New-York tribune., 1906-08-04
QUEEN SHOWS THE WAY
N. Y. Y. C.. CRUISE BEGINS.
The Yankee Beqts the Ranbosc IN
Glen CoUe-Ne7u HaUen Ran.
rBx Telegraph 20 The Tribune.

the staJfoard tack and heeling under IN the
fresh easterly breeze until half her weather bilge
shone I'm the sunlight, j. Rogers MaNwelfs
schooner Queen crossed the finish line off New
Haven Breakwater at 3:24 :33 this afternoon the
leader of the New York Yacht Clubs cruising
feet of forty-eight yachts and the winner in her
class of the first squadron and Of the cup
offered by Rear Commodore Seymour L. Hustled.
The second cup in the class went TO j. B. Ford's
schooner Katrina.
Three minutes forty-one seconds after the
Queen had finished. the son of her owner, Harry
L. Maxwell, sent his 70-foot sloop Yankee across
the line at a ten-knot clip. Mrs Maxwell jr..
stood smiling beside her husband as the victo-
rious sloop passed the he'committee boat In the
long race of thirty nine miles of windward work
the Yankee had beaten the Rainbow fairly and
squarely by minutes As seconds.
r. NJ. Smiths new sloop Effort found her
SELF again to-day and made good the boasts
of her admirers that she is fast in stiff breeze,
for she defeated the Weetamoe by IL minutes
. seconds, and at one time it looked as il the
seventies would not be able to overhaul her.
Her actual time was hours 80 minutes rs
seconds That of the Rainbow was hours 80
minutes 80 seconds. The Effort started five min
utes before the seventies. 1t was just the sort
OF wind and weather to test properly the ability
Of yachts in windward work, and there was
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days squadron run.
Promptly at the hour scheduled the start was
made off Weeks Point at the entrance to Glen
Cove Harbor. At $50 a.. m. obedient TO the
signal, the harbor start made. and at $40
the thirty-foot yachts, eight of them, were sent
away. These were led by William Butler Dun
cans Dahinda the Cara Mia, the Aloa. the
Nicola II, the Mink, the Phryne. the Affair and
the Banzai, following in that order
ne
a fresh breeze blowing that kicked up a
choppy sea at the west end of the Sound.
Five minutes after the thrties started, the
sloops Humma. Gardenia Mimosa III, Affair
Doris, Janet. Pelgrine and the yawI Phantom
got away in that order. followed at the next
signal by the crack sloops of the sixty-eght-foot
class in this order: The Effort the Irolta. the
Hester. the Nicola and the weetamoe. The two
last named were handicapped "a seconds and 1
minute respectively.
Harry L. Maxwell. at the wheel OF his 7O-footer
Yankee sent her across the line just five seconds
after the signal for his class. at 955. Her rival
the Rainbow. crossed six seconds later, and on
the Yankees weather quarter. The VigiIant had
slight overlap on the Rainbow when she
crossed at 9:55:30. w. Gould Brokaw's big yawI
the Sybarita was five and half minutes late in
getting away. The small classes of schooners
got away on the next signal with Charles Smith
j. b.
next and then the Crusader, the Simitar, the
Andromeda. the venona. the Aria and the
Eclipse in that order the latter being handi-
capped nearly ten minutes
Arthur F. Lul1e's schooner, the Corona. was the
first Of the big schoOners away. They had two
minutes in which to cross the line and Skipper
Holmes captured the weather berth The Ell
nina came next, and then the Queen. She was
handicapped fifteen seconds. The Lasca was
handicapped twenty seconds. and was the
Endymion. The wind had fallen. and was much
lighter when the signal for the auxiliaries was
given. at 1910 They crossed in this order: The
Invader, the Cachalot, the Vencedor. the Seneca
the Cacique, the Idler. the Tekla, the Invincible
and the Ariadne. Tho EndymiOn and the In
vincble, on account OF the light breeze and the
shortness of the line nearly collided in tacking
Out in the Sound the feet found -fne fresh
breeze and some ugly sea for the smaller boats.
NJ. Smiths ,sloOp Effort IL was a dead beat
70 windward, and in this kind of work this new
sloop proved to be wonder. She walked right
away from her classmates, the WeetamOe, the
Nicola and the Hester, and the pace she set was
such hot one that the seventies were not
able 70 catch her until two-thirds of the S9
mile course had been covered.
The Yankee, with a brand new mainsail.
astonished the others by outfooting and out
pointing the Rainbow. At l o'clock, off Nor
walk, she fully a quarter mile 10 windward
of the latter sloOp. The Queen was easily the
leader of the schooneTs at this time with the
Corona a good second, and the Elmina third,
while the Vigilant was giving the Sybartta
fine to windward.
At II o'clock the Effort. on the port tack.
crossed the wake OF the Yankee close aboard,
and the bow Of the Rainbow, these two being
on the starboard tack. This shows what good
work the smaller sloop had done in the two
hours and ten minutes since the start. The
wind held steady and the Queen continued TO
OF the fleet After passing Stratford Point they
were able to fetch the finish on the starboard
tack.
F. NJ Smiths sloop Effort and Trenor L.
Parks sloop Mimosa III are the winners on
time allowance of the Rear Commodore's Cup
for sloops.
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