GRIFFITHS CUP CONTEST
Trophy Retained By Mystic Miss (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 27. About 9000 spectators with 2500 beach umbrellas lined the banks of Lake Karapiro today to watch the Australasian speedboat championships. It was the largest crowd at the lake since the Empire Games rowing contests. The contest, over a 10-mile course, saw the holder. Mystic Miss, retain the title. The North Island D<C.A. class outboard hydro championship was won brilliantly by the Hamilton entry Heckle, owned by K. Bowden and driven'by W. Lee. F. E. Gatland, in Widget, won the Carl Augustin trophy for the midget championship and Jimmy Cee (R. Whitwell, Kawerau) took the North Island unlimited vee-bottom championship. Results of the main events were: North Island D.C.A. class outboard hydro championship: Heckle IK. Bowden, driver W. Lee. Hamilton), 1; Abbasinya (F. Perry, Te Awamutu). 2; Jeckle (W. Lee, Hamilton), 3. Midget championship. Carl Augustin trophy: Widget (F. Gatland, Papakura), 1: Forty-four (G. Smith. Manukau), 2; Blue Bird (R. Johnston, Featherston), 3. Australasian open chamnionship Griffiths Cup: Mystic Miss (W. Stevenson. Otahuhu). 700 points. 1; Slipray 11, 469, 2: Jayson (J. Nicholson. Manawatu). 450 3. North Island vee-bottom championship: Jimmy Cee (R. Whitwell. Kawerau), 1; Hopscotch 111 (T. Mahood. Tauranga), 2; Raffles (P Dona las. Hastings). 3.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29398, 28 December 1960, Page 11
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