The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-07
SPLENDID RACE OF FINE
YACHTS LED BY DEFIANCE
Maggie Comes In Within Time Allowance, but
Is Protested for Taking Easy
Short Cut.


the five sailing boats were lined out
in the brightness of sunshine and it
was a sight to take the eyes and talk
about ten years from now as tThe
prettiest start I ever saw.
Maggie Holds Lead.
The Maggie held the lead for some
time The Defance was not very much
in accord with her ballooner and the
latter seemed TO be led too forward,
while the Maggie's light canvas was
drawing like frightened steer at a
rope. But Gus Schaefer soon got his
kite working properly and drew up on
Alec Lyle. Before Ford Island was
passed the Defiance was close to the
Maggie with almost an overlap and
threatening her rival.
Then commenced one of the prettiest
luffing matches ever seen in these wa
tiers. Both shippers were alive to the
situation and Lyle showed exceptional
cleverness. He was to leeward with a
ballooner set. He luffed some dozen
times and, without exaggeration, his
ballooner never as much as futtered.
Each time he made the Defiance huff
too and every time her kite swooned.
It looked as though Lyle would keep
Gus back but the Defiance was too fast
and presently split her opponent s wind
and passed with a full sail and the
Maggie blanketed.
Passing the Dredgers.
Then the two leaders approached the
dredgers Both of these had to be
passed to leeward and had to be reck-
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the trip to watch the way those two
little craft skipped through the lee of
the big machines. Each of them had
the luck of special puff Of wind and
neither seemed to stop for wind at
either place.
Out in the mouth of the channel the
wind lightened and the swell made it
bad for the Defiance, so that the Mag
gle gained But Gus Sehaefer round
ed the outer mark well In the lead after
having to make tack in order to go
! to windward of black buoy, con-
scientious piece of work, as Gus had
no idea that the eagle eve of one of the
regatta committee was on him at the
time.
Rounding Outer Mark.
The Defiance rounded the outer mark
at exactly 1915, while the Maggie fol
lowed at 12:16:26. The race was near
| " half over, with the Maggie less than
two minutes behind with an eight
minute handicap. 1t looked like a
: cinch for Alec LYLE.
After the two leaders came the Dag
mar, Chip and Malolo, all well within
their time allowance But. after the
outer mark was rounded the Maggie
and Defiance began to kick up their
/ heels going to windward and soon were
well ahead of the other three.
Kenneth Brown put up an awful
game fight going back 70 windward~
The Malolo passed him and soon gain
ed on the Dagmar, but Brown was not
discouraged and made a clever split
tack maneuver which enabled him to
get ahead of Ray Rietow But this
did not last very long, and the Chip
dropped TO the rear again.
About this time the old Hawaii got
! damned between black mark and the
/ probability of blanketing the Chip.
She put about and went ahead of the
Chip perforee. apologizing as she did
so. But as there was not a sore bone
in the makeup of the Chips crew. they
+ smiled and waved and said it was all
/ right, although the Hawaii must have
/ lost them at least half minute.
/ Maggie Gains in Chop.
{ When the striped buoy between Ford
Island and the clubhouse was reached,
+ the Defiance was well in the lead of
the Maggie, Then began the hard beat
| TO windward to reach the mark of the
Waiau rice mill. Here the Maggie
! gained, for there was something of a
/ chop and the wind was freshening con-
siderably.
After the Defiance rounded the
/ Waiau mark she gained on the Maggie
hut the wind fell lighter and the latter
boat could not begin to run with the
sidewheeler Then the wind came up
/ again and the Maggie gained on the
run from the westerly end of Ford
Island to the finishing line.
A Grand Finish.
The finish was great. The Defiance