Dodge Bolt

"Since 1921 I have built more racing boats than any man in America and I have spent more money on this sport than any single person except Gar Wood. I think the treatment you are giving me is entirely unfair. I am through with the sport.''

With that rebuke to the American Power Boat Association, Horace Elgin Dodge, automobile scion, last week clapped on his hat, stormed out of the organization's annual meeting. He demanded that his name and those of his boats, with the records they had hung up, be stricken from A. P. B. A.'s rolls.

Back of Mr. Dodge's rage lay the subject of superchargers or blowers, to increase engine power. Long has he wanted to supercharge his boats, but Gold Cup rules forbade. Lately at a meeting of the Gold Cup Contest Board, by means of family proxies Mr. Dodge won a vote approving superchargers for next year's Gold Cup race at Lake George, N. Y., over the bitter protest of other contestants. Last week A. P. B. A. was sympathetic but firm. The Gold Cup's deed of gift forbids major changes in contest rules after a challenge has been filed. But A. P. B. A. voted to approve superchargers for 1935. Since Mr. Dodge had hoped to use them against supercharged French and Italian boats in the first international regatta next March, to be held in Florida, he refused to listen to talk about 1935.

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