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FOREST AND STREAM. 

Motor Boat Racing. 
THE week of racing between Sept. 23 and 28 
inclusive, known as the Motor Boat carnival race 
week, brought out some good racers, and for 
those interested was a most instructive series, 
demonstrating as it did the reliability of certain 
makes of engines and hulls. 
Boat sharps by the score closely watched the 
running to get points on the various models. 
Irene for one was a most remarkably smooth 
running craft, as also was X.P.D.N.C. Ske- 
daddle “delivered the goods,” but it looked as if 
her engines were held back by a poor model. 
Den was the most sensational in appearance 
of all the boats. She would lift her bow clear 
out of water for ten feet forward and, with two 
wings of spray veiling her crew and the entire 
after end of her hull, would glide over the water 
like a gigantic spider, each wave causing the 
leg-like arcs of spray on each side to move with 
a life-like effect when viewed from astern 
MONDAY, SEPT, 23. 
THE first race of the motor boats on the Hud- 
son River was successfully run on Monday, 
Sept. 23, in about as nasty weather as ever fell 
to the lot of yachtsmen, Gentle rain, pouring 
rain and wind and rain combined soaked the 
crews of the open launches as they ran for six 
consecutive hours over a ten mile triangular 
course. Starting from off the club house of the 
Motor Boat Club of America the course was up 
the river to and around a mark boat anchored 
off Ft. Washington Point, then down stream to 
a mark off Hoboken on the west shore and back 
up stream diagonally across the river to the 
home mark again. 
Eight boats started, ranging in size from t 
little fller Durno to the big Mao II. 
Sparrow was off first, followed by Speedway 
and Speedway II. The first two boats ran neck 
and neck around the course for eight rounds, 
but on the ninth round Sparrow’s fuel gave out 
and a revenue cutter had to tow her home while 
Speedway went on and completed ten laps, mak- 
ing a distance of roo miles in 6h. 33m. 2s. The 
30ft. open launch Speedway II. ran fifty miles, 
Durno doing eighty. 
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The conditions under which the points will 
be awarded are as follows: 
Reliability in operation, 50 points, with 5 
points deduction for every stop of the motor. 
Regularity in covering the course or unifor- 
mity of speed throughout the test, 50 points, 
based upon the performance of the boat making 
the least variation in time. 
Fuel economy, 50 points, based upon fuel con- 
sumed per horsepower per hour, Horsepower 
being figured as per formula. Points being 
calculated from boat making the best perfor- 
mance in fuel consumption. 
Lubricating economy, 25 points, based upon 
lubricating oil consumed. Points being calcu- 
lated from the boat making the least consump- 
tion. 

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Speed, 50 points, each boat to be awarded such 
percentage of 50 points as her actual speed is 
of her theoretical speed. 
Reversibility, ease of control, starting, 25 points 
each, to be based upon the boat making the best 
performance in these qualities. Starting should 
be from rest with cylinders empty of gases. 
These tests to be made separate from the six 
hour test. 
Final Condition—The boats upon completing 
the reliability test shall be surrendered by the 
crew to the custody of the committee for inspec- 
tion. This inspection will take account of the 
condition of the hull, motor installation and gen- 
erally the satisfactory condition of the outfit as 
a whole, credit for this to be awarded 50 points, 
or any part of this number of points at the dis- 
cretion of the committee. 
Every competing boat shall carry, in addition 
to her usual crew, one disinterested person, who 
shall act as judge of performance. He shall 
keep a complete record of the performance of 
the motor, etc., during the race, the results to 
be handed by him to the committee having the 
contest in charge immediately upon its comple- 
tion. 


The order of the finish was, start, 11:00: 
Finish. Distance, 
SPEC Ways Lang ran wy evinne ieee 5 04 01 50 miles 
Durno, J. H. Durno 03 80 miles 
Myosotis, W. Ferguson, Jr........... 50 40 miles 
Speedway, C. L. Seabury. 02 100 miles 
[dler; Jiaale Amory nc rose. 42 50 miles 
Selaco, T. W. Purdy 59 50 miles 
Mayo II., Dr. S. Oppenheimer....... 60219 50 miles 
Sparrow, iG, Jie walt ssecsnastesseeneee Did not finish. 
TUESDAY, SEPT. 24. 
The speed trials over a measured mile were 

IRENE, 
THE 
FAVORITE. 
AT 
FULL SPEED, 
run in the morning and a free for all thirty 
mile race in the afternoon. 
Great care had been taken to insure accuracy 
in timing the boats and professional timers were 
engaged to hold the watches, one up stream on 
the starting line, and one down stream at the 
finish, so they would pass the club house at full 
speed. 
The timing turned out to be a fizzle, and no 
accurate results were obtained, which was a great 
pity, as some of the boats appeared to be doing 
remarkable speed, and it would be interesting to 
know what they really were doing in the high 
choppy sea running. 
The boats that started were X.P.D.N.C.. Ske- 
daddle, Den, Irene and White Fox. Den was 
the most sensational in appearance. She ran 
with her keel for about eight feet entirely out 
of water and threw a film of spray high above 
her on each side that hid men and_ boat. 
X.P.D.N.C. ran the most even of the lot. 
Dixie had been hard at work all morning try- 
ing to get her spark coil working, and by after- 
noon had a new one in place, and she started in 
the thirty mile free for all with Skedaddle, 
X.P.D.N.C., Irene and Den. Dixie was leading 
at the start, but when running down river on 
the second leg Den had passed her and was lead- 
ing by a dozen lengths, when directly opposite 
the club house Dixie came to a sudden stop and 
it was learned later she lost her propeller, 
Irene was the first to finish the first round, 
doing it in 25m. 38s., an average of 23.38 knots 
or 26.92 miles an hour. Den came next and Ske- 
daddle last. 
A wicked looking squall had been brewing in 
the west over the Palisades, and just as the boats 
neared the upper end of the course it broke with 
a terrific downpour of rain and wicked wind 


squall. Den struck a drifting log, which the 
river was full of, and knocked her propeller 
clean out of business. Skedaddle also had a 
lively time, but managed to keep going. Irene 
finished her second round and quit, leaving Ske- 
deddle to make the third round alone which she 
did, finishing at 6.08.46. The summary: 
Ist 2d 
Start. Round. Round. Finish. 
Skedaddle. 
H. N. Baruch.. 4 29 23 4 56 41 5 44 06 6 08 46 
*Trene, 
F. F Anderson. 4 16 40 4 42 18 5 32 52 
Den, 
J. H. Hoadley. 4 19 20 4 45 06 Did not finish. 
Dixie. 
E. J. Schroeder 4 16 30 Did not finish. 
*Did not finish. 
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25. 
Twenty-two motor boats, divided into six 
classes, raced around the ten mile triangular 
course on the Hudson. Three of these classes 
went thirty miles, going around the course three 
times, while the others only went twice or twenty 
miles. For once the elements did not interfere 
with the sport and there was a successful regatta 

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