Show MOTOR BOATS IN RACE New Form of Sport That Promises to toBe toBe toBe Be Popular For the great motor boat race from Calais to Dover it it was a beautiful day beautiful day with the Channel In her quietest and laziest mood When the signal gun went off with a pop the whole of the petrol paraffin and alcohol racers racer started for Dover for all they were worth The drivers were mostly wrapped wrapped wrap wrap- ped in shining oilskins and you could see little of them beyond their heads One energetic Frenchman who drova drove a little cruiser was attired in a very fashionable bathing suit He regretted t a Motor Boat Race it afterwards With the salt seas washing wash ing ng over him during the whole trip he was chilled to the marrow and soaked to his second skin long before he reached Dover The French boat Mercedes Mercedes Mer Mer- cedes IV won with the English English Eng Eng- lish Napier Minor Napier second and Princess Elizabeth Delahaye German third The Mercedes won by about two miles and did the distance in 65 minutes That there Is a great future for the motor boat there is no denying denying s to r |