boatracing

A little write up on his boat: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9402E3DE1330E233A...

He looks downright giddy.

BLAMES DIXIE IV.'S CAPTAIN.; Justice Charges Burnham with Negligence and Cowardice in Bell Inquest. October 21, 1911, Saturday Page 1, 763 words BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 20. -- Criminal negligence and cowardice are charged against Frederick K. Burnham in the findings of Dr. R.A. Toms, Justice of the Peace of Tonawanda, who conducted the inquest into the death of Harold W. Bell, one of the persons fatally injured when Capt. Burnham's motorboat, the Dixie IV., ran ashore while competing in championship races here on Sept. 16. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C06E7DD1539E333A... MOTOR BOAT DIXIE IV. WRECKED ON ROCKS; Champion Craft Makes Wild Dash Into Crowd on Niagara River and Hurts Three. September 17, 1911, Sunday BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 16. -- Dixie IV., Frederick K. Burnham's speedy hydroplane, which successfully defended the Harmsworth Cup at Huntington, L.I., and on Friday won the championship of the United States on the Niagara River course, to-night lies a wreck on a narrow ridge of rock between the Niagara River and the Erie Canal, off Riverside Park. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E1DD163CE633A...

I started an entry in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_K._Burnham

These boats , speedboats of "Gar" Wood of the Wood Hydraulic Hoist and Body Company, of Detroit, came up in the Bain/LOC stream 4 years ago, though this one is a later model of the same name, with 18 exhaust pipes:

TEST FOR FORSTER CUP YACHTS The Weather Factor and Earlier Start GWYLAN AND DOLPHIN STAND OUT Weather conditions will play an important part in the first test race to decide the representation in the Forster Cup, to be sailed on Moreton Bay during the weekend. The claims of Gwylan, Dolphin, and Caress are strong, but Amity must be given a chance should the breeze be from medium to heavy strength. On Saturday the Brisbane Eighteen's Squadron will stage its first test for inter-state representation, the Sandgate raters, and 12ft. skiffs will contest the first heats of their clubs championships, and the cadet dingheys will sail the second heat of the Stonehaven Cup series. Friday, 08 November 1935; The Courier-Mail Brisbane, Qld Source: trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/35935901