The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-11
WAS YACHTMAN' DAY
IA Clear Sky and Spanking Off Shore
Breeze Productive of Some
Good Races.
vENCEDOR, ILLINOIS, MAWAJA.
The Famous Fifty-two Footer and the New
Cup Defender Show Remarkable Speed
Hawthorne Sails Alone

With reefed sails, fighting a gale
west by northwest, blowing from
thirty to forty miles an hour, nine
boats of the fleet of the Chicago Yacht
club batt1ed for supremacy over tri-
angular course of ten miles off this port
Saturday afternoon, and, with their
decks under water much of the time
and with the crews soaked to the skins,
the records made by the different
classes will probably break any rec
ords made by the fleet in several years
past.
The race was most interesting one
from start to finish, and in every race
where there was more than one boat
entered the competition was most ex-
citing. Early in the morning it was
predicted that the day would be an
ideal one, but toward the hour for the
starting gun the wind Increased in
velocity, and for this reason several of
! thesmaller boats refused to start. On
this account the fifth race, which had
been arranged for the knockabouts,
Colleen, Katie H., and Vaga bond, was
declared off. Merlin of Racine and
Rosamond of Milwaukee, entered in
the schooner class, with Hawthorne of
Chicago, also withdrew; but Haw-
thorne was unwilling to forfeit the
race, and made the course alone.
! It was 1:50 when the course had been
announced as triangular course. The
three legs offered almost every kind of
weather to test the sailing abilities of
the boats and their crews. The first
leg was a broad reach to the south with
driving wind behind, while the sec
ond leg was run off of some three
miles, and the final course was beat
to the windward and to the port of the
Kenosha breakwater.
The Judges of the race we're Com
modore Charles r. Thorne and Captain
A. w. Masters. The preparatory gun
was fired at 1:50, and ten minutes later
the schooner Hawthorne crossed the
starting line, the only one to make the
race in its class.
The second race started was the
s1oops, and it was great race between
Vencedor and Vanenna, the former
boat winning by trif1e over five min
utes. The start of the two boats was
poor one, Vane1na failing to hear the
preparatory gun and numbering along
two minutes after Vencedor had started
we'll on the first leg, but what Vanenna
had lost at the start it had gained
before the first stake boat was reached,
but here bad luck struck Vanenna and
when it was again on the trail of Ven
cedor the latter had a lead of over
quarter of mile.
With such a lead not even the three
generations Of Crawfords who sailed
Vanenna were able to bring it over the
line a winner. Vencedor sailed a
beautiful race and rounded the buoy at
the end of the first three and one-ha1f
miles in eleven minutes. Vanenna
did even better, but at the turning
point it's til1er snapped in two, and be-
fore it could be replaced the race was
won and lost.
The actions of the Siren were a dis
appointment to it's owners. The crew
failed to hear the gun and started a
full eleven minutes after the last boat
of its class. The boat sailed the
course, however, and finished within a
few minutes of the class time. There
was an added interest in this race on
account of the fact that Siren and
| Vaneuna's crews had made heavy
wager on the race. The winning boat,
| Vencedor, carried two reefs in its sail,
while Vanenna carried only one, and
Siren was unwilling to tempt the
stormy sea with less than three reefs.
The great interest in the day CEN
tered in the third race between the cup
defenders Illinois and Minota, as all
the yachtsmen were anxious to get a
line on the sailing qualities of Illinois
when reefed down. The little vessel
and its opponent, Minota, crossed the
starting line only fifteen seconds
apart, and for the next three and a half
miles, running with the wind, the two
boats had great contest. Time and
again, with the sails reefed down, the
decks were washed over. After the
| first mile Illinois slowly drew away
from Minota and crossed the first
stakeboat 800 yards ahead. On the
little runaway course of the second leg
Illinois showed its superiority. Stand
ing up like steam yacht in the rising
sea the boat seemed 10 jump over the
waves and rounded the second buoy
a full mile in advance of the
other defender. Here Illinois and
Prairie, which had started alone in
the forty-foot class, met and for the
next fifteen minutes they had battle |
royal beating in against the wind. |
Illinois took two1ong tacks and gained