May 7, 1910.] 
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was won by Dixie II. for the Thousand Island 
Y. C. . 
The conditions of the race limit the length ot 
the boats competing to 40 feet over all, but no 
other restrictions are specified, and each year 
the Gold challenge cup race brings out in com¬ 
petition the fastest boats of the country. The 
races are run off in three heats on consecutive 
days, and each heat cannot be for less than 20 
or more than 40 nautical miles, the winner be¬ 
ing decided by the point system, whereby each 
boat entering and finishing a heat of a match 
receives one point for entry and one additional 
point for each boat she defeats, the winner be¬ 
ing the boat scoring the highest number of 
points in all the heats of the race. 
After one challenge has been received by the 
holding club other boats representing other 
clubs may also file challenges at any time up to 
ten days before the dates set for races, and as a 
result of this provision each year has seen from 
four to a dozen boats competing. 
This year the first challenger for the cup was 
received by the Thousand Islands Y. C. from 
the Chippewa Bay Y. C., the former holder of 
the trophy, and up to date one other club has 
also challenged, the New York Motor Boat 
Club, naming as its challenger Intruder, now 
building for F. K. Burnham. 
Four other new boats are building which will 
be eligible under the conditions of the deed of 
gift, and from which great things are expected 
in the way of speed. Among these is the new 
Hoosier /Boy. the successor of the very suc¬ 
cessful feat ’of that name of last year. The 
Gananoque Y. C. is also building a challenger, 
and it is to be presumed that Dixie II. will 
again be in the running, so that the 1910 event 
should be the most important and eventful in 
the history of the cup. 
Sparks. 
Horace E. Boucher's power boat Chin Chin 
is fitting out at Johnson's yard, Bay Ridge. 
The interior arrangements of this boat have 
been changed, and now she is a very complete 
craft. 
Sumida. the flagship of Commodore F. M. 
Wilson, of the Crescent A. C., arrived here front 
Beaufort last Monday. She made the trip 
through the canals, Chesapeake Bay and Del¬ 
aware River. 
Hobart J. Park’s cruising motor boat Kalmia 
arrived at Lawley’s last week from a trip in 
southern waters. Kalmia was built last fall. 
Morris M. Whitaker has designed for this 
season more than fifty power boats, varying in 
size from 80 feet to motor yacht tenders. One 
is a hydroplane which is for the defence of the 
British International cup. 
S. W. Granberry has entered his new motor 
boat, Berneys, in the Havana race. T his boat 
is 60 feet over all, 12 feet beam, 4 feet draft and 
is equipped with a 25-horsepower motor. It is 
designed by Edson B. Shook. 
Lawley has an order for two motor boats for 
Alaska. ’ They are to be built to travel on the 
ice. 
Murray & Tregurtha are building for O. C. 
Sanborn, of Boston, a 6o-foot raised deck cruis¬ 
ing motor boat which is for use along the 
Massachusetts and Maine Coasts. 
Bay Ridge Marblehead Race. 
The annual race over the course—Bay Ridge 
and Marblehead—which is now one of the most 
popular events of the season, will be started 
from Marblehead on Saturday, July 16. The 
finish will be off the Crescent Athletic Club 
house at Bay Ridge. The first prize is a hand¬ 
some cup offered by Commodore F. M. Wilson, 
of the Crescent A. C. The race will be started 
by the Corinthian Y. C., of Marblehead, and the 
owners of the racers and their crews will have 
the privileges of the Corinthian Club house 
while at Marblehead. The conditions to govern 
this race will be issued shortly. Several boats 
have been built for it, and twenty starters are 
looked for. 
Canoeing . 
An Ozark Canoe Trip. 
Continued from page 706. 
The position of Captain, 1 must explain, carried 
with it no especial privileges. Later on it de¬ 
veloped that the office was designed to provide 
someone to be blamed when things went wrong. 
I do not mean to intimate that the Schoolma'm 
and Boots blamed me on the journey, but I some¬ 
times suspected that Siwash’s disapproval was 
instigated by the fair members of the outfit. 
At last we were on the river and our two- 
hundred-and-fifty-mile cruise had begun. Pass¬ 
ing the mouth of the Spring Branch, our can¬ 
teens and the two thermos bottles were filled 
with cold water. After leaving the mouth of 
Spring Branch, and until the mouth of Dry Fork 
was reached, we had smooth sailing. The river 
was wide and free. At the mouth of Dry Fork 
were several camps, and to the shouted query 
from the canoes, "How’s luck?” a favorable reply 
was sent. Dry Fork passed, our troubles began. 
First the stream narrowed to a width of fifteen 
or twenty feet, then logs were encountered. 
These lay across the stream, parallel with it, 
and, at times, huge piles of logs completely 
blocked the stream. At one point the open space 
just admitted the 30-inch beam canoe, and I, 
forgetting that the Honor (my canoe) had a 
beam of three feet, was jammed. It was with 
some difficulty that the boat was freed, and Boots 
and I were both obliged to get out of the boat, 
and standing in the swiftly rushing water, lift it 
over, load and all. 
This was the beginning. By two in the after¬ 
noon eighteen such places had been passed; that 
is, we were obliged to get out of the canoes 
eighteen times and either lift over or chop our 
way through. Reference to the map showed 
that fifteen miles of water had been covered. 
It was time to lunch—past that time, in fact; 
and as a smooth gravel bar appeared a few hun¬ 
dred yards down, it was decided to land there 
and eat. Just before reaching the bar a narrow 
chute was shot, and below this were several 
huge rocks in the water. It was impossible to 
see these, owing to the sharp bend, and it was 
mere good luck that the Honor did not strike 
one of them. I turned and shouted a warning 
to Siwash, who was some twenty yards back, 
and he ran his canoe ashore above the chute. 
As he and I were unpacking the grub sacks, the 
Schoolma’m discovered that a large spring gushed 
from the rocks directly opposite, entering the 
river at the wildest part of the little rapid. 
When leaving in the morning we had been 
presented with a lot of fine cantaloupes by Mr. 
May, and Siwash waded over and buried these 
in the spring, the waters of which he found to 
be very cold. Too fatigued to cook, we lunched 
on canned salmon, cheese and bread and butter, 
washed down by delicious ice-cold lemonade. 
After lunch we all stretched out for a few 
minutes’ rest. This degenerated into a regular 
“snooze,” and when we awoke it was five. This, 
of course, meant no further progress that day. 
So Si and I pitched camp, while Boots and the 
Schoolma’m rustled supper. 
My Frazer canoe tent, an improved pyramid 
or miner’s tent made of waterproofed silk, was 
quickly put up. One pin at each corner held it 
taut, and the two poles put up on the inside, in 
shear, assisted in holding the tent down as well 
as holding it up. Another advantage of having 
the poles inside is that there is not that depres¬ 
sion on each side, a common failing of one- 
pole tents; also, there is more room. My tent 
proved very satisfactory, and with the exception 
of the floor arrangement. Boots and I declared 
it perfect. My better-half had no fault to find 
with the waterproof floor, sewn tightly to the 
bottom of the tent — the absolute protection 
against creeping things outweighing all other 
faults. I was not suited, however, for a num¬ 
ber of reasons. First, a permanent floor cloth 
must necessarily be of heavy, processed duck, 
weighing a pound and a half to the square yard, 
whereas a detachable cloth, which can be handled 
with greater care, can be of ba'loon silk, weigh- 
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