The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-06
DERVISH LEADS IN
 YACHT RACE ID BERMUDA Corinthian Club Schooner Sighted to Eastward of
 Scotland Light. IN A SOUsING SEA. All Contestants But Tam many Far to Leeward
 in Race for Cup.

New York, June 5.-Thrashing to Windward in sousing seas, the black hulled schooner Dervish of the Corln- thian Yacht club, Massachusetts, was leading her competitors in the ocean yacht race to Bermuda late to-day when the yachts were last sighted to the eastward of Scotland light vessel just before they were enveloped in the murky mists that were piled in from seaward by a nasty 12 knot southeaster. Dervish was to windward of the schooner Tammany by nearly two miles, while the other contesting yachts struggled along far to leeward. The yawl Hyperion led her two smaller competitors, the sloops Lila and zena for the Three Clubs cup.
 Nine yachts started in the fifty foot or over class for the cup rendered by Commodore Maier, of the New Ro- chelle Yacht club, while three boats crossed the starting line in the con- test for the Three Clubs cup, to be given to the winner of entries for yachts under 50 feet in racing length. When the wind tanning fleet swept past Scotland light vessel this after noon the schooner Dervish held the lead in the Maier cup class, followed by the schooners Tammany Shamrock, Zuhrah, Priscilla, Mist, the sloop Isolt and tbn VIC yul Ir1o Io ,ero in tba .,rdn. named. The Hyperion led the smaller class with Zena second and Lila third.
 The sloop Zinita did not start with the others as her navigator, Captain Carl Muller, declined to sail on the sloop ten minlses before the starting gun was fired, declaring that Zinitas crew were in no fit condition to race and that the yacht was improperly rig ged. H. Cohen, owner of Zinita, de- clared that he would make a strat If he could secure another navigator in time. Late this afternoon MT. Cohen engaged a navigator and zinita put to sea at APO o'clock in a long stern chase after tho others,
 There was half an hours delay in getting the yachts away at the start because the schooner Shamrock swung fast on submerged sand schooner while weighing anchor Two launches labored vainly to get Shamrock into deep water and the regatta committee seeing the schooner's plight postponed the start until rescuing tug dragged Shamrock clear of the sunken wreck.
 The starting gun found the yachts to the southward of the line and with the gun flash they swung about on the port tack and fled over the line with the yawl Hyperion leading. LAll the boats crossed within three minutes of the starting gun and pitching into the eight southerly breeze stood away like a fleet of Grand banks fishermen in a race to the fishing grounds. The racers held on a long port bow which carried them down to the west banks and when came about and laid course past San dy Hook point in the starboard tack. The yawl Hyperion held her lead in the light rolling waters of the lower bay but as the contestants shot out into the pitching and pounding combers of the open sea Hyperion fell behind and Der
 
 the schooner Tammany, Shamrock and Zuhrah. Dervish was smuggled up to the edge of the wind, which had in the meantime veered again to the east ward and putting out into the open sea soon worked we'll to weather of her rivals. Shamrock forced a weather run by Zuhrah and then her skipper split lacks with the others and headed way for the Jersey shore. Meantime the lit- tie Zena, the entry of the Royal Bermu- da Yacht club, was showing her bigger sisters that in a thrash to weather in a snarling sea she was quite at home. zena was given a hard pull as she pass ei Sandy Hook, and holding her head high into the wind, out we'll to the weather of her competitor, Lila, and the big schooner Priscilla, the fSormer Gloucester fishing smack, and the schooner Mist and the sloop 1solt
 When the yachts were last seen dis appearing in the thick mist that wrap- ped the horizon in an impenetrable curtain the little brown mutton leg mainsail of Zena. from which futter- ed the burgee of the Royal Bermuda Yacht club, flashed a defiant challenge to her Yankee rivals to come out into the wind. Zena was to weather of a large majority of the fleet, and her po- sition. though astern of Dervish, made her a dangerous possibility for the race.