New-York tribune., 1876-06-12
CONTESTS IN RIVER AND BAY.
RESULTS OF THE BROOKLYN YACHT CLUBS REGATT|
AND THE SAVANNAH CoRINTHIAN RACING

RESULTS OF THE BROOKLYN YACHT CLUBS REGATTA
AND THE sEAwANHAKA ooRINTHIAN RACING
SPORTS OF TIE ROWING CLUBS.
Saturday was a lively day for yachtsmen and
oarsmen III the bay and the Harlem River, as there
were two Yacht races and three rowing regattas. The
Brooklyn Yacht Club held its nineteenth annual regatta
Tie entries courses &c, have been given in IHE IlB
uNE The second gun was fired at l149 and the yachts
crossed line with flying start III the following ofuer
Arrow Comet, Kate. Louisa, Slene, Uline, "Alam l.
Lee America Susie g., Pirate Lizzie L., ana victoria
The sail dow was a beat to wudward, the b'czc cdhE-
Ing to southeast and fresheninS The contest lay De-
tween the Arrow aud Comet Outside the Hook the wnd
blew strong and the race to the ughshp made IN
der full sal and at a rapid rate. The Arrow rO0cd al
224l2, and the Comet at 2:27:O2. The Gracie' kae'
and Undne followed. On the back, before reaching
the Southwest spit, the Comet passed the Arr"W ana
beat her to the stakeboat by minutes and ~ seconds
The Comet won the first and the Esellc the second prize
for secondclass schoones. The Arrow won the INST nd
the Undne second prize for fIsteass oop" OF the
secondoass soops Lizzie L. took the first prize, America
second Thrd-cass sloops, Susie s. first prize William
T. Lee second prize. There also bet o. 5000 IN a
match between the Susie S. aud the Lee
The Corinthian sloop race of the SS2wanhaEa hacht
Cyun On Saturday was free the Shops Oi all OeI
clubs but the Seawanhaka took the first prize IN each
class Tue race close and the wind fresh enough TO
give fine sailing The following were the entries FIRST
class sloops-Adde v, Vindex Coming. Secondelas'
sloOps-WlndWard, AcuNe, HduCdpb peN''N' H~'''iN'
Tugenie. The start made OF Fort WadSwO!th, anO
the oourse was to and around Baoy No TO- keeping it OF
the mort side thence around the SANDY Hook IlEht
ship keeping II on the stafboard SIDE; ana return GVel
the same COURSE keeping to the eastward az BuOvs Nos
O. ii and II on the West Bank and OntsiGc Buoy No
5io The Nindward the first to cross tIc nc ht
VudeY won by time allowance the prize for The hrs
class the Madcap, by allowance, TIC DISt IFze III tEt
second class and the Sadie the second prze III the sec
ond class.
Tie Spring regatta OF the Nassau Boat Club rowed
Oh the Harlem River james ID. Foot, William Robinson
aud Alfred Hcyn entered for the Appleton Challenge
Cup i'll the Junior scul race, one mile Foot won tht
rgce In minutes and % seconds, six lengtLs Gbcad o
Robinson. Hcyn Withdrew. For tie laif-Oared shel
race for the b. Challenge cup one me there were
three enries Lindsey Watson and j. Il. Robert won IN
2 minutes and 80 seconds. The fonI-Oarcd shell race
over The same course brought three the crew
of which John A Walker was stroke in first. TIE
Fovd Tones crew down the LenthOn crew and sanh
its she'll
m ,eptuue Rowing Club of Staten Island rowed four
races over "A twOinile course The first begun
at 4 D. IN, the entries being Robert l.. Loiman, l. X
kcatOr and James II. Riley Riley won in 1913 a. G.
Sbarp A B shand and William L. James ene. ed Tor thc
second race which won by Shand IN 1916. Inc
next contest was between two fOur-Oared harses with
cOxswsins--John Edwards and EDWARD Smith the
BuitL boat in first in 1854 James H. Riley then
pulled against a fOur-Oared crew, and beat H.
A race between two picked crews OF the Columbia
Boat Club was rOWcd IN GOwanus Bay, from Dedplaine
Point about 2l2 miles away Bay Ridge. The crew OF
the Dixie were j. 8 Stokes bow ID. o. Lewis I'd; w. j.
Brf 81 r. Biet eker stroke; ana r. h. Robinson, cox
H. Leland I'd; G. ". Lippit Sd: II T. Ddilllm, stroke
aud s. b. Hazard, cOxswan. TIE Dixie won by seven
Ien.tRs lJ33l2 Dandy, l0.40. E1ch OI the winning
crews received gold medal.