Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
DORIS OUTSAILS
ALL ITS RIVALS
WINS SWEEPSTAKES RACE AT
SAN PEDRO
All Cross Starting Llne Practically
Together, and Last Racer Finishes
Within Three Minutes Be-
hind the Winner
Especial to The Herald

SAN PEDRO, Dec. 13.-The Doris
sailed by Volney Howard. outdistanced
the five other dories in the sweepstakes
race in the outer harbor this afternoon
The wind was brisk and the course OF
nearly six miles was covered in less
than an hour. The race was close from
start to finish, all six boats getting
across the starting line but few sec
onds apart at 2:30 o'clock and all finish
ing within three minutes of each other
the Doris completing the course at 3:19
While the last boat, La Concha, finished
at 1922.
The weather was clear and the wind
rather brisk, and between the prepare
tory gun at 2:25 o'clock and the start
ing gun at 2:30 o'clock the boats chased
each other back and forth near the line
at the southwest corner of the Miner
bulkhead. Walter Folsom, in Little
Mischief II, held the lead down to the
whistling buoy, the end Of the first leg
Joe Fellows, in the Red Fox, which was
the easy winner in both races last Sun
day, held farther out to sea than the
others and was the last one to complete
the first leg OF the race. The buoy
was rounded in the following order
Little Michief II at 2:42, Kitty 2:42:30
| Doris 2:42:45, La Concha 2:42:50, Mer-
The second leg took the boats bach
to the starting point against the wind
The Red Fox held out to sea, the other
/ boats holding inward on long tacE
and then going out. A feature of the
race was the way the Doris overhauled
and passed Little Michief II on this
tack. But this slight gain was lost
before the stake boat was reached
This leg was completed in the following
order: Doris 3:02:34, Little Mischief II
3:04:3O, Kitty 3:04:50, Merrily 3:05:50
Red Fox 9:06:30 and La Concha 3:07:20
A run then was made down to the
red can No. 2, marking the channel en-
trance on the east, and this turn was
made as follows; Doris 3:0S:15, Little
Michief II 500, Kitty 3:09:25, Merrily
3:10:40, Red Fox 3:11:15 and La Concha
3:11:45.
On the final heat to windward Fol
som lost second place by going too far
out to sea, and Joe Fellows ran ahead
of Warren Wood in the Merrily.
With the finishing time is given the
names of the boats, their color and the
skipper:
Doris (white) volney Howard. ..... al!
Kitty (white) A. Lester Best. s:20:1i
Little Mischief II (black) Walter
Folsom ......... .,.,,...-,.... 81
Red Fox Cred) Joe Fellows. ....... 1921
Merrily (green) Warren Wood. ....3;2l:s t
La Concha (Black) Haines Reed. 1921
AS this was not an official race The
Herald correspondent acted as starter
timekeeper and judge, but few of the
official races will be any prettier OF
/ perhaps closer than the race today
The owners are becoming used tC
handling the new 21-footers, and as the
boats are all the same size and mode
a great many things go to make up A
winner. Too many short tacks in some
kind of wind may lose race, or toe
long a tack may prove disastrous.
On next Sunday the second contest
for the championship and The Herald
cup will be sailed, and undoubtedly g
large crowd will be out to witness 1t.