New-York tribune., 1902-07-20
YACHTING.
AUGUST BELMoNTS MINEOLA DEFEATS
THE RAINBOW AND THE YANKEE.

Men of many millions raced their yachts on Long
Island Sound yesterday in stiff breeze from the
east-northeast that kicked up ugly and kept
awash the lee rails of fifty-one boats that con-
tested for prizes offered oy the Larchmont Yacht
Club It was the first contest OF the series sched-
ued for race week. and one of the best races ever
sailed under the direction of this popular club.
August Belmont stood beside his skipper Charlie"
Barr in the cockpit of the big 70-footer Mineola
when that sloop dashed across the line over min
late the start-something extraordinary for
Barr, and especially in a race the first leg of
which a thrash to windward. He made UP for
it, however for the Mineola from the Rainbow
by minutes and II seconds and from the Yankee
by minutes and As seconds.
Cornelius Vanderbilt sailed his own yacht, the
Rainbow, and timed the start so well that she was
the line twenty-five seconds after the signal
She cosehauled the port tack and travel
ling at steamboat speed.
J. Rogers Maxwell at the wheel of his sloop yam
kee sent her the line. beam and beam with
the Rainbow. but right under her lee. a bad place
clear. These three. throwing clouds OF spray from
made re shor pS heG rom the Starting point off
LarchmOnt harbOr. in toward the north shore.
Off shore tack the Rainbow crossed the Yankee $
bow easily. and she forced the Mneoa about
long tack to the it % Was that sef he n6b M
foa s3S efPecbg her Si1o for pfacs she had
weathered the Rainbow. and at the first mark she
was more than minute in the lead as is shown 6
Rainbow 1872 Is; Yankee 12:30.
Spinnakers were smarty set to port on all three
slooPs and they began Their six mile run to the
MEANWHILE, the schooners had made pretty pretty
start, with Elmna in the weather berth. crossing
on the starboard tack. Captain Dennis put her
about the line. The Katrina, crossing hVe sec
Onds later went about the Elmna's weather
quarter Then came the Muriel, l minute 10 seconds
after the signal. She got away the port tack
handicap. Why the QuisSetta started nobody could
tell. She crossed the line eight minutes after the
signal and had chance of winning any
thing unless through accident. The Elmina
finally defeated the Murie by 10 minutes . sec
onds.
The 4S-foot soops Mira and Effort started on the
1850 signal. neither of them daring to set a topsai
in such breeze The Dorwina, of their Grass
carried away peak ballard blocks just before
the start, and retired. -
The Leda the Possum and the Spasm. OF the &C.
foot class. made good start, as did the MlmoSa
Iroquois and the Mmosa, Of the S0-foot class. The
latter forced three of the others about just after
the start. she having the right of way
Then came the raceabouts, and pretuer start
never than this Fourteen OF these
boats crossed the line I'm less than two minutes
clear, and claim the windward position.
Edwin Gould sailed his little one design boat
Midget and fifteen of these little craft went over
IN a bunch. in little over a minute. Mr Gould
boat the in his class She defeated the
Ping Pong by 10 seconds.
For the large classes the course was beat or
six miles TO the eastward. then run OF six miles
followed BY close reach of three miles TO the
home mark They sailed this course twice, making
thirty miles in all. The racsabouts sailed twenty
two, and the one-deslgn boats eleven miles.
The time taken at the home mark at the end Of
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