1955 Maple Leaf Trophy

Detroit River, Windsor, ON, June 18, 1955

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Statistics

18-Jun	3 Mile Course
Lake St. Clair	15 Mile Heats
Windsor, Ontario	45 Mile Race

 

	No.	Entry	Owner	Comp. Lap	Qual.	Race
1	U-3	My Sweetie (2)	Horace Dodge	—	89.629	—
2	U-6	Short Circuit (1)	Chuck Thompson	—	87.697	—
3	U-23	Wha Hoppen Too	Chuck Doran	—	92.307	78.828
4	U-45	Miss Cadillac	Bud Saile	—	80.879	92.218
5	U-54	Gale IV	Joe Schoenith	—	103.936	—
6	U-55	Gale V (1)	Joe Schoenith	—	89.256	92.736
7	G-22	Such Crust III (2)	Jack Schafer	—	98.25	—
8	CA-1	Miss Supertest II	Gordon Thompson	100.953	81.203	—

 

	Heat One	Driver	Points	Speed
1	Miss Cadillac	Bud Saile	400	93.862
2	Miss Supertest II	Bill Braden	300	90.762
3	Gale V	Lee Schoenith	225	89.928
4	Wha Hoppen Too	Marv Henrich	169	89.247
5	My Sweetie	John Ban	127	83.255
6	Short Circuit	Chuck Thompson	95	66.63
7	Gale IV	Bill Cantrell	DNF	—
8	Such Crust III	Walt Kade	DNF	—
	Heat Two	Driver	Points	Speed
1	Gale IV	Bill Cantrell	400	93.168
2	Miss Cadillac	Bud Saile	300	91.112
3	Gale V	Lee Schoenith	225	89.567
4	Such Crust III	Walt Kade	169	86.825
5	Wha Hoppen Too	Bill Stroh	127	71.602
6	Miss Supertest Ii	Bill Braden	95	62.454
7	Short Circuit	Chuck Thompson	DSQ	—
8	My Sweetie	John Ban	DSQ	—
	Heat Three	Driver	Points	Speed
1	Miss Supertest II	Bill Braden	400	99.457
2	Gale V	Lee Schoenith	300	99.365
3	Gale IV	Bill Cantrell	225	99.112
4	Miss Cadillac	Bud Saile	169	91.735
5	Short Circuit	Chuck Thompson	127	89.769
6	My Sweetie	John Ban	95	88.848
7	Such Crust III	Walt Kade	71	87.336
8	Wha Hoppen Too	Bill Stroh	54 [?]	77.603

 

(The final heat speeds are on average 5 m.p.h. faster than in the preliminary heats and thus are very suspect. In contrast the preliminary heat speeds are commensurate with past performances for almost every entry. Miss Supertest II's fast lap of 100.953 was in the final heat and thus is suspect. Canadian Boating claimed a lap of 109 m.p.h. for Supertest, but the Windsor Star admitted that no precise lap by lap records were kept for the regatta.)

 

	Recapitulation	Heat 1	Heat 2	Cum.	Heat 3	Total
1	Miss Cadillac	400	300	700	169	869
2	Miss Supertest II	300	95	395	400	795
3	Gale V	225	225	450	300	750
4	Gale IV	DNF	400	400	225	625
5	Wha Hoppen Too	169	127	296	53 [?]	349
6	Such Crust III	DNF	169	169	71	240
7	My Sweetie	127	DSQ	127	95	222
8	Short Circuit	95	DSQ	95	127	222

[Statistics from Greene, V.1]