There is precedent for believing the allenger will be a formidable rival spite pite its small power plant It lies i the recollection that Miss England with only horse power in her Jl was driven to a speed of lIes flu an hour by the late Major Sir easy enry 0 O. D. D Scott Paine lew IW all about Miss England 1 Is I's con con- ruction Fred Cooper designed the theat aa at but Scott-Paine Scott built it II U Miss England could be made to reduce odice better than 90 miles an hour lii horse power it it does not tax edibility to believe the dispatches states Scott Paine had done bet bet- f than miles an hour in his new newIt at It while using only two-thirds two of ofa a r horse power The additional ane power gained with a super super- arger tr should have stepped up Miss egland I that much and Miss Britain 1 I vastly astIr more snore if il her design is an lm- lm over that of Miss 1 En En- f ludL iad ld I. I Also the reports of 10 mile speed i the new boat said the trials were in min Inin in salt wt water off oU Southampton 4 id there is good reason to believe tn ea faster futer speeds may be obtained in hi wh uh water The question of power and the pos pos- ble victory of the much smaller mot mo- mo t rover over Woods Wood's gigantic plant have havet t roved ved of tremendous consequences to tower ier boat racin racing devotees The fact that Wood will have vastly we really power really brute strengths strength strength- es s not overbalance Paine Scott as dialed according to J. J Lee Barrett of the Detroit gold cup com corn itt wee which is the active directing eney ency for the trophy race and nd which rates the It is entirely Ible that Scott Scott-Paine's picking up the development of single m motors tors here we It was left off when Wood beia be be- ia a wing using two and then four really I ill li prove rove a a startling development inIe in ine Ie e Single SIngle motor field ad not Scott Paine brought the r BrItain I to America and won the droit News international trophy for ve ye and aDd one half liter boats with her perhaps would be difficult to con con- nyc ave V of a boat of the construction of I new challenger for the Harms Harms- orth plaque Miss Britain I doubt doubt- Ll 5 the most unusual design ever I ICed ed successfully l fully in this country had shaped like an air air- airlane toe lane fuselage built on top of her platT plat plat- T- T e deck and offered practically II o a r to to wind or water J Wood will l drive e the defender with J i t. t i mechanic who who has ridi rid nd- i with him in every major event MUM Pame aine C. C will pilot his own chal chal- Sura-ce Sura e race formerly was held on the won river but last year was moved l 3 e n new cou course on Lake St St. Clair rr r. I and this year to still another course II on St St. Clair river near Marine City The British international trophy race consists of three races if f necessary necessary necessary sary sary the winner to take two out of three races each race 35 nautical miles mUes The first race is scheduled for this afternoon the second for Monday at 3 p. p m. m and the third 1 if necessary for Tuesday at 3 p. p m. m The Thc race itself consists of 35 nautical nautical nau nau- miles about 40 statute miles mUes over an o oval va 1 seven nautical course the long sides of which are along the near near-by American and Canadian Ca Ca- nadian shores o of the river From the side streets of Marine City and from grandstands on the shores and the hundreds of steamers yachts and small IsmaIl boats which will be anchored in the river many thousands of spectators spectators spec spec- can be accommodated Great lakes traffic from and to Lake Huron will be suspended during the race |
