The San Francisco call., 1899-10-14
WHITE WINGS
WILL SOON BE
SNUGLY FOLDED
Closing Days Of the Yachting
Season Are Close at
Hand.

The victory of the Gadder has produced
! one excellent result for the san FRANCISCO
! Yacht Club. no fewer than twenty-one
persons four or five Of whom are Iadles'
/ having handed in their names for mem
/ bership since September %. Though ths
! Corinthians were naturally disappointed
/ at the defeat of the Truant they bore the
misfortune like true sportsmen. The
/ change of possession of the Challenge cup
will be a good thing for yachting and Will
aid materially in building up the San iran
cisco Club. 1t will also add greatly 10 the
interest of the yachting season OF 19OO'
for the Corinthians will try their hardest
! to recover the trophy. and the Gadder VIII
make strong bid for next years Mac
dOnough cup.
Last Sunday evening there was a warm
north wind which induced most of the
yachtSmen at Sausalito to breakfast
ashore. At s a. m. the clubhouse gun was
| fired and the officers flags and burgess
were run up to the masthead. Several OF
| the Corinthian and California yachtsmen
| who had come over for the presentation
on Commodore T. i. Hill on board the flag
ship Cygnus. Toward II o'clock the fleet
got under way at signal from Coming
Clay saluted and bade his hosts farewell,
then set his course for Oakland Creek.
Off Goat Island the breeze fell light, but
the California yachts Pactolus, Embla.
Idler and Surf after some delay made
their moorings: The San Francisco and
Gorinthian yachts moved up to Paradise
schooners Ramona, Chispa and Lurline,
the yawls Tramontana and Arcturus and
the sloOps Cygnus, AeoluS Thelma, Phoe-
way last Sunday.
G. T. s. White, ex-vice commodore of.
the San Francisco Yacht Club, has sold
equipment, and for the first time in sew
eral years owns no boat of any sort.
This afternoon the Tiburon fleet will
cruise to Corinthian Cove, and tonight
choWder supper, prepared under the dtrec-
tion Of Port Captain John H Keefe, will
be served on the beach Tomorrow the
postponed from September II are sched-
uled 10 take place. As the yawl Kitti-
wake and the sloop Doris are the only
half-raters available the small-yacht re-
gatta will probably fall through. There
may, however, be some rowing races, and
there will certainly be a baseball game
cies, the former captained by ''Keegan
Schober and the latter by Fancy"
Thornton OF the last four annual base
ball games each nine has won two. The
Corinthians will give a closing jinks next
Saturday, the 21st inst. at the clubhouse,
but the reception which has in some for
mer years been given in the afternoon will
be abandoned. The Encnals and San
Franciscos will close on the same day.
On Sunday, the 22d, the last cruises in
squadron will be taken.
The handsome schooner yacht Jessie,
formerly owned by j. NJ. Macdonough and
sold some time ago to be used as pilot
boat on the Columbia River, is to be en-
ployed in halibut fishing on the banks off
Cape Flattery and Cape Fox.
The South Bay Club has postponed its
regatta till the spring of 1900 on account
of the prevailing light winds. The yachts
men around Alviso are having great sport
spearing the leopard sharks which come
up to the shore after the crabs. A. c.
Eaton of the sloop Feu Follet recently
speared several which were about four
feet long and weighed fifty pounds each.
The sharks destroy many small fish.
Commodore II. A. Spencer's schooner
Muriel is being repainted.