New-York tribune., 1910-07-27
YACHTS IN CLOSE RACE
The WindWard Shows Her Heels
to Challenging Boats.
WINS BY MARROW MARGIN
Chei.engers for Manhasset Bay
Cup Make a Good
Fight.

Inc first Of the match races between
thirty-foot sloor yachts for the possession
Of the Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup was
sailed on Long Island Sound yesterday in
good breeze from the northwest 1t result
Ell in a victory for the defender of the CUP
the sioop yacht Windward, of the Indian
Harbor Yacht Club, owned by Richard A.
Monks.
-Four yachts entered, and the three that
started finished in this order: The Wind
ward. the Cara Mia. owned by Stuyvesant
Wainwright, and The Mavourneen, the
challenger. owned by George Lee, of Bos-
ton The Windward won by / minute s
seconds from the Cara Mia and by min
utes 1e seconds from the Mavourneen
The course was four miles to leeWard
and return sailed twice over, or sixteen
miles in all. The yacht that entered but
did not start was the Minlosa III, owned by
Edmund Reeks, representing the Larch-
mont Yacht Club.
All thre boats went to the starting line,
off Great Captains Island, in the finest KIND
of racing fettle with sails that fitted per
fectly and with hulis without a blemish
above or below the waterline. The crew or
the Mavourneen which represented the
Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead, were
George Lee. the owner, who sailed her;
Ernest Hendrie, Frank 2. Munroe and
Henry Griffith. The American Yacht Club
representative, the Cara Mia had S. {.
Hopkins for her skipper. assisted by Harry
johnson. G. P Granbery and Butts"
Whiting.
The Windward was sailed by Jerome
Monks, and he was ably assisted by his
brothers, Richard A. and Robert Monks; P
hon inn Nelson.
William Butler Duncan, jr.. represented the
Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead- and
Charles Lane Poor the Indian Harbor
Yacht Club. the defenders of the cup
James D. Sparkman was the referee. These,
with E Burton Hart, of the regatta com
rnittee assisted by Frank Bovine Jones and
Charles E Simms. managed the race from
7 NJ. Macdonough's power yacht, the Jes-
sjcs II. anchored q mile south of the light
house
No prettier race has been seen on the
Sound for many a season than the contest
between these three boats. Although the
product of different designs-the W1ndWard
by Gardner the Mavourneen by George
Owen and the Cara Mia by Herreshoff-
they showed that they are quite evenly
matched in such a breeze as that of yester-
day.
Out of a clear. sunlit sky the fresh north
wester was blowing when the starting s'g-
nal sounded, and the sparkling waters OF
the Sound were frinsed with WhitecapS
here and there the three racers came
for the line. The NlndWard. Win heF
boom swung broad off TO starboard, mao
the best of the start. She led the MaFour-
,7een bv fifteen seconds and tha. boat was
about the same distance IN time ahead OF
the Cara Mia These two crossed the line
with booms to port
Five minutes after the start she Wind
ward gybed 10 port. and twenty-five min
utes later the Cara Mia and Navourneen
engaged In luflns match which soon
forced them to gybe to starboard ana 10
set spinnakers to reach the lee mark. IN
this four-nile run down the wind the run
ming of all three boats was remarkably
even When close to the mark the cara
Mia. then tapping the Mavourneen. for
some reason luffed to Hindward of the
mark boat-wtch was William Butler
D1ncan's big launch, the Waneche-e as u
10 leave it to port when the rules said to
starboerd Before she got back and
rounded 1t the right way the others had
fattened sheets and begun the windWard
work And a right merry battle it was.
with the las of food tide setting them to
the westward
Down the wind the second time they
travelled fast and even. Despite the fact
that the two home boats tried their best
to blanket the Boston boat, all three
reached the. lee mark almost beam and
beam. and rounded il in this way: The
Tindvard. 211.2o, the Mavourneen,
211.25. the Cara Mia, 2:11.4o Their
elapsed times were. The Windvard. 34:2o;
the Cara Mia, 81 25: the Mavourneen. 1910.
II was anybodys race for the first fifteen
minutes of the last leg to windward. The
Mavourneen and the WindHerd stood TO
the westward On the starbosrd tack after
rounding the lee mark, while the Cara Mia
".plit tacks" with them and made a long
board to the northward. The Windward
went about first, and both she and the
Cara Mia crossed the bow of the Bostop
boat when they came together on opposite
tacks but she vas then close up in their
wakes. It took several more tacks to reach
the finish and the Windward held the
Weather gauge just long enough to win by
:06 from the Cara Mia
The second race will be sailed to-day
over a triangular course. Each winning
yacht receives 4 points, the second boat 3
points and the third 2 points, there being
four entries. Even though the fourth boat
did not start, the points are based on the