The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-19
SEASONS FIRST YACHT RACE.
Held Under Auspices of City Point
 Yacht Club.

The first yacht race of the season was held yesterday under the auspices of the
 City Point Yacht club. It was to have been held on Saturday, but unforeseen
 circumstances intervened, and with true yachtsmanlike spirit the members, una-
 ble to resist the invitation held forth by the magnificent breeze that was blow ing, held the event yesterday afternoon.
 The face started sharply at i o'clock. The judges were George Ashton Kay of 1 Brooklyn, Thomas McCluskey, James
 Swift, John Spear and A. Endriss. 1 Promptly al o'clock these men signi- 1 fled their readiness and the first gun
 was fired. As It's echoes died away the
 first boats, those in the sloop class,
 crossed the line, the Stranger, owned by
 Gus Marshall, sliding across first. Af-
 ter her came the Handy Andy owned 1 by Andrew McQueeny; the Nellie, own | ed by Charles Stevens, and the Paula, l owned by Clarence Eaton, The Nellie
 had Just crossed when she met with a
 misfortune, some of her main halyards breaking and compelling her retirement from the race to the great disgust of
 her owner and his guests. The other IlHte DUtllS, LUNGNcI, Wltll liG duNll- tage of a splendid start, started off on the first tack to the Beach buoy with hardly any distance between them.
 Class c, for catboats, had no entries.
 but in class D a few minutes later, at
 another sound of a gun came the swift
 jb and mainsails Florence B., owned
 by Frank Simmons; Egeria, xCommo-
 dore Barnes; Daisy Bell George Ad-
 ans; Tarra, Edward Ritchie, and Mo-
 IA, owned by Edward McQueeny. Class
 E, for sharpies, came next, with the Et-
 ta, owned by William Smith; Mary,
 James Morency; Fiirt Henry Eaton;
 and Lucretia. Class F started the fol-
 lowing sharpies. Agnes F., Robert Pat
 terson; Alice, Charles Pond; Libbie A.
 and Pop, Frank Miller.
 At 4:10 all had crossed the line and
 were strung out and tacking in differ ent directions making a pretty sight with their white, swiftly moving sails gistenng In the sun. The main inter est in the race now became the contest between the soops. In this Handy An dy and Stranger furnished one of the evenest and most exciting contests yachtsmen present had seen in many a day. The course to be covered was three-mile triangular one in front of the club house. Starting from the stake boat 1t was a beat to windward, to the Beach buoy, thence before the wind up the harbor to a buoy off Long wharf thence a beam wind to the judges boat This course had to be covered three times by classes B and F and two times by the others the distance for the for mer being nine miles. The course show ed up the qualities of the two leading boats in splendid style. On the beat to Windward the Handy Andy was easily 1 the strongest, outdistancing her compet- | itor in fine style. Before the wind, how ever, the Stranger seemed without a | peer and almost made up whatever time | she lost while on the wind. Three times | the two boats sailed over the course, by 1 the evenness of their contest affording | great delight to the spectators, many of | whom, but for the day, would have bet on the result. On the final run for the post Handy Andy led by a quarter of mile, but the Stranger, with every sail drawing, was rapidly overcoming the lead. The former held first place, how aver, and crossed fifteen seconds ahead )f the stranger. The corrected time, however, and time allowance gave the race to the Stranger by eight seconds. The Stranger covered the course in lour 13 minutes and 2S seconds.
 In class D ex-Commodore Barnes boat Egeria crossed the line winner by minutes and 20 seconds, having cover sd the nine miles in 1 hour 25 minutes md 20 seconds. No. IA, owned by Ed ward McQueeny, came in second, but he race went to the Daisy Bei,on time allowance The contest between the ;harpies was also brisk and exciting, he winners being Flirt Mary and Etta. n class F the Alice was awarded first 1rize, Agnes P. second and Pop third. The prizes offered were: First taffrail og: seconds, gold pocket compass hird, handsome silver cup. The awards were made by George Ashton Kay of Brooklyn, who offered the prizes. MT. Kay, who is thorough yachtsman, is | member of the City Point and New Haven Yacht clubs and the owner of the lew racing knockabOut Cora.