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...Chief Clayton Bishop of the Onset (Mass.) Fire Department: the 130-mile outboard motorboat race down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City; in 3 hr., 11 min., 22 sec.; breaking the record for Class B boats (16-h.p. motors, 100-lb. hulls); and setting another record by becoming the first driver to win the race twice...
Next to winning the 130-mile Albany-to-New York marathon, the most cherished dream of every U. S. outboard motorboat driver is to have U. S. 1 or U. S. 2 painted on his boat. The number U. S. 1 is awarded annually to the amateur outboarder who, during the season, has amassed the largest total of points in regattas sanctioned by the American Power Boat Association. U. S. 2 goes to the highest-scoring professional...
...went to 38-year-old Fred Jacoby Jr. Son of an outboard body builder (Jacoby Flyaway), Driver Jacoby has no peer among the fast-growing fraternity of rough riders who spend their summers bumping around U. S. waterways, kneeling in little, flat-bottomed boats they call flying shingles-with life preservers round their necks and a yapping whine in their ears. Professional Jacoby's total of 25,897 points† (in 20 regattas) this season was 10,000 more than his nearest rival (amateur or professional), and his feat of outscoring all other drivers this year for the third...
Although Fred Jacoby is a professional motorboat racer (61% of U. S. outboard racers are professional), he earns his livelihood as a scenic artist, painting backdrops for Broadway shows. A veteran of twelve years of riding flying shingles, he knows better than to depend on his racing earnings. In 1935, when he won the Albany marathon (worth $250) and spreadeagled the field in almost every other regatta, he wound up with the coveted...
Last week 23-year-old Joe Burk was well rewarded. In the final of the Diamond Sculls, dipping his oars 45 times a minute, he streaked through the water as if he had an outboard motor attached to his 26-lb. shell, not only won the coveted race but did it in 8 min. 2 sec.-eight seconds faster than the Henley record set in 1905. Only three Americans before him had ever won the Diamond Sculls : Edward Ten Eyck in 1897, B. Hunting Howell in 1898-99, and Walter Hoover...