1929 APBA Gold Cup

Navesink River, Red Bank, New Jersey, August 24, 1929

Statistics

APBA Gold Cup
August 24	3 Mile Course
Navesink River	30 Mile Heats
Red Bank, New Jersey	90 Mile Race

	No.	Entry	Owner	Comp. Lap	Race
1.	G-11	Jersey Lightning	Gerald Holbrook
2.	G-14	Imp (2)	Richard Hoyt	51.965	48.405
3.	G-17	Scotty	Sam Dunsford		42.128
4.	G-19	Miss Los Angeles	James Talbot

	Heat One	Driver	Points	Speed
1.	Imp	Richard Hoyt	400	50.490
2.	Scotty	Sam Dunsford	361	49.993
3.	Miss Los Angeles	Ralph Snoddy	324	48.639
4.	Jersey Lightning	Fred Farwell	Dnf
	Heat Two	Driver	Points	Speed
1.	Imp	Richard Hoyt	400	46.574
2.	Scotty	Sam Dunsford	361	45.874
3.	Jersey Lightning	Fred Farwell	324	43.134
4.	Miss Los Angeles	Ralph Snoddy	Dnf
	Heat Three	Driver	Points	Speed
1.	Imp	Richard Hoyt	400	48.924
2.	Jersey Lightning	Fred Farwell	361	44.122
3.	Scotty	Sam Dunsford	324	34.001

	Recapitulation	Heat 1	Heat 2	Cum.	Heat 3	Total
1.	Imp	400	400	800	400	1200
2.	Scotty	361	361	722	324	1046
3.	Jersey Lightning	DNF	324	324	361	685
4.	Miss Los Angeles	324	DNF	324	DNS	324

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Free For All
August 24	15 Mile Race

	Entry	Owner
1.	Carenaught	Roy Keyes
2.	Curtiss Wilgold III	Roy Keyes
3.	Buckeye II	Gibson Bradfield
4.	Imp IV	Phil James
5.	Rascal	Pierre Proal
6.	Snap Sea	H. Alexander

	Heat One	Driver	Speed
1.	Curtiss Wilgold III	H.W. Flickenger	47.627
2.	Rascal	Pierre Proal	44.506
3.	Buckeye II	Gibson Bradfield	42.020
4.	Snap Sea	H. Alexander	38.944
5.	Carenaught	Roy Keyes
6.	Imp IV	Phil James

( As mentioned earlier hydroplanes were readmitted to the Gold Cup for the 1928 race. Even though owners were on notice for over a year, very few boats were built for the 1928 contest i.e. Miss Los Angeles which competed for the Harmsworth Trophy and Rainbow VI. The displacement craft in existence were not anxious to compete against the new Gold Cup hydroplanes.

The 1927 race was won by Greenwich Folly. However the Indian Harbor Yacht Club which staged the Gold Cup after its Greenwich Folly had won the 1926 race at New York was not interested in staging the 1928 regatta since it was primarily a sailing club. Thus the Gold Cup reverted to the Columbia Yacht Club, the Yacht Club of the second place entry.

The Hudson River, the original site for the Gold Cup in 1904, was not suitable since it was usually too full of debris for racing. The site of the Gold Cup for the 1915, 1925 and 1926 regattas was Manhasset Bay on Long Island, but was not chosen perhaps due to the fact that it was primarily available only to spectators with boats. As a result Red Bank, New Jersey was chosen as the site of the race when a partnership was entered into between the Columbia Yacht Club and the Red Bank Yacht Club.)

[Statistics from Greene, V.1]