The sun., 1905-12-17
ICE YACHHMEN AT IT SOON.
GETTING READY FOR THE RACES
on THE SHREWSBU RI.
New Hoats, Buiit Entirely for speed.
TO Make Thpir Appearance
Shrewsbury Cldb VIII Try to Recapture
the Prnnant which IL Lost Last season,


TO Make Thpir Appearance South
Shrewsbury Cldb VIII Try to Recapture
the Prnnant which II Lost Last Season.
LoNu BRASCH, y. j., Dec i8.--lce yacht
ing on tho Shrewsbury will soon be all the
go. The river was frozen over yesterday,
and already the Ice yachtsmen. who this year
number close 10 four hundred are talking
"pennant" and the racing qualities or the
yachts of the two South Shire wsbnry clubs.
The Shrewsbury club at meeting last
night decided to erect a new clubhouse on
Shallow Point. Work will begin next week.
The club this week reelected Edward w.
Reid commodore 1t has nearly 200 mcmbers'
The South Shrewsbury Ice Yacht club
erected clubhouse last year. and AT meet
ing few nights ago added twenty new mem
bers to It's list, william r. Joline, the owner
of the Hazel IT,, which until last year was
the holder of the third class pennant OF the
world. has been elected commodore OF the
club. to succeed Benjamin p Morris The
clubs membership is larger this winter than
ever before.
Tho yachts of tho South Shrewsbury Club
will be tried out az soon as the Ice Ia fit, and
the best two will be sent to Red Bank with
the intention OF reRaining the streamer which
the Drub captured iromthe Hazel l.; Whe ether
/ the Hazel L. and The Mildred viii be sent TO
race race for the pennant depends fn,1letIy on
named yacht Will do, he yacht has Just
been completed. 1t was built purely Tor
examined the boat say she viii make records.
The NJ ildred and the ilnzcl l.. have been
equipped with new sails and runners, While
f. E. Taber's Leroy, once the pennant win
ner OF the two rivers. is in better racing
Besides the third class pennant Of. the
world. which will be sailed for on the, North
Shrewsbury. clubs course, the South Shrews-
bury club has MAPPED out busy & aa season, son;
events without number. The katherine
will this year carry the commodore's colors
All the old time favortes Of the ,Shrcws-
bury clubs. including the Eagle, Red Rover,
Swcethcart larcl, shrewsbury, SkcdaddIe
and Florence A.. will be put on The ice neAt
week il the cold snap continues, Indications
point 70 good racing season. and thcrr IS
tax OF holding weeks earnii al on the riN,r.
htn e. RsG IoGh lG h% I9rh Ipi1
night TO consider the challenges which have
been received recently for races this winter.
One Of the challenges accepted was that
from @ the south ShresEwsbnry clue to loS Tqcs
was won last winter by the new va, hi rub.
owned by Edward Willis and har!cs Burd
In the contests which will be decided on the
pennant and the Northwest will probably
be her companion again. Asher " arde II,
who captained the Hazel L., is out with new
boat, and she will probably be picked to race
The Erub has been slightly altered. and
improvements have been made also to most
Of the other yachts in the Red Bank fleet.
appearance, and all of them were built for
speed. In fact, it seems to be the nCiina-
ton Of ceboat enthusiasts to discard com
fort for speed nowadays. The same models
the lateen sai has been gii en- up pretty gem
orally for the jib and mGnsail rig.