New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-28
TWO YACHTS GO DOWN.
THE QUEENIE CAPSIZED.
Series of accidents :n Final Race
of Larchmont Club.

The n1tn ana IHdt TdCS Oh Ilc
Yacht Clubs race week. sailed on Long Island
Sound yesterday, will go record as the most
interesting exciting and plucky series OF con-
tests in twenty classes ever seen at the west
end OF the Sound. The schooners Elmina and
Katrina and the sIoops Effort and Aurora won
in their classes
Out of the northwest a breeze. ranging in
strength from % TO so miles hour, made the
surface of the water feather white, kicking up
an ugly sea for the small craft near the Long
Island shore and straining to the limit the rig
gng and spars OF all the seventy-1ve yachts
that started.
Two 1S-fOot one design yachts, the Mlstr
owned by r. P. Clarke, and the Nora, Lewis
IseIin's boat were capsized and sunk the lead
in their keels carrying them to the bottom OF
the Sound Their crews were rescued In the
nick of time by Commodore A. II. Alker' with
his steam yacht Florence. W. II. Childs's Y
class boat Joy was dismasted when within
mile Of the finish. the big schooner IngoInar
split the foot of her lug foresail when leading
in her class and the little 15-footer Queenie
capsized when close to the finish.
II was TO the credit OF the accompanying fleet
Of steam and power craft that lives were
lost by drowning in this chapter of accidents
OF the seventy-iVe yachts that started hfty-tWo
crossed the finish line. although some Of the
smaller craft We're half full of water when they
did So.
the preparatory signal given for the big
schoouers at 11:35 that. with only foresail'
rnainsaH forestavsaI and jib set, they were
burving their lee rails in green water. Barr ana
Dennis, shippers respectively Of the lngomar
and the Elmina. had been waiting for just such
a chance to try out their schooners. and they
crossed the line together. with the Ingomar in
the weather berth, five seconds after the signal,
travelling at a twelve knot gait and with not
sign of a gaf topsail set. The Queen. with her
Lof-,, ~ lin
utes in their wakes They set their main
topsails the three mile to the eastern
mark which the Ingomar rounded first
J. r. Ford's schooner Katrina and L. J. Cal
lanan's Eclipse had foreSails set hen they
approached the line. and their decks were all
awash. but up went that sail the Eclipse a
she cleared the line. forcing the Katrina to fol-
low suit. Then came F. NJ. Smiths sloop Effort,
alone in her class, for the Nicola did not appear.
Following her the next signal came the
Aurora steered by Harry Maxwell. with Com
modore Vanderbilt alongside him in the cock
pit She led the Winsome by half a length and
the Istalena by less. Neither soop had top
sail set.
With single reef tied IN their mainsails the
six 'thirties." that have raced all the week
made a brilliant start. led by the Adelaide and
then the plucky crews of the Glass = and q
boats and the handicap sloops, nearly all with
single or double reefs in, came fov the line
heeling until their keels wore visible II was a
by those fortunate enough to witness it.
The three sChooners. meanwhile had rounded
tho second mark off Weeks Point and had he
gun a hard thrash TO wIndward The Ingomar
held her lead. and had just rounded the home
mark at l2.4232, fl seconds ahead Of the Ell
NINA when. with a roar like the report of a
gun her foresai split the foot. from IufY to
leach. about two feet above the boom This
put her out Of the race. but she continued and
completed the course
The queen had nearly overhauled them both
just before reaching the home mark when she
was seen 70 come UP in the wind and stop a
few hundred yards from tow Of five barCes
Some thought she had lost her centreboard. but
II was learned later that she had wrongfuly-
forced ono or the other schoouers TO tack in
the Windvard work She would have been dis
qualified. 50 she retired. leaving the Elmina 70
go on and win Tho Gardenia retired because
she had fouled the Eleanora. Among the poln+
winners in the small classes Will probably be
the Pretty Quick the Dorothy In Class o ana
the sue. in Class y
Tho summaries:
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