New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-03
DATES FOR YACHT RACING.
THE EAwANHAKAcoR SPRING
PROGRAMME.
THE IMPORTANCE OF TIE FoRTYFooT FLEET
REoooNIzED-AN OLD ASSOCIATION GROW:
INC AND A NEW ONE FoRM1NG-spEcu
LATIoN AS TO HE AMERICAS

REooeNIzED-AN OLD ASSOCIATION GROW.
INC AND NEW ONE roRM1NG-spEcU-
LATIoN AS TO HE AMERICAS
CHALLENGE CUP.
The ssawanbaka corinthisn Yacht Club, with char
acterishc energy s the first to DO out with It's racing
programme for the spring season, and the bill OF
sporting fare is good ono There win DO two days
OF racing, the annual CorInhan race for al CLASSES
on Saturday, June is; and special race for tho
fortysix foot forty foot thirtyfve foot and thirty
foot classes Of soops cutters and yawls. Monday
Juno H. Both win be sailed over the regular
club courses and the special prizes in both arc I'M
usually numerous and valuable Thus. the club VIII
give a special prize In tho seventy-foot class. pro
vded four start, and special prize in the forty foot
class, provided six start member OF the elnD
oilers siil another IN tho tbfrty-foot class, With
provision OF only three starters. All these are for
the, Corinthan race, and tho usual individual prizes
VIII 30 given to the Corinthian members Of crews
on winning yachts.
1t IS pleasant fact that the scawanhaka has taken
proper notice Of the increase and Improvement OF
the forty-footer feet The LELAND Challenge Cup
has becn assigned by tho Race Committee to contests
In thh. class named, and the club win give special
prize to the yacht winning on the Corinthian day.
Under the conditions OF the cup the latter Is to DO
held subject to challenge during the yachting season
In the class In which It Is first won and the winner
In each contest win receive prize To hold the
cup not subject to challenge yacht must win 10
three times in succession. That means racing for
the cup In the most interesting class Of all during
the whole season. For tho special race too an In
ducement to forty footers is offered IN 800 cup II
start, and one 500 in value II nino
start. For this the rule requiring the
yachts to DO manned exclusively by Cornthian crews
is waived, except so far 1t the helmsman,
nor arc clnb-topsails ruled out Thus everything
has been done 10 get sport of the foress and the
Race Committee viii have tho enthusiastic thanks Of
all yachtsmcn before tho racing season is over for
their foresight
That picturesque little organization, tho Now
Rochelle Yacht Club is rousng itself out of its winter
topor and Is getting ready to take It's st step In
preparation for tho season-its election OF officers.
New-Rochele village IL becoming more popular every
year as summer home for woarIed city folk, and
The boom win be larger thin usual this year. In
consequence, tho yacht club viii flourish it de-
serves. and the mosquito feets Will dance over
the waves more numerous than ever. Tho club
win elect officers at the Hotel Brunswick tomorrow
night. and VIII indulge IN physical and intellectual
refreshments as well. Tho regular nominations arc
good Ones and follows: Commodore, Clinton IT,
seciey, sloop Psyche; vice-commodorc, z Edwards
Lewis, sloop Amazon; rcar-commodorc, william T.
Abbott, launch NewJeDey; secretary, William T.
Moore treasurer Eugene Lambden messurer, George
Foster; trustees, c. S. ode, John Hartman, q. r.
Shefleid; house committee, W. ii. wiimarth, J. W.
Rough Joseph W. Gibson; committee on admission,
II. s. Pratt. H. Thompson Charles f. Bateson; law
committee, Walter Largo, Charles II. Noxon. No op-
position has as yet been heard from
1t Is 10 be hoped that before another week has
gone the New-York Yacht Racing Association viii
DO finally and thoroughly organized. Tho second
meeting win occur next Friday evening, probably
At tho Vanderbilt Hotel in Forty secondst, and there
IA 10 doubt its result. Tho delegates from
the different clubs who attended tho Gilsey House
convention were all enthusiastic before they LETT
It, and tho reports heard from the clubs when tho
delegations informed their colleagues Of tho purposo
of the organization peculiarly encouraging. IL
ls now fair superstition that tho association win
be Joined BY all the important smalirraft clubs IN
the waters Of tho neishborhood, including Nev-York
Bay. the North. Hudson. East and Shrewsbury
Rivers and Long Island Sound. and, should this prove
true, the association win DO powerful TO begin
with than tho old Eastern Racing Association, tho
similar organizations on the Great Lakes. Tho only
possible stumbiing-b block might be Q difference Of
opinion TO time-alowancc rules. Some Of tho
clubs stfn adhero 20 the forunase belief that matho
matica oompexity Is essential 10 making their
scientifically nautical. while. In reality, with craft
Of those short classes fair approximation Is suf
fcient for all practical purposes.
The members Of tho ycw-York Yacht cub EXPECTED
last week to hear informally, Of some action i7ksn
BY the committee which was appointed to consider
the report OF Measurcr Hyslop. They wcro dlssp.
pointed, for at the meeting which was held Tuesday
evening there quorum and actual business
could not be done. General Paine and Mr. Burgess
could not leave Boston, and vIce-commodorc La.
than A. Fish was kept away by illness in his family.
Measurer Hyslop, A. Cary Smith and f. A. willard
were present, and talkod over the present system
Of measurement for time allowance. Tho forty
footors discussed ard decided opinions
expressed upon Tho effect Of short water lines and
great sal area The committee Will attempt another
meeting before they report II has been expected by
many yachtsmen that the time allowance rules would
be changed as to affect the tendency TO docp.
1raught short yachts at once. Prom what has leaked
out, however. Ia IS reasonably certain that tho new
Iory footers win have trial this season under tho
Did rules. Still, II cannot DO denied that change
IN the rules Is sure TO come No system OF time
allowance has yet lasted any longer than X took
10 develop some erotesque freaks Of shipbuilding |
Ind arigging, and tho viii DO the result now
The Wild rumon regarding challenges for the Amor
lcas Cup continue undated. No win deny that |
he winter has been frarght with stories which |
palpaby weso evoI ed nom overhcaied imaginatons,
yet II that to donounce all "a false per-
'isteny for the supposed reason that tho ew-york |
Yacht Club viii yield tho sx-months notice clause
Is to err the other side. The New-Yosk club has
,abled to tho Royal Clyde secretary that 1t r. willing
10 sail under tho old decd OF gift. II any OF tho |
yachts being built ON the other side b intended o.
challenger there Is st time until Che 18Th OF next
month for the challenge to DO entered. In case the
'hallenge were received, there would sun be time to
build now defender, even II confidence IN the Vol
Intcer should waver or yacht Of another class be
'ent. Tho best plan. unsatisfactory though f be, is
% expect and hope for, chr enge until the time
INIT under tho old deed has elapsed
The most recent guess as 10 the challenge n that
he changes made IN the Thistle this winter have In
uded the putting m Of board, and that the
ak OF her going abroad after she Is sold simply
means another visit 10 NewYork and another sttcmp;
0 capture tho cup. Tho local yaohtsmen have not |