New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-06-14
VICTORY FOR The YANKEE.
THE LASCA ALSO IN VAN.
annual Regatta of atlantic Yacht
Club q Distinct Success.

with her great balloon jib topsaii swelling IN
the fresh southerEy breeze. her maansaii ea'eu
TO mort and her broad deck aslant as sne heeieu'
the 70-foot sloop Yankee swept across INC
finish line off Sea Gate yesterday AFTERNOON
the winner of her class in the annual regatta u
the Atlantic Yacht Club. In the race twenty
six niles-to Scotland Lightship and back-with
her owner, J. Rogers Maxwell, in charge she
had beaten w. Ross Proctor's Nfineoia by JUST
/ minute seconds, both having carried the
same sail from start TO finish.
The Lasca, one of the oldtime racing schoon-
ers now owned. and sailed yesterday, by ROBERT
P Doremus, was the winner in the schooner
class, and she made equally pretty picture as
she crossed the finish line, travelling at a ten
knot clip. with her enormous main topfhast
staysail and balloon jb topsail pulling ike
score of horses. She defeated her nearest class
mate, E. B. Ravens Quickstep, by 26 minutes,
46 seconds elapsed time, Colonel David T.
Austen's Hayward by % minutes 40 seconds
and L. ]. Callanan's Kiwassa by 81 minutes 30
seconds.
Not for years hes there been sailed such
close and exciting race in the Lower Bay. Inc
Atlantic Yacht Club is the only one lett OF the
large clubs that gives the yachtsmen race
over courses that extend outside Sandy HOOK
into the open sea, and there was something
reminiscent of the old racing days In yesterday
contest, when four schooners and two big sioops
were sent ploughing their way through the long
ocean swells under the influence OF rresh
southeaster. around that weatherbeaten beacon
the Scotland Lightship The outbound passengers
on board the liner Kaiser Wilhelm II fringed
the rails and clapped their hands as they
passad the siocps Yankee and Mineoia in the
main ship channel.
When Theodore Wells and his confreres OF the
regatta committee gave the starting signals
from tho nteam yacht Calypso. at anchor on
Sea Gate, there was splendid breeze iro"
about south-southeast. SO that the yachu'
helped by the last of the ebb tide. were just
able to lay their courses down the main ship
channel to the first mark-Southwest Spit buoy
Colonel David E. Austen had his schooner. me
Wayward, we'll in hand, ana ne sent her to the
line in the lead. close hauled on the port TACK,
but the big Lasca, with more Roadway, Went
through the smaller .o yaenss zee With fhs ON Quick
step close in her wake At the next signal
11:10-the seventies" came for the line. J.
Rogers Maxwelrs Yankee in the lead, with the
Mineoa not more than 30 seconds astern.
Then came pretty sight, when six OF the
smaller sloops. including two OF the nav orh
Yacht Clubs s0-footers crossed the line In
this order: D. S. Wylie's LLAMA, with j. w.
Alker's Alera, Harry Maxwelrs Phryne, E. f.
Luckenbach's Bobtaf. j. B. o'Donohues Red-
wing and S. e. Vernon's Vivian Il These had
the Southwest Spit buoy for the outer mark OF
their fourteen mile course. while the smaller
sloops, Ojigwan More Trouble, Cockatoo Il,
Quest, Saetta and KarIna, which started In that
order on the final signal had Old Orchard light
house for the turning point In their twelve ana
one quarter mile course
After rounding the Southwest Spit buoy going
out it was reach with the wind beam to star
board for the schooners and the seventies. The
latter had passed all the schooners before that
mark reached, and they went bowling along
ct fine clip. They luffed and trimmed down at
the bell buoy off the point Of the Hook. Soon
after lib topsails had to be taken in, they
could point high enough to fetch the hghtship.
that was to be left the port hand. They
gybed around 1t like this: The Yankee. 1856 Is;