The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-17

In the Van Buren, street basin dw:n-
dies, as the craft are stripped of their
sails and towed up the river to hiber-
nate until spring.
The Columbia clubhouse will be omen
all winter. Plans are already on for
winter regatta" to be held next
month. Last fall Chicago was favored
with such balnly weather for that time
of year that the November regatta OF
the Columbia tars was distinct sue
cess. Six of the best boats in the fleet
competed. and the good, fresh fall
winds made the event one of the most
spectacular held that season.
All signs point to an early and Sc
we're winter this year. and it may be
that 1t will prove impossible to hold
the proposed event. Weather condi-
tons during the past week have dis
couraged many of the Columbia boat
owners, and it Is probable that there
will be no boats left in the harbor for
the regatta unless things warm I'M Il
little.
The closing season has been the
most successful in local yachting an
nails. The sport has been of higher
order and interest in the game more
general than ever before. Except in
the Fourth of July regatta of 1900,
when the Macatawa and Milwaukee
clubs sent their whole fleets down to
Chicago. regattas of such magnitude
as those held OF Chicago this summer
have never been seen. Sixty-seven
yachts started in the 1900 race. but
nearly one-third of the boats were sent
by out of town organizations. Several
times this season fleets OF forty or
fifty craft, mostly flying local burgess.
have been started out of Van Buren,
street gap.
The term fresh water yachtsman"
can be used no longer derisively by
amateur salts of the coast organiza-
tons. Two yachting events of national
interest are annual Institutions on
Lake Michigan-the Chicago Yacht
clubs 331-mile straishtaway race to
Mackinac island and the twenty-One
foot Upton cup races held under the
auspices of the Columbia Yacht club
The Mackinac race as a nauctical
sporting event ranks with the best that
the eastern and Pacific clubs have to
offer and the Upton cup contests are
as pretty as anything known to the
game.
Interest in the long run down the
lake was trebled this season by the
establishment of the great Mackinac
cup as a perpetual trophy, and next
season it is expected that many more
staunch craft will take the judges gun
at the start than those that slipped
out of the gap last July. Besides Hus-
sar III. Toledo will probably send sew
eral of its biggest cruisers. Cleveland
will undoubtedly be represented and
maybe Buffalo. A movement is on
foot in Milwaukee, headed by young
Ed. Sanger, skipper of the Upton boat
Mendoza, to buy or build schooner
or yawl to enter the big race
Among the local boats already out
of commission are Commodore Fred
Prices fine yawl Juanita, George Ira
mel's fast sloop Vencedor and Commo-
dore Baum's steel yawl Arcadia. All
three have been stripped and disman-
tied and towed to Cuthbert's yards for
their winter rest. The rest of the local
boat owners. who intend to get their
craft out of water early, are busily
at work on their boats and by the end
of the week there will be only few
yachts left at their mornings.
With the annual election of officers
coming of next month, the members
Of the Chicago club are actively en-
gagged in campaigning for their candi-
dates. Changes are expected in sew
eral of the minor offices. but the pop
ularity of Commodore William Baum
is thought by the big majority of the
tars to be sufficient to re-elect him by
unanimous vote. One of the most pop
ular young members. George Weed,
is expected to accept the candidacy for
fleet captain, in which case his cleo
ton is regarded as lone best bet"