1907 Old Home Week
Niagara River, Buffalo, NY, September 4, 1907


On the Niagara River

BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 5.--There was good sport at the races of the Motor Boat Club on Niagara River yesterday, two races being pulled off for trophies offered by the Old Home Week Committee. The results:

   

Handicap

Time Avg.

Speed

Dolphin

Vandervoort

6:10

31:40

18:95

Pete

Brundage

2:45

32:40

18:37

Rocket

Gabriel

4:01

35:17

17:06

Sterling

Kid Schultz

4:38

Did not finish

 

Whiz

Vandervoort

Scratch

Did not start

 

Event No. 2 -- Ten-mile race for boats better than 20 miles per hour

Viper

Glasgow

Scratch

25:12

23:84

Arab II

Sidway

:10

27:49

21:56

(Transcribed from The Motor Boat, Sep. 25, 1907, p. 31.)

[Thanks to Greg Calkins for help in preparing this page --LF]


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