The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-26
CANADIAN AND EASTERN YACHT
CLUBS WILL CONTEST FOR
THE TROPHY.
Event Is Attracting More Than Pass
ing Interest Among the Clubs
at Halifax.

HALIFAX, N s., Aug. 26.-The
feetest keels of the Canadian and
Eastern Yacht clubs are assembled in
Halifax harbor to attend the annual
yacht race for the Prince Of Wales
cup, the most coveted trophy ever
contested for in any Of the British
colonies. The yachts of the N. Y. Y. c..
and of the Eastern Yacht club, which
took part in the ocean race from
Marblehead to Halifax, arrived here
in good time and are now the guests
of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht club.
In view of the fact that there is prob
ably not a yacht in Nova Scotia equal
in speed to many of the American
yachts just in from their ocean race,
it was highly unselfish and sports
manlike act of the Royal Nova Scotia
Yacht club, to extend an invitation to
the American visitors to compete with
the Nova Scotian and other Canadian
yachts for the magnificent prize.
The cup was originally presented to
the Halifax Yacht club Wnen the pres
ent king, then the Prince of Wales,
visited Halifax in 1860. 1t is beauti-
full specimen of the silversmiths art,
standing two feet high and of great
artistic value. When the Halifax
club went out of existence in 1898 and
the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht club was
formed, the latter received the trophy
from the Halifax Yacht club as a leg
acy. The trophy mas never left the
waters on which it was first sailed for
According to the conditions the trophy
can be kept by the winning yacht
only nine months, when it must be re-
turned to Halifax, to be competed for
again the following season.
Not to be outdone in courtesy by
the Nova Scotian yachtsmen, Mr.
Laurence Minot has offered trophy
to be competed for by Canadian yachts
at the same time, when the Prince OF
Wales cup is sailed for. The trophy
is a handsome silver cup, the decora-
tons of which are symbolical of the
international character of the race and
of the good feeling existing between
the yacntsmen of the two countries
represented in the races.
The first race was sailed today over
a course of twenty-five miles off Hal
flax harbor. Under the regulations OF
the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht club
according to which the measurement
Of the yachts is determined by multi
plying the load-waterline by the sail
area and dividing the result by 5000
several fthe American boats We're
barred from competing in the race
Nevertheless both the N. Y. Y. c. and
the Eastern Yacht club were repre-
scented at the starting line, when the
signal for the beginning of the race
was given this morning.
This evening the visiting yachtsmen
from the United States will be thu
guests of the Royal Nova Scotia acht
club at a grand celebration at their
club house. On that occasion many
government officials and prominent
citizens will also be present to greet
the American yachtsmen. The Amer
lean yachts will remain here for sew
eral days and in their honor series
of minor yacht races will be held, in
all Of which the Americans will have
the privilege to take part. Special
prizes will be offered for the various
events. The visit of the Americans
will conclude with a grand festival, on
which occasion the Prince of Wales
the Minot cup and the other trophies
will be presented to the respective
winners.