The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-08
THE LIRIS WON.
Working OF the New ClAsaihcatlon Rule In
tho Lnrchmont Race.


Working OF the New Claselncatlon Rule In
the Lnrchmont Race.
With her lee rail buried in a smother OF foam
and her spars buckling under the greatest
press OF canvas ever spread TO stiff breeze
over hull of the same length. the keel sloop
Liris dashed across the finish line of FlaGler's
Point Larchmont, yesterday afternoon. the
winner in tho forty seven foot class at the
Larchmont spring race.
She had defeated the cutter Minerva, but by
only 80 seconds, and from start to finish it was
hard fight over every foot OF the twentymile
course between the four starters In that class
the Iris, Minerva MariGuita. and Helen. At
least 500 yachtsmen watched the contest from
tho decks OF tho steam yachts Title, Lurline,
Avenel. and Bo Peep. the schooner Sachem,
and the sloops Daphne, Shamf ock, and Ana
conda. rs we'll as from the shore and from tho
committee boat Fred B. DalzeL. for it was the
first race under the extreme rule Of measure
ment and time allowance which the Larch-
mont Club has adopted as an experiment and
with such a grand breeze as blew out Of the
northwest yesterday the chance OF seeing the
race was not 10 be missed.
The result Of the new rule was to send the
Minerva upa class. The tax on sail made the
racing length OF the l.irs 80 feet. the MaAi-
ginta 1853 feet. and tho Helen 4 feet, so tey
bad e IL class yhh ns naw 6Sass
urement is loss than Al feet. but she had to as
sumo that length in order to race with the
old measurement basis shows that she would
have won Yesterdays race BY 81 seconds II she
had sailed nndep IT. rua W reaTe isye
1t is going to be generally adopted or not. The
feeling after yesterdays race seemed TO be III
Few prettier starts have, been seen, The
committee MessEs Scott Forwood nnd San San
GOa and G the did "tH iH %
to loat her till y. when the Preparatory signal
was given. Only seven seconds after the start,
ing signal. AT IL :O5, the Ilrs. under splendid
hcadway and rearly close-Aauled on the star
board tack. came tearing across the line unuer
lib topsa Capt. Lu,e!oy held the long tier,
and lie pointed her straight, for Tho first mark
a stakeboat off fiemrstead harbol-three miles
away to the southeast, pr Barr4n.s cutter
Clara came across y seconds later. then August
belmont. whit" MariGuita at l2:6:5o swinS-
Bryan Alley brought the saucy Minerva over
next at u 20. with her sheets lifted triIlo
ami her bowsprit pointing !ust 70 wndwar4 Of
onds later Mr.. Princes black slOop Helen went
across under the same sail as tho MnriInita'
mates. The schooucrs Elm, agnes and Leona,
tile s!oop Broncho. the catbQats GiEgle and
XeIlic't. and the 3O-foot Kathleen followed as
TO the Hampstead mark in the
lrcsheninC breeze nat covered the
1nueu Tts9 stret"G Tie Clara gybed afound
tho marx first in fine shape at l2:26, the
Iris and MpgSS next only 40 and se hS
nerva iogether. the cutter passing the schooner
to windward as she cleared the mar k. and as
stakeboat of Stamford-there was a wave roll
Ing W under her weather quarter LIE tou
btaneho and E RS S0n eybeG 9 in hat
1 mie rea acn to p' Stamford. How tho bonny
cutter Clara walked away from all hands. how
the schooner Agnes blanketed the l. iris, and
the Minerva and Helen tried TO catch tho Mari
0uita and tho Iris, while ne Agnes ioft her
classmates far astern was all noted with eager
interest Every ones sympathy seemed to be
with the little MinHr!n and o ne Plucky Helen
from tho start to Hampstead, andithe Minerva
from there TO stamford The latter mark was
lufied around rs follows:
qu a'f TO 81 ) teonn ~ XneTv% - "sn
@ e 4. srG"s NO ~ort T os F K. .,sI
board !ack back empsrnd ~ Lr,s Increased her
lead H RI s f"Tt
between tile Minerva and MarGuita
This table shows the elapsed time between
marks:
1r. ~ %". a @aIa; Helen.
Star, to Hampstead osss o2ais Us % o@srs
! 3 ;f' ssti
Following is the summary:
CLASS E-scnooNERs.
length. Time Time.
1884: Is s$i::' /:
CLASS 4-sLoors AND CUTTERS.
Clara (cut) ..... Dr. j. Z, Barron.... Ia 50 10 so
CLASS 5-SLoor> ASH curTNRA
hiri. e s9 s"mn" f M%"sr eta2 q is
H.sisSs. !; 3 Suss; s%ont j. \
CLASS 7-slooPs.
Kathleen 20 10 william whitlock. 3 OF 81 ....