New-York tribune., 1898-09-25
YACHTING.
THE SHAMROCK IRISH IN NAME oYfn

SKIPPER AND CREW TO BE ENGLISH. IT rs sam.
PROPOSED scANTLING RULE FOR
THE CUP RACES.
Almost every week since the challenger sb.-
rock was announced as an Irish boat news has A.,
rived tending to show that her representation a.
the Emerald Isle will be chiefly in idea. The s,..
cabegrams said that the challenger would be A.
signed by an Irshman. sailed by Irish SKIM.
and worked by an Irish crew Then 1t appears6
that Fife would be practically the creator Of ths
craft which would certainly have Of m.
prckles OF the Scotch Thistle. Then the English
racing skipper Hogarth. who often fooled tbs
Isolde through to victory. was said to be likely to
hold the stick Finally. 1t is learned that the crew
to work the vessel will be highly trained gang OF
English sailors TO off the Iverna Mr.. Jams.
sons well-known racer: and thus the supposedly
Hbernian character of the craft dwindes 10 a
cipher. The fact that the Shamrock Will be put
together In Belfast matters little. The last inter-
national racer that Fife designed had her frames
packed in crates and shipped to Canada
where she planked over and received the lead
keel that was cast at Oakve. ont. There was
never any contention that this boat which proved
a winner the Toledo races, was Canadian. She
was called the Canada merely because she repre-
sented that country. though from the fact that her
crew was composed Of Toronto amateur yachtsmen
! the boat had perhaps a better right TO be called
Canadian than the Shamrock will have to be called
| Irish. ,,. .,,
struction in the coming challenger "a. ana defender
! "Mr Fife will be less handicapped by the differ
ence between the New-York machine and his own
the the same difference may exist between the
/ defender and the Valkyrle III. but this might
sppaIIer pfI vachts II is said that Commodore Nor
! gan the head OF the American syndicate Is IN
favor OF building more supsrast az ,,n, man ,ns
hat he
! do some racing with us. But, then: we read that
the Defende, herself is to be rebuilt Tor me pur:
nnse of competing in the trial races. IL Is. OF
oSrse poSr roo great result to expect from such
/ challenge as that OF Sir Thomas Upton tnat
s1onied by both Countries for the purpose Of cup
races but a golden opportunity exists TOT sacn
suggestion II so prominent yachtsh'ah as Non'
modore Morgan is In its favor.
TUE CRAFT AND THOSE WHO SAIL THEM.
! Ono ~ the last regattas OF the season Will also
no the first OF the new Flushing Bay Yacht Club.
and will be held to-day off the new CLUB premises
at North Beach. In the evening hreWorKs ana
dancing will celebrate the opening OF the clun
Among the entries announced last night were COM
I uodore l. W Rice's Fawn; the Senator. owned by
| Commodore A. Protzman; the Jessica, owned
hy Rear-Commodore W. c. Ewing; the lie Roy.
" II Slecher: the Trident, 7. Brown. the Alma,
I McAIllster: the Olympia. oscar Reed; the lnno-
cent J. Rawlinson; the Plrate' - ",i.ian, ,s ss
Ioene Parker and Mckenze,; ne the ay ans SVy!
sha shan "1e ne tIcnridtta A. J. Brush and the I'm.
known. c. Ahlborn.
r Johnson. OF the New-York Yacht Club, has
bought the soop Minerva
Mr.. and Mrs John G. Beresford have been cruis-
Ing in Chesapeake Bay In the steam yacht Hell
vetia which belongs to the fleet OF the New-fork
Yacht CUB
The steam yacht Free Lance has gone back 10
her original conditions as a yacht, and Is now
! cruising eastward on the Sound with her owner.
| F. A. Schermerhorn Of the New-fork facht Cluo.
The schooner Ariel, which chartered from
| George Hlll by W. f. Iselin. has gone out OF COM
mission and has been towed to her old quarters at
NcGowan's yards TO be laid up for the winter
The steam yacht Elsa. with F. L. Thomas, OF the
New-York Yacht Club, is s cruising.
IIovd Phoenix OF the New-York Yacht Club is
coming west from Boston on the three-fhaS'ed aux
Hilary Intrepid
Rear-Commodore Henry A. Van Lew. OF the
seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. has just re-
turned from a cruise In his steam yacht Acuilo
General Adelbert Ames and Mrs. Arnes have
sailed from Montauk Point In the celebrated
schooner yacht America and have called a. tne me
yard Haven the way TO EdgartoNh Whete ''e'
will stop few days before goins on 10 BOSTON,
The schooner yacht Coronet. owned by D. Wills
James and A. Curtis James. OF the Seawannaka
Corinthian Yacht club. has returned to New-fork
from cruise eastward.
The steam yacht Marion registered in the name
OF Nathaniel Witherel OF the New-fork Yacht
club and now being used by the Waldorf-Astori
Hotel has been making some pleasant SNORT
cruises in the neighborhood OF New-forK'
The former skipper of Frederick Gallatins yacht
Almy Captain Brickley. is i'll with malarial fever
at his home in Brooklyn. He has lately been IN
charge OF the military transport Port |ictor
The steam yacht Narada. owned by Henry wall
,ers. has arrived at New-York after long ao-
fau go
where she first fetched up after her long sail from
Gibraltar TO avoid capture by Spain. the Nsrsda
has since the beginning OF the war, remained Sc
cure I'm a Mediterranean port. Since her arrival az
| Newport she was greatly admired by the members
| of the Upton Challenge COMMITTEE VINO ''s''eo
her.
William X Vanderbilt, the owner OF the largest
American steam yacht. the Valiant. OF the New
| York Yacht Club has arrived the Plraeus Inc
yacht Is now moored in the harbor while the par"
visits Athens
. Commodore Henry Clark Rouse. OF the seawan'
, haka Corinthisn Yacht Club. intends TO take long
cruise In his schooner roquois. He Will visit rOro
Rico and other West Indian ports. and the yacnt IS
now at McCiowans yards fitting out for the voyage
George w. Childs Drexel and Mrs. Drexel nave
called in at Halifax on their steam yacht Aeeu''
OF the New-York Yacnt Club. IL was SAID tha' ".
party intended to go on as FAR as taoFSuO' S rniss
would not return unit! November. aiter Is - Ma
ber ien~tbened afty feet al the yards OF Harlan
. Holingsworth. at Wilmington. Del
The auxiliary bark Hildegarde. owned by Rear
Commodore Benjamin Morris Whitlock OF the a"
lantic Yacht Club. is now on a cruise oo"" Wv
Sound
The seventy-,oot schooner Rebecca. which was
,o,,uv wrecked through striking the Delaware
Breakwatcr last Tuesday night. was a fast Vesse'
: considering her age. When Frederick NJ Haus'i"s'
of the New-York Yacht club. had her Tor one '.
two years about lsol-92. she beat the N'a'0, ~ a.