New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
PLANS BIG RACING YEAR
Atlantic Yacht Club Announces
Fixtures for Season.

On. Of the best racing schedules for the
year has Just been announced by H. E.
Boucher, Kenneth Lord and DIR. ]. z. De
Mund, the regatta committee of the At
lantic Yacht Club The Sea Gate season
will open on Saturday. May IS, and the
final regatta will be sailed on Saturday,
September II. In addition to the Saturday
afternoon races, the Atlantic Yacht Club
will hold race week In the early fall, and
will also give several special events
throughout the sunlmey.
The opening regatta will be for all classes
of schooners. sloops and yawls and, as
II viii be the first race OF the Lower Bay
season, an excellent fleet of craft IS en-
pected in the different divisions AS is GUS
tOnaary in GraYesend Bay resattas, the
Saturday afternoon races will be for Glass
NJ and below. All divisions. however, have
been provided for in the programme of
race week, and also in the annual regatta.
which is scheduled to be sailed on Monday.
September 5,
The most important event Of the spring
season will be the annual race to Ber-
muda for sail craft. which Will start from
off the Sea Gate home of the Atlantic
Yacht Club on Saturday. June 25 Already
several big fellows have entered the long
ocean brush, and indications point to the
struggle being as interesting as the memo
rable one sailed last year to the far-off
Southern isles. The conditions for the Ber-
muda race already have been announced,
and they are the same as those that gov
erned the contest in 1909.
1t is the intention of the Atlantic Yacht
Club to centre its efforts this year toward
making it's annual race week one of the
most important fixtures on the Atlantic
Coast, The week will start on Wednesday,
August 81, and will continue over Labor
Day. Monday. September O. Not only will
prizes be offered for all regular classes, but
special cups will be offered for all one-de-
sign boats that race on nearby waters.
Special inducements will be offered to the
boats that race on the South Shore OF Long
Island 10 take part in the race week, and
it is expected that the one-design classes
Of the Cedarhurst, the Islip. the Bellport
Bay and the South Shore Yacht clubs all
VIII take part in the big regatta.
During race week the third series for the
famous Thompson trophy for Class .
yachts will be sailed This is not the only
special trophy that will be up for competi-
ton during the week. The Crescent Ath-
letic Club has received a cup from Sir
Thomas Upton. and this trophy will be
lantic series. BY combining the events the
regatta committee of both clubs believes
that it will bring together the finest fleet of
S boats that ever mas raced on the Atlantic
Coast.
The Upton Cup race is not the only
Crescent Athletic Club regatta that will
be sailed off the Atlantic Yacht Club this
summer. The New Moon Club will start
two more of its races off the dock of the
Sea Gate organization. one on Saturday.
June %. and the other on Saturday, July
Is. The annual race for the Wilson Ccrin.
THAN Cup also will start off the Atlantic
dock. The date for the race still has 70 be
decided.
Of SPECIAL interest TO the Sea Gate tars
is the announcement that tho club will
offer special prizes in the q, and X
classes. These cups will be up for COM
petition throughout the season. and will
stand for the championship of the club.
They will go TO the boats that win the
most races IN the regular scheduled Sat
urday regattas OF the club. The racing
schedule for the year is as follows:
ATLANTIC YACHT CLUB FIXTURES.
May 2s-Opening regatta for all classes,
June 11-Open regatta for Class NJ AMI below.
June 25-StaIt of sailing race for Bermuda.
July Open regatta for Class NJ and below
championship.
July SO-oDen regatta for Class M and below
championship.
August 20-open regatta for Glass and below
championship.
August 311Race week for all classes
September I-PacA week for all classes.
September 2-Race week for all ciasses
September 5-Race week for all classes Of
motor boats
September b-Annual regatta for all CLASSES
September 1T-Open regatta for Glass NJ and
below
CRESCENT ATHLETIC CLUB FIXTURES.
June 25-open regatta for Class NJ and below
championship.
July 16-Open regatta for Class NJ and below.
The championship races count for tho tro-
phfes offered by tho Yacht Racing Association
OF Graveserf Bay.