The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-16
SAILED ALL IN A BUNCH.
THE GLANCE WINS THE RACE BY
TWENTY-NINE SECONDS.

The Savannah Yacht Clubs Thirteenth
Annual Regatta at Thunderbolt-A
Fine Day and Splendid Race-Ihe
Glance Wins in the First-Class, With
the ZinCa a Close Second-The Cora
the Winner in the Fifth-Class-The
Inez Capsized and Out of the Race.
The thirteenth annual regatta of the Sa-
vannah Yacht Club was held at Thunder
bolt yesterday. The Glance won the race,
beating her nearest competitor, the Zinga,
90 seconds. The Cora easily won the race
for vessels of the fifth class
1t was beautiful day for the regatta.
There was a spanking breeze the entire
afternoon, and what is unusual the yachts
men had fair winds both ways. There was
a crowd at the club house to witness the
start, and by the time the sails of the Ocean
Queen were seen coming up the river on the
return, closely followed by the Glance, the
club house and grounds were thronged with
members and invited guests. The Italian
orchestra discoursed music, and dancing
was kept up uninterruptedly during the
afternoon, until after O'Clock, when the
Union Cornet band began playing as the
Ocean Queen crossed the line.
The river was flecked with the sails of
boats that had been sailing and cruising up
and down with admirers of the different
yachts in the race while the ST. Nicholas
and smaller steam craft were called into
requisition to afford the sightseers an op-
portunity to watch the race at different
points from the club house to the buoy and
return.
THE START FROM THE CLUB HOUSE.
The following were the entries in the first
class, cabin yachts, 80 feet and over:
Eta, sailing length 80 feet, Vice Com
modore Kinsey.
Glance, 80 feet 81 inches, Rear Commo-
dore f. S. Lathrop.
Ocean Queen, 81 feet inches, Commo-
dore Demere, of the Isle of Hope Yacht
Club.
Wanderer, 81 feet, R. b. HaberSham.
Zinga, 80 feet, John H. Dews
Thistle, 30 feet, Capt. F. G. Strachan.
The Ocean Queen allowed the Glance 8
minutes, the Wanderer 2 minutes % sec
Ionds, and the other contestants Z minutes
81 seconds
The course was from the club house to
Cabbage Island Spit buoy and return,
distance of 201S nautical miles.
The Zinga took the lead, and was fol-
lowed two minutes later by the Thistle the
Etta close after, and the Wanderer not half
a minute behind. The Ocean Queen and
Glance were more lelsurely handled, but
the yachts may be SAID to have gotten off
well together, as there was only 5 minutes
and 35 seconds between the Zinga and the
Glance, the first and last boats to get off.
AT THE TURNING BUOY.
At the turning buoy the Zinga was a full
half mile ahead when she rounded, but
she lost the wind there, laying off toward
the river, when if she had held close to the
buoy and waited for the wind she would
have come ahead. The Glance was more
fortunate for as she rounded the buoy
spanking north east breeze filled her sails
and she came on before the wind without
any delay, while her less fortunate rival
lost too much time in recovering her course
to overcome the delay, although as it was
she lost the race by less than half a minute.
The mate of the Zinga said to a MORNING
NEWS reporter that the yacht took but one
tack during the entire course, and it was
the first time he had ever known the wind
TO shift SO sharply to the quarter as it did
from a southeast TO a northeast. The fol-
lowing is the time CT the yachts as they
came In: