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Show so ho will I urn his interest to hydro-1 plnnc.( I tin. future. The Dixie II the most popular speed boat raced in American water In ninny years. In her three season she has won ibe greatest number of prize-? over annexed by a motor-boat Twice she defended the British tro-lhy: tro-lhy: twice she won the cold nip race On the Thousand Islands; twice sh" proved herself national champion on the Hudson river and this year she won the Great Iraki's championship at Buffalo. She has only boon det'eat-od det'eat-od once nnd that was by a 500-horscv power .'.0-foot hull at Monaco In 1 900. She has started In neatly 100 racit, a record that has never ben np-I np-I proached by any other motor boat, largo or small. DIXIE II. WINNER OF MOTOR BOAT RACE New York. Sept. 14. Tho Dixie II. winner of the international motor-l-rat cup, is irt I' retired this fall. F. K. Burnham. her owner, fmnouniv-n lhat he will shortly take out the pow-1 pow-1 i rful 2."n-hor.opo'wer engine and sub-: sub-: rtitute an equipment of lower pow-' pow-' it, as he InloTicI to use the boat i henceforth lor cruising purposes. ' Mr Burnham does not Intend to ' quit racing, hut he beileves that a ! boat of the now-common typ . Is cap-i cap-i able of the highest possible speed, |