Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-09
YACHTSMEN TO
CONTEST OVER
LONGER COURSE
Stiff BreezeS Should
Prevail
Class B and C Boats Are Entered for
Today's Racing at San Pedro, with
Slight Possibility of Class A
Craft Starting
ny JACK VIVARTTAs

Heralds choice of winners in today S
race at San Pedro:
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% Class B-Mischief II first, Col 9
@ umbine second, Monsoon third. g
o. Class C-Venus first, Valkyrie g
@ second, Merlin third. "
@ Detroit not being ready and none g
O of the twenty footers being in g
@ commission, there will be no =
O. starters in classes A and ID. g
@ % ~@@%~~ 8 900 9 @ 31 g 9 g
In choosing Mischief II to win in the
24-foot class it has been taken into con-
sideration that todays course is more
to the advantage of the sitter class of
boats.
While Columbine won the last race,
she is conceded better adapted to light
winds, but of course she may get so
far in the lead on the first leg-that
Mischief II will have hard work to
overtake her.
Mischief II is far the better boat in
windward work, and should easily out
point both Columbine and Monsoon.
Monsoon, by the way, demonstrated
in the last race, that she can go to
Ieeward as well, as she sails close
hauled and probably will not be far
behind at the finish. She has been
fairly beaten by Mischief II, and her
winning today would be largely case
of luck.
Venus will not have an easy task
with Valkyrie and Merlin, as the time
shat she must allow both boats, about
eight minutes over today's course, will
prove a great handicap, besides which
the start will be made in classes.
Merlin and Valkyrie will probably
have a great contest between them
selves, being nearly of the same
measurements and each having already
won a race over the other.
The course, instead of being triangu-
lar. as in the previous race, will be
leeward and windward one, with an ad-
ditional reach in from the end of the
breakwater. Starting from line be-
tween the stakeboat, which is left to
starboard, and the southeast corner of
the Miner bulkhead. the course will be
in northeasterly direction to a stake
boat moored off Long Beach; thence to
the whistling buoy off Point F'frmfn,
and back around east end of break
water to and around the bell buoy, to
starting point.
The distance is close to thirteen miles,
and all starting will be in classes, as
follows: Glass C, preparatory gun at
12:4O, starting gun at 12:45; class B,
preparatory gun at 12:55, starting gun
p. m.
Should the class A boats enter, as is
very improbable, they will be started
ten minutes after class B.
Better Course Today
Today's course is by all means bet
ter one than that of two weeks ago. 1t
lies over deeper water and will be less
liable to flukey winds than the former.
The distance is nearly three miles less
than was sailed over the triangular
course, and this, together with the
starting in classes, will more than likely
keep the respective classes separate.
Mischief II will be scratch boat, her
water line length being 29.61, against
Columbine's 1913 and Monsoon's 29.2.
This will require that Mischief allow
Columbine only twenty-nine seconds
and Monsoon a trifie more.
So slight a difference in time allow
ance will no doubt surprise a great
many of Columbines admirers, as it
has been generally expected that the
older boat was considerably larger In
fact in the last race there was some
talk of several minutes advantage for
MitchelPs sloop, and the chances of
winning in a good whole sail breeze are
JuSt JfldL nuCl QlmlnlSneQ.
She has never demonstrated that she
can run off sufficient more than the
Mischief II to insure her of safe lead
at the beginning of the windward work.
In the first leg of the former race both
Mischief and Yankee sailed so far out
of the course, through being unable to
pick up the stakeboat, that they really
covered a much greater distance, which
about offset Columbine's gain.
kee and Mischief were crippled by
splitting their balooners, but here again
the failing wind made all attempts at
comparison impossible.
Mischief 1 and Skiddoo will be very
much in the game too, but neither
should give the bigger boats very much
to worry about. Mischief ! has won
some very good races, but her luck
seems to have forsaken her for her
namesake. Skiddoo managed to get
Columbine blanketed for half a mile,
but the latter easily outsailed her when
the change of course made it possible
for her to get away.
In class G the time allowance is a
very considerable factor, and plucky
little Venus will have to outsail her
competitors at every point to be able
to cross the finish line with eight
minutes to spare.
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and with a steady wind Capt. Fellows
pride is apt to lose out. This time al
lowance, always a source of contention
sometimes makes defeat out of a well
earned victory, and as Venus could
hardly assume the difference and sal
against the larger boats she will have
to pay the penalty for being the larger
sister.
Place Confidence in VaIkyrie
Valkyrie is working out better every
time she gets under way, and spank
ing good breeze being very much to he1
liking she should be able to beat Merlin
today, and who knows but what she
may come in close enough to Venus To
give the regatta committee some fgur.
ing to do?
Valkyrie has a reputation to estab.
lish before going to San Francisco
where she will meet the new pet of the
whole north bay Discovery. Some
thing has been said of the latter boat!
being too large for Valkyrie to hope
for much success, but the local tarl