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Shining light of the Eastern drivers was
24-year-old Lee Schoenith, who kept the Gale II right on the
Slo-mo's stern much of the time and won himself a big hand from the
mob . . . "Keep her down below 95 miles per hour" was Sayres' warning to
Taggart before the final heat, because all he had to do to clinch the
Cup was keep her running, even if she finished behind the Virginia V
on a excursion rim through the canal . . . POME (The IV)—Grandma
of the old Slo-mos; older she gets, the faster she goes . . . if
you are mechanically minded, all of the boats entered were powered by
Allison motors except the Slo-mo V, which has the
British-designed Rolls-Royce . . . countless hours of work by the
mechanics and several sleepless nights went for naught when the V
had to sit it out, but that is a part of the game . . . best-groomed
hydroplane was the Gale, with chartreuse cowling and berry brown
hull but in this game the prize is to the swiftest, not the prettiest .
. . Stanley Dollar, last year's champion driver of the IV, saw
his first Gold Cup race from the sidelines and as they went whizzing
past the barge he exclaimed, "So that's the way it looks!" . . . the
boys in the press coop were trying to promote a special race between the
Coast Guard Helicopter and the Navy Blimp between heats but couldn't
make the match . . . height of frustration was the feelings of Danny
Foster in Miss Great Lakes, who traveled 2,300 miles for 60
seconds of racing . . . (In the very first heat she threw her propeller,
a very necessary piece of equipment, which is like. Robin Roberts losing
his right arm or Native Dancer losing a leg) . . . Bread but no
butter—The two Such Crusts, costly entries of Jack Schafer, the
bakery magnate, finished but of the dough . . . QUOTE, ENDQUOTE (Eastern
boating men, all of them)—"There just isn't another race site in the
world that ran compare with what you’ve got here on Lake Washington" . .
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