The San Francisco call., 1899-09-10
BREEZES BLOW
TOO HARD FOR
SMALL YACHTS
AoIus OutfoOts All Competitors
in Her Class and Carries Off
the Fourth Macdonough Cup.

The fourth of the series Of five cups pre-
sented annually to the Pacific Interclub
1acht Association by J. NJ. Macdonough
was won yesterday by Carl Westerfeld
and X II. Morrows sloop Aeolus, this be-
ing the third Macdonough trophy carried
OIL by that speedy craft. In the thirty
siX-foot class E. F. Sagars sloop Edna
defeated her old rival, Z. n. Walter and
McLoughland brothers sloop Embla. by
the handsome margin of q minutes 9 sec
ondS, corrected time. In forty-fOur-fOot
class, F. f. Ames Ella defeated E. Dono-
noe S Speedwell, by minutes and 40 sec
ondS corrected time. Both boats carried
working sails only, and the Speedweu
towed small boat throughout the race.
At o clock yesterday morning there
was a piping breeze on the bay. so that
the twenty-footers Kittiwake Idler and
Petrol did not come over to the water
from Tiburon, but found the breeze So
stiff that she did not cross the starting
line. Among the twenty -hve-foOters Z.
W. HurndalPs Merope was the only
starter She covered the. short course
and will receive the class pennant. H 4.
Simpkins Mistral had been entered in the
twenty-five-foot class too late for her
name to appear in the list of entries. The
entry, however, was accepted, and she
put out from Tiburon, but did not reach
the starting line. In the thirty-foot class
there were six starters, but only three Of
these finished.
The race lost strong element of inter
est from the fact that j. w. Pew's Tru-
ant, the most dangerous rival of the
Aeolus, was put out of the contest few
minutes after crossing the starting line
The Aeolus came up to the line shortly
before the signal to start was given but
Stacked sheets and hovered along 1t, I'm
ally crossing it on the port tack only.
fifteen seconds after the whistle. Fifty
seconds later the Presto and the Amigo
went across, and five minutes after the
whistle Gorter's Sans Souci crossed. The
Truant and Mignon were the last to pass
over the line, about ten minutes late.
The Emma; on the port tack, bore down
upon the Truant on the starboard tack,
and getting her bowsprit entangled in the
Truants topping-lift, Slowed her round 80
that the Truant ran head on toward the
wharf. Fortunately she struck Kane
launch, which was moored alongside the
wharf obliquely, and her peak having
been quickly dropped, did herself little IL
This was the first of long chapter of
accidents. In giibing around Blossom
traveller from the mast and tore her main
sail. also retiring from the n race H a 4
was picked up by Frank Stones Presto.
Just after she had crossed the finishing
line a winner the Aeolus attempted to put
about, but had not enough sea room and
! fou1ed the wharf. She was soon cleared
having sustained no damage. A few min
utes later the Amigo. which had also COM
| pleted the course, was struck by a squall
! and carried violently against the Powell
street wharf, under which her bowsprit
/ passed The starboard bow struck the
piles with such force that the mast
Snapped off at about the middle, bringing
down all the standing rigging. Fortunate
! ly the broken mast hurt no one and as
soon as the sails, spars and running rig
ging had been pulled aboard the tug AlerG
came up and took her in tow.
The regatta was full of incident and pro-
vided plenty of sport to the spectators AMI
| a good deal of excitement to the yachts
men. Only eight boats finished, and of
these all but the Merope went over the
middle course estimated at fourteen nau-
tical miles. A. ]. Youngs sloop Clara was
the windward stakeboat and W. S. Grow
er's yawl Arcturus was the leeward stake
boat. The MerOpe sailed the short course,
reckOned at ten nautical miles. The full
results are shown in the annexed table: