The 1951 Gold Cup Remembered Sayres Readies Boat for Defense of Gold Cup in Seattle Race Nation's Top Racers to Invade Seattle New Slo-Mo-Shun May Be Ready For August Races Can They Beat "Slo-Mo-Shun IV"? Are the Big-name Racing Boats Challenging with Revised Hulls? Just Two Boats Qualify Set Speed-boat Record 100 mph Record for Dossins' Craft Miss Pepsi Chief Threat in Gold Cup "Slo-Mo V" Roars to Gold Cup's Fastest Win Slo-Mo-Shun V Wins Gold Cup At Seattle Pilot and Mechanic Killed As Gold Cup Race Boat Sinks Cup Racer Called a "Runaway" Boat Gold Cup Rules Changed Safety Committee Named Death at Seattle Quicksilver (from This is Hydroplaning) Statistics

Seattle — (AP) — The champ and her new sister are still the only speedboats to qualify for Saturday’s Gold Cup race.

Slo-Mo-Shun IV, the defending champion, and Slo-Mo-Shun V, recently completed, are the two qualifiers.

Of the other nine entries, one of them — the Gale II of Detroit — was drying out today from a ducking she took Wednesday at 80 miles an hour.

(Reprinted from the Associated Press, August 1, 1951)