Motor Boat Carnival. 
The motor boat men ended their season of 
racing last Saturday, when the annual carnival, 
held this year under the auspices of the 
Colonial Y. C., came to an end. It has not 
been a particularly brilliant season in spite of the 
fact that there! are many hundreds of motor 
boats in this country. The carnival was not 
the success it was expected to be, and in only 
three classes were there real competitions. 
With the exception of a few long distance 
races and the races for the British International 
cup and the Gold challenge cup, the sport has 
been very tame, and if the motor boat men 
are ever to make a success of their sport, it 
behooves them to look at things in a practical 
way and find out just what is the matter. 
One trouble is that those interested in these 
boats do not pull together. They have three 
governing bodies or bodies that want to be 
governing. The American Power Boat Associ¬ 
ation is the largest of these, and in this associ¬ 
ation are many of the best known clubs in the 
country, but somehow or other, this association 
cannot make things go, and with it the trouble 
probably is that there is no rule that gives 
general satisfaction. Then there is the Manu¬ 
facturers’ Association. This association was 
really at the back of the carnival, and it was 
because of the trade element that the amateurs 
did not enter their boats more liberally. Ama¬ 
teur yachtsmen do not care to compete in races 
where manufacturers and builders enter their 
craft simply to get what advertising they can 
out of the sport. They realize that when racing 
against a boat sent out from some shop that 
they are racing against a big handicap. The 
manufacturer has entered something that is just 
a little better than the amateur is likely to have. 
Another organization seeking for the control 
of the sport is the Motor Boat Club of America. 
This club started wrongly, and there again the 
trade element has been so strongly represented 
that the amateurs do not care to help boom 
their methods. 
As long as the manufacturers are prominent 
in the sport, it is not likely to be a success. 
The manufacturers got into the bicycle racing 
game and killed that, and then they went into 
the automobile, racing game and killed that, 
and they will kill the motor boat racing in the 
same way. 
If these manufacturers would keep out of the 
sport and be content to build vessels to the 
rules and requirements of the amateurs, the 
sport would at once boom and the result would 
be that amateurs would have all the fun they 
wanted, and the manufacturers would be busy 
turning out the boats to their requirements 
and would profit naturally by their mistakes. 
The American Power Boat Association has 
made a move in the right direction by planning 
to put in competition challenge cups for small 
classes. The racing for the Gold challenge 
cup has always been attractive, and with cups 
that are within the reach of men of moderate 
means, there are sure to be many built and a 
boom of the sport must naturally follow. 
In the carnival just ended Dixie II., Speed¬ 
way, Alabama and others took walkovers in 
their respective classes for the cups offered 
and went around the course each day at only 
a moderate rate of speed, proving nothing and 
doing nothing to help the sport from a spec¬ 
tacular point, or to help designing or building. 
There are boats in this section of the country 
that could have given these boats a hard tussle 
for victory, but their owners did not care to 
compete because, as one man said, “I am not 
lending my yacht to boom another man’s busi¬ 
ness.” 
Dixie II. won the speed trials, the free-for- 
all and the International cup. Vim won the 
Inter-state cup. Eagle won the cup for cabin 
boats over 40tt. Alabama won another trophy, 
bpeedway won the prize for racing boats over 
qott. Wamego won the prize for cabin boats 
under 40ft. Joker won the prize for open 
launches. 
Monday, Sept. 21. 
Speed trials were the attraction for the open¬ 
ing day of the carnival, but of the six vessels 
entered only three took part in these contests. 
These were E. J. Schroeder’s Dixie II., J. H. 
Hoadley’s Den and G. F. Baker, Jr.’s, Vim. 
Each was sent six times over the measured 
nautical mile course; three times with the tide, 
and three times against it. Dixie II. won, but 
she did not do as well as she did on Hempstead 
Harbor. Her best time with the tide was irn. 
54 4-5S., which is at the rate of 31.3 nautical, 
or 36.08 statute miles an hour. On her six 
runs she averaged 2m. 3s., which figures out 
29.26 nautical, or 33.7 statute miles an hour. 
Den averaged 2m. 31s., and Vim 3m. Dixie’s 
time on Hempstead Harbor was 31.347 nautical 
miles an hour. The summary: 
Mile Championships—Three Trials with and Three against 
the Tide. 
Dixie II., E. J. Schroeder— 
With tide . 0 02- 04 0 02 04 0 01 54 4-5 
Against tide. 0 02 06 4-5 0 02 10 1-5 0 01 59 4-5 
Average, 2.03, equal to 29.26 nautical or 33.7 statute 
miles an hour. 
Den, J. H. Hoadley-^ 
With tide. 0 02 26 2-5 0 02 32 0 02 24 3-5 
Against tide. 0 02 33 3-5 0 02 43 2-5 0 02 31 
Average, 2.31. 
Vim, G. F. Baker, Jr.— 
With tide. 0 02 51 0 02 51 0 02 50 
Against tide. 0 03 00 0 03 14 0 03 07 1-5 
Tuesday, Sept. 23. 
The free-for-all, American championship was 
decided on the second day. There were but two 
starters, Dixie II. and Den. They were sent 
three times around a io-mile course, going first 
from off the Colonial Y. C. club house at the 
foot of West One Hundred and Thirty-eighth 
street to a mark off Spuyten Duyvil, then across 
the river to a mark off Shady Side, and then 
home. Dixie II. covered the first round in 
22m. 13s., the second round in 22m. 14s. and the 
third round in 22m. 24s., making her total 
elapsed time for the 30 miles 66m. 51s., which is 
at the rate of 26.92 nautical, or 30.95 statute 
miles an hour. Den’s times were: First round, 
29m. 19s.; second round, 32m. 33s.; third round, 
32m. 7s. Her total elapsed time was ih. 33m. 
59s. She averaged 19.15 nautical, or 22.02 
statute miles an hour. 
Wednesday, Sept. 23. 
Two long distance races were held on the 
third day. One, for cruising boats, was from 
the Colonial Y. C. house to Peekskill and back, 
and the other, for racing boats, was to Pough¬ 
keepsie and back. The distance to Peekskill 
and back was 52.1 nautical, or 60 statute miles, 
and to Poughkeepsie and back, 121.58 nautical, 
or 139.82 statute miles. Six started in the long 
race and seventeen in the shorter contest. 
The start was delayed through the fog, and 
it was 10.10 when the cruisers were sent away 
and an hour later when the racers started. They 
had an ebb tide all the way up the river, and 
coming home some had to buck a flood tide. 
The times taken at the turns and elapsed time 
up and down and the summaries follow: 
Cruisers to Peekskill. 
Turn. 
Elapsed. 
Alabama . 
2 34 00 
Joker . 
3 06 03 
Wanderlust . 
3 19 55 
Runaway . 
3 32 30 
Irene II. 
. 1 53 OO 
3 43 OO 
Aquilla . 
3 43 10 
Wamego . 
. 1 57 13 
3 47 13 
Minga . 
3 54 12 
Barbara . 
2 04 50 
3 54 50 
Ida F., II. 
. 2 04 52 
3 54 52 
Eagle . 
. 2 14 48 
4 04 48 
ELEANOR—OWNED BY F. T. BEDFORD. 
Winner of Massachusetts Class Q Championship and of the Thompson Cup. 
