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...Last week, on Lake George, N. Y., five long-nosed hydroplanes zoomed over the dark green water getting ready for the start. On the eve of the race, two had broken down and withdrawn. Of the three remaining, the favorite was George Reis's El Lagarto, winner in 1933 and 1934 and one of the most remarkable boats afloat...
...Lagarto ("The Lizard") was built in 1922. That made her, compared to her rivals last week, a specimen of early Americana but antiquity is not El Lagarto's only distinction. For her first owner, Ed Grimm, who called her Miss Mary, El Lagarto performed miserably in the Gold Cup races of 1923 and 1924. Mr. Reis (pronounced "Rice"), who wanted a fast runabout for his Lake George summer home, bought her in 1925, renamed her for the reptile which he considers so lucky that he uses a large stuffed one with a hole in its back on his library...
Improving with age, El Lagarto won the Gold Cup at Detroit in 1933 with a heat record of 60.866 m. p. h. and then went on to win the two other major motorboat races of that year. Last year on Lake George, where, by the conditions of the race which gives the holder of the Cup the right to name the course, Driver Reis had the race run, she had a close call before she beat Delphine IV. Last month Driver Reis installed a new Miller motor. A few days before the race, a broken connecting rod turned this into...
...George C. Reis of Lake George, N. Y. in his 11-year-old hydroplane El Lagarto: the President's Cup race, with 1,161 points to 1,122 for Horace E. Dodge's Delphine VII. First craft to win the President's Cup twice, El Lagarto made a clean sweep of this year's important races of her class, including the National Sweepstakes at Red Bank, N. J., the Gold Cup at Detroit...
...against Gene Mako of Los Angeles; at Culver, Ind. On an adjoining court, his Oakland neighbor, Robert Harmon, won the boys' championship, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2, against Robert Riggs, of Los Angeles. ¶George Reis of Lake George, N. Y., in his brown-hulled speedboat, El Lagarto: the National Sweepstakes, at 15 miles, with 1,161 points to 1,122 for W. A. Buskee's Bus-Skee; on the Shrewsbury River at Red Bank...
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