Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
COLUMBLNE
WINS RACE
BEATS MISCHIEF II BY MORE
THAN A MILE
FoLsoM's HANDLING OF BOAT is
UNUSUAL
Only Two Entries for Big Race and
Interest Is Detracted from
Event-Many Guests
at Banquet
BY JACK vIvARTTAs

Columbine, by more than mile. In
a steady ten-knot breeze and an ugly
swell at Venice yesterday the Mitchell
sloop got home minutes and 26 seconds
ahead of Folsom's crack racer, MIS-
chief II.
It was a pretty and we'll sailed race, but
on every point the new boat outsailed
Mischief II so positively as to preclude
any idea of accident or fukey wind, and
all honor to Columblne and her skipper
must be given.
Owing to the unfortunate mishap 10
Monsoon only Mischief and Columbine
were at the starting line when the pre-
paratory signal was fired. Both stood
toward Santa Monica, but Columbine
went about and stood back to leeward
of the line. her sheet Stacked and main
sail Tapping, but Folsom kept Mischief
well up to windward until within min
ute of the time.
Then he went about luffed under the
stern of Columbine and got windward
berth. Mitchell paid little attention to
it and Mischief got about three lengths
ahead. in which positions they crossed the
line at the gun.
Mischief's lead was short-lived, for
Columbine pointed up lots better, all the
time footing like a steamboat. Not be-
fore this season has Folsoms S boat mace
a poorer showing, for while the wind was
comparatively light the sea was just
what Mischief always did well in and
what one would expect to make trouble
for Columbine.
Trouble with Rollers
n is true in the first leg of the first
round she did have some trouble mount
ing the rollers, but it did not seem to
make any difference in her speed. AT the
end of the first leg Mischief was third
of a mile to leeward, when Columolne
turned at 2:311O, and just by the mar
rowest margin did Folsom manage TO
weather the mark after he came ABOUT
off North Santa Monica.
Mischief had lost four minutes after
getting the best of the start by about
ten seconds and continually steadily TO
lose all the way to the finish. On the
second leg Columbine quickly set her
lib, and as a broad reach has al
wavs been to her liking she fairly ate
ND the distance to the second flag.
For some unaccountable reason t'oIsom
did not set his ballooner on this leg ana
Columbine added another
minute to her already long lead. The two
boats by this time were fully mile
apart and Mischief's chances OF winning
were on the wane.
Rv her many admirers it was hoped |
that she would make up some of the Col
umbines lead on the reach to wlndWaru'
hut as all through the race, she steadily |
lost. Columbine rounded the second
mark at 2:55 81 and Immediately started
on her long suit, a run off the wind
Mischief was nearly six minutes be-
hind when she came abreast OF the
mark and Walter made desperate eHort
to overtake the slippery Mitchell boat by
setting his spinnaker on the run nome
but here again Fritz passed another
lemon out of the fiat boats hold and she
made The first round nearly eight minutes
to the good.
Under pressure of mainsail ballooner
and spinnaker Mischief forged ahead so
rapidly as to make us think she had found
out how, but at the end of the first leg OF
the second round the old story must once
more be told, so why prolong the agony?
Columbine sailed better than ever before |
and Folsom, who was beaten In the frst
leg, was game enough to go all the way |
around and take his medicine, the Mitchell
boat winning over the tifteen-mile course
by minutes and 26 seconds actual time,
At the banquet rendered the members
last night aboard the ship hotel Cabrillo |
about 200 guests gathered. The citizens or |
Venice and Ocean Park did themselves
proud in the sumptuous fare provided.
Several impromptu speeches were made,
and Jack Densham read an original poem |
sort of tar's lament-he being one of
the crew of the Mischief, that Columbine |
defeated so handsomely.
No little credit is due the regatta COM
mittee of the S. C. Y. c. for the tireless
and unselish service they have performed. |
Poor Wesley Sylvester, who would a
thousand times rather pull on a sheet |
than hold a stop watch, has been the
official starter for nearly four seasons. A.
L. Best, secretary of the club and eX
officio member of this committee, Is on
duty most any time though he sometimes
plays truant long enough to sail Merlin in
a race. Stewart Laughlin and H. o. Day
are the other members of the regatta com
mittee and are specially concerned in the
comforts and welfare of the press repre-
sentatives, always reserving spot for us
in the judges boat.