New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-26
TT WAS THE COLONIA'S DAY.
THE EMERALD DEFEATED AT LARCH'
MONT NEARLY FIFTEEN MINUTES

FINAL DAY OF THE LARcT0ioNr YACHT ol0D'
RACING WEEK BREEZY succEss-riiE Ell
srMAR1n WINS FROM TEE VETERAN
RAMONA. WHILE THE DRAGON
Turns THE TABLES ON THE
ACusHLA ANOTHER
VICTORY FOR THE
pAPRIKA.
vos,ord,v WAS Colonia Day at Larchmont' ana
az well It was the final day OF the race "ee $50
Iarchmont Yacht Club. whose wa'er-iroh'eo -,
.y.rcbmont Manor has been filed with ro'ioN
,re crowd OF members all the week inesc CO..
1870, nava made the night vocal with so"e'
90 ,okes and each day NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
round OF sport and fun or course ,sooIv
nresumed that the house festivities WEI.
IN the hands Of the Rocking CHAIR RECT ou1 Wv -.
,s suspicion abroad that certain sen'ien'"" ~
~ uoys allude as the cantor has peen
o,s,hIe in a large degree for the perfecuoh Vi
the interior arrangements. This is Ausus''''
roo the chairman of the House commune
valued trustee of the organization nv ' .,o.
,vorled harder for the success OF the "eeN .
the trio composing the Regatta comm :,
:, rove,ov chairman; Otto Sarony ana hehi! -
Northumberland vote OF thanks sno''u
..,r,v no etxended the yachtsmen and yacht-owheis
who contributed their time ana eheIss !" Wv
days of racing and miscellaneous Sport -
nd
C,or,a dav Friday was OF the Kinu oi u"S'
tina, carry chips around their shoulders SO u
sneak looking for trouble md the Gilman '"
On Friday night. There ere hea's VIM or,
sea but the yachtsmen we're not 10 De e"uen'
manning. The most of the large boats whicn "eie
$50 or loss exposed either went down TO Whi'e-
80. or crossed over and sought the shei'erHns
denths Of Hampstead Harbor. Ihe poa's VI "7
draft that could get we'll inside OF Larciiiii'n' ~
Dor were as snug as could be oesire"' CIV" ~
trouble Yesterday morning. however eve" ''ooo
which had temporarily absented themselves W.
=, bana bright and early and when the yach'she"
began TO gather the veranda. ana 10 IAN ~
curing looks through the big telescope 'ne oon'S
were lined up along the outer edge OF 'ne "'' 10,
as hare and innocent looking as though the! n'u
not deemed il necessary 10 ny ''0iA' ''
drifting lee shore
RIOW1NG TWENTY MILES AN HOUR.
A. tho hours of morning advanced toward noon
tho gray sky broke showing the sun al intervals
md as might have been expected from the ohai
acter of the weather the preceding ua!' '"e "i
was northwest and blowing clean twenty i'''o'
NJ more An hour. 1t day 10 MAKE 'i'e HV"''
NJ the men on the Colonia rejoice ana they sho"eu
f. The small boats carried double anu ''p
refed nainsails and the big fellows had no use Ior
club topsans until the third round OF the course
was more than half completed. Then 'he Ooioi'''
and the Emerald took advantage OF the hsh'ehiiis
at- ora took 10 the clubs The attendance upon
not what IL Sho"'N
STEERING the promise Of exciting features promised
y, ,h. driving wind Yet there more than
to,r snrinkng of steam yachts covering the course
Commodore John II. Hanan followed the race OF 'he
Acushla and Dragon with party or lrlehus vi
his yacht the Emilia. The Narada was aoroa"' d.
also the Anita. the Unpuowa. the Duqueshe tie
Parthenia, and any NUMBER OF iauii0"e' "'
steam or naphtha.
The courses signalled TO the racers were three IN
number That for the schooners was from the
starting line east northeast three miles 10 N'e
White Spar Buoy off Rye Neck; thence souti
three and seven-eghths miles TO the buoy OF t'eu
Strings Point inside the easternmost edge of Hemp
stead Harbor and thence northwest, three anu
seven-eighths miles to the home mark the course
IN no sailed over three times. The sloops ana
thirty-footers also covered the same course Twice
round and the others took the yet shorter cruz
course While some Of the boats falled 10 Hlish
there were no mishaps to rigging. One unfor-
,unafe incident cast a little shadow. The nagshp
of the club the Ramona. had just crossed the me
uhen there came a rousing call from her decks
for the doctor. who was aboard the committee
bunt The call came from Commodore Glihg III
person. A boat sent out ana as the !dc"'
hauled on the wind and came about TO return 10
the mark the Esemarie. which had arranged
special match with the black shooner, swept by
There was a hasty call. and as hasty an answer
and J. Berre King ordered his boat about, dechn-
ing with true sportsmanlike spirit TO take so I'M
fair an advantage. IT found that MI eaDie-
mo ~ the guests had injured one of his hands
IN fact In response to hail. the answer was re-
turned that he had lost finger. But the poatS
were Immediately started again. and were still que
q, the mark when the committee launch left the
tug for the late train. The Ramona ana the hso
MARE had arranged special race, wherein the
latter was to allow the hagship five minutes lhere
was also special race between the UVlra ana 'he
Iris the former allowing eight minutes. Inc
WASP and the Norota had private arrangement
likewise by which the former gave her contestant
twenty minutes. The direction OF the wihd hlaue
the course a reach on the port tack 10 'he ou'e'
mark a run to the second and a beat dead 10
vindward for the home marx Ihese cohui'ioi'
remained unchanged
PREPARATORY SIGNAL SOUNDED.
The nreparatory signal was sounded from the tug
inst at II 80 o'clock and five minutes later the start
ing whistle awoke the slumbering echoes. just
twenty-five seconds later the Colonia surged past
the mark float on the port tack. She was under All
working canvas and heeled over under the Weisht
az n aif so that her cenreboard was almost visible
The AmOrita followed at 1896 for no par.cu Ma
reason other than the expressed uesit ~ 81 W.
Brokaw be caught mapping by any a Sd sbe
ent entry IN neT eds as round but not until she
had made no end OF trouble for the EmeTaid on Ine
run asd 70 H sas God he Emerald crossed at
Handicapped and holding her maintopsa IN ss1 ,i =
great breadth Of her bright green bottom exposed
to the SUM- Skipper Maxwell must have been 6 weai
was more than half mile away. With every sal.
and rope and spar shoueted clean ana GEAR aeds
a horizon warm with the flaming glory OF gen MAJ
sum- she offered picture for poet or pau 80
the skipper Of the Emerald being neiher douD1ess
did not look upon her in the idealZed aspect.
Catch her. As well try enmesh the spirit OF me
wind that was husiling the Emerald along 10 her
final Overwhelming defeat .o.-
The Ramona finally crossed the line al 1852,
followed by the Elsemarie at II so OIL and bore away
after their sister craft the remaining BOATS OF a.
classes crossed the line in the following order: me
Wasp the Cymbria the Infanta. the Norota the
VIVA the Acushla the Dragon. the Livls. the Nj
nita the Vo.swag the Eos, the Hyale, the Goblin,
the Presto, the Vaquero. the Edna, the Weasel,
the Loyalty the Quantuck. the Molly Bawn
End the Dolly Punched as they were and
With the Hyale baked the wind, some