1950 Buffalo Launch Club Regatta Old Timers
Old Timers Race
As a novelty late in the afternoon a race was held for old-timer's speed boats, including those outmoded displacement creations built twenty or thirty years ago in the earlier days of the sport. Drivers and their "gentlemen mechanics" wore silk hats, cut-a-ways or tails and white gloves.
[Bob] Petz, in Sister Syn, won the special trophy. Runner-up was Jack Frauenheim of Buffalo in the Rainbow, a boat three decades old which sank at the finish. Wah-Wah-Taysee driven by Ray Brayer of Buffalo was third.
| Final Results - Buffalo Launch Club Old Timers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | G-30 | Sister Syn | Bob Petz | Grosse Pointe, MI |
| 2 | — | Rainbow | Jack Frauenheim | Buffalo, NY |
| 3 | — | Wah-Wah-Taysee | Ray Brayer | Buffalo, NY |
(Reprinted from the New York Times August 21, 1950)