New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-11

! me Who'e OF tins goes TO show the changed
views OF later days All these thousands of
! wet excited yecntsmcn who are still on the
! culver from their last close call. what do they
| want to know about the rich man who steered
| his boat with paid professional al his elbow
! ell through the race telling him what 10 40
! These conditions. now to be witnessed al
! every regatta, are the best that have eyer been
| known in this country. The regattaa have to
be visited to learn how things stand, because
| the true facts not made apparent 10y pub
| fishing Institutions that deal solely with the
! yachting that is backed by much money This
| includes comparatively few Of all the thousands
! VINO sail in The ways above referred to-the null
| utudes who form the backbone and sine" OF
Yachting in America II general managers or
| proprietcrs of big newspapers would personally
attend some regattas. .hen hard sailing yachts
| men would get what hey want. and the fax
| ing with the name Of millionaire would cease
to pass for yachting report.
In this country. as in England, yacht racing
began in the contests of small trading vessels
whose shippers being human. had pride Of hoat
| in them BEING Dutch English ana latterlY.
Scandinavian. they al came from the most mari
time portion Of the Old World and To trace the
; beginnings Of the sport on this continent would
be as difficult a. 10 get date FOR the first
eating Of eggs No doubt the boats that came
! over with Raleigh raced. The Dutch craft that
left their hereditary imprint on our hudson
River sloops and schooners doubtless raced
through the blue storms whom iendrih Hudson
and his merry crew were playing nlnepns III
the Catskills and there has this summer been
interesting return 90 the old times Wheh
the Atlantic Yacht club gave races !" ''
working boats. when smacks, fruiters ana clam
mers contested once again and reproduced some
thing Of our EARL ST yachting
II boVsye- no aid i'm general
that the sport was not sufficiently important 10
leave it's mark in history until lN'l. Wh"n thr
schooner America Went over to- CoNes ana Won
a cup that has since become The most c'N'iel
trophy Of the sportsmen world. Tn" STORY ol
that cup has been too often told to pear iepcU-
ton in any sef-respcctng narrative. and per
hans the most interesting points are brought
forward in the question What has the Amer
ica's cup done FOR American Yachting
INFLUENCE or THE AMERICAS CUP
Now the really best thing about the Americas
cup It'll remains 20 ice written in history. 50
that IT cannot Ice written here. From the time
Of Daniel down 10 date good prophecy mas
been generally preferred to history and il needs
but little insight into the probabilities 10 o'N1Hr
that the best work Of the Americas cup mas
not vet been put in Evidently lis real mission
is that Of a peacemaker-to bring two peoples
together and mix them up TIN they find that
neither Is unpleasant as A. hrSt believed
The history Of the Americas cup bdS hrtH
written in vinegar and gall Ant one VINO mas
travelled on an excursion steamer Al an ll'i
national race know that dislike ana nos I"'"
for sport brought out a least uine-tcnths ~ ID"
sixty thousand that riewed the contest u was
a hate faueht in the schools as natural ana
strengthening as mothers milk and from cos
m,poitan point of view rather funny. h"ca Use
the cosmopolitan was the only man who knew
that neither nation VAS as bad d. painted. lh~
big trophy seems bound o. max" stranger kh""
each other eventually. ana through aCluaini-
anoe bring IN mutual respect ana IN" alliances
born ~ similar desires which are not r.G uc'd Z"
words or rules
That j. the history y the Americas Cup-De-
ginning in continuous strife aud 10 end ~ tn"
valuable. And that s where the vast majoriiies
Of American yachtsmcn. the hard sailing multi
tudes before referred 70. VIII make thcr IN
iuence felt.
safety first speed afterward. The entire North
American Yacht Racing Union. with its hundred
and nine clubs extending from the Atlantic i'
the Pacific is built on one principle, that thc>
insist "a equal conditions and the production -
ski They will not allow weakly constructed
racers 10 come into their classes Of safely built
craft and carry away prizes through possessing
Il lightness Of construction that brings an undu"
ADVANTAGE and cN ceeds the limits Of safety.
The mission to England last winter was based
on n is idea Tho North American Union pro
posed % Ensland 10 have the construction 90
Yachts regulated by law in regard 20 th"'r
strength. SO 10 shut oui tho boat that wins
before she starts by reason - her structural
ADVANTAGES. Tho proposal when understood.
met with favor and The movement I'm both
countries continues 10 forge ahead IL has been
hinted that future challenges viii boz framed on
similar IDEAS and that p construction control
will BE- agreed on that Will remove the disad-
vantage that challenges "Xpcrlenc" when neces-
sarily built strongly enough 10 cross the ocean.
such a proposal would be- in line with the con
victions Of the North American Yacht Racing
Union. in which yachtsU"n believe IN skill ana
good modelling. but not N winning through an
advantage which the other boat cannot possess
This view has gained ground since the opinion
" Naval Constructor Hobson was published ia
The Tribune 10 show that the Defender probd-
bfV saved seventeen tons Of dead weight, as
compared with the last Nalkyrie. through using
aluminium instead o. wood In The building of her
upper works
WHY TIE PASTiME rs KEPT CLEAN
one charm about yachting IS that Il IS. first
and foremost p gentleman's game. and seems
70 pronise to continue So forever 1t has never
descended into the "hippodronng" stages 20
which rowing. splendid sport, has sometimes
come # is petty well outside the power - the
sporting manager. who can take rover. ~ a
horse or a track runner, who Will win or not
according the way the manager mas ar
ranged his book. Empires are not bought In tn"
ordinary Yacht racing. and. with the exception
Of an occasional small wager 10 make man
suffer for his TOO bigoied opinions. betting may
he said to be almost unknown. \ sport never
becomes vice unless ms results can pe man
aged and IN a yachts crew there are too many
Witnesses 10 make fraud reasonably safe In
the one case where fraud was practsed the
rao oave away the whole story That
,he ,pper lakes when Yacht won about
tvontv-scyen cups by shifting ballast. against
the rules, ana cAiIElhE tIup.upsni "uIn
hoats OF equal power wer" down 20 thelf cahn
windows and single reefed But mat was tWrn-
,v-Nve wears ago and the ike OF II mas never
been known since. Several amateurs sailed In
,hot boat and must have Wnked al the cheat
ing which said al that time 10 nave o.
curred on more than one racer, ana Ola memo
yee serve to emphasize the fine moral tone that
now pervades all Yachting ciubs from nag |"
cellar ,, -, .......t.,. ,.,..
p'or The writing 4 this article the question mas
heep asked: What ought 10 be done 10 improve
ms SNORT? and the answer Is thai the Yachts
49,, ,ho,,sel.es arc doing everything to this
rrd mat lies in their power. Under thelr best
thought the sport Is going steadily ahead cthl-
ca,l, ncvsicalIv lnd IN every other way that