Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-12

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Place-outer end of breakwater, Los An
| geles outer harbOr.
Event--start of yacht race to Santa Bar
bara.
This is the story briefly told of the
biggest yachting event in Southern
California for the season of 1910. Nine
boats have been entered in the big
race, and unless something unforeseen
happens between now and the time for
starting, that number will cross the
line at the crack of the pistol.
The race will end in front of Hotel
Potter in Santa Barbara. where big
preparations have been made by the
hotel management for the entertain
! ment of local yachtsmen. The resort
will be in gala attire for the occasion,
! and a number of events have been
| planned for the pleasure of the visit
| ing sea dogs" while on land.
Algy Best, chairman of the regatta
committee. stated yesterday that all ar
| rangements for the race had been COM
pleted and the last detail would be
completed tonight, when all the boats
will be measured and the respective
| time allowances given out. 1t was
| also announced yesterday that the
| motor boat races which were scheduled
for next week in Santa Barbara had
been called off, owing to a lack of
entries. Although great interest has
| been manifested in motor boat racing,
which is comparatively a new sport in
Southern California waters, there has
| not been a sufficient number of boats
| launched from which to gather enough
entries for a race. 1t was the plan
of the regatta committee to have races
between different classes of motor
boats Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week, and several cups had been
presented as trophies. Despite the
fact that the races have been called
off, a number of motor boat enthusiasts
will go to Santa Barbara to witness
the races between the sailing craft
The white wings entered in the
cruising race and the shippers who will
pilot them are: The Mah-pe, Morgan
Adams; Mischief l, w. D. Wood;
Wasp, Paul Jeffords; Idler, II. r.
Bradley; Minerva Algy Best; Wave.
| Octavius Morgan; Winsome, Francis
| Hays; Siwash, Charlie Fulton; Alert,
! Don Leach.
! With the exception of the Alert and
Siwash, the boats will all fly the colors
of the South Coast Yacht club. The
Siwash, which was built expressly as
an entry in the Honolulu event, but
which was withdrawn few weeks be-
fore the start of the race, is a yawl
rig and built on the lines of Glouces-
ter fishing boat. She was launched
several weeks ago, but has never been
tried out. The past week has been
passed in hanging her rigging. with
Fulton at the stick she is looked on
by devotees of the sport as though she
might bring home the bacon" Her
closest competitor will likely be the
~ n fFah
will be sailed by Morgan Adams, her
owner These two boats probably will
lose considerable in time allowances
but with good winds they should more
than make up the difference. Mlschlet
l, which will be sailed under the guild
ing hand of Warren Wood, will be an
other boat that will be there at the
finish, if the predictions of followers
of the sport count for anything. The
new yawl Idler, eXCommodore Brad
ley, will have chance to show what
she can do In this race, as it will be
only her second appearance in real
competition since her launching.
The Alert, sloop rig of class Q,
was built recently by the Brundage
Paint company for a syndicate in the
Santa Barbara Yacht club, under
whose colors she will sail in the race
The boat was designed by c. D. CAL
show the rest of the fleet good time
for first honors. This will be her first
race, and she will be sailed by Don
Leach of the Santa Barbara club.
FIRST RACE WEDNESDAY
| Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock the
| first race to be sailed at Santa Bar
bara will be called and will be open
for all sailing classes, as follows:
| Division l, universal rule classes L,
M and N; division 2, classes P, Q and
r sloops; division 3, classes P, Q and
r yawls; division 4, Santa Barbara
| Yacht club fifteen footers. The race
will be for cups offered in all four
| divisions by the Santa Barbara Yacht
| club.
The race for the Santa Barbara club
| challenge cup, the winner to have his
name inscribed on the cup and to re-
! ceiVe a medal also, will be sailed
Thursday afternoon. Friday afternoon
! the arbitrary handicap race Will be
sailed and will be open to all yachts
! which have competed in previous races,
! the handicaps based on past perform
| ances. This race will be for the Santa
| Barbara chamber of commerce cup as
! first prize, and second cup for sec
ond place. All the races will be started
| directly in frint of Hotel Potter and
| the courses, which will be laid out on
the arrival of the local yachtsmen, will
be visible from the hotel ground and
will be posted in the hotel on the night
preceding the race.
All the sailing classes except division
| 4 will be measured under the uniVer
sal rule and will have their time al
lowance accordingly, with the eXcep-
ton of the auxiliary yachts, which will
be given a per cent rating allow
ance for dragging propeller.
With the sailing craft number of
power boats and auxiliary yachts are
expected to make the trip to Santa
Barbara.
Eddie Helm will take a party of
friends aboard the Peerless and make
the trip. The Genevieve, owned by
Cecil Borden, and the Mike, owned by
Roy Edwards, are expected to join the
white winged fleet. There will likely
I be more than fifteen boats leave Los
Angeles outer harbor tomorrow morn
ing bound for Santa Barbara.
The schooner Edna, owned by C. e.
w. Hubbell, which will be the flagship
at the races, will be among those to