Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
sLooP DETROIT
and the Atlantic

mingled with sputtering firecracker
will be the reports of many starting
guns next Thursday.
On Puget sound a large fleet will visi
! Seattle to witness the internationa
Upton cup race between the pride o.
Vancouver, Alexandra, and the de-
fender, Spirit, built especially for thi!
race.
Only three of the Canadian fleet, Ma.
pie Leaf, Chinook and Minerva, will
make the trip to Seattle under theii
own sail; the rest, about twenty il
number, will string out astern of the
| tug Linda, arriving at Seattle on the
morning of the Sd.
| Alexandra is already there, having
arrived in tow last Tuesday, and from
what has been seen of her in trying
out spins she is regarded to be as able
a challenger as British Columbia evel
turned out; but with true Yankee grit
the Seattle tars are betting heavily or
Spirit.
At Chicago, Chloris, the former pride
of the Lakeside Yacht club of Cleve-
| land, Ohio, has been doing all kinds OF
things to the new Lawler sloop, Mil.
waukee. Last Saturday she defeated
Thetis two minutes on a ten-mile
course, making the distance in a heavy
gale in 81 minutes and 81 seconds, and
IuSIlS III % minutes anu OU SbCOnuS. III
is not often that such time is made on
fresh water, and it will probably stand
as the best time for ten miles-for this
season at least.
Next Thursday there will be regat-
ta for all classes for the Howell cup
Chloris is much larger than anything
seen in these waters, measuring up tc
the forty-fve foot racing class. She
was built at Cleveland three years ago.
Milwaukee is a new boat this spring
her designer having intended her to de-
feat Chloris and perhaps to defend the
Upton cup against a Canadian boat.
Great Times on Long Island Sound
Thirty yachts started in the 100-mile
race from the New York Athletic club
house on Huckelberry island, near New
Rochelle, N. Y, to Block island. For
two hours before the starting gun was
fired the fleet lay in doldrums, Ooh, Bit
ter memory of two such hours off Av-
alon in the Catalina race), and by
rightfall scarcely fifth of the distance
had been covered, the most of that due
to fair ebb tide.
At Oyster Bay recently j. Rogers
Maxwell in his schooner yacht Queen
defeated Captain Charley Barr in the
time honored Ingomar in a thirty-mile
race, making the distance in hours
and 27 minutes as against hours and
30 minutes by Ingomar
The course lay across Long Island
sound to a buoy off Greenwich Point,
Conn, the poor time made being due to
the fact that the wind was very light,
besides which the yachts had to cross a
heavy flood tide on the first round of
the fifteen-mile course, and on the
homeward leg of the second round a
strong ebb tide necessitated an extra
beat of nearly four miles. In the same
race, but another class, Cornelius Van
derbilt sailed Aurora over the line 1
minute and "a seconds ahead of Ista-
lena, steered by George M. Pynchon.
There is a growing impression in the
east that professional sailing masters
are not absolutely essential to a sue
cessful race, even in the larger boats,
and the decisive victory of Queen over
Ingomar, the latter commanded by a
veteran skipper of international fame,
Is significant from that standpoint. 1t
is all right to have brass round skip
per on the floating steam palaces, where
the law requires a licensed man, but
why they should have been so long toll
Grated on a sailing yacht Is not easily
understood by yachtsmen who really
understand the game.
At Kiel, Germany, the French cup
challenger Sarmen recently defeated
the German yacht Felca minutes and
20 seconds over a twenty-mile course.
Felca won the cup at Trouville last