Seattle's Miss Bardahl Wins High Point
[1958]The Martini and Rossi trophy for the 1958 national high-point championship in the unlimited hydroplane speed boat class was won by Seattle's Miss Bardahl in what has been called "the closest finish ever," according to Mrs. Bernadette Harper, executive secretary of the American Power Boat Association. Miss Bardahl, owned by Ole Bardahl and driven first by Norm Evans and later by Iron Curtain refugee Mira Slovak, amassed 2075 points in the 12-race campaign to eke out a six-point win over runner-up Miss U.S. I owned by George Simon of Detroit.
Boats, owners and final total high points earned on the 1958 regatta Circuit are:
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Miss Bardahl, Ole Bardahl, Seattle |
2075 |
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Miss U.S. I, George Simon, Detroit |
2069 |
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Maverick, William T. Waggoner, Phoenix, Arizona |
1834 |
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Wildroot Charlie, Schutt-Hardt-Schroeder Syndicate, Buffalo, New York |
1163 |
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Miss Supertest II, J. G. Thomson, London ON |
752 |
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Gale VI, Joseph A Schoenith, Detroit |
727 |
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Gale V, Joseph A Schoenith, Detroit |
694 |
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Thriftway Too, Willard Rhodes, Seattle |
694 |
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Miss Spokane, Don Klages Syndicate, Spokane WA |
450 |
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Miss Thriftway, Willard Rhodes, Seattle |
400 |
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Hawaii Kai III, Mike Welsch, Seattle |
400 |
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Breathless Too, Philip J. Murphy, Piedmont, California |
300 |
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Coral Reef, Austin Snell, Tacoma, WA |
300 |
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Nitrogen, Samuel F. du Pont, Wilmington, Delaware |
300 |
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Miss Moses Lake, George Gilham, Hermiston, Ore. |
225 |
|
Miss U.S. IV, George Simon, Detroit |
169 |
|
Such Crust III, Jack Schafer, Detroit |
127 |
(Reprinted from Sea and Pacific Motor Boat, January 1959, P. 95)
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