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Dixie II. and Standard. 
The new hulls for Dixie II. and Standard are 
finished. The hull of Dixie II. was brought 
from Boston and taken to Jersey City, where the 
motors used in the boat that defeated the British 
have been installed. The new hull is a better 
one than that used last summer. It is stronger 
and better able to stand the strains. It is likely 
to be put to a test in the Mediterranean. The 
hull was built by Lawley from designs by Clin¬ 
ton H. Crane and Mr. Crane thinks that certain 
refinements of model that have been made will 
prove of benefit to the launch, and that the 
speed will be about half a mile an hour better 
than the yacht made last summer. There is to 
be a trial of the boat before it is shipped and 
that trial will probably be this week. 
Standard’s new hull, built by Wood, from 
Clinton H. Crane designs, has been shipped to 
South Brooklyn, where the motors are being in¬ 
stalled. This craft is to have a trial and then, 
if .everything is all right, sent abroad. 
The engine of Standard has been rebuilt. It 
developed 520 brake horsepower at 580 revolu¬ 
tions recently in the shops, which is better than 
the engine did when in the old hull. 
Standard and Dixie II. are to be shipped to 
Marseilles on the steamship Roma, of the Fabre 
Line, which will sail on Feb. 27. The two boats 
will arrive at Monaco ready for business about 
the end of March and after being exhibited 
there, as the rules require, will take part in the 
big races which begin on April 4 and last until 
April II. C. Leverett Hayden, secretary of the 
Thousand Islands Y. C., will represent Price 
McKinney, the owner of Standard, and ex- 
Commodore E. J. Schroeder will' attend to his 
own boat, Dixie. 
Toledo’s Big Regatta. 
The annual regatta of the Inter-Lake Yacht¬ 
ing Association will this year be sailed off 
Toledo. For some years this regatta has been 
sailed off Put-in-Bay and those who have man- 
eged the regatta there tried hard to get it again. 
A meeting was held at Toledo last week and 
the delegates were divided as to where the 
regatta should be held. The Put-in-Bay yachts¬ 
men offered $450 to go to the regatta fund and 
they were supported by the Sandusky and Cleve¬ 
land yachtsmen, but they were finally beaten and 
Toledo selected. 
There will be a week of racing off Toledo. 
Commodore S. O. Richardson, of the Inter-Lake 
Yachting Association, has announced the com¬ 
mittees to serve for the coming season and to 
make the arrangements for the annual regatta 
of the association to be held at Toledo the week 
of Aug. 23. The date selected will also be the 
King Wamba festival week in Toledo, corres¬ 
ponding to the New Orleans Mardi Gras, and 
the whole week will be so crowded with the 
many attractions, both night and day, including 
the races, that at the end of it a soft plank and 
a pillow will probably look like a life-saving 
station in a gale to the weary sailors. 
The standing committees are as follows, the 
first named in each committee being the chair¬ 
man : 
Entertainment—A. J. Cone, Toledo Y. C.; 
John L. Dexter, Detroit Boat Club Yachtsmen; 
L. A. Saskett, Buckeye Lake Y. C.. of Colum¬ 
bus, Ohio; Morgan Reid, Maumee River Y. C., 
of Toledo; E. W. Briggs, Cleveland Y. C. 
Banquet—Frank R. Frey, Toledo Y. C.; W. 
F. Nash, Lakewood Y. C., of Cleveland; G. C. 
Urhn, Buckeye Lake Y. C.; C. A. Corigin, Motor 
Boat Club, of Buffalo. 
Venetian Night — O. M. • Nelson, Charles 
Quetske and R, M. Starr, of the Toledo Y. C., 
and H, L, Decker and N. S. Larsen, of the 
Maumee River Y. C. 
Committee on Other Sports—Dr, Wadsworth 
Warren, Detroit Country Club; John Gillespie, 
Detroit Motor Boat Club, and Harry Crawford 
and John Rohr, of the Toledo Y. C. 
Regatta Committee—W. L. Schumaker, Toledo 
Y. C.; J. H. Burrows and A. J. Prentice, of the 
Lakewood Y. C.; Dr. E. P. Hussey and H. V. 
Bisgood, of the Buffalo Y. C., and Otto E. 
Barthel, of Detroit Y. C. 
Power Boat Committee—Robert E. Power and 
Robert Deming, of Lakewood Club; F. R. Still 
and Carlton Wilby, of Detroit Motor Boat Club; 
F. B. Johnston, of Motor Boat Club, of Buffalo, 
and George E. Hardy, Toledo Y. C. 
Handicap Race Committee—Myron Vorce, 
Lakewood Club; C. D. Buckpitt, Buffalo Y. C.; 
Thornton Dixon, Monroe Y. C.; Charles P. 
Sieder, Detroit Y. C.; R. P. Mathias and Walter 
Coakley, of Toledo Y. C. 
Programmes—A1 H. Gallagher, Joe Grasser 
and Will Wilson, of Toledo Y. C. 
One of the promises that had much to do with 
winning over the opposition was that the fleet 
from the east end of the lake would be met at 
Put-in-Bay or any other point that might be re¬ 
quested and towed into this port. The announce¬ 
ment was especially pleasing to Cleveland, as the 
Lakewood Club’s home week follows the week 
set for the Inter-Lake meet, and it will be neces¬ 
sary for the Cleveland boats to lose no time in 
getting home. The Cleveland racing events will 
be of national importance for the reason that 
one of the Atlantic coast 18-footers will under¬ 
take to lift the trophy now held by one of the 
Cleveland boats of that class. 
It is probable that the long distance race under 
the auspices of the T. Y. C. will be the closing 
event of Inter-Lake week. The suggestion is 
that the race course be laid from Toledo to 
Cleveland, so that the participants may remain 
at Cleveland and take part in Lakewood’s big 
racing events. It is possible that Toledo will 
be represented in the 18-foot class by a fast new 
boat to be built by one of the local yachtsmen. 
With some modifications by the rules commit¬ 
tee, the new catboat restrictions, as presented by 
the T. Y. C., were adopted, as was the universal 
rule as amended by the Atlantic coast conference 
and ratified by the Yacht Racing Union of the 
Great Lakes. The new handicap rule, as pre¬ 
sented by the committee, was also adopted. 
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Building Motor BoeLts aLnd 
Managing Gasolene Engines 
Some New Power Boats. 
Several new power boats- have been built this 
winter at the works of the Electric Launch Com¬ 
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been shipped. The electric launch W. H. Taft 
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John A. Spoor, of Chicago, has ordered a 
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Eastern Y. C. Officers. 
At the annual meeting of the Eastern Y. C. 
the amendments to the rules of measurement 
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adopted. These officers were elected; Commo¬ 
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F. Lewis Clark; Rear-Commodore, Robert Em¬ 
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Hudson River Power Boat Race. 
The Albany Y. C. is arranging a power boat 
race from Albany to New York for which 
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start will be off the Albany Y. C. house at Al¬ 
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that govern the race from the Crescent Athletic 
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