The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-07-17

The annual week OF racing OF the Mar
ragansett Bay Yacht Racing association
began yesterday afternoon with the
open regatta OF the Edgewood Yacht
club.
The start OF events, was made shortly
after 2 o'clock. Everything went or
smoothly, and there was but one mis-
hap. that being of no particular cS,se-
quence. One OF the racers in the dory
class. sailed by c. z. Otis. was run into
and upset Off Silver Spring by one OF the
old-fashioned catboat class in mlx-up
of several boats. out of which 4 was I'M I'M
Otis had as a passenger Miss Roland
OF New Haven, but she was helped into
the catboat without even sustaining q
wetting. The dory was soon rfghted ana
The best racing was in the FIRST class,
that for the 30 foot sloops, although the
fve S,iSoters IN the ni, same uiViSITh Tbe a biS
sloops included the Flint brothers wan
derer ~, last season cat and now a
sloop, because there is nothing In TINS
pable OF giving her any sort of race;
the Novice. a handsome Newport sloop,
owned and sailed BY A. l.. Sands. and
the Priscilla. OF Fall River, owned by w.
The latter had a time allowance OF
minutes, and 40 seconds over Wanderer
~ and Of Is seconds less sx sSo 9ye SoTSe n
ute her competitors coming in about Az
minutes ahead Of her on elapsed time:
The contest between Wanderer Nv, and
Novice was as pretty one as anybody
could ask 10 see. Crossing the line almost
together. they finished the first round OF
the course with hardly change OF posi-
tion.
On the first leg Of the second round,
however, the Wanderers skipper found
II necessary TO make short tack in or
der TO get far enough on the wind TO
m a Are n
Novice gained a little by this move, and
throughout the rest OF the race she held
a lead OF a few feet rounding the finish
mark IL seconds ahead OF the Edgewood
boat. which also allowed her IL seconds.
On the first leg OF the second round the
wind was very squally and the Wander
OF the Fall River boat. were compelled
to put down the helm bit on more than
one occasion.
The course was No 2 OF the Edgewood
three times, and making distance OF
about IL knots. The start was across an
imaginary line off the Edgewood club
wood, and southwark TO Rock Island
black spar buoy, No. 8, passing Pewtuxet
beacon and red spar buoy No 5. channel
silver Spring black spar buoy No. 3;
passing all beacons and buoys on the
channel side. leaving mark 10 port,
thence 10 and around the mark of the
The preparatory gun was fred at 2:05,
and tho starting signal for the 30-foot
sloops was given Is minutes afterward.
With two minutes between each class.
the craft followed i'm this order: 25-foot
sloops, 2l-foot sloops> 1s-foot sloops dor
les and skiffs; second division, old-fash-
ioned cats. S-foot cats. special sloops.
21-foot cats ls-foot cats.
In the @-foot sloop class, the Hawk.
owned by s. l.. Crawford. OF Jamestown,
finished nearly seven minutes ahead Of
her nearest rival : Raxter's Gunnre ~
the Washington Park Yacht club. The
Gunnre had an allowance OF minutes 81
seconds, but the Hawk still had plenty
of margin for q victory. There were
three others In this class. but only one
the Mcaboo. owned by w. r Tillinghast,
OF Bristol. was within pistol shot at the
finish.
IN the 3o-foot cat class. sailed as
nat race. that r.. without time allow.
ance for size and sail area. the entrants
were Z. scattergoods Scatt OF the Edge