The sun., 1908-08-23
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TINE TABLE IN MONDAYS PAPERS.
Admission 81. Ladies 81.
ATLANTIC CLUES RACE WEEK.
Many n Footers to Compete In Series
for Thompson Cup.

From the first Of September until Labor
Day the attention Of yachtsmen will be cen-
tered upon the programme Of racing events
arranged by tho Atlantic Yacht Club at Sea
Gate for it's race week beginning on Wednes-
day, September 2. Cups valued ut more than
90 500 have been offered for this racing car
niyal and the entries include some Of the best
known craft in the waters around New York.
There will be an ocean race from Sea Gate
around Fire Island Lightship and return. .
distance of about q hundred miles. The
o6ean race is open to schooners. sloops and
ytvls Of not over 90 feet rating measurement
and the indications are that 1t viii attract
quite az large feet Of competitors as did the
Cape May race started from Gravesend Bay
on the Fourth Of July.
All Of the contestants will sail as one mixed
class In cruising trim and on regular time
allowance, and In addition to the cups which
form the general prizes for the ocean race.
a valuable cup Is offered by r. d. Underwood
for schooners exclusively sailing over the same
course. irrespective Of size,
The series OF races for the Thompson cup
for yachts in the 20 class viii be held on
Wednesday. Thursday and Friday. Septem.
Der ?. and 4. These events will bring to-
gether the finest feet Of % boats ever gath.
cred. for the entries already received include
all but one or two OF the yachts In this racing
along the Atlantic coast. The yschtsmen
OF Massachusetts, Bay have sent In two
entries, Little Rhody and Achilles. and from
Bridgeport F. T. Bedford. Jr.. will bring his
Dorothy Q. which gave a good account Other
self last year in the Jamestown races. G. C.
Hoyt's Capsicum. many times winner In
the Larchm ont race week OF the early sum:
Robert perohT hhafsS9S oDd
end Bay there are the three standbys in the
cSubSs SPIDER and chass Jeg fo
these will be added for the race week series
addition sDts1SSS to Ss a st Pre-
the sheS viii
three years and then awarded to the yachts
men having the largest number OF wins,
and second prizes for three power boat races.
In the Fire Island @ race a second prize PTsS;
pTise SshsI presented % BY Capt. Hsndon chuSb viii
gives the cup for schooners In the Fire Island
to the winner Of the division Of sloops and
yawls In the same race.
The three power b9at % races. races have eesn ~ ~. 20
the sport. Starting at A. Nj. on Wednesday.
be not
Fire Island lightship and return. The boat
time allowances Of the American Power
Boat Association. The second Of the power
boat races will be started on Thursday. Sep
tember ). at z A. n. and will be for cruising
craft Of over fifty feet over all length racing
under the came conditiens as the smaller
S, there will be races for automobile power
boats In the following classes: Q. ana
Q sailing as one class. and Il and 3
sailing a one class. These races for .sas the
around the bay. the largest bogts. those OF
class o, covering thirty-four miles and the
others twenty three miles
On all the days on which these special races
ses nea of tRsr he New % Y YORK T Yacht Cub for The
special GLASS Of yawls recently oIganizsd ior
the two divisions OF the Gravesend Bay Handi.
Gap GLASS numbering some twenty yacnsi
for the claps s. boats. built Last year foS
the Upton cup series; for the < or Gravesend
On Monday. Labor Day, win be held "
annual regatta Of the Atlantic
Yacht Club. The racing Of this day has been
planned for all classes OF craft from 90 ioot
and the 9Ss seoPs % aSs
first. second and third divisions. comprising
the schooners and all the sloop olasses from
81 feet rating measure up, the course WI %
from Bea Gate around the Southwest spit
bu9ys. thence around the Scotland aghtship
20 miles. The fourth and nth divisions.
comprising classes l., NJ and n Of the sloops
and the special yawl class. will round the
Southwest Spit bnoys from Sea Gate, then
return over ne same course: The sixth and md
seventh divisions. consisting OF sloope Pc
tween the P and s glasses and the first division
OF the handicap class, will sail . course from
Sea Gate around Old Orchard Hight and South;
west Spit. and the smallest yachts will san
n txanr ~ N