1951 National Sweepstakes

Navesink River, Red Bank NJ, August 11-12, 1951

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Bob McAllister, Mulford Scull Set World Speedboat Marks

Ruby Scull Wins Runabout Race; Hoivar Finishes Third

Red Bank, Aug. 11—Robert J. McAllister and C. Mulford Scull Ventnor City pilots, wrote their names in powerboat record books today as they posted new world marks at the 19th National Sweepstakes Regatta.

McAllister shattered a record he made last Spring when his Yankee Boy was clocked at 50.920 miles an hour in the Initial heat for 48-cubic-lnch runabouts. The speedster was disqualified, however, in the second heat, and Scull’s wife, Ruby, went on to cop the event in her swift little craft, Mickey Mouse.

McAllister’s previous time, set in the Southland Sweepstakes at St. Petersburg. Fla., last February, was 49.729.

Scull, posting a 58.121 speed, was the second to break the prior world’s standard during the day for 48 cubic inch hydroplanes. Driving his Shooting Star. Scull set his mark - in the second heat after Swede Stromstedt, Chicago, in Dragon Jr., owned by Samuel Crooks of St. ; Petersburg, Fla,, had set a record of 57.600 in the first heat. Stromstedt was awarded first prize for the event on a better elapsed time than that registered by Scull for two heats.

Neither Wins

The two Ventnor City pilots had the distinction of establishing world’s records, thought neither won his event.

Ruby Scull drifted home fourth In the first heat for runabouts but, with McAllister out of the way, was winner in the second heat by a good margin. Jim Davis, of Keansburg, in Stubby’s Pup, was second in the final standing, and Edward Howar. another Ventnor City tillerman, in the Southern Belle, was third Davis and Howar each had 525 points but Davis had the better elapsed time.

Winning the event for hydroplanes, Stromstedt had to couple a second place in the second heat with his first place in the first heat. Mulford Scull also had a first and second but Stromstedt’s margin in the first heat was greater than Scull’s in the second.

Guy Lombardo Wins

More than 12,000 fans crowded aboard 500 boats and lined terraced lands about the Navesink River course as Guy Lombardo, famed band leader, took top honors in his beat. Tempo VI. in first heats of the two featured races.

Lombardo won, hands down, in the National Sweepstakes, outdistancing a field of nine by a mile. His margin in the Red Bank Gold Cup was almost two miles. Both races were of 10 miles distance.

Final heats for each event will be raced tomorrow.

Gray skies failed to dismay the spectators who lined the course as the Freeport, L. I., maestro set out for his third leg on the Perpetual Sweepstakes trophy. He won previously in 1946 and 1950. Lombardo’s time was 79.56 per hour.

Lombardo paced his sleek mahogany craft in second place for a quarter of the 10-mile race and then flashed ahead. Joseph Schoenith’s Gale I, out of Detroit, with Al D’Eath at the wheel, finished second in the opening heat, and Bob Rowland, of South Norfolk, Va., in his 225 cubic inch hydroplane. You All, was third.

Lombardo won the first heat of the regatta’s co-feature, the Gold Cup. even more handily than the sweepstakes, as he breezed home two miles ahead of Rowland. Lombardo’s speed for the Gold Cup was 82.396.

--- August 12, 1951