Fageol said the association approved the longer course at a recent meeting. The change had been recommended by its rules committee, of which he is chairman.

A five-mile course, for the Gold Cup on Lake Washington next August, would virtually insure a new record time for the race since there would be fewer turns and longer straightaways.

The present race record of 78.215 miles per hour was set by Seattle's Slo-mo-shun IV on the Detroit River in 1950. The thirty-mile heat record of 101,024 is held by Detroit's Miss Pepsi, and was made on Lake Washington last year. The Slo-mo-shun IV won the Gold Cup in 1950 and 1952, and her sister ship, the Slo-mo-shun V, in 1951.

(United Press, January 5, 1953)