1953 President's Cup
Potomac River, Washington, DC, September 20, 1953


Statistics

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Statistics

September 19-20

3 Mile Course

Potomac River

15 Mile Heats

Washington, D.C.

45 Mile Race

 

No.

Entry

Owner

Comp. Lap

Race

1.

U-2

Miss U.S.

George Simon

 

2.

U-3

My Sweetie (3)

Horace Dodge

 

3.

U-4

Miss Great Lakes II

Al Fallon

94.158

4.

U-5

Such Crust V

Jack Schafer

 

83.385

5.

U-37

Slo-Mo-Shun V

Stan Sayres

94.407

91.047

6.

U-50

Miss Wayne (1)

Frank Saile

 

62.864

7.

U-51

Gale II

Joe Schoenith

 

81.423

8.

G-13

Tempo VI

Guy Lombardo

 

9.

G-22

Such Crust III (2)

Jack Schafer

95.490

87.153

 

Heat One

Driver

Points

Speed

1.

Slo-Mo-Shun V

Lou Fageol

400

91.338

2.

Miss Great Lakes II

Danny Foster

300

87.546

3.

Gale II

Lee Schoenith

225

86.568

4.

Such Crust III

Chuck Thompson

169

82.164

5.

Such Crust V

Bill Cantrell

127

80.238

6.

Miss U.S.

George Simon

95

78.600

7.

Tempo VI

Phil Maresca

71

76.704

8.

Miss Wayne

Joe "Doc" Terry

53

63.951

9.

My Sweetie

Walt Kade

DNF

 

Heat Two

Driver

Points

Speed

1.

Slo-Mo-Shun V

Lou Fageol

400

89.136

2.

Such Crust V

Bill Cantrell

300

87.123

3.

Such Crust III

Chuck Thompson

225

86.178

4.

Gale II

Lee Schoenith

169

76.099

5.

Miss Wayne

Joe "Doc" Terry

127

65.043

6.

My Sweetie

Walt Kade

DNF

7.

Miss Great Lakes II

Danny Foster

DNF

 

Heat Three

Driver

Points

Speed

1.

Such Crust III

Chuck Thompson

400

93.918

2.

Slo-Mo-Shun V

Lou Fageol

300

92.737

3.

Such Crust V

Bill Cantrell

225

83.076

4.

Gale II

Lee Schoenith

169

82.293

5.

Miss Wayne

Joe "Doc" Terry

DSQ

 

Recapitulation

Heat 1

Heat 2

Cum.

Heat 3

Bonus

Total

1.

Slo-Mo-Shun V

400

400

800

300

400

1500

2.

Such Crust III

169

225

394

400

400

1194

3.

Such Crust V

127

300

427

225

000

652

4.

Gale II

225

169

394

169

000

563

5.

Miss Great Lakes II

300

DNF

300

DNS

000

300

6.

Miss Wayne

53

127

180

DSQ

000

180

7.

Miss U.S.

95

DNS

95

DNS

000

95

8.

Tempo VI

71

DNS

71

DNS

000

71

9.

My Sweetie

DNF

DNF

000

DNS

000

000

[Statistics from Greene, V.1]


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