New-York tribune., 1907-06-21
ECLIPSE BEATS QUEEN.
WINS THE BENNETT CUP.
NarscelPs Schooner Yacht 1Is0 Vic-
tOri0us in Y. Y. 7. c. RegattG.

J. Rogers Maxwelrs Queen. last years prize
winning schooner yacht, celebrated yesterday her
j first appearance this season by defeating her
equally famous opponent. Morton f. Plants Ingo-
mar. by I'm 52s, winning the prize in her
class in the siXtieth annual regatta of the New
York Yacht Club. These two and the seventeen
other yachts that started covered course measur-
ing about twenty-five miles the schooners sailing
close race throughout. in light TO fresh breezes
from the southwest. in smooth water The Queen
was allowed I'm. los. by the Ingomar.
The coveted Bennett Cup for schooners. however
was Won by l.. J. Callanan's schooner Eclipse
She was allowed 2Sm. SOS. by the lngomar and she
won by Sm 2ls. from the Queen and by 5m. las
from the Ingomar. In the big sloOp class. F. NJ
smiths Effort was the victor. She was sailed by
Addison Hanan, and she by the good margin
OF I'M S5s. from Chares'I Lane Poor's Weetamoe.
After the closest race that the three 81
| footers have yet engaged in the Wnsome. owned
and sailed hy Henry f. Lfpptt. of Providence r. l.,
won from George NJ. Pynchons Istalena by 2m S3s
IStalena defeated the Aurora by only 25 seconds.
and J. w. AIker's thirty" Alera from the Nepsi
by 2m Ais. The Alera, which allowed In. los
| by the Effort won the Bennett Cup for Shops by
a margin of 21m. 23S.
The triangular course with It's start and finish
at the Prophet Point buoy in Hampstead Bay, had
for its turning points the Scotch Cape gas buoy
ana thc buoy of Woolsey,s Reef just west Of
Stamford light. This gave the yachts spinnaker
run OF 3]2 miles for the first leg. broad reach Of
ISs miles for the second and wlndward work for
the third leg, 81 miles
The real racing began with the last leg, when the
true and fresh breeze came from the southwest
some idea of its streaEth may be gathered from
The fact that the distance. about twelve miles
covered by the Tngomar in 11l:O7 by the Queen IN
l:l1:oS the Effort in 117:2i and the Winsome in
1876
1t was after two hours wait for a breeze that
the start made p. m. from imaginary
line formed between the Prospect Point buoy aud
the committee boat, Edmund Moran. anchored west
of it.
Breaking out balloon ilb topsails at the signal for
their class-21h p. m.-the schooncrs came for the
line with booms broad off the starboard the In
tomar leading the Queen by minute seconds.
Both had sky reaching club to7sails set, and as
they cleared the line the Queen broke out her
spinnaker captain Barr set the lngomar's when
he of his lead.
]. Callanan's Eclipse crossed the line minutes
is seconds in the wake of the other two schooners
Then came the -four big sloops Effort. Irolita
Nicola and Weetamoe, in that order. all crossing in
! minute and 81 seconds. Commodore Vanderbilt
AT the helm of his 5i-foOter Aurora. led his
class across the line. II. +. Lipptts Winsome and
George NJ. Pynchons Istalena following a length
apart. After 4. II. Morriss Gardenia and Burton
Hart's Kcstrei the ''thirties', Banzai Mink,
Alera, Neps. Adelaide. Pintan and Affair made "A
pretty start in that order. breaking out spinnakers
they crossed.
Accompanying the racing feet were these steam
yachts: f. c. Benedicts Oneioa, J. W All1er's
Florence A. Curtiss Jamess Aloha. tho Jessamin".
the Mayita. the auxiliary Intrepid. owned by Lloyd
PhTnix, the yaw sieGllnde and the schooner Cru
sader.
For the first two hours the race was little better
than drifting match. When half the second leg of
eight miles had been covered the wind left the
leaders-the Ingomar. the Queen and the Effort.
While they were becalmed inshore the rest Of the
sloops holding n light breeze Overhauled them.
finer yachting picture was never seen on the
Sound than when eleven OF the yachts-t"o
schooners and nine sloOps-with frcshening south
west breeze. luffed around the eastern mark
Woolsey's Reef buoy-in minutes 43 seconds. The
big schooner Ingomar led them at 4:3t57. with the
Queen only twenty seconds in her wake. Then
Commodore Vanderbilt. neatly luI'ng his
Aurora, close the Queens weather quarter fol
lowed in less than minute by the sloops Ista-
lena, Winsome Effort. Irolita and Nicola: tho Gar
denia, Kestrel and Eclipse following in the order
named. So fast did the Ingomar and the Queen
sail on the last leg of the course which included
short tacks and one long one. that the com
mittee tug unable 20 catch them before they
reached the finish line The lngomar crossed
twcnty-six seconds ahead OF the Queen.
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