Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26
WILL RACE TODAY
OFF LONG BEACH
Sunset Yacht Club to Hold Open
ing Contest Over Twelve
Mile Course
FAST BOATS ARE ENTERED
New Organization Plans Some In
teresting Sporting and
Social Features
Asst BOATS ARE ENTERED
BY BERT S. COLEMAN

Long Beach will open yacht racing
in the waters off that city this after
noon for the first time in it's history
with a cup contest under the auspices
of the newly organized Sunset Yacht
club, which is starting out with the
most favorable prospects of any sports
mems organization ever inaugurated in
that city.
The race will commence early in the
afternoon from a buoy in front of the
Hotel Virginia. The course will be tri-
angular and will be beat to windward
to the bell buoy at the San Pedro
breakwater and then to a buoy sta
toned four miles out to sea, directly
opposite the Hotel Virginia. The race
will finish at the starting point in front
of the big hotel, where the starters and
judges will be stationed in a launch.
The course is twelve miles and each
leg will be approximately four miles
in length.
Commodore A. ]. Mitchell of the
Sunset Yacht club has put up very
handsome trophy for the race. 1t will
be competed for again during the latter
part of the yachting season, and the
boat which wins it twice will become
the owner of the trophy.
Several of the yachts entered belong
to members of the South Coast Yacht
club, who are also members of the
Sunset Yacht club. The entries are;
Mah-pe, sailed by Morgan Adams, skip
per and owner; Mischief I, Warren
Wood, skipper and owner; Venus, ]. C.
Farnum, skipper and owner; Enchant-
ress, j. w. Patterson, skipper and
owner; Diana, Walter Horn, skipper;
Seabird, A. j. Wright, skipper and
owner The sloop Columbine, belong
ing to Commodore Mitchell, who pre-
sented the cup, will sail over the
course, but not as a contestant.
There may be other entries before the
opening race and a good fleet of boats
is sure to start, providing an interest
ing spectacle to thousands of people in
Long Beach, who are becoming greatly
interested in yachting since the forma
tion of the club some months ago.
FINE COURSE FOR RACE
Long Beach has the finest sheet of
racing water along it's ocean front of
any city on the Pacific coast, and the
yachtsmen in the beach city have be-
come tired looking at it, They are now
going to use 1t and show a large collec-
tion of faint-hearted "landlubbers"
how to get real enjoyment out of the
ocean besides admiring it.
The members of the new club have
already secured ground for the erection
of a boathouse for lockers and stowage
space for the club yachts. This is To-
Gated on the edge of the inner harbor
and the structure will be finished before
the summer is over.
When it comes to clubhouSes the new
club has the best in the land. The
yachtsmen have been given the privi-
lege of using the big Hotel Virginia
as a clubhouse and they will celebrate
the season with an opening dance.
The club will not only devote itself
to yachting, but will provide social
features from time to time which will
equal anything of the kind previously
held by local sportsmen. The club has
a large membership and with the great
interest shown in it thus far it Is
bound to be a permanent success.
Several of the members who have not
yet secured yachts are planning for
the construction of boats before the end
of the season, and the club will shortly
have fleet which will properly repre-
sent its fine sailing facilities between
San Pedro and San Diego and Long
Beach and Catalina.