Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-30
NUTMEG THE FIRST
Of The Eight Yachts Competing
 For Honors at Black Rock.
WINNER TO RACE IN MONTREAL

The Race Is Unique from the Fact
 That All the Yachts are Very Small
 The Preparatory Gun Was Fired at -Bridgeport Fairies Own the Boat That Crossed the Line First. Black Rock, June 30.-Eight tiny yachts are in rendezvous here prepar- ing to compete during the first four day of this week in trial races for the honor of representing the United States i'll races for the Seawanhaka interna- tional cup for small yachts, to be held on Lake St Louis, near Montreal, lH 14ugust. Last year the Bridgeport acht club challenged for this cup, and under the auspices of the club general interest was aroused, nine entries rep resenting various yacht clubs being made for the trial races. Eight of the boats entered appeared to-day for the opening race, the ninth, the Wampnis- sic, representing the Shinnecock Yacht club, having been withdrawn because it had been beaten by the Frontenacs another of the boats entered.
 Of the competing boats, three are from Bridgeport, one from Minnesotas two from Massachusetts and two from Long Island. The Bridgeport Yacht club entered the Massasoit and Tecum- sch, both owned by Bridgeport syndi- cates, and the Nutmeg, owned by c. | Barnum Seeley of Bridgeport From Massachusetts are the F1libuster, flying l the flag of the Eastern Yacht club, and the Monsoon of the Manchester club. | BOtL of these are Burgess boats. The l Crusader, flying the burgee of the. 1 White Bear Lake Yacht club of St Paul, Minn; the Seeress, representing | the Manhasset Yacht club of Long ] Island, and the Frontenac. flying the | flag of the PenataqultC Cornthian Yach club of Bay Shore, l.. l., are Lue other entries.
 The little yachts are freaks in con- struction. They measure twenty-five l feet on the water line with an all-over length of from thirty-eight to forty three feet and are limited to carry 300 square feet of canvas. A keel boat
 may draw five feet and q centerboard boat six feet The beam varies from
 six to eight feet. Each boat may carry | four persons during the race.
 For the trial races the courses are
 twelve miles in length with time | limit of three and q half hours. Each
 race will be sailed i'll three parts. the | boats after finishing four miles being | started again for another four miles, I contest. The trials are held with all l the careful details of arrangement cus- 1 tomary with the races of larger boatss and United States revenue cutter, ths
 Dallas, will keep the course clear. I There was a wind from the northeast 1 blowing about eight miles an hour
 when the committee took their first ob-
 seryation. about 9 o'clock this morning, but it shifted later to the southeast, I and at II o'clock. an hour before starts ing time. it was blowing less than four I miles an hour.
 There are many visiting yachtsmen
 here and much interest is manifested I in the trial, good crowd going down
 to witness the race.
 At II o'clock the officials held a cons ference and decided to send the yachts to-day three Limes over q four-mile trl-
 angular course. the leg being a beat to l windward and the other two leg5 broad reaches. Five minutes after this announcement was made a gun was fired and the little skimming dishes left the float in front of the yacht club quarters and started down the bay to the starting line. which IS about three miles down the Sound south of Black | Rock.
 The judges for the trials are Louis V. Clark of tfe Yacht Racing associa- tion of Massachusetts, Charles E. Tow
 CT of the Yacht Racing association od
 Long Island sound, and Frank B. Jones
 of the Indian Head Yacht club
 The preparatory gun was fired at
 :24 and the yachts. crossed the line in the following order: Nutmeg, Cru-
 sader, Seeress, Monsoon. Frontenac. Massasoit, Filibuster. Tecumseh. At the first mark the Nutmeg led, turning
 three-quarters of I minute ahead of the Crusader