FOREST AND STREAM 
May 4, 1912 
can attend to in furnishing them with 
motor machinery. Several boat building con¬ 
cerns are turning out 20-foot craft, guaranteed 
to travel at a speed of 35 miles an hour, and as 
some of them have demonstrated with their 
initial products, that the boats can go the pace, 
there is no lack of buyers. Now the racing 
men are inquiring as to rating rules, racing- 
conditions, etc., and there is no definite answer 
from any source. Everybody is in doubt as to 
whether the many changes in the rules, adopted 
at the annual meeting of the American Power 
Boat Association two months ago, are to be 
brought into play or not. No copies of these 
changes have been distributed, although 
Memorial Day, the day usually regarded as that 
of the opening of the racing season, is less than 
five weeks away. 
“Another matter that is breeding discontent 
among racing men is the lack of information 
as to racing events. Very few clubs have made 
any announcements regarding races, many of 
them having delayed because of the confusion 
to racing rules, while others have not as yet 
begun to consider the season’s program. Rac¬ 
ing men point out that in the field of sailing 
races the date and place of every event to be 
held by every yacht club on Long Island Sound, 
Gravesend Bay, and near-by waters has been 
known for more than a month. They say that 
motor boat racing is a sport that is as important 
as yacht racing; that the clubs interested in it 
should get together and establish a system of 
arranging dates, and that schedules of fixtures 
should be available early in the season. 
“Of course, any club that is interested in 
motor boat racing may make its own rules, and 
hold races under them, but the clubs are averse 
to individual action of this sort. Therefore, they 
have been waiting for the laws to be handed 
down to them. Likewise any club may hold a 
race on any day that it may select, but many 
of them are afraid that if they fix upon dates 
other events of perhaps greater importance, not 
as yet announced, will fall upon the same date, 
to the great embarrassment of the club of sec¬ 
ondary importance or of the club announcing 
races of the lesser interest. The dates of the 
National Carnival, the most important motor 
boat racing event of New York waters, are still 
undetermined. Heretofore the carnival races 
have been held in September, but at present 
there is under discussion a plan of changing the 
dates to the early part of July. And a conse¬ 
quence of all this is, that with many more high 
speed racing boats afloat and under construc¬ 
tion than ever before, and with a higher degree 
of enthusiasm among racing men, the outlook 
for a successful and interesting racing season 
is not reassuring, 
“The Motor Boat Club of America has shown 
a disposition heretofore to confine its activities 
to the National Carnival and the international 
contest for the Harmsworth cup. The Larch- 
mont Y. C. will stand for about one race for 
high speed boats and one for cruisers in the 
course of a season. The Atlantic Y. C. shows 
little, if any, more interest in the sport. The 
National Y. C. last year held one long-distance 
race for cruisers, and held itself ready to give 
races for speed boats, but made no great effort 
to round up the racers. The Manhasset Bay 
Y. C. held one race for fast boats last year. It 
should be remembered, however, that all these, 
excepting the_ first named, are yacht clubs, and 
interested primarily in sailing. The clubs on 
the Hudson River are much more interested in 
cruising and long-distance races than in con¬ 
tests for high speed boats. But for all that, the 
first club of all those mentioned, that will 
arrange and widely announce an extensive series 
of races for 1912, and will arrange racing con¬ 
ditions that are acceptable to boat owners, and 
will carefully and skillfully manage its contests, 
will take a long step toward a prestige in motor 
boat racing similar to that enjoyed by the 
Larchmont Y. C. in respect to sailing contests.” 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from any 
newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to supply you 
regularly. 
Great Lakes Power Boat League. 
The third annual regatta of the Great Lakes 
Power Boat League will be held under the 
auspices of the Royal Hamilton Y. C., Hamil¬ 
ton, Ont., Aug. 8, 9 and 10. 
Aug. 8—2 p. M. : Live mile race for boats with 
two cylinders or less—three prizes. 3 P. m.: 
Two-mile race, free for all—three prizes. 4:30 
p. M.: Ten-mile handicap race—three prizes. 
5:30 p. M. : Aquaplane demonstrations. 
Aug. 9— II A. M.: Lorty-foot class, 20 miles—• 
three prizes. 2 p. M.: Twenty-six foot class, 20 
miles—three prizes. 3:30 p. m.: Twenty-foot 
class, 20 miles—three prizes. 5 p. m.: Lorty- 
foot displacement, 20 miles—three prizes. 
Aug. 10—10 A. M.: Cruisers, 14 miles, Ham¬ 
ilton to Bronte and return—three prizes. 
II A. M.: Thirty-two foot class, 20 miles— 
three prizes. 2:30 p. m. ; Annual International 
motor boat handicap race, open to any boat of 
15 miles or over, 20 miles—four prizes. 4:30 
p. M.: Great Lakes Power Boat League cham¬ 
pionship, 25 miles. 
Course, reliability cruise contest of 1912, Com¬ 
modore Wm. E. Scripps’ trophy, as finally re¬ 
vised by the course committee at Hamilton, 
Canada, April 13, 1912: 
Port. Arrive. Leave. 
Detroit .July 30, 9 A.M. 
Toledo .July 30, 4P.M....July 31, 4A.M. 
Rocky River.July 31, 6P.M....Aug. i, 4A.M. 
Erie .Aug. i, 4 P.M....Aug. 2, 6 A.M. 
Buffalo .Aug. 2, 6P.M....Aug. 3, 6A.M. 
Dalhousie ...Aug. 3, 6P.M....Aug. 4, 6A.M. 
Charlotte ....Aug. 4, 4P.M....Aug. 5, 8P.M. 
Niagara .Aug. 5, 5P.M....Aug. 6, 12P.M. 
Toronto.Aug. 6, 5 P.M....Aug. 7, i P.M. 
Hamilton ...Aug. 7, 5 P.M. 
Hydro-Aeroplane vs. Motor Boat. 
The speed boat entries for the hydro-aero- 
plane versus motor boat race to be held on 
Saturday, May 4, under the auspices of the 
Aero Club of America, include five of the fastest 
20-foot boats in the world. Each of the boats 
is credited with better than thirty miles per 
hour. They are: 
Vita, Jr., owned by Commodore J. Stuart 
Blackton, of the Atlantic Y. C. She has just 
returned from Southern waters, where she won 
first place in 20 and 26-foot classes at both St. 
Augustine and Jacksonville regattas. 
Baby Reliance, a new 20-foot speed marvel, 
is also owned by Commodore Blackton. 
The Bug, Albert E. Smiths’ famous little 
hydro-plane. 
A new 20-foot Elco plane, owned by Commo¬ 
dore Aug. Hecksher. 
The Cricket, a new 20-foot Reliance mono¬ 
plane, owned by J. B. Wadsworth. 
There is no limit to either the length or horse¬ 
power. The race will be 10 miles, starting at 
the Colonial Y. C., from there to the Columbia 
Y. C. and back, twice around the course. 
There will be two prizes for this race, to be 
known as the Motor Boat Club of America 
trophies; the first prize, sterling silver valued at 
$200; the second prize, sterling silver valued 
at $100. The first and second contests to finish, 
whether hydroplanes or motor boats, will be 
awarded these trophies. 
New York M. B. C. 
A LONG and interesting season is scheduled 
for the New York Motor Boat Club by Com¬ 
modore Selden. The opening day is May 26; 
closing day Sept. 29. The big card is the Albany 
race, a distance of 235 miles. This will start 
June 29,_ and will be open for cruisers and open 
boats with measurements based upon the Amer¬ 
ican power boat rules of 1911, except that a 
cruiser’s rating must not exceed ten times the 
square root of her load waterline. This is the 
longest motor boat race held in eastern waters. 
There are no restrictions as to crew except that 
the owner must be aboard and no professional 
pilots allowed. The race will start at 10 A. M., 
June 29, which will bring the boats up in the 
worst part of the river at night in order to 
test the navigating ability of the contestants. 
On Decoration Day there will be a speed boat 
relay race to Albany under the auspices of the 
Hudson River Yacht Racing Association. This 
is an interesting feature in motor boating. 
The annual handicap race to Tarrytown Light 
and return, 32 nautical miles, is scheduled for 
June_ 16. This is for cruisers and open boats 
and is open to members of clubs enrolled in the 
Hudson River Association. 
July 4 will be the carnival at Tappan Zee 
(Hudson River Yachting Association). July 
20 and 21, annual cruise of the members of the 
Hudson River Yachting Association to Pough¬ 
keepsie. 
Aug. 31, annual regatta of the Hudson River 
Yachting Association, to be held at New York 
Motor Boat Club, Hudson River and 147th 
street, which will continue over Labor Day, 
when the annual championship race will be run. 
Sept. 29, annual handicap race to Rockland 
Light and return, 40 nautical miles; open to all 
members of the Hudson River Yachting Associ¬ 
ation. 
At the July 4 races at Tappan Zee and all 
subsequent races the new rules of the Hudson 
River Yacht Racing Association will be used 
instead of the American power boat rules. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Western Division.—Erancis Richard Roberts, 
2912 Prairie avenue, Chicago, Ill., by Wm. 
Zellweger. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Western Division.—6405, S. E. Durga, De 
Kalb, Ill.; 6406, Elmer D. Becker, 1439 Winona 
avenue, Chicago, Ill.; 6407, Harold G. Sperling, 
Title & Trust Bldg., Chicago, III. 
MEMBER DECEASED. 
Northern Division.—^1691, H. Markland Mol- 
son, Montreal, Que., Can. Mr. Molson was 
very active in the early days of the Northern 
Division; was vice-commodore of that Division, 
and has always kept up his membership, al¬ 
though not very active in A. C. A. affairs in 
recent years. He was a member of the Lachine 
C. C. Mr. Molson is reported as one of those 
who went down, April 14, 1912, with the ill- 
fated steamship Titanic. 
HE DID NOT KNOW. 
A WELL-KNOWN Irish angler-naturalist is in 
trouble. You see, he is an authority on trout, 
trout fishing, trout preserving, trout complaints 
and trout diseases, with other things trouty. The 
other day, says the Shooting Times, somebody 
sent him as fine a bull trout as ever he, or any¬ 
body else, set eyes on. The trout was duly re¬ 
ceived, duly admired, duly cooked and duly 
eaten. It was voted very good, too. But our 
friend is upset somewhat concerning a letter he 
has just received from the gentleman who sent 
him the trout. The letter read as follows: 
“Dear Sir—I sent you a few days ago a large 
brown trout; will you kindly oblige by having 
same examined and analyzed, and let me know 
soon as possible what it died from.” 
ARTHUR BINNE Y 
(Formerly Stew ART £ Binnev) 
Naval Architect and Yacht Broker 
Mason Building, Kilby St., BOSTON, MASS. 
Cable Address, “DesiEner,” Boston 
COX (SL STEVENS 
Yacht Brokers and Naval Architects 
IS William Street - New York 
Telephones 13?5 and 1376 Broad 
