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Show oo One-mile Power Boat Championship Won By Whip-po-will DETROIT, SepL 2 The one-mile power boat championship of North America today was awarded to the Whip-po-will, Jr., of the Lake George, Yacht club, when Miss Detroit III of the Detroit Yacht club failed to finish her mile trials. In six-mile trials, the Lake George hydroplane averaged C3.49S miles an hour. The fatest mile of the eastern boat was made with the current in her first trial, when she covered the distance at the rate of G5.017 miles an hour. Miss Detroit III, the only other powerboat pow-erboat to start in the mile event, dropped out in her second trial, after making the first dash at tho rate of 6-1.99 miles an hour. Miss Detroit III won the Gold Challenge Chal-lenge cup of the American Powerboat association today by finishing second to Whip-po-will Jr., of the Lake George Yacht club, in the finnl thlrty-mllc thlrty-mllc heat of the hydroplane races here Miss Minneapolis finished third. DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 2 Adding four points to her score by finishing second in the final thirty-mile heat, ' 1 in Miss Detroit III, of the Detroit Yacht! club, won the gold challenge cup of the American Power Boat association here this afternoon. Whip-po-will Jr., of the Iake George Yacht club, won today's heat and nosed out Miss Minneapolis Min-neapolis for second place Miss Detroit III. which failed to finish in either of the first two heats because of engine trouble, set the pace for tho first two laps. Miss Detroit Ill's average time was 50.6 miles an hour. Whip-po-will averaged 53.4 miles an hour. BOSTON, SepL 2 Gilbert Hockin-son Hockin-son of the Milwaukee Boat club won the junior singles ovent at tho annual' Labor day rowing association over the one-and-a-half -mile course on the Charles river basin. Time, 10 minutes 5 seconds. The surprise of the afternoon was tho defeat in the senior singles event of John J. Sullivan of the SL Alphon-sus Alphon-sus Boat club by Carey Kaulkner of the Riverside Boat club. Kaulkner's time was S minutes -19 seconds. |