Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-18


hauled for the breakwater. The light
wind gave the two former boats a slight
advantage, and when the gun popped they
were right on the line, with Monsoon in
the windward berth
Mischief and Columbine contested the
right to a windward berth, resulting in
the former crossing the line about a
minute ahead. AS the end of the break
water was left over the quarter both
went about and stood for the whistler
off F'irrnin. Monsoon, with a laundering
for deep water, chose an outside course,
but Minerva hung on to the smooth
swells in shore.
In quarter of an hour Mischief had
taken the lead, and as we rounded the
Firrnin buoy Arrow could be seen coming
round the breakwater. Fritz ordered the
sheet started and we drifted along in
a light air with Columbine and Minerva
in our wake few hundred yards astern.
Just before leaving the harbor, and
after the starting gun had been fired,
Mischief shipped another man in her
crew, Louis Small of San Francisco, COM
ing aboard from a launch He was or
dered below to shift to something more
presentabIe than collars and cuffs, and
took so long at it that the cook COM
planned.
Doc Chosen Cook
With all hands on deck watches were
chosen, Carley Bubbles chosen mate, with
I Bone Jack and Lutz Small, otherwise
known as Hop Sing, because of his pro-
pensity for pidgin English as able sea-
men. Doc Sylvester promised to satisfy
the cravings of the inner man, and then
didn't keep his promise-nor his breakfast
either. The latter was the real article,
procured at a San Pedro restaurant burt
it made little difference.
1t was off Portuguese bay that the
trouble started, when the cook was or
dered below to prepare lunch. None of
us was really hungry, but there was
nothing else for the cook to do. Z
Our interest in Columbines frantic en-
deavor to close up the gap between us
was rudely interrupted by the cook who,
instead of giving the first call for lunch,
sang a last farewell to his coffee and
sinkers, and then sank ANONYMOUSLY on
deck L Bone Jack was ordered to apply
the first aid to the injured, and with the
aid of a champagne glass ne bailed about
quart of the Pacific ocean into the
unhappy cook.
All hands sat around expectantly, eager
for general results, no matter how pain
full the nows had to be, but with the per-
versity of landlubber on his first cruise,
Doc refused to give up his briny treasure.
Hop Sing volunteered to act the part
of the lady bountiful and he was unani-
mously elected to the position of cabin
steward. In a few minutes he passed
around a contraption which he called a
beggar sandwich, that he had been in
troduced to during his exile in Frisco.
The cook wrapped himself in blanket
like Comanche brave, and was con-
Lao IN, I1n CHI n n
of the cabin, a position that had more
advantages than would be naturally i'm
agined.
Mischief Draws Away
As Bubbles could not raise the wind
T-Bone Jack relieved the helm and stood
off shore in search of a breeze. He
found it and Mischief drew rapidly away
from Columbine, which in a jealous rage
set reaching jib. But it was written
that the older boat should lead all the
way to Vincente, which she did without
once going about.
Monsoon was far off shore, writing in
the doldrums which tortured her merci-
lessly until after we had weathered the
point Once Pugh tried to go about,
but didn't make a job of 1t, as he couldn't
tell which side the wind was on.
In the open waters of Santa Monica
bay we found a nice westerly breeze with
enough south mixed up in 1t to enable
us to stand over to Point Dune. Half
a mile astern could be seen Columbine,
the victim of too much reaching jib,
making a tack seaward in an effort to
make the whistler
Knot after knot Mischief put between
them until nearly an hour later We could
make out Columbine heeling down to the
same breeze that helped us past Redon-
do, OfNthe others we could see nothing,
nor did we sight them again until Santa
Barbara was reached
So happy were we In our five-mile lead
of the fleet that the Afternoon passed
ranidly away. Our only concern was to
keen Columbine well to leeward and for
sevpral hours that was too easy for
mention. To relieve the monetony of
puessing how far ahead we We're and
Row MANY hours we would lead the fleet
into santa Barbara, Hop Sing proposed
a pink tea. ,-,
T-Bone Jack whispered that the skip
per had box of candy for Joe Pugh'
which he would not need, being so far
behind. Fritz denied having anything
so feminine as bonbons in his possession,
but the discriminating evidence was FOUND
in one of his grips.
For two hours we talked scandal and
muir ched Pows candy, feeling guilty
about the gossip of course, Hop Sing
insisted In showing a new pair of white
hose that he had hunted all over San
Francisco to find, and didn't like it a