New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-05
ELENA WINS NAVY CUP
Leads Fleet on First Days Run
of Big Cruise.
START A SPIRITED ONE
Yachts Get Away from Glen
Cove Under a Cloud
of Canvas.
START A SPIRITED ONE
IBy Telegraph to The Tribunc.l

BY Telegraph TO The IribuheI
New Haven. Aug 4 - Under cloud
Of canvas and travelling al a speed
of about 70 knots. Morton F. Plants
schooner yacht Elena swept across the
finish line at 4j3 "a o'clock this afternoon
of the old New Haven breakwater win
ner in her class Of the 3S-me race from
Glen Cove To this port. Boat for boat, she
had defeated the famous old Queen-now
the Irolita-but only after hard fight, by
: minutes 2S seconds. and by minutes
~ seconds corrected time. for she allowed
the Iroiita II minutes 20 seconds time for
the distance The Enchantress, owned by
William f. Iselin. was third. She was
beaten by the Elena by minutes ID Sec
onds actual and minutes 81 seconds cor
rected time. II had been nip and tuck
race between the Elena and the lrolta
over the last quarter Of the distance the
1rolita showing good speed in the smooth
water and light breezes. The Elena won
the NAVY Challenge Cup for sChooners.
When these three schooners hnsheo inc
rest Of the thirty-one yachts that started
from Cl,,. Cove were hull down as'erh
The Westward. of which great things had
ncp1 expected. was btdlfi ~ ''NN
half an hour. Lighter breezes were en-
countered by the rear division of the fleet
Tho start between the gas buoy, Matini-
cock Point. and the committee tug huse"e
Moran. was a spirited one. First away at
1910 o'clock. with light breeze from ABOUT
east by north. were the small sloops OF t'e
"P" class and the clubs GO-footers. lhe
Wirdward was the leader. Steered by her
owner. r a Menks. she crossed the Hle
almost with the signal, In the Wea'her
terth and on the port tack. close aoedi'i
~ her came the Corinthian, then the
Cara Mia. completing the 'P class III
o,,ick succession the "Thrties" crossed IN
this order: The Phryne. Banzai Ko"uS'
Dahinda. Alera. Iuanita and Nepsl
At 1915 O'Clock the sloops Gardenia' Is
,alena. Dorello. Irondequoit. Adventures
uormes Ecu FoTett and Vega got away
in the order named, and five minutes later
the small schooners started. The Sciihldr
led close up in the weather berth WIN
lanes r. Ford's Katrina next, then the
Taormina. Harold S Vanderbilts Nagrant'
George W. Scotts Miladi, Robert Toland
Dervish and +. T. Carey's Cygnet
Then. AT 1926 o'clock. came the start OF
the large schooners. that every one hao
been waiting for The big four the
Westward the Elena. the lrohta ana 'le
Fnchantress-a approached the line on the
starboard tack. and crossed it, about TWO
lengths apart. Edwin d. Morgan, AT me
helm Of the Westward. mad obtained sood
weather berth. but Captain William Dennis
who handled the Elena, pointed her so Wen
that she soon edged out across the west
wards wake. and minute after the west
ward tackled. at 1924 O'CLOCK she was
obliged 10 cross the Elena's wake by ABOUT
three lengths. She crossed the lTo''"
bow by about length.
BY standing across the Sound to Great
Can,a,n,s Island. the Westward ran into
lighter breezes. and before she could cross
again 10 the southwark she was a beaten
- Meanwhile. J. b. Ford's schooner,
tho Katrina. had obtained lead on the
Seneca and the Taormina and the othe'
,chooners Of the smaller classes. Of oyster
Bav. at 1888 O'Clock. the Elena lacked 70
starboard heading 10 the northeast. the
,.;rd having csnted 10 cast and remaining
light The Westward. which had tackled 10
s,arboard in mid-Somd three minutes earli-
cr was then fully three-fourths Of a mile
IN the Elena's wake f. W. Clark's lrolita
was the second schooner, the Westward
the third. with The Enchantress in fourth
rosition All three were carrying the same
sail as at the start working topsails, baby
IT'D topsais and ub headed mantopmaSt
stavsafs over their four lower sails.
Edwin d. Morgan. at the wheel Of the
Westward. matched every CULVER in her
new sails and kept her going as best no
could but 4 seemed 10 be a losing game.
for the Elena gained steadily.
George NJ Pynchon's soop. the Istalena
the biggest single-stcker I'm the fleet. was
70 windward of all and the leader Of the
SQUADRON at 1910 O'Clock The Gardenia
had second place and the Adventures was
in third position. The Irondequoit. the Do
ra'lo. the Hermes, the Vega and the Fen
Toilet followed I'm that order, all of them
working across the Sound on the starboard
tack for the Connecticut shore.
SLOWLY but surely the Elena gained on the
Westward. and when. at 1925 o'clock, the
latter tackled 10 port about two miles east
81 Stamford. she was fully two miles TO
Ieeward Of the Elena. while T. w. Clarks
Irolita. the old Queen. was steadily over
hauling the Elena The wind gradually
hauled 10 the southwark. so that at 115
o'clock when both the Elena and the Iro-
li,a. then well into Smithtown Bay, took
the port tack, they were able to lay their
courses down the Sound Mile after mile
for three hours these two. with the crew
Of each living quiet AMI close TO the lee or
weather rail. according 20 the strength of
the breeze. sailed to the eastward until,
when both passed Black Rock Lighthouse.
tust a few miles west OF Bridgeport, the
Irolita was within 800 yards Of the Elenas
stern Just then James Elverson's power
yacht. the Allegro. coming along at full
of warning from Captain Dennis, that
tbs wave she created knocked the wind out
u the schooner's sails. The Elena had to