The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-27
WHITE SAILS ON THE FOURTH.
MANY ENTRIES FoR ISLE OF HOPE
REGATTA.

Course for the First Three Glasses
Will BE Nineteen and a Half Miles.
Fifteen Miles for Fourth Glass
BOats-Additions TO the List of En-
tries Are Being Made DaiIy-The
Sailing Regulations Have Been
Agreed Upon-The COntestlng
Yachts VIII he the Greater Part of
the Time in Full View of the Spec
tafOrs Ashore.
The agreed course for the regatta of
the Isle of Hope Yacht Club on July 4
has of late received some triAing altera-
tons and measurement has demonstrated
that it is something longer than was
originally thought.
The course for yachts of the first, Sec
ond and third classes will be from a line
opposite the club house TO a stake boat
anchored off Joe's cut and return to the
starting point, distance of nineteen and
half miles. For the fourth class the
course Will be from the line opposite the
club house TO a stake boat off the mouth
of Isle of Hope river, to and around a
stake boat anchored off Estill point. back
to the stake boat off the mouth of Isle of
Hope river and return TO the starting
point, distance of fifteen miles.
The time limit in all of the races will
be seven hours, which, with a fair breeze,
it is thought will be not more or much
more than half consumed. After the fir
ing of the starting gun, there viii be
three minutes allowed for crossing the
liFan 81 10 mi.
Will be an interval of five minutes between
each of The classes. The prizes in each
of the races will be SIS and $40.
Entries for the races may be made by
any club member to the secretary, Mr..
Wallace Fretwell, at his office, corner
Bull and Bay streets, at any time up to
II O'Clock noon of the day preceding the
race, at which hour the entries will be
closed. The secretary win also furnish
blanks upon which The entries may be
made and such further particulars in re-
gard to time allowances and regulations
as owners of yachts who may contemplate
entering may desire.
The sailing committee requests that all
yachts be at the Grub house by o'clock
of the morning of the race for the purpose
of measurement and as the races viii start
promptly at II, all boats not measured by
1880 must necessarily be barred out-and
will be. Captains are directed 10 report 10
the sailing committee at the club house at
10 o'clock, for the purpose of receiving
numbers instructions and sailing Tegu.a-
tons.
The yachts. that have already been en-
tered are the Ecie r., Yum Yum, Leader,
Neomie and Star. in the first class, Vivid
and Lady Babbie IN the second class, lone,
Imp, Mischief, Undine, Meta w, and Ras-
tus in the third class, and the Aimee and
Olivette, in the fourth class.
No steamer will follow the races, as
the course has been so arranged that two
thirds of the time the yachts will be in
full view from the club house, and the
banks of the river and the committee on
entertainment thinks that greater pleasure
viii be given by watching the contests
from the shore than from the crowded
decks of a steamer in which opinion it is
perhaps not altogether wrong. The schoon-
er yacht Peter w. Jackson has been des-
ignated as the flag ship for the day, and
will follow the races with the officers of
the cub, the judges and the members of
the sailing committee aboard.
In the matter of dancing there will as
suredly be enough for even the most en-
thusiastic lover of the Terpsichorean art,
as the entertainment committee has ar
ranged for the presence and physical eX-
ertions of Rosenfeld's orchestra, between
the hours of II O'Clock In the morning and
effort to assure the comfort and pleasure
of the guests of the club and the con-
venient proximity of the restaurant of
Messrs. Barbee & Bandy affords an OPP
portunity for the refreshment of the inner
man. Other sports than the sailing races
are contemplated by the committee, and 1t
is possible may be introduced during the
day. About these there has yet been no
definite decision.
The list of entries given as already
made does not at all include the full num-
Der. Yacht owners have a week yet in
which to make their entries, and the sec
rotary of the club expects that before the
expiration of this time the number will be
very largely increased Additions are
made daily. and the club members conf
IDENTIFY believe that their regatta will be
the largest, in point of the number of sail
ing craft that are to be entered and Will
sail the races, that Savannah has ever
known The course has been well selected,
and is just sufficiently difficult to give an
opportunity for good work with the rud-
der and sails. so that the regatta should
present an exhibition Of nautical skill and
experience that will make it interesting
to all who have an opportunity to be on