New-York tribune., 1900-07-29
YACHTING.
MANY STARTERS IN LAST DAY OF
LARCHMONT REGATTA-THE
RESULTS.

RESULTS.
The popularity of the Larchmont race week
shown yesterday by the fact that at the end OF
the seven days Of racing there were no less than
ffty-eight starters. Owing to the doubtful char
acter of the recent breezes the Regatta Committee
wisely sent the yachts short courses. In this
way, although the wind light, the finishes
were made at reasonable hour. leaving sufficient
time for yachts from neighboring harbors TO SAIL
home before dark. This gave more satisfaction
than that persistent cinging to scheduled course
distances which in some regattas has kept men out
far longer than they wished The general tendency
OF this years racing Is to insist on short courses
and early finishes. AS fact, the majority Of races
are practically decided in the first round OF the
course, and the second and third rounds are often
a mere repetition Of the first Yesterday the large
yachts assigned to a ten and three-quarter
mile course-from the Larchmont floats to Red
Springs Point buoy, then to a mark OF Parsonage
Point on the north shore.
The starting OF the larger classes began at n:S5
a. rn and the schooners then got their signal but
a number of vessels In the different classes crossed
the line long time after their respective signals
The list Of yachts which were thus delayed Is as
follows: Katonah delayed "a minutes: yawl Spin
drift "a minutes; the knockabout Ditto II minutes
Scintila. 15 minutes Rochelle (arrived late), z412
minutes; John Dairy, minutes; Dud, II minutes;
Vagabond, 1O1a minutes. and Qui Vive II minutes
1t took the best and fastest yachts between two
and three hours 10 reach the Red Springs mark. a
distance Of three and seven-eighths miles The
wind at the start was light southeast, but after
ward It came south-southwest, and the vessels
that turned the first mark were able to do good,
active sailing. with their spnnakers TO port on the
run to the second turn. of Parsonage Point \
good many yachts had their chances OF winning
reduced before the wind changed by standing 10
the eastward in the beating OF the first leg Those
which held to the westward got great advan-
tage. while the others had again TO beat on the
wind
The Alerlon. A H. Alker. of the So-foot class
made good sailing and had good luck on her pas
sage to the first mark. beating the yachts OF five
classes above her and leading the 5-footer Affair
which only beat her by forty seconds at the Sec
ond mark. August Belmont sailed the SandPiPer.
but beaten on time allowance by the Nike
owned by Guy Forbes. The Syce met another
the hands OF the Affair and ]. b Rhodes's
Sistoe, in which he cruised from New-Bedford.
was beaten by even more than usual in this class
Owing the withdrawal Of the Mira, caused by the
things rather too easy with the Katonah and the
SRd tn snotber e ySctory Over tbs & Sx H
shor Effort
II W. Eaton's yawl the Audax showed that the
addition to her keel has done her good and she
was about ten minutes ahead OF the Sakana re-
suit which short course tells of luck. Another
in the 3O-foot class and beat the Oiseau and En-
pronz by about thirteen md twenty-three minutes
respectively These and other results in the diff
ferent classes are astonishing and seemingly i'm
The Scamp got away again from the raceabout
| fleet and seems about 70 take first place in the
second Among the seawanhaka knockabouts pre-
vious results reversed, and yesterday was the
| sloop class r. In which two Belmont boats met
I Lewis Iselin's Nora and Anderson Danas MOya.
! in the catboat class c. 7. Pierce's Dot squared
| things with John Green's Windora. which won in
! modelling called the OK defeated by the
Cicadia by ABOUT twenty-seVen minutes
The following table shows the results of the rae
| ing: