The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-06
YACHTING

The initial run Of the New York Yacht Club
fleet from New London to Newport yesterday
was on the whole satisfactory, the light fuky
weather at the start and the soft breezes along
the Rhode Island shore being forgotten in the
splendid seven mile dash in an increasing
southeaster from Point Judith to the finish at
Brentons Reef lightship. -
Charles Smithers crack seventy foot
schooner Muriel led the feet practically all
the way and covered the distance. thirty
seven miles, In a trifle under five hours and
three-quarters. Commodore Ledyard's schoon-
er Corona was second. and ]. Roger Max
wells seventy-foot sloop Yankee third These
yachts won their respective classes. .-...
The rest of the feet made a long procession,
reaching round Point Judith, when the leading
yacht was crossing the line. but all had f1n
ished by dark. The lead of the Muriel, Corona
and Yankee was acquired off Watch Hill
early in the afternoon, when they managed to
double Point Judith without tack, but the
rest of the feet spent some time in beating
round. "....
The Mineola and the Rainbow had great
fight along the Rhode Island Shore with
luffing match that carried them we'll outside.
The Mlneola finally. got by and finished nearly
four minutes ahead. Both were beaten fifteen
minutes BY the Yankee, Ftfty-one yachts
crossed the starting line at New London yes
terday morning. The little sloops were sent
away first and the rest went off at ive-m.nute
intervals. the classes increasing In size until
| finally came the giants of the feet,
| The yachts came flying UP to the finish with
| every sail and rope hard at work and lee
rails well down. Had they been at all
| punched instead of coming in singly, the sport
would have been exciting, but strung along
over seven miles of water 1t was merely a
pleasant picture with nothing but their on
ward rush to make 1t even exhtlarattng 1t
will be impossible to announce the cup win
! ners. ..s. ! <
The second race in the interclub series be-
tween the twenty -one-foot restricted class OF
the Beverly yacht clubs, was sailed yesterday
| afternoon at Newport and was won by the
Jolly Roger Of the latter club,
The race yesterday was sailed over tri-
angular course of about twelve miles. IN a
light northeasterIy wind. The steam yacht
Lavrock was the committee boat, and had a
large crowd of ladies and gentlemen on board
| to witness the race.
| The start was made at Bishop dock and the
course was a beat to Dyer's island and then
spinnaker run to stakeboat anchored OF
Conanicut Point, and thence to the starting
point, the last leg being a broad reach. The
start was made at about $3.50. the boats cross
| ing almost with the gun, but in the beat out
the Jolly Roger took the windward position,
which she held to the end. The Quakeress,
the winner of Mondays race, pushed her
hard, and it WAS only by clever seamanship
that MIR. Bleeker won. In rounding the mark
boat at Conan1cut Point the Sylvia, when IN
fifth place, Souled the mark boat, which put
her out of the race. THE, yachts finished In
the following order:, &'
First, Jolly Roger: second, Quakeress;
third, Indian: fourth, Terrapin; fifth, Whistle
Wing; sixth, Sylvia; time not taken. :
The betting on the result of the series in the
final race to be sailed TO- day is in favor Of the
seawanhaka boats, and while they were beat
en- in points Monday by. the beverley boats,
last night they had a neat margin to thei1
credit. In points the clubs stand as follows
seawanhaka club, % points; beverley CLUB
10 points -
Both the Quakeress and Jolly Roger have II
points to their credit. with the Terrapin. q
} Indian, 6; Whistle Wing and the Sylvia, l.
| The sweepstake race at Newport yesterday
between the thirty y-footers was won by Carroll
ma sailed by James A. Stillman. the race
was sailed over q triangular course OF sl1
miles in a light easterly wind which at times
J was very light. Wa wa got tae stare, out a
the hrst mark Carolina and Esperanza @wer'
in the lead and close together, but on th'
wind Carolina took the lead and Won by ;
, good margin. - 49,. ~"
The second day Of the Royal Yacht squad
ron's regatta at Cowes twas favored witt
, beautiful weather; the sky was clear, but IN
. wind was rather light. There were twelv
starters in the race for the king cup. Him.
a Edward watched the start OF the yachts II
e the race for the kings cup with keen interest
The Brynhild won the race for the kings cup
The Meteor III. finished second and Glory nm
ishod third Brynhild finished at 6:54, Meteo
III at S13 and Glory at 6:16:3S The Lean
der finished fourth and the Florinda fifth.