The herald., 1896-08-22
IN THE WORLD OF SPORT
A New Era for Great Lake
YaChtSmen
AN INTERNATIONAL RACE
To Be Sailed Monday OF the Toledo
Coast
RACE
Sure Thing Against the
Crack Canadian Boat
Associated Press Special Wire.

TOLEDO, Aug. 21.-The international
race which will besailed over the Turtle
Light course off Toledo Monday next,
is doubtless the most pretentious regat-
ia ever scheduled for the inland lakes.
1t marks the beginning of an era in
yachting which promises to put the
sport on the lakes on footing with sail
ing on the sea coast. Vencedor was des
igned by Theodore Pockel and built last
winter by the Racine company to the
order of Bergman Brothers of Chicago.
especially for a race with the best boat
Canada could produce. Pockel was
formerly chief draughtsman for the
Herreschoffs and designed number
of the fastest yachts they have turned
out. The construction of the boat was
under the supervision of the designer.
Every stick of wood put into her passed
first under his scrutiny.
Vencedor Is a modern fin keel sloop
with racing measurement of As feet.
The original design was for boat u
trtie larger but the plan was changed
to meet the desires of the Canadians
who preferred to build one little less
than 45 feet.
once by Van Ness and once by Siren at
Cleveland, who had her first real race
and the way she walked away from the
cracks in that regatta gave her friends
confidence in her ability to bring back
to Chicago the international trophies.
Her proper place in that regatta was in
the 46-foot class, but it was noa part
of wisdom for the two international con-
testants to sail preliminary race, Can
ada being also in that class. So Vence-
dor went UP into higher class and left
Canada to compete with boats of her
own sailing length.
Vreda and Canada met early in the
season, when Canada outsailed the Vre-
da one minute and eight seconds. Vence-
dor beat Vreda at Cleveland twenty
seven minutes. The Canada is Scotch
boat, built expressly for this race. She
was got out on the other side and ship
ped in parts to Oakville. Canada. where
she was put together Her racing length
is bout AZ feet. Until the Canadians saw
Vencedor sail they felt their boat was
well nigh invincible She has been tried
thoroughly against Zelma and Vreda,
the two best boats in Canada She met
Zelma number of times under a va
riety of conditions and beat her in the
majority of their races. Zelma has long
been the crack Canadian boat She was
built by Fife to beat anything in her
class on the lakes. When the Canadians
accepted the challenge for an interna-
tional yacht race they ordered a boat
to beat Zema but so highly was this
hAo - L
to race her in case they wished to do So
The conditions of the race gave them
until q week before the race to name
their boat.
When the race was arranged 1t was
agreed that Vencedor would give the
Canadian defender double time allow
ance on her length over IS feet Her
length is few inches over the limit and
on this Canada will receive double time
allowance.
The races are to be best two in three
under the New York Yacht club rules,
with a few essential amendments. The
trophy to be sailed for is a cup valued a !,
$500. In addition to this the City of the
Straights Yacht club offered prize val
ued at $500, which is to go to the clup
II oii w illSn tit sIdll nan. HIS
latter. according to the conditions i'm
posed by the donors, becomes per-
petual inter-lalSe trophy. Besides these
prizes there is $500 cash donated by cit
izens of Toledo through the Interna-
tional Yacht Race committee.
The course over which the race will
be sailed is known as the Turtle Light"
course The starting point is a few
miles from Turtle light, where the boats
can have twenty-four feet of water.
On the first day triangular course Of
twelve knots will be sailed twice around,
one of the legs will be due to windward.
The course for the second day will be
straight away to leeward or windward
and return, the choice being given to the
winner of the first days contest. Should
it be necessary to sail a third race one
of these two courses will be selected, the
choice to depend upon the toss of a
coin.
If Vencedor wins the coming interna-
tional race her owners say they will be
ready to race any boat in her class from
Maine to Florida. The owners of the
Canada and Vencedor have agreed to
divide the $500 in gold offered by the
Toledo international Yachting associa-
tion, sixty per cent to the winner and
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