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

NO LONGER A CLASS PAsTIME IN AMER
ICA AND ENGLAND.
NECESSARILY FREE FROM UNHEALTHY TEN
pENCIEs. IT IMPROVES ITS DEvoTEES MEN
TALLY AND PHYSICALLY AND j.
wELLsPRING OF vIRIITY-AN
ENTHUSIASTS REVIEW

Yachting has ceased 10 be class pasiime in
America The introduction Of cheap racers and
cruisers has brought the sport within the reach
# almost ev-rV one There time, not so
very long ago. when the man who could pay for
q huge yacht and wildly expensive crew was
a little god. He did not have 70 know how 10
sail his craft. All n had TO do was 10 wear
brass buttons and pay the bills. To-day mat
Kind Of a yachtsman is scarce With one or
iwo exceptions his name has not appeared in
the racing Of the last few years. This year ne
has been a back number The men who race
and Cruise their own yachts have the call
And the crews who work well on the racers
come in FOR a goodly share Of notice. even
though they never owned a boat. The men who
can have the spinnaker in place alnlos, before
he racer has completed the swing ~ her gybe
needs no brass buttons nor bank account. All
~ wants is guernsey duck trousers and u
fine sense Of the necessary. And to-day when
gods are scarce he Is reported 10 be all right
r be all right in his Yacht racing is about
a. far as any man can get nowadays That
means tina, ne can do his work on a boat and has
10 nonsense about him; is thoroughly demo
cratic when meeting friendly con petitOrs while
On shore. and does no: Think himself 50 altitude
nous that conversation must be A condescensior
IN his part. IL he could not appreciate il in
iuitvely n has been forced 20 find out that In a
bright active. go-ahead racing community he
has no more value than his ability a yachts
man Will give him.
That is the main difference between the old
ami the modern yachting. and in the best in
'erests OF the sport the results Of the last
i've years have pu; yachting ability at It's true
worth. while discountenancine the d-time
deihcation of money. Hundreds buy yachting
materials now, where formerly only one bought
Designers. builders ship chambers and al! those
who supply yachts with either food or tackle
nave appreciated the fact that there are thou
sands more IN the yschng circles nov than
'he'e We're 10 the old time. All these people are
'a!ing due attention TO the man Of the smaller
Vra' His orders are not as big AZ the mill
''haire's used 10 ne. but he is counted by thou
sands. ana in his multiplicity ne pays best
"o'n IN trade and socially the Dedication o: the
Individual Cresus has therefore lost caste in the
'"ohtlng world. and. although there y still IN
So'ne Quarters peculiar adulation whenever
millionaire handles a filler II Il well known
,ns' ne does MOI ask for ii and does not want H.
'"c true yachismen wants nothing more than
'S que no matter what his bank account may
"e and the best proof O. the change in the spirit
u he times Is the fact that d report of a yacht
race which deals solely with the extraordinary
'"eht OF rich man. 10 the exclusion OF the
'-ai skill Of others Is laughed at IN every yacht
N'uo on The Atlantic Coast. The truth is thai
'""I IN Yacht racing. ard ;he report mat
a" appreciate and mention that skill. If all
'"a' yachtsmen viii accept. They are in the
Npor' TOY sport. for hard manly work that taxes
80 muscle. for excitement al every turn OF
~ game Tor the fling Of the water ana Inc
~ oi the ship, and when one man can Keep
A'' mead cool and pick the best place when four
'"''s are swinging TO the buoy. then ne
WINS 'heir respect. and they want 10 hear II