The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-07
SECOND SECTION.
TO RACE FOR The Upton CUP
FIRST CONTEST AT REGATTA or
BENSONHURST Y. G..
tuch Interest IN the Series which WIN Last
Prom Next Saturday TO September =
-LarchnOnt Race week and New York
&c. Cruise Among the Coming Events.

&c. Cruise Among the Coming Events
The most important yachting OF
the week will be- the beginning Of the racing
FOR the cup given by Sir Thomas Upton
for fifteen footers. This cup has been
given TO the Crescent Athletic Club and It
sas expected that the yachts would be
ready for racing when the season opened,
hut there were delays in building the boats,
caused largely by the Indictment weather,
and they we're not all out until June 20,
and then they were not in racing trim.
It was decided to give the owners W
more weeks to tune up and then begin to
scrap on July IS in the regatta Of the Ben
sonhurst Yacht Club.
This class IL not a large one. but it 10 In
important one because it has been pro-
noted 10 develop amateur smiling N
has become very popular dow the bay
and the boats are being watched by yachts
men in other waters. They are a good
healthy type Of boat and are remarkably
fast.
There will be two races for these boats
on Saturday next. In the morning at
10 o'clock they will be started to race for a
trophy given by ex-Commodore A. G. Bel
loves. When that race ia finished the
owners will have time to get their lunch
and will then start in the regular afternoon
regatta of the club. which will be the third
championship event OF Gravesend Bay,
and in the fifteen foot class points will be
credited TO the racers for the Upton cup.
There will be two races sailed Tor the cup
On July 20 and after that there will be a
race each Saturday and the series will end
On September ?.
The seven boats in the class are to be
hauled out to clean this week. They will
all be on the ways at the same time and will
furnish IN interesting study to those who
are fond Of studying the different ways
that designers work out their ideas under
the present rule Of measurement
On Wednesday afternoon there will be a
ladies' race of the Atlantic Yacht Club.
1t will he the first OF a series OF three and
sior yachts Of classes p. q and S. ~. % and
IS footers. The yachts are to be steered
BY women, and as there are several women
sailors at Sea Gate the race will be a good
one II the weather is favorable.
On Saturday the Indian Harbor Yacht
Club will hold its annual regatta. This
will be a regatta for all classes. and the
big schooners, he 8S. 81 n other fast
sloops and many Of the yachts in the smaller
classes on the Sound will compete. The
Indian Harbor clubs regatta is always
one Of the features Of the racing season on
the Sound. It's regattas a always been
% well managed that yschtsmen have con-
Adence in the committee In charge. The
start will be made at loon of Great Captains
Island light and the courses will be signalled
before the warning signal Ia made. Entries
should be sent to Frank Bovine Jones,
chairman Of the regatta committee, at ~
Broadway or the clubhouse at Greenwich.
The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club
will have one OF a series of races for - Hooters
owned in the club and the Bayside Yacht
Club will have races FOR launches, he tor
pedo class and handicap class.
Then the yachts will prepare for Larch-
mont's race week. which will begin on Satur-
day, July 20. and end o n Saturday. July "a.
There will be three open regattas for all
classes during the week and series races
for the best racing classes OF the season.
With Larchmont's a O week over pre-
partitions will be made FOR the cruise OF
the New York Yacht Club, which this year
will begin on Thursday. August g.. On the
afternoon Of that day the fleet will d
yous at Glen Cove, and the fleet captains
will, as usual, meet on board Commodore
Cornelius Vanderbilt's flagship North Star.
The programme for this year has been
changed somewhat. The yachtsmen will not
visit Norris Cove, and for this few regrets
have been expressed. Morris Cove is not
an inviting port. The harbor 10 not an easy
one for large yachts to enter and the mos
qultOes there are very voracious.
The first days run on Friday. August
o will be to Huntington. IL this ID a race
y will probably be over some course on the
Sound, with the finishing line oh Hunting
ton. This has been done in former years,
and after the race the yachts sail into the
harbor, On Saturday morning he fleet
start early for New London. sixty-six miles
away. This is quite a long run. particu-
arly when the weather conditions on the
Sound are light, but when this run has
been made before the New York Yacht
Club has usually been fortunate in having a
isar sailing breeze and getting over the
Gerry was flag officer the yachts started
on this u in an easterly storm accom-
panied by rain, and the yachtsmen had a
very hard days work. II was on this run
that the Defender and yigilant in 1896
made a very fast run. 1t was broad
reach the entire distance and the Defender
at one time, according to Capt. Han, who
vas sailing her. was travelling at the rate Of
more than fourteen miles an hour. She
disabled her steering gear when on Corn
neld lghtship.. however. and could not go
on 10 the finish.
Al New London the yachts will anchor
on the club station, which il just above
The Peduot House, as usual, and on Sum
day the yachtsmen will rest and their ves-
%s will be dressed with bunting, making
she scene one of rare beauty.
On Monday morning the run will he to
newport and here another change will be
made in the programme that has been GUS
tomary for some years. 1t has been usual
10 remain AT Newport for a few days and
@l the Aston cup races and last year the
hiing's cup race, but il has been found that
when the big races are over the yachtsmen
drop ont of the squadron and n comparative
lew 60 on TO Vineyard Haven. This year
The fleet will leave Newport on Tuesday
morning, August 10, and race TO Vineyard
haven. The yachts will race back to New
port on Wednesday and will remain at
newport until the feet disbands on Satur-
nay, August II. on Newport on Thursday,
August u. there will be races for the Aston
cups There is one cup for schooners and
ore for sloOps. On Friday the Kings cup
VII he sailed for and this race brings all
me crack yachts over 30 feet in length
together IN one class. On Saturday there
VII he the races for the Owl and the Game
cock rnlnrs.
During the cruise in addition to the regu-
I9r Class prizes there will be races for several
chall"nge trophies held In the club and for
pllles offered Ivy the flag officers. The
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