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FOREST AND STREAM 
May II, 1912 
Western Power Boat Association. 
Fifty thousand dollars have been sub¬ 
scribed for cups and cash prizes for the Western 
Power Boat Association’s annual championship 
races at Chicago Aug. 10-17, in connection with 
the great naval pageant. The carnival will be 
held under the auspices of the Associated Yacht 
and Power Boat Clubs of America. 
The central location and the unrivaled course 
which will be provided in the harbor make Chi¬ 
cago the logical place at which to hold the 
event. 
When it was decided to hold the power boat 
championships here. Commodore William Hale 
Thompson, of the Chicago Y. C.; Commodore 
James A. Pugh, owner of the famous Dis¬ 
turbers; Commodore Thomas J. Quaile, of the 
Columbia Y. C.; Commodore Bayard Holmes, 
of the Jackson Park Y. C., and hundreds of 
other men prominent in aquatic affairs held a 
round-up of the yacht and power boat men and 
the result was that it was decided to make the 
Western power boat championships and the in¬ 
ternational yacht race between Canada and the 
United States the nucleus for a naval pageant 
that would be on a bigger and grander scale 
than anything of the kind ever held in this or 
the old world. 
With the power boat races and the interna¬ 
tional cup races as the base, the men in charge 
of the project’ have built up a program includ¬ 
ing the Lipton cup yacht races, a magnificent 
Venetian night. United States life saving service 
exhibitions, swimming and diving contests, 
water polo, aquatic gymkhana, fireworks dis¬ 
plays, naval reviews, naval sham battles, sub¬ 
marines, exhibitions by United States sailors. 
United States Marine Corps, United States 
revenue cutter service, naval reserves and cadets 
from the United States naval training station 
of North Chicago, Ill. 
These are a few of the events which will be 
carded. Many more will be added and each 
number will be a national exhibition in itself. 
The finest cup ever presented for competition 
among motor boats is the $22,500 William 
Wrigley, Jr., trophy, which stands five feet five 
inches high. This cup is a perpetual trophy, 
but the donor, in order that the winner each 
year should have something to show as a per¬ 
manent possession for his trouble, has made 
provision that a 10 per cent, replica of the big 
trophy shall be given to the winning boat. The 
big cup is a $5,000 affair and the trophy which 
goes into the permanent possession of the win¬ 
ner is therefore a beautiful $500 cup eighteen 
inches high and an exact model of the gigantic 
parent piece of silver. 
The big cup is tO' be handed over to the yacht 
club whose nomination captures the free-for-all 
speed race, and is to be returned to Chicago in 
time for the race the year following. The 
trophy is expected to excite more interest in 
fast boats than any other in existence, and there 
is every prospect that the famous European 
boats will make an attempt to lift it from the 
Disturbers, Wigwams, Dixies and other won¬ 
derful hydroplanes which will battle for it this 
summer. 
In order that a replica cup shall be provided 
for every year for the winner of the big race, 
Mr. Wrigley has set aside an endowment fund 
of $17,000. The $5,000 trophy, together with 
the $17,000 trust fund and the $500 necessary for 
the replica this summer make the whole gift 
equal to $22,500. 
Besides this great piece of silverware there 
are numerous other cups. The Weckler trophy 
is a $1,000 affair, while there are dozens of other 
cups, ranging in value from $100 to $500. In 
addition there is a sum of $4,750 to be handed 
out in cash prizes. Altogether there will be 
over $40,000 in cups and cash prizes for the 
motor boat men. There will be prizes for 
hydro-aeroplane races, and then the $5,000 
Yacht Racing Union challenge trophy, which 
will go to the winner of the international yacht 
race, in which the Royal Canadian Y. C.’s entry, 
Patricia, of Toronto, Ont., will battle with the 
Chicago Y. C.’s new boat, Michi-Kagou. 
The big motor boat cruise of the Great Lakes 
will end here during the pageant, and this city 
will be the headquarters of the power boat 
brigade of the Middle West. 
Commodore James A. Pugh, owner of the 
famous Disturbers, together with Commodores 
Thompson and Quaile, will serve as directors 
of the Associated Yacht and Power Boat Clubs 
of America. The address of the body is 952 
First National Bank Building. Chicago, Bl. 
John R. Young, who handled the military 
tournament at Chicago last summer, has been 
chosen manager of the big pageant to be held 
under the auspices of the yachtsmen, and all 
information can be obtained at the above ad¬ 
dress. 
Lake St. Louis M. B. C. 
A REPRESENTATIVE buncli of motor boat own¬ 
ers got together last week in Lachine, Canada, 
and organized a club under the title of Lake 
St. Louis Motor Boat Club. The following 
officers were elected: 
Commodore, Mr. Robt. Lucas; Vice-Commo¬ 
dore, J. H. Garth; Rear-Commodore, Morris 
Shea; Secretary-Treasurer, Alex. Y. Paxton; 
Committee—W. M. Brown, W. E. Ranger, H. 
L. Dinning, A. McLean, L. A. Shackell. 
These officers are men who have spent sea¬ 
sons on the lake and are thoroughly familiar 
with conditions. The club fills a long felt want 
and from the enthusiasm displayed at the meet¬ 
ing, it undoubtedly is going to be a successful 
club. Applications for membership will now be 
received' by Mr. A. Y. Paxton, Secretary, 
Lachine. 
Atlantic Y. C. Motor Boats. 
Through the great enthusiasm of J. Stuart 
Blackton in motor boating and the fact that so 
ardent a yachtsman could become devoted al¬ 
most entirely to the chug chug, the Atlantic 
Y. C., of which he is commodore, has, for the 
first time, taken up motor boat racing. Thus 
far three speed contests are scheduled, the dates 
being May 30, July 6 and Aug. 23. 
A trophy is offered for the boat making the 
best record in the three regattas. This cup will 
bear the title, “Motor Boat Championship 
Trophy of Gravesend Bay,” and will be per¬ 
petual. 
The Atlantic Y. C. will have its formal open¬ 
ing on May 18; commission date. May 25. 
Yachting will, of course, have the big place on 
the program of the season. Thus far eight 
Saturday races have been arranged with the 
annual race, Aug. 20 to 23. Annual regatta will 
be held on Labor Day. 
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A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. . 
Atlantic Division.—Clemens Schroeder, 3056 
Perry avenue. New York, N. Y., by Harry J. 
Dietrich; Harrie Fortye, 547 West I42d St., 
New York, N. Y., by Albert D. Berning. 
Western Division.—Frank W. Coolidge, Jr., 
P. O. Box 545, Kenilworth, Ill., by Kellogg 
Huntington; Adolph A. Henkel, 3824 Sheffield 
avenue, Chicago, Ill., by J. G. Roberts; Milton 
H. Trigg, 643 East street, Rockford, Ilk, by 
Walter E. Jordan. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Central Division.—6412, W. H. Hoffman, 
care of Heeren Bros.. Pittsburgh, Pa.; 6413, T. 
R. Barlow, care of E. V. Babcock Co., Pitts¬ 
burgh, Pa.; 6414. S. B. Ridge, care of Bell 
Telephone Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Earle Moon, 
care of Pittsburgh Dry Goods Co., Pitts¬ 
burgh, Pa. 
Western Division.—6408, Benjamin S. Pfeiffer, 
1108 N. Madison avenue, Peoria, Ill.; 6409, 
Donald W. McAllister, 328 N. Main street, 
Rockford, Ill.; 6410, W. C. Wilcox, 407 North 
Avon, Rockford, Ill.; 6411, Elmer E. Magor, 
Culhane Building, Rockford, Ill. 
Western Division, A. C. A. 
The members of the Western Division of the 
American Canoe Association have completed 
arrangements for a trip by canoe along the Fox 
and Illinois rivers on May 30, Memorial Day. 
There will be two hundred in the party. Races 
at Ottawa and an encampment at Starved Rock 
for several days, will be a feature. The tour 
will conclude June 2. 
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