New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-14
THE OCEAN YACHT RACE.
TO Start on Tuesday off Sandy
Hook Lightship.

Unless an signs fail those who go down the
bay this week to see the yachts off in their three
thousand mile ocean race for the cup pre-
rented by the German Emperor will be well re-
paid for their time and trouble. if showing their
patriotism by wishing the yachts bon voyage can
be called trouble. 1t is certain that those who
do not go will miss a great treat. for the start
of these yachts-eight American. two English
and one German-win undoubtedly be the sight
of a lifetime.
There has never been. in the history of yacht
Ing an ocean race of anything like the interna-
donal Importance of this one Three of the con-
testauts have crossed the Atlantc-the Valhalla
and the Sunbeam from England and the Ham
burg from Germany-to take part in the race,
which starts from Sandy Hook lightship at
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. The Valhalla is
rhp only ship-rigged yacht in the world, and it
win be well worth the trip to sea to witness the
snaneuvrng of that vessel. If the wind is fair
she will probably cross the starting line with
thirty-eight sails set.
This race is indirectly the result of the efforts
J. Robert e. Tod when he was commodore of the
Atlantic Yacht Club few years ago. He offered
prizes for the winners in a series of ocean races
IF this coast Sir Thomas Upton, while here in
1903 seeing the interest that was manifested in
these contests, offered cup for transatlantic
race to be managed by the Atlantic Yacht
Tub. looon after the German Emperor. without
moving Of Sir Thomas Lipton's offer, also
offered a cup for the same purpose through his
representative, Lord Lonsdale, Commodore Tod
then persuaded Sir Thomas to withdraw his cup
IN favor of the German Emperor
After much correspondence on the question of
What club should manage the race, the En-
peror's illness compelled him to withdraw his
offer for year. When he renewed it, in 1904, 1t
was with the understanding that the race should
be managed by the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club. of
Kiel. That club has appointed a subcommittee
in England, sub committee in America and a
committee in charge of the start The latter
committee consists of Commander Georg Heb
bnghaus, of the imperial German navy who is
also the naval attach6 of the German Embassy
ut Washington; Commander Harry II. Hosley,
L. S N; Oliver E Cromwell. II. de B. Parsons,
Newbury D. Lawton and Edward H. Wales, of
the New-York Yacht Club, who will start the
yachts from a tug anchored off Sandy Hook
lightshp
The finish off the Lizard, England, will be
timed by Captain Coerper Of the imperial Ger
man navy; the Earl of Ionsdale and Sir Edward
Birbeck. They will be stationed on board a
vessel anchored about a mile due south from
the Lizard lighthouses.
The conditions governing the race provide
that it should be open for cruising yachts of
any nation of more than eighty tons, Custom
House measurement, enrolled in a recognized
yacht club Auxiliaries to sail with their
propeIIers removed from the shaft. and no steam
may be used for hosting sails except on square
rugged yachts. The international rules of the
road at sea will govern the race. with the add
ton that if overlap exists between two
yachts when both of them, without lacking, are
about to pass mark on the required side then
the outside yacht must give the inside yacht
room to pass clear of the mark. The prepara-
tory gun will be fired at 2 p. m. on Tuesday a
warning gun at 2:1O p. m. and the starting gun
at 2:15 p. m. The time of the yachts crossing
the line will not be taken by the committee
which means that every one of the eleven yachts
viii be timed as having started at p IN. The
entries for the race are as follows: