The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-08
ME MARIS WON FIRST RACE.
CHARLESTON YACHT SAILED AWAY
FROM THE DRAGON.

Dointed Her. Out-saiIed~Her and
showed a Clear Superiority in the
Several Sorts of Weather That
Were ORered-Hopes of the Savan-
nahinns Have Diminished-An-
other Race To-day, and 1t May BE
the Last-If the Dragon Wins
There VIII Be Another To-mor-
row.
ghe Maris. representing the Carolina
Ybcht Club of Charleston, clearly outsail-
*. the Dragon. representing the Savan-
MIA Yacht Club, over the Wilmington
riter course yesterday afternoon, winning
wRh minutes 562s seconds, corrected time.
ia spare. The Dragon had a stern chase
frtn the start, and never was she in the
lego.
!ahis is the official record made up by the
th6ekeepers:
I0ragoon crossed the line a. l253:27l2
2aaris at 125S2S1A.
aearis rounded Cabbage Island stake
bort at 3:11.
Dragon rounded at 3:15.
Maris rounded Joe's Cut stakeboat at
3:32I5.
Dragon rounded at 1880.
Maris rounded Cabbage Island stakeboat
at 4:02.
Dragon rounded at All.
Maris crossed starting line at 4:59:37A.
ORA COON crossed at 5:11 :4712.
The elapsed time of the race was 4
hours. minutes and 10 seconds; time al
iowance for the Dragon was 4 minutes,
1874 seconds. The Maris actual time de
1 rnf1
10 seconds. Her corrected time was min
utes, 562s seconds.
The course was from an imaginary line
off Turner's Rock to a stakeboat anchored
near the Cabbage Island spitbuoy then
to a stakeboat anchored az Joe's Cut,
back to the Cabbage Island stakeboat, and
then to the starting line. This is twenty
knots, or about "a land miles, and, do
spite the calm weather they had for a
while, the yachts sailed the course IN
little more than four hours, leaving an
average of nearly six miles an hour. From
the Cabbage Island stakeooat to the starr
ing line, there is a stretch of abou' eight
knots, and, with a rather stiff southeast
breeze over her port quarter and abeam
the Maris covered It in a little less than
an hour. Inc DOdlS can 80 dhCtt NN'Nt'S
knots an hour in strong winds.
The race inspired great deal of in
terest. Probably forty craft of an sizes
and descriptions watched the speedy sin
glestiokers everything from a big. side
wheel excursion steamboat to naphtha
launch being OUT with passengers. The
Clifton and the Alpha, chartered by the
Savannah Yacht Club, and under the man
agement of the Regatta Committee, Of
which Col Merritt W. Dixon is the eff
Gent chairman, were comfortably crowd
ed while the Santee. the loretta, the
Mermaid and the Bessie May, were the
other steamers that followed the flyers.
perfect swarm of sailing craft dotted the
water, number of them being natty
representa tives of the Carolina Yacht
Club.
Among Charleston ladies who saw the
race were Mrs Rawlns Lowndes, Mrs.
Mayo Read Mrs. John II. Marshall, Miss
Darby, Miss Frost Miss Brawley and Miss
Carroll Among the gentlemen were
Messrs. Henry Frost, Mayo Read, John
Marshall Julian Mitchell, Jr., Rutledge
Bust. Lee Holmes. ID. b. Cunningham.
Henry Pringle, R. S. French, II. S. Miller,
William Robertson f. P. Jeryey, Alex.
Marshall w. H. Tucker, j. II. Small,
Henry Dotterer, Edmund Rhett J. A.
Calhoun, r. s. Whaley, j. F. Porcher,
James Adger, Commodore r. w Hughes
Carolina Yacht Club.
Through the courtesy of Lieut. George
B. Maher, the little revente steamer Ty-
bee was placed at the service of the Sail
ing Committee which judged the race.
Aboard her were Chairman Frank Jones.
and Mr. II. D. Stevens of the Sailing
Committee; Mr. w. d. Smkins. Mr.. G.
Noble Jones, Mr.. Allan Bond, Mr.. William
Pratt and Capt. T. S. Wylly of the
Timers Committee; Judge A. II, Mac
Donell, Col. B. w. Wrenn and a repre-
sentative of the Morning News The Ty
bee was delayed half an hour in reach
ing the Yacht Club, because of an alarm
of fire from box No having been turned
IN just as she was on the point of leaving
the city. The Tybee responded to this
alarm, and Lieut.. Maher could not get
away until he learned that the boat would
not be needed for fire service.
sightseers Disappointed.
Had it not been for the extremely
squally appearance of the sky during the
forenoon, it is probable that more would
have been out TO see the race. Shortly
before II O'Clock there was a heavy show
er at the Yacht Club, and the sightseers
left for the starting point as soon as it
was over The Dragon had preceded
them by about an hour, under her own
sail, while the Maris was towed down,
leaving about 1915 o'clock by the Wuona.
The Clifton and the Tybee were about the
gathered at the starting point and on the
way down. there must then have been
nearly LOCO spectators. Several of the
boats, the big steamers among them, had
made the trip from the city with their
parties, taking up reinforcements at the
club house.
SqualIy at the start.
Nearly all the way down there were in
termittent squalls the wind being pretty
strong at times. There was some thing
about the look of things though, that
induced the experts to declare that there
would soon be a practical CAIN and this
prediction was verified not long after The
start.
Some time was lose after the arrival of
the Tybee al the starting point. in getting
the stakeboat properly anchored. In the
meantime the Dragon was flying about,
running here and there, and winning no
little admiration by her sailing, and the
way she was handled. Capt. Theodore
Barnard was at the helm, and the others
Of her crew We're Messrs Julian Schley,
Paschal Strong, Henry Backus, Stein Bry-
an and James HardeC.
The Maris lay at anchor until just a
few minutes before the first whist lie
sounded from the Tybee When her crew
with Capt. w. D. Porcher, AZ the helm