New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-14
SPOKANE WINS RACE.
VIMS OWNER PROTESTS.
First Contest to Select Three yachts
for>the Roosevelt Cup.
IBy reiesraph 70 The tribune.

Marblehead. Mass. Aug. 1s.-vice- Commodore f.
L. Clark's soop yacht Spokane, designed and
sailed by Clinton II. Crane. Of New York, and
built by Wood. OF City Islano won the first
in the trials to-day OF the SonderkIasse boats 70
select three boats TO meet like number Of Ger
man in September in the contest for the Roose
welt Cup. The course was equilateral triangle
Of fifteen miles the first leg being a beat, the
Ond a close reach and the final leg a At the
wfndward mark the Spokane led F. c. Macomber's
Windrim Kid by IS seconds. at the next mark. she
was seven seconds astern of that boat. and she
finished one minute 81 seconds ahead of H. L.
Bowden's Hayseed III. which was 81 seconds ahead
OF the Wndrm Kid.
Sixteen yachts started and the only other New
York boat. the Vim, owned by Commodore Trenor
L. Park. of the American Yacht Club, and sailed
by {. Buchanan. Of that club and OF the Seawan-
haka- Cornthian Yacht Club. finished fifth and was
only beaten minutes 50 seconds by the winner The
Vim, while the starboard tack, sailing the wind
ward leg OF the course, fouled by G. H. Wight
mans BOnidrei. sailed by Captain James. She was
on the opposite tack. The Vim. in striking the
Bonidrei's stern and getting clear on her course
again, lost nearly two minutes and a good position
in the race. The Vim beat them all on the run of
five miles before the wind
There steam and sailing craft OF all descrip-
tiOns out at the start each with its quota OF yachts
men and others. They included the schooner yacht
Emerald. owned by F. Lewis Clark, owner of the
winning yacht; Parker Bremers steam yacht Vel
thra. w. o. Gays Tramp and any number OF sail
ing craft and motor boats.
On board the committee tug Palas with the re-
gatta committee-Harry Howard. Louis NJ. Clark
and George Atkinson Jr.-as guests Of the Eastern
Yacht Club. Howard Gould. H II. Knowles.
". H. Hall, NJ. D. Chapman. r. Kuhlmann,
first secretary Of the German Embassy. at Wash
ngton: Herr Frerchs and Lieutenant H.
KOhler. military secretary Of the embassy otto
PrOtzen. the German artist. who will sail the
SOnderklasse yacht Wannse. with Rakenius and
Polborn, In the races; William Gardner and Com
mOdore T. l.. Parker. of New York.
The start made at 11:lO O'Clock off Halfway Rock.
was a spirited picture. The little boats. all trim
and taut for the contest, had been manoeuvring
for good berths. The wind fresh from the
eastward. and the signals showed the first
hve-me leg to be due east the second south-south-
west by half west, and the third northwest by
north half north. There quite long roll to
the sea. but not enough to interfere materially
with the speed OF the yachts
II was one gun start. and the scramble for
weather bertn when the sigma. was given caused
foul between the Ellen and the Cod the former be-
ing at fault. The order OF the start follows:
The Cod, Ellen, Hayseed III, SkidOO Spokane,
Vim. Lorele Bonidrei sumatra. Sally VIII. New
Orleans Windrim Kid. Caramba Manchester.
Alecto Chewink VI and AUX.
In attempting to at the committee boat end
Of the line the Manchester, Chewink VI. the
Sumatra, the Caramba and the AUX crossed too
soon and had to be recalled. They officially
started than a minute after the rest.
AS soon as all got their wind clear. the Spokane.
Windrim Kid, Hayseed III. Manchester, SkidOo.
Ellen Alecto. Sumatra and LOrelei worked Off
shore, taking a long board on the port tack. They
found more wind there than the others.
Skipper Bucknan. of the Vim, started offshOre but
seeing c. H. Adams with the AUX so for the north
shore he followed. The others that held along to-
ward Magnolia the Bonidrei. Chewink VI,
the New Orleans Sally VIII and the Caramba.
All these apparently lost by splitting tacks with
the others Some of the ofshore division overdid 1t
by overstanding the mark. notably the sumatra.
The Spokane weathered the first mark at 1874 30.
She had covered the distance. about six miles in
hour 81 minutes 90 seconds, The next boat, the
Windrm Kid. took So seconds to cover it.
The five miles from here to the mark a
close reach the port tack. in which the Skidoo,
the Ellen and the Manchester the only
with balloon iibs. In this work the Windrim Kid
made the fastest time of $50. The next best
the Ellen in 1888, the SkidoO third in $500,
the Spokane $50; the Manchester. 81 "a the VIM
$500; Hayseed III. $40; the Bonidrei. 5744; the
AUX 58O8. The Spokane passed by the Wind
rim Kid so that she was seven seconds astern at
the mark.
Gybing here they all set spnnakers smartly TO
starbOard except the Sumatra, the Lorelei Chewink
VI and the New Orleans. These took the other gybe
and set spnnakers TO port. the Sumatra setting a
perforated one the first of it's kind here Down
the wind they came sixteen OF them, making
pretty picture the distance The positions changed
this run materially, the New York boat, the
Vim showing great speed She passed the Ellen.
the Manchester and the SkidOO. making the fastest
time OF. all the Yachts 1t hour 10 minutes 2S
minutes q seconds The following shows the actual
time II took each boat TO cover each leg or the