The morning call., 1894-06-06
TROUBLE OVER ARRANGEMENTS.
The Commodore Takes the Liberties
Accorded His Position and Jeal-
ousy Ensues as a Result.

The season has not started off in yacht
Ing circles without some unpleasant fric-
ton ovsr classifcations Of boats and mat
ters.Of Judgment, and the result is already
shaving itself in protests against decisions
in the recent regatta.
In this connection Commodore Cutie,
who IS probably the most enthusiastic
yachtSman on the bay, comes in for barge
share of blame. The fault found is on his
opinions about technical things and man
agement Of regattas, although there is
complaint that he interfered in the work
. Of an arrangement committee by which
competitors in the races got hopelessly
misplaced.
= AT the annual meeting some weeks ago
DR., Thomas L. Hill offered several resolu-
tiOns, one of which was that the club
Should hold at least three open regattas
during The season of 1884,. This was car
Tied BY the meeting, and also one giving
the commodore the power to appoint a
committee of three TO take charge and
manage these events In accordance with
the latter motion the commodore appOin ted
Thomas i. Hill chairman and William n
Mccarthy and c. c. Bruce as associates.
These gentlemen took up the work at
once and outlined a regatta that would
any yet given on the bay.
a course was laid out By the committee
and, after considerable discussion, it was
determined TO settle the subject IN accord
ance with the method in vogue in Eastern
clubs. A step further was made in prose-
cutlon OF modern Ideas by adopting the
one-guD start. Circulars and blanks giving
the new rules, etc, were distributed among
the CLUBS, and they brought in q good
entry list, which closed Thursday evening.
Then the committee classified the en-
tries according 10 their proper measure
ments. Ihe racing rules and other in
cldentals RppeTtalnlng TO regatta were
acted upon and the appointment was made
of the officers of the day, conss sting of
ChaIIes q. Yale and Captain Matthew
turner as judges, and W. y. Mccarthy
ana one other member as timers. The
committee requested the commodore to Sc
cure all the donations be could in the way
Of suitable prizes, which, with his en-
beavers ana thase of the committee
amounted to a splendid list.
1t seems that Commodore Cutie saw
EoOm for Improvement in the arrange
ments. He got the list of entries from
DR.. Hill, and. with Captain Turner he
scrQtiniZed them and made a new CLASH
ficauon.
IN one instance, the Whirlwind, which
measures "A feet inches at the water line,
was put into the 25-fOot class. which
capped her just that much.
Then the system of starting the yachts
Las ueeR changed from the One-guD start
= ttat u time start together with the
chan gin g Of several minor details.
All mis- was notdOne without knowledge
of the previous action of the committee,
for Fl The time Cutie was preparing this
programme he was informed Of these
facts.
after he had cut into the work of the
e.-r milf fas1 H..
approached on the different subjects. He
answered to the Inquiry whether he would
reconsider the starting of the yachts that
he did not want a One-gun start, as il did
not show the relative merits of the differ
ent yachts. Besides. when requested for
a list showing how the prizes would be
distributed, he replied that no such list
! had been made and would not be TIL after
he race.
So the comm ttee is not in the happiest
frame Of mind imaginable. DR.. Hill
said that he was disguised with the
whole proceeding. he had tried from
the very start to give the yachtsmen re-
Ratta that had the semblance of a modern
yacht race, but when he had completed
his work il had been taken out Of bis
hands. The only reason be could give for
the cOmmOdore's actions was thathe must
lave won over TO his side the two other
committeeman. Messrs. Bruce and Nc
Carthy, but this proved not to be the case
when Mr.. Mccarthy was interviewed. He
further declared that the original pro
Eramme would have to be carried out, or
the club would have to get along without
him.
: W. y. Mccarthy appears to have the
" same feeling in the matter as Dr. Hill.
Did you favor Commodore's Gutte's
idea Of changing the system Of starting
from one-gun TO time start?" was
asked.
Certainly not" was the emphatic re-
ply.
A similar answer was given to a cues
ion If Air. Mccarthy had favored the
changing of the officers Of the day and the
method Of awarding prizes.
The commodore was surprised to learn
that there was any dissatisfaction. Il
have heard of nOne," said he. "But on
the contrary, everything went off very sat-
isfactoTily. l appointed the committee of
arrangements, and if ! made any changes
II was my right to do so. With regard to
the Judges. when | saw the men selected |
knew at once that an omission had been
made. as all the clubs were not repre-
scented. In justice to all con ceTned | sub
stituted an eX-member of the CORN THAN
Cldb, which had no representative Oh the
committee.
when we came to look through the en-
tries we found one man had sent in his
sailing length and another erred on his
wateT-line measure. These were changed
and put in their proper classes, and, be-
lieve, correctly.
with regard TO starting you must have a
time start TO tell the relative merits of
yachts. A gun may be fired five minutes
before to get ready, and then when the
yachts were sailing over given line take
their time of starting there. The differ
ence between this lime and the minute of
their return across the line is their sailing
time.
Two protests have been received. One
man claims race on the ground that his
GOAT was the only one to round the stake
boat, " lille the others passed inside. He
will get the race on technically. al
though his yacht was not in it as a sailer.
The other. is against yacht because she
had a professional sailor aboard.
The committee will meet to-morrow
and Pm sure everything will be satisfac-
tory. Personally l don't care what people
think about my position in yachting, but
do not like to see the sport getting black
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