The San Francisco call., 1904-09-17
BELVEDERE TARS
CRUISE TO MARE
ISLAND TONIGHT
Billiards, Chess, Euchre and
Other Games at SausalitO
Clubhouse for the Members
SUNDAY AN OPEN DAY
California Yacht Club Will
Hold a Handicap Race for
Vincent Trophy in October

This will be members night at the
quarters Of the San Francisco Yacht
Club in Sausalito. The billiard and
card tournaments, which were to have
been held on Saturday, the Sd inst.
but were postponed on account OF the
absence of several members during the
Labor day vacation, will be held to-
night. The nights amusements will In
clude not only billiards, but also chess,
checkers. dominoes, euchre and whist
Members only are to be present The
evenings games will begin at S:fo
o'clock, and refreshments will be
served. The winners will receive
prizes.
The fleet of the Corinthian Yacht
Club will cruise tonight to Vallejo, the
tide, which floods until 5:4O D. m at
Fort Point and some hours later In
Mare Island Straits, being favorable
for a run up the bay. The fleet will re-
turn to mOOrings at TiburOn to-mor-
row.
Most Of the yachtsmen OF the San
Francisco Club will content themselves
with starting tomorrow morning for a
few hours cruise. The California Club
has no event set down on its pro-
gramme. On Saturday, the 24th inst,
the San Francisco fleet will cruise to
Vallejo, and on the following day will
race down to Sausalito.
Though the important annual regat-
tas are over each of the three clubs
will hold regatta before the end of
the present season. On Sunday, Octo-
Der 9, the San Francisco Yacht Club
will hold a pOwer-bOat race, and the
Corinthian Yacht Club will have its
regular small boat races Off Paradise
Cove. The handicap regatta for the
Vincent cup will be held by the CalifOr-
MIA Yacht Club on Sunday. October 2.
The South Bay Yacht Club fleet
cruises tomorrow to DumbartOn
bridge, starting from it's mOorings in
Alviso Slough at 9:45 o'clock in the
morning. The clambake and barbecue
recently given by the South Bays to the
visiting Corinthian yachtsmen were
highly successful The visiting fleet in
cluded Commodore T. Jennings slOOp
Speedwell; the slOOps Edna, Neptune.
Espey. Aloha and Aeolus; the yawl
Frolic and the California slOOp Pacto-
lus. This was the first time that any
considerable number of San Francisco
yachts had been anchored at AlvisO,
and the hOspitabIe reception of the Wis
iting tars was highly appreciated.
The regatta committee of the Pacific
Interclub Yacht Association has con-
firmed the results of the races held On
Admission day. A protest was offered
by Kennedy and Burke, owners of the
little yawl Witch, which sailed around
the course allotted for the special yawl
class, though she had been included
with the little yawl Kittiwake in the
twenty-foOt class, or mosquito fleet"
1t has been the practice of the regatta
committee to assign small yawls to the
twenty-fOot special class. giving them
the regular 10 per cent allowance for
rig. The committee has this power and
saw no reason for departing from its
usual course. The staEting and finish
ing times of the yawl Witch were not
taken by the judges, who did not know
on the day of the regatta that her own
ers were racing.
The fastest actual sailing time over
the fourteen-mile course was made by
Fulton Berry's sloop Mike. being
2:34:17. T. Jennings sloOp Speedwell
made the second best time. 2:35:32, and
HarpoOn covered the course in 2:41 :2S.
On time allowance w. G. MOrrow's
sloop Challenger beat the whole fleet.
covering the course in 2:41:54 actual
time. in spite of the loss Of some min
utes on account Of the absence OF the
windward stakebOat on the second beat
out.