The San Francisco call., 1905-05-06
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The Oakland Canoe Club will open
the season to-day with a reception to-
ladies and friends at its quarters on
Sessions Basin, Oakland Creek. The
officers and members of the club will
be ready to receive their guests at 1:3O
p. m.
During the afternoon there will be
canoe race and the visitors will be
taken out for cruises on Oakland Creek
in Commodore Charles Stewards sloop
Beatrice and the launches belonging to
the members. In the evening a dance
will be given in the clubhouse To-
morrow will be an open date on the
programme, but on Sunday, the 14th
inst, the canoeists will cruise to the
anchorage of the EncinaI Yacht Club
at Alameda.
This afternoon and evening the San
Francisco Yacht Club fleet will cruise
to Paradise Cove. AS the tide begins
to food at Fort Point at 6:1S p m
yachts can run up TO the cove until
after midnight. Tomorrow the yachts
will return TO moorings at Sausalito.
To-day and tomorrow are open dates
on the schedule. of the Corinthian Yacht
CLUB.
The directors of the Corinthian Yacht
Club at special meeting held in the.
Office of Vice Commodore ]. c.. Brickell
accepted the challenge of the San
Francisco Yacht Club to a race for
the San Francisco Perpetual Challenge
cup now held by the Corinthians The
challenge is dated April Il and, as not
less than thirty nor more than sixty
days from that date may elapse be-
fore the race takes place, the contest
will be held between May 20 and June
20. The trophy will be defended by the
sloop Corinthian. which will be pre-
pared for the race by a committee con-
sistlng of ex-Commodores J. W. Pew,
A. j. Young and H. D. Hawks. With
in a few days the regatta committee
of the San Francisco Yacht Club will
meet T. j. Kavanagh, Stewart Middle
mas and Douglas Erskine, who con-
stitute the regatta committee of the
Corinthian Yacht Club and will ar
range the date, the course and other
details of the race.
In the race held last year for the Per-
petual Challenge cup the Corinthian,
from the Challenger, the defending
craft, by margin of forty-one seconds,
corrected time. The Corinthian, how
ever on that occasion gave a time al
lowance of two minutes and four sec
onds to the Challenger, so that on
even terms she would have beaten her
rival by 2:45. This year the Corinthian
will be reckoned at her actual racing
length, which is less than thirty feet.
the measurement named in last year.
chalienSe. This is the advantage upon
which the Corinthians are counting as
an element in the result. The San
Francisco yachtsmen expect that this
years race will be sailed in a heavier
breeze than that of 1904, which took
place on July in wind of only mod
crate strength. They believe the Chal-
lenger is better boat in heavy weather
than the Corinthian. The Corlnthian
will be sailed by Frank Stone, whose
crew will be made up of Commodore
T. Jennings, Vice Commodore j. C.
Brickefl, j. Short, F. E. Scheber. N. A.
Mclean and Douglas Erskine Conn
modore w. G. Morrow CT the San Fran
cisco Yacht Club will sail the Chal-
lenger.
Not quite all the yachts of the San
Francisco Club fleet We're in commits
sion on opening day, the rain IN the
early part of April having delayed the
work of putting into commission. The
yawls Ripple and Wave will not be in
commission this year. H. r. Simpkins'
fine yawl Tramontana is for sale. but
all the rest of the fleet, reinforced by
half dozen craft that few the Corin-
| THAN burgee last year. are ready.
A steam yacht. to be named Lurline,
, is being built for A. B. Spreckeis by
John Twigg & Sons. the San Fran
cisco boatbuilders. She will be seventy
feet long with beam of twelve and
half feet and depth of six feet
A Seabury engine rated at $50 horse
power reached San Francisco from
New York last month for the yacht
The Lilrline will have an owners cab
| in. several berths and accommodation