The New York herald., 1872-10-03
YACHTING.
Match Between tho Sl0Op Yachts Glance
and Snlus for . silver Cup.

Match Between the SlOOp Yachts Glance
and Salus for . silver Cup.
very interesting match race was sailed last
Tuesday at oyster Bay between the sloop yachts
Glance. Commodore Swan, and Salus, Messrs.
Foulke and Zerega, both belonging to the Seawan-
haka Yacht Club. The Fall regatta Of the club was
sailed on the Monday previous, but as there was a
very light air the owners OF the Glance and Salus
agreed to sail q match for silver cup and try
what their yachts could do together in breeze Of
wind. The weather on Tuesday proved highly salts
factory, there was pleasant northerly wind and
broken water. The judge, Mr.. Frederick De Peystcr
Foster got the boats In line short after 10 A. NJ,
and started them together at 1oh ION. sos. The
course was from the buoy Off the steamboat dock at
Oyster Bay to and around the buoy of
sHIPPEN POINT,
rounding the same from west to north and return
ahead and both hauled on the wind % The Yachts
made very good race, as making tack after tack,
they crossed close to one another They rounded
the Shppen Point Buoy as follows:-
Elance IN olH.
In the race home with sheets started the length
OF the Glance began to tell and she slipped away
pretty fast from her antagonist.
The yachts arrived as follows:--
,, N"ms u z" & I! $ Il 1:s: < ( s: s T. 4 KS; s: S
sans. Salance'' 50 50 90 80 50 50 50 Is IS IS
The Glance therefore won the race with Iom. 15s.
club measurement, and the Salus so feet inches,
making q difference OF feet 2 inches between
them, giving the Salusan allowance OF 10 minutes As
seconds.
Yachting Notes.
Captain Loper, OF the schooner yacht Madgie,
challenged Captain William Voorhs, OF the schooner
yacht Tidal Wave, to sail for the Commodore's
Challenge Cup in the possession OF the latter,
and won from the Madgie at Newport last August.
Captain voorhis replied that as he had laid up the
Tidal Wave for the Winter season he would feel
obliged II Captain L0per would postpone the con-
test until the opening Of the yachting season OF
1878. Captain Loper, not wishing to put the owner
OF the Tidal Wave to any Inconvenience, has con-
sented to the above arrangement.
The schooner yacht Tar0lnta N.Y.Y.C, Mr..
Kent, is having her masts shortened seven feet, in
view to lengthy cruise this Fall to the West In
The schooner yacht Fleetwing, N.YY.C., Mr..
George Qssood has been laid up for the season at
The schooner yacht Viking, N.Y.Y.C, Mr.. Mahlon
Sands, was laid up for the season last week at Es-
The schooner yacht Columbia. N.Y.Y.C., Mr.. Les
statss Ser wssG sIaSd lying a anchor e New Brighton
The schooner yacht Dreadnought, Mr.. stockwell
hauled preparatory to the race for the Cape May
challenge cup on Thursday, October 10:
The schooner yachts Restless ME- X ,s MT
are both laid up for the season at New London.
The match race between the sloops Maud and
Walter payiSs for 600 side wiz be sailed on
The Brooklyn Yacht Club hold their Fall regatta
on Monday, October I. The yachts will start from
Gowanus bay at eight A. M, and the festivities will
conclude with clambake at Gravesend Bay.
The schooner yacht Madge, N.Y.YC. Captain
Loper, and the sloop yachts Josie, N.YY.C., Cap
tain r. LOper, Jr, and Sallie E. Day, N.Y.YC, Cap
tain Palmer, are laid up for the season at Stonng
ton, Conn.