The San Francisco call., 1899-09-30
GLADYS BEATS
DOLE'S YACHT
FOR HAWAII CUP
Corinthians Will Hand the
Challenge Trophy Over
to the ViCtorS.

Though the weather last Saturday after
noon was highly favorable to the San
Francisco challenger for the Perpetual
cup, ex-CommodOre w. N. Mccarthy, who
sailed the winning yacht, believes that
several minutes could be cut from her
time for the course. The Gadders sailing
time of hours IS seconds was good, being
2S minutes q seconds better than the time
made by the sloop Aeolus at the Corin-
THAN regatta on May 80 under similar
conditions The breeze last Saturday
however, was fresher than on May 80 and
there was less of the flood tide. The Cor
inthians are satisfied that the AeoluS can
beat the Gadder, but the season is 50 near
an end that there will be no opportunity
of pitting them against one another until
next year. After last SatW days race
some one said that if Mccarthy and Pew
exchanged yachts and raced again Nc
Carthy would win; but Mccarthy himself
has too high an opinion of Commodore
Pew's seamanship to feel sure of any such
outcome.
The Perpetual challenge cup will be
handed over to the San Francisco Yacht
Club at some early and convenient date.
There is certain to be a race for the cup
next year, as the Corinthians will not
rest content without putting forth their
best efforts to recover the lost trophy.
To-day and tomorrow are open dates
on the programmes of the San Francisco,
Encinal and California clubs. The Cor
inthians will cruise to McNears Landing
to-day, returning tomorrow; and the
South Bays will take an afternoon sail to-
morrow.
AT the last meeting of the directors of
the San Francisco Yacht Club ]. T. CAM
was elected a member, 1t was stated that
the ladies of Sausalito have social club,
which desires 10 be permitted to make
use of the clubrooms on week days, except
Saturdays and public holidays.
The South Bay Yacht Club will be the
last to close the season, their final clam
bake being set for November 12s The
yachts Muriel, Espee and Wanderer will
take. long, cruises up to Vallejo, Suisun.
the sloop Papoose and some other yachts
men propose to go out duck shooting be-
fore laying their boats by in winter QUAR-
ters, ducks being plentiful in the marshes
The Coykendalls have purchased boat
from the transport Sherman and propose
to turn it into a houseboat. They will
then tow 1t into the marshes of the San
Joaquin HlVer and use it for duck shoot
I; w, Hobrons sloop Gladys, which was
built in San Francisco from designs bv
V. d. Bacon of Massa chusetts and taken
to the Hawaiian Islands in the early part
OF TINS season., won the Hawaii cup on
september IL She led her most dangerous
competitor, President Dole'S Bonnie Dun
dee, from the start, and except on one
leg OF the course, when she was becalmed,
increased her lead continually to the finish
and won by % minutes 5 seconds from the
Bonnie Dundee which for the past ten
years has beaten all competitors in Ha-
waiian waters.
The Skipper, a weekly log of nautical
matters, published in London in its issue
VI september 13 quotes In full the article.
-, ~ achting in Hawaii, which appeared in
the august issue. of the Yacht. and also
gives dozen lines of notice TO the new
publication. From a comparison of the
Columbia and the Shamrock in the Skip
per 1t is shown that the over all length
of the Columbia is greater than that of
the Shamrock, but her extreme breadth
is slightly less The draught GO feet
inches) of both yachts is the same but
the wetted surface of the Shamrock (29l6
square feeD is greater than that of the
Columbia (2670 feeD. and the displacement
that of the Columbia Q45 tons) Allusion
IS made TO the great favor shown to Sir
Thomas Upton by the American press,
but no conjecture is haZarded as to the
results of the races between the chal-