New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-10
A RACE IN CRUISING TRIM.
AMERICAN CLUBS SPECIAL REGATTA.
LARGE NUMBER OF YACHTS ENTERED-MANY
STARTERS AND FINE RACE EXPECTED


LARGE NUMBER OF YACHTS ENTERED-MANY
STARTERS AND FINE RACE EXPECTED
NOTES FROM OTHER CLUBS.
Forty-nine entries In thirteen classes. have been
made for the special regatta Of the American
Yacht Club, which will be sailed the Sound. off
Milton Point, Cos Cob. Conn. at II 80 a. m.
to-day. The Regatta Committee. consisting Of
Stuyvesant Wainwright. chairman; Marseis Clark
Parsons Isaiah Paxson Horace See and Simeon
Ford. has furnished the following official list Of
tries:
Class for 6o-ft sloops-Daphne. Minerva and Cos
Glass for 4s,ft sloop,-Euryba.
fanta, Cygnet and Adele.
Class for Soft. sloops-Gavilan.
Class for 36-ft. open sloops-Maud.
Glass for 25-ft. cabin soops-Bngo and Needle.
Glass for 25-ft. open sloops-Teddy lola and
class for soft; cabin catboatsnFannis, Mary.
Class for 2s,ft cabin catboatsDKitte. Keora,
Ethel Caper Mike. Minnehaha and Alice.
Glass for Oft open catboats-Fairy. Punch and
Class for 2O-ft. open cetboats-K ismet, Terrapn,
wis Willie Zelda and ze Hal'' NUM-
Class for half-raters-Qu Ethewynn. LIN
Special lift. class-Celia Hour. vaquero and
Shrimp.
First prizes will be awarded in each class and
should four more yachts start In either class
with the full intention OF completing the course
second prizes will also be given. In view OF the
exceptionally large number OF entries many start
and unusually interesting contest
pected.
HUGUENOT CLUBS ANNUAL REGATTA
The first annual regatta OF the Huguenot Yacht
Club. OF New Rochelle n. Y. will be sailed the
club course. off Huckeberry Island, the Sound.
Saturday. August IT, 1t will be open to yachts
OF all recognized clubs which may not be rejected
by the Race Committee. consisting Of Augustus En-
bury. Charles Erwicker and Vice Commodore c. VI.
Connolly. There will be eleven regular classes for
boats. ranging in racing length from 45 feet
and under feet down to those OF 10 feet and
under IL feet There will also be special classes for
the Larchmont Yacht Clubs 81 and p footers,
which will be governed by the rules OF the Iarch-
mont Club for those classes. The courses will be
triangular that for the larger boats being fourteen
nautical miles In length. and for the smaller ones
seven nautical miles
The steamboat Blackbrd which has been char
tered for the use OF the members Of the club and
their guests. will leave the pier at East Thirty
irst-st. at a. m. the day Of the regatta, and
NewRochelle at 1890 a. She will accompany the
yachts over the courses. and return the
landings after the race Is finished
DEER PARKS REGATTA.
An attractive programme has been prepared for
the annual regatta Of the Deer Park Yacht Club.
Of Deer Park, Long Island. which Is to be- sailed
on Saturday August II. The committee In charge
consists OF the following members: L. G. Rideout.
II. p Wheeler H. l. Humphreys John r. Crandall.
c. H. Russell Creswel Mclaughlin, C. w. Pierson
and j. A. Beckett: Special competitive prizes Will
be awarded in addition 10 those announced in the
regular programme.
ABOUT YACHTS AND YACHTsMEN.
The Greenvile Yacht Club. OF Greenville. y. J..
will have a special regatta this afternoon. which
will be sailed over the club courses. In the Upper
Bay, for prizes offered by the vcecommodore OF
the club. Many entries seem to assure an interest
clubhouse which is an old historic Colonial man
sion.
W. J. Mcpherson. Of the Excelsior zach, Club.
OF Brooklyn. has been presented by the Volunteer
Life Saving Corps. of this city with a handsome
bronze medal in honor OF his heroic Of five
persons from drowning through a yachting acc-
third life saving medal which has been presented
to Mr.. Mcpherson for gallant rescues Of mperiled
persons.
The Saturday afternoon and evening concerts at
the Seawanhaka Yacht Clubs spacious clubhouse,
oyster Bay. in charge Of committee consist
ing, OF George Bullock: Z. n. Townsend, r.. ca
the club and their many friends
night at the weli-apponed clubhouse Of the River
side Yacht Club, al Riverside. Conn The series OF
entertainments for the season has brought to-
tainments have been efficiently managed by the
House Committee. composed Of Charles r. Pierce
". A. Hamilton. C. f. Diefentheler and H. "
ing OF J. A. Oatwell. Edwin Bnney and William L.
"' Ex-commodore William II siarbuck. of the
American Yacht Club has started two weeks
cruise in his 1s7-foot yacht Te, which Is
one Of the fleet Of the New-york Yacht Club. He Is
accompanied by Mrs Starbuck and their children,
Ted Castle The yacht. which Is sailed by Cap
tain Healy will touch at intermediate ports be-
tween this city and Nantucket at which place ex-
Commodore starbuck passed his boyhood