The morning call., 1893-09-18
WON THEPENNANT
Mist Led in the Encinal
Boat Club Race.
Another Exciting Contest Between
Well-Known YachtS-The Lap
wings Action.

Inc yacht MIST won the challenge PEN
nant yesterday at the Eucnal Boat Club
race. The races were called by Commo-
doTe J. A. Leonard for the challenge pen
nants in the first and second classes, he
having received notification from the Lit
tie Annie in the first class and the Red
Imp in the second class that they wished
to compete for the same.
The yachts in the second class were
started fifteen minutes before the first
class, so as to have them al finish at the
same time. This move was successful, so
far as the beautiful picture they presented
coming hOm g, punched, with all canvas
set, but the smaller craft were in such
positions as to badly handica some of the
| larger yachts at most vital moment, and
indirectly, II not directly, this proved the
cause OF one of the larger yachts being
beaten.
The starting gun for the second class
was given at 3 p. NJ The 1rst 70 cross the
line was the Vixen, Captain A. 5. Neal, at
3 3:01 30, followed by the Red Imp, Captain
L." naTd Jr.. al 1902 80, and the Fearless at
1902 AS. The Red Imp went right TO the
'front.' and never was oyertaken, but kept
oG increasing her lead until at the finish
she was "a minutes and % seconds ahead.
! The Fearises went back on her name and
Quilted the course after she had rounded
otakebOat g. the Red Imp having set too
lively pace Tor her.
This only left the Vixen 0he holder of
the pennanU In the race, and before half
the course was covered Captain Neal saw
that all hopes Of winning was gone 80 took
things easy and came home without light
canvas The chances of the Vixen WIN
ming again this season are small as here
after light winds are likely to prevail and
she makes very poor showing under those
conditions.
The Red Imp finished al 4:52 "a, cover
iCg the course in 40 "a. The Vixen fin
iShed al 5:26:10, covering the course in
2:24:20 These times were not corrected.
as there is no time allowance In the club
that could reverse the positions.
The first of class l to cross the line was
he Mist al 3:2l, followed by the Lapwing
al s 81 %. the Flor nee "a :58 and the
Little Annie at 3:25.
The start was very good, except that the
Little Annie lost fully two minutes by The
bad working OF her llb, which got out of
order, aud when fixed a" well as could be
done under the circumstances did not do
the work that was needed. On the beat
up TO the windward stakebOat the Flor
ence was leading and a good distance
ahead. Rounding this point she lost some
of her lead on the reach to stakebOaL L.
When this point was turned the Florence
started for home, and 1t was here that the
smaller craft handicapped the larger one
just after the Florence squared away for
home the Lapwing and the Red Imp did
the same, with the result OF Dlanketing
the Florence. Captain Plummer claims
that he tried to go to port and starbOard
of these craft, but without success, as they
followed his course ana kept his wind.
Strictly speaking, the Lapwing had the
right To pursue such tactics, but for a
yacht of another class to do the same is an
injustice. If the Lapwing did as was
claimed 1t was very ungeuerous of her
skipper, as he could not faIl to know that
! his chances OF winning were gone, since
| the Florence had more than made up the
! time allowance allowed, and thus it would
be impossible for her TO pass the Florence
! This VAS particularly clear, as the latter
craft is the fastest, and the moment the
Lapwing started to go by she would have
allowed the Florence 10 get wind.
The result of this was that the Florence
was sailing under only half speed, aud the
Mist came up and carried off the peDnant
! on time allo vance.
The first to finish was the Mist at 4:49:O2.
covering the whole course of seven aud a
hall miles in :28 :02. Then came the
| Florence al :5l :52, making it in 1 :26 "a.
| Then the Lapwlng at 4 :52 :06, covering II
in 80 Al. The last was the Little Annie
| at 5:00:22, her actual sailing time being
l :35 ID
The Florence gets time allowance from
| the Little Annie but has to give the same
to both the Mist and Lapwng. She gives
| to the Mist minutes and seconds, and
to the Lapwlng fraction Of a minute more.
The Mist, with this time allowance from
the Florence. wins by 55 seconds.
These races have been very exciting OF
late. as the winners have only won by less
than a minute. Taking the winnings of
yesterdays races into consideration, the
record of points gained by the yachts for
the trophies now stand: Mist 75 per cent.
Vixen 80 per cent, Florence % per cent,
Caprice 25 per cent, Red Imp % per cent.