Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-25
PREPARING FOR
BIG YACHT RACE
EASTERN YACHTSMEN INVITE
LOCAL CLUB TO ENTER
Commodore Spalding Receives For-
NAL Invitation to Meet, and If
Possible VIII Send Best
Local Boat

Eastern yachtsmen are anxious to
have the Pacific coast represented in
the international match for small
yachts to be sailed next September off
Marblehead, Mass, between three boats
from Germany and three to be select
ed as representatives Of the United
States.
Trial races are to be held off Mar
blehead in August to select the Amer
ican team, and an effort is being made
by the special committees of the Eastern
Yacht club of Boston and the Kaiser
licher Yacht club of Kiel, Germany
(of which the German emperor is the
official heao), to secure representation
in them from all sections of the coun-
try.
Next seasons match will be the third
between Germany and the United
States. The first, sailed off Marble
head in 1906, was won by the American
team of boats. The second. sailed last
year off Kiel Germany, was won by
the Germans. Boats of the German
or ''sonder" class are used.
In the trials of 1906 seventeen Ameri-
can boats were entered. 1t is hoped
this year to have even a larger fleet
from which to choose the home team.
In order that the team may be repre-
sentative of the country as whole,
and therefore distinctly national, the
committees mentioned, in accordance
with a policy approved by both sides
and indorsedd by the emperor, have
addressed circulars to the various yacht
clubs of the country which are inter-
ested in yacht racing, requesting en-
tries in the trials.
In addition to these circulars per-
sonal letters have been sent to various
yacht club commodores, among them
being Commodore Rufus P. Spaldtng
of the South Coast Yacht club, who
has received the following:
Commodore Rufus F. Spalding, South
Coast Yacht Club:
"Dear Commodore-I have already
sent a formal invitation to the secre-
tary of your club, Mr.. Best, to enter
a boat in our races next summer l
inclose herewith copy of the prelim-
mary .-nouncement. The position Of
the Eastern Yacht club in running
these races is simply that of a trustee.
the main object being to make them as
broadly American as possible, the
Kaiserlicher Yacht club taking sim
liar stand in Germany. The contest
next summer Is likely to be extremely
exciting because the first series two
years ago for the Roosevelt cup was
won by us at Marblehead, while the
match a year ago last summer for the
by the Germans in Kiel Both Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Emperor William
have taken a keen and active interest
in these races because of the fact that
they are proving an important means
of promoting friendly feeling between
the two countries. We hope that some
members of ycur club or possibly your
club itself may feel sufficient interest
to send boat to Marblehead. If you
do we can promise that your represen-
tatives will receive a very hearty well
come. Yours sincerely,
"HENRY HOWARD,
Chairman and Secretary Eastern Y.
C. German-American Race Commit
tee"
The committee of the Eastern Yacht
club has been watching, it appears, the
growth of yachting in Southern Cali
fornia, and has expressed in private
letters sent here the wish that clubs
with the spirit shown here In the ocean
races of the last few seasons could be
induced to put forward a representa-
tive for the international match.
The cost of the boats is mere frac-
tion of the cost of an American cup
racer, and the honor of representation
in the match by no means is small.