Friday, September 30, 2016

Pay 'n Pak Wins Hydroplane Event

MADISON. Ind., July 6 (UPI) - Pay 'n Pak, chalking up two course records en route, won the $30,000 Indiana Governor's Cup race for unlimited hydroplanes today on the Ohio River.

George Henley of Eatonville, Wash., steered the Seattle‐based craft to a first and two seconds in its three heats to best Weisfield's, driven by Billy Schumacher of Seattle.

Pay 'n Pak cruised the 2½‐mile river course at an average speed of 115.148 miles an hour in the fourth of the day's five heats for one mark. Henley's fastest lap in the five‐lap, 12½‐mile event of 116.883 m.p.h., also was a record.