1946 APBA Gold Cup
Detroit River, Detroit, Mich., September 2, 1946

Gold Cup Classic Is Set At Detroit
Speedboat Race on Labor Day Announced — A. P. B. A. Plan for Outboards Offered

bullet Gold Cup Race Opened For General Competition
bullet Gold Cup Classic is Set at Detroit
bullet Gold Cup History in the Making
bullet Power-Hungry Boat Racers
bullet Lombardo Wins 1946 Gold Cup
bullet Guy Lombardo's Account of the 1946 Gold Cup
bullet Lombardo Wins Gold Cup
bullet 1946 Gold Cup Program
bullet APBA Gold Cup Statistics
bullet Gold Cup Gallery
bullet O.J. Mulford Silver Cup (1)
bullet O.J. Mulford Silver Cup (2)
bullet O.J. Mulford Silver Cup Statistics
bullet Silver Cup Gallery

Detroit will get the Gold Cup race for motorboats, with its rules opened up for the first time. A record fleet of high-powered speed craft is expected.

The council of the American Power Boat Association, meeting last night at the Hotel Lexington, awarded the contest to the Detroit Yacht Club, and it will be held over the regular racing course on the Detroit River with a lap of no more than three miles.

Set as the date is Labor Day, when the Detroit Club already had planned a three-day event, hoping to get the Gold cup for its big feature. Red Bank, N. J., was a bidder for the race. The majority of drivers had expressed themselves in favor of Detroit.

Another decision was to hold the next annual meeting of the A. P. B. A., that in 1947, in this city in January during the revival of the motorboat show here. Miami extended an invitation to hold it there.

Much of the long council meeting, which was presided over by Bill Horn, president of the association, was devoted to the problem of outboard racing, formerly handled by the National Outboard Association in cooperation with the A. P. B. A. Since that organization was given up, the National Outboard Drivers Association, with headquarters in Cleveland, has taken in most of the outboard drivers in the Midwest.

That organization of drivers has its own set of racing rules and has refused to accept those of the A. P. B. A. as the official code. The council of the latter voted approval of one governing body for racing, but proposed to set up a separate racing commission for the outboards, with deputy commissioners in various sections of the country, and thereby round up the drivers under its national jurisdiction.

Under the plan the drivers must have A. P. B. A. racing certificates to compete in sanctioned regattas. In obtaining them inducements will be offered such as official registration of their boats and motors as well as special services of the association to aid them in their racing.

(Reprinted from the New York Times, February 19, 1946)

Hydroplane History Home Page
This page was last revised Thursday, April 01, 2010 .
Your comments and suggestions are appreciated. Email us at wildturnip@gmail.com
© Leslie Field, 2002