Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-10
YACHT RACERS AT BERMUDA
COMMODORE MoRSS' SCHOONER
DERvISH FIRST IN PORT.
Hyperion Second, But She Is Beaten
by Understandable Time Made
by the Little Racers.

HAMILTON. Bermuda. June Io-Commo-
oore H. A Morss' schooner yacht pervlsh
was the first Of the yacht racers from New
| York to arrive here. She crossed the nnish-
Ing line off st. David's Head at Go o'clock
yesterday morning. having made the pas
| sage from Gravesend bay. where the race
| was started, IN days Is hours and - min
utes
The Hyperion, Rear Commodore Frank
! Maiers new yawl, finished at ..5l o'clock
| yesterday afternoon. Her passage was even
| more remarkable than that OF the Dervish.
! She made the journey in 4 days hours and
| 10 minutes. She is only 40 feet long while
the Dervish is 50 feet in length. and &C
/ cording to the system OF time allowance
| used in the race the Dervish would have
! had to allow % hours and ~ minutes 10
| the Hyperion If they had been sailing in
| the same class.
Performance of a Yawl.
The Hyperion had hardly arrived in the
! harbor when the yawl Lila, owned by r. d.
Floyd, was sighted. She finished at 8:25
O'Clock. having made the voyage in days
| hours and 90 minutes. She gets an allow
| ance of hours and 40 minutes from the
| Hyperion. SO she beats that yacht 10y
| hours and IL minutes. The Lila probably
| The Lila is only 40 feet long on deck.
| Her log shows that from Sandy Hook To
| the finish she sailed G29 miles. which shows
| how well she was navigated. For this part
of the voyage she averaged more than six
! nautical miles an hour. She is manned en-
tirely by amateurs, which makes her per-
formance even more credltabe.
1t is probable that the Dervish wins the
cup given by Rear Commodore Frank Maier
of the New Rochelle Yacht Club, but being
the largest yacht in the feet OF racers, with
the exception of the Priscilla, she has 10
allow time to all the others, and the most
allowance is "a hours to the little schooner
Mist, which is only - feet long on deck.
The Dervish crossed the starting line in
Gravesend bay at 1o:36:o0 on Wednesday.
the starting gun having sounded at 1888.
The Hyperion, with Commodore Frank
Maier at the wheel, led the fleet and the
DerviSh was the second boat She STOOD
over to the southwest spit and tn n tackled
and passed out by the hook at noon well
in the lead The Shamrock at that time
was doing well and before shutdown was in
second place, but some three miles to lee
ward of the Dervish The wind was from
the southeast and it held from that quarter
all night.
Sailing the Dervish.
Commodore Morss acted as his wn naVl-
gator and the wind was ahead he did
some fine plotting. and by noon on Thurs
day had left Sandy Hook 162 miles be-
hind. The yacht by that time had a quarter
ing wind and was travelling fast. She
struck the gulf stream on Thursday aft
/ ernoon at 2:l5 o'clock. Commodore Morss
electing to take it where 1t came in his
voyage and not keeping down until off
Cape Hatteras to cross. The wind held
steadily and on Friday shifted to north
west still being favorable, and for "A while
| the Dervish carried a squaresaiL In the
twenty four hours ending Friday at noon
| the yacht made 233 miles. which shows
| how she was travelling. In the next twenty
| four hours ending at noon Saturday she
| made 131 miles. and then Commodore
Morss and his friends began to think that
they might get In to Hamilton sunday IL
the wind held.
All Saturday afternoon the yacht dld
well, and by midnight she was only about
fifty miles from the finishing line. me
men on the watch were keeping GOOD
lookout and at $3.50 o'clock in the morn
ing St David's Head was sighted. and
all hands knew that the race was nearly
over.
Arrival at ST. David's Head.
| The arrival of the Dervish took the local
yachtsman by surprise. They had not
expected that the racers would reach here
| so soon and there was no stakeboat out to
mark the finish. The red green red night
| signals of the Dervish were seen in the
| lighthouse on St. David's Head but even
| then it was impossible to get the judges
| out at the finishing line on time, but they
were there almost as soon as the Dervish
| and gave rousing welcome to Commodore
| Morss, his guests and crew.
The Dervish was towed into Hamilton
| harbor and hundreds of craft of all sizes
turned out to greet her, and the piers and
shores were lined with men and women,
who cheered necessarily as the yacht was
| taken to moorings off the Royal Bermuda
Yacht Club.
| Commodore Morss was delighted with his
| trip. He said the voyage had been a pleas
ant one with no incidents out OF the ordi-
nary He had not expected, he said, to
| finish until Monday morning and was agree
| ably surprised and pleased to learn that
| his yacht was the first to arrive.
| An arbitrary handicap arranged.
| The larger yachts had to allow the smaller
ones forty-five minutes for each foot diff
ference in size. The Priscilla. the largest
boat, had to allow l hour and 80 minutes to
the Dervish. The Priscilla is consequently
beaten. The Dervsh had to allow - min
utes each to the Zuhrah and Shamrock.
She allowed hours 80 minutes to the Tam
many and II hours ~ minutes to the Zinita.
These yachts have not been reported and
they now out beyond their allowances,
so they are beaten. the Isolt gets al
lowance of 10 hours 80 minutes from the
Dervish and If she get in before
- minutes after midnight she will win.
The Mist gets allowance OF "a hours
from the DerviSh.