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Show VANDERBILT IS TO RACE MOTOR BOAT Society has smiled upon the Sportsman's . Show In pt ogress at Madison Square Garden. Gar-den. Many of the elite visited ths show the other afternoon and evening, and the Jaws ff. the motor boat were seen to wag as tlT'V have not warged since the opening open-ing "oi tnexEItiilion, saTrtheTsewTtoTk" American. W. K. Vsnderbilt, Jr., dropped in in the evening. With him were W. Butler Duncan Dun-can and Commodore F. G. Bourne of the New York Yacht club, and D. O. Mills. Mr. Vanderbilt showed a lively Interest in ths boats, plying the exhibitors with all sorts of questions. He sdmitted his intention in-tention of testing the sensation of motor boat-racing next summer, and will probably prob-ably enter some of the important eventa He is having a forty-foot hull built by Frank Woods of City Island. He will put a ninety-horse power Mors motor, which he reoently took out of a French automobile, automo-bile, in the boat. Mr. Vanderbilt is Said to have ordered a racing boat from the same German firm that constructed his famous record-breaking automobile. . The Vsnderbilt party inspected with interest in-terest the model of a sixty-five-foot rac-. rac-. lng boat, which la the largest proposed up to the present time. Thirty miles an hour is the speed predicted for this particular par-ticular boat. ' . |