1953 APBA Gold Cup
Lake Washington, Seattle WA, August 9, 1953


The "Old Lady" Got Into Another Race
By Lou Fageol, As Told To a Post-Intelligencer Staff Writer

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Longer course Proposed

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Oval for Gold Cup Cut to 3.75 Miles

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90 Miles At 100 M.P.H.

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Gold Cup Regatta Slated On Sunday

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Speed Record Set by Slo-Mo-Shun IV

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Cup Boat Bought By George Simon

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Coast Speed Boat Loses Propeller

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Sayres Sued by Lawyer

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Gold Cup Entrant Ripped In Tune-Up

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On the Eve of the Gold Cup Race

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Sunday Race Condemned

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Miss Pepsi to be Retired

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Slo-Mo-Shun, ‘Grand Old Lady’, Sweeps Gold Cup

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Distaff Side Prays Home Slo Mo IV

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Slo-mo is Dream Boat to Driver

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Calling the Space Patrol

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In the Wake of the Roostertails

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Five Boats With But One Thought

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Gold Cup Race Won in the Pits

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Gold Cup Invaders Won't Return Says Schafer

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The Old Lady Got Into Another Race

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Gold Cup Race Sidelights

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Slo Mo Shun IV Surprised

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Slo-mo-shun IV Captures Gold Cup Race for Third Time

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Schafer Reluctant to Return to Seattle

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Slo Mo Shun IV Keeps Gold Cup

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Slo Mo IV Remains Queen

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The"Old Lady" Does It Again

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The Gold Cup Stays in Seattle

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The "Old Lady" got into another race out there in that second heat.

I call the Slo-mo-shun IV the Old Lady, and I love her.

We tussled for a while with the Gale II when the Gale passed us early in the heat. The Gale really gave us an argument until I got myself set on a turn and turned on the pressure.

The IV has speed over any boat here on the straightaways.

Ate Water—

We hadn’t anticipated such challenge.

I was busy with my stop watch when all of a sudden was eating water. Later, I returned the favor.

You know that water out there on the course looks smooth but it is really rough when you are piloting a hydroplane at 160 miles an hour on the straightaways—and I hit that I’m sure more than once.

That race must have been a good one to watch!

I was thinking about that when I swung around the south turn on one of my laps.

rrn thoroughly satisfied with the way the Old Lady performed. She is such a sweet boat.

Right at the start. I found myself "boxed in." right in the middle of the other boats. I saw Just a little daylight ahead and went for it.

Got It—

All I asked for was a little daylight between me and the other boats, and we got it, the Old Lady and I.

It certainly was a fine gesture on Joe Taggart’s part to invite me to drive the second heat. It made me happy to see Joe out there in the first heat. I think he is one of the top drivers in the world.

 


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