The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-21
ENGLAND.
VIII there be an international Yacht Race
From the London Daily News July 81

(From the London Daily News, July 81
The champion schooner tor 1869 of the New York
Yacht Club Is reported TO have sailed for Europe.
Her arrival at Havre may be expected in due time
to allow her to compete In the Channel match from
Havre to Cherbourg with some racing craft from
on the other side OF the Atlantic OF very fast and
powerful vessel, and may, we suppose, be &C
versy as the best thing out ,' ior the present
season in American yacht building" 1t would
be most unsatisfactory in the event Of her
yachts, to he told that she Is not, AFTER all fair
specimen of the capabilities OF American yachts
aid that her qualities are those OF second rate
schooner Of no particular renown. When the
America came over some eighteen years ago. and
beat all the Eng fish yachts 'hand over hand" It was
understood that she was fastest yacht our cousins
could then produce against US, and that understand
ing was n05 called IN question ut New York. In
deed. 1t was IN that belief that our yacht
builders ana owners set 10 work to dis
cover, and 10 initiate, the characteristics In
which her marked superiority seemed to
consist; changed the form OF their bows and the
trim OF their sailsnOt always with the best results
while the America herself having changed hands
and become an English yacht, was ''Duit upOn'' in
such fashion as to lose ali her original Qualities
without getting any new ones IN compensation. The
Sappho, which was so Handsomely beaten by the Cam
bra round the Wight last year, was declared latter
the event. By some OF our American cOntempora-
res TO be OF little or no account as racing craft,
while by experienced critics at Cowes and Ryde
II was held that her defeat was by no means dec-
slve and that in an ocean match. at all points
OF wind and IN all conditions of weather, she would
be q most formidable antagonist to the strongest
and the speediest OF her English rivals. However
this may be we trust the transatlantic yachtsmen
have sent US this year fOeman undeniably worthy
of our STEEL and that whether the Dauntlesa be
victorious or vanquished, we shall have the comfort
OF knowing that It was no barren victory, or no m
significant defeat.
One thing IS certain, the Dauntless will meet with
the friendllesJ and the heartiest welcome In our
waters, and we hope will not be sent empty away
for lack OF competitors in whatever contest
she may propose. 1t is to be regretted
that the Cambria, whose owner has set spirited an
example, and who has sgnalized himself by the
frank and spontaneous offer to try conclusions with
the Americans across the Atlantic, and In their own
waters has, II the records OF the present season
prove anything. gained notning-ln speed, &C least
from those alterations which were probably intended
tests It Is srue III which she has been engaged dur.
ing the present summer have been las it so often
happensl mere drifting matches. Gains or light and
battling airs, afford poor Test for racing cruisers
and the Cambria has always aspIred to the dignity
OF a cruiser, and not OF mere racing machine. As
matter OF iact we dare say 1t would be found that
those alterations whlcn acht builders are SO fond Of
pressing upon the simpemlndedness OF yacht own.
ers have very seldom improved the quality of the
craft. '.Tinkerlng'' is the besetting weakness of
yacht Owners-and 1t is q weakness very easily fiat
tered and INDUCED. Nor Is this always the fault
though IL may always be the profit OF the build.
ers; for nothing IL more remarkable than
the restlessness OF yachtmen. II was well; |
De lifting motto Tor many racing yacht
which has disappointed the expectations OF a
''tinkerng'' owner. There are many yachtmen
who can never lay vessel up for the winter with.
out putting her on the patent Slip to be heightened
at her bow amidsbips and generally treated like
The Irishman's gun the same weapon, but new
lock, stock and barrel. The consequence too often
Is that the yacht loses all her old qualities and adds
to them new defects somehow or other she never
finds her ''trim again. We do not pretend 10 say
that such - the case OF the Cambria; but unfortu-
nately her recent performances look like II. II II be
So her owner may be cOnsoled with the reflection
that 1t Is a very old story and that IL only proves
once more that with yachts as with houses, 1t IS
better to build new one altogether than TO add to
alter an Old one.
SO far as the prospects Of an Anglo American
match are concerned however, there are not want
ing schooners which have proved themselves, in
DEFAULT or the Cambria quite worthy to try the
mettle OF the Dauntles5, or OF any other American
antagonist, whether on the Channel or across and
beyond the Atlantic. Nice and complicated ques
tons OF admeasurcuent ought really not to inter.
pose any serious difricuty. Great as is the diner
ence IN the American and the English systems,
whether as tests OF actual dimensions or OF
seagoing capacity, It would surely be simpler
feeling which unaestionabIy prevails on both
sides 70 agree TO dner," and to accept the
English scale Of measurement In English waters, the
American scale IN American waters. As to the
match across the ocean, can It not be sailed purely
on the merits OF the contending vessels; that Is,
without reference to any scale Of measurement, and
distances and within limited courses, are, perhaps
indispensable to 1.-THE riaor OF the game ~
Ovcrend, Quincy L. Co. and Their Creditors.
lFrom the London Times money article July 81
IL appears that on the 18th Of september next the
creditors Of Overend, Quincy co. Will receive
twenty snilllnes In the pound, and that all
That with then remain due to them will
Of TINS was according to arrangement TO have
been paid concurreny with the final one shilling OF
principal but the liquldatOrs have continued TO find
more difficulty IN realizing the assets than there
reason to expect when these first passed into
their hands AMI criminal proceedings had not been
iii ss s Of
required sum might he raised BY calling up from the
shareholders part Of the Ten pounds which stan re-,