Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30

yawl Madcap in the washington-to-An-
! napolis race May 30 If the Capital Yacht
| Club racing committee Will allow him a
| time allowance of eight hours Inat
| is considered fair proposition. In view
! of the fact that any one of the other
| yachts entered in the could almost
| take the little Madcap on deck.
| The Chesapeake Yacht Racing Associa-
! ton at a meeting last week in Baltimore
chartered most attractive cruise for
the coming season. 1t is to start July
is and will last about ten days, racing
| among boats of different builds and di-
| mansions being the most interesting fea-
ture outlined. The details governing the
racing have been left TO a great extent
to the regatta committee. but the general
program of the cruise follows: Start at
Baltimore July 16. all boats to 60 to Ok
ford on the Tired Avon. joining the Capt.
| tai Yacht Club fleet at the mouth OF the
Severn on the way down.
July IL. races for sailing and motor
yachts from point off Oxford. July Is.
reception given by the Chesapeake Bay
Yacht Club. An eight-mile sail will be
the following day the entire fleet will
leave for the Patuxent river. where the
up-bay clubs will be met by the Hampton
Roads Yacht Club boats from Norfolk.
The next anchorage Will be IN the hap
pahannock river, July 22. From there
the course will be to Hampton roads,
where there will be more racing.
The boats using sails Will have gone
over gO miles TO reach the limit of the
| route and the breaks in a run to furnish
race points. credit to the first crew
reaching every port. A new club has
been organized on the eastern shore
which will be known as the Cambridge
Yacht Club. and they were voted into the
association at the meeting. Alfred J..
| Dupont is the commodore of the new out
! fit. and. according to report. there are
quite few fast yachts owned in the
organization Commodore William T..
Bigelow of the Maryland Motor Boat
| Club. and chairman Of the power boat
committee. requested that the executive
committee be given the duty of handi-
Gaping motor yachts. and his suggestion
was favorably acted upon.
Commodore Slagle of the Baltimore Mo-
tor Yacht Club offered a cup for motor
race boats, and it was accepted. This
race is to be one from Norfolk to Bal
timore on the return trip of the yachts.
AS the cruise Is to be a long one the
restricted. but those on a boat must.
however. be Corinthians. During the
cruise and when racing sloops of class Q,
thirty-one footers and yawls twenty six
feet or less on water line, will not be
required TO carry small boats, and the
rules in force last summer are otherwise
TO govern the racing. There were no
Changes in the lineup Of officials worthy
| of mention. President W. w. Greer. Vice
President II. Cliff Morris and Secretary
| Treasurer j. II. Robinette all being re-
elected.
Fred de B. Weston's deadrise sloop
Amackassin was sold during the past
week, and the yawl Eleanora, formerly
the property of Swift Boykin and Fleet
Captain Gene Hartley. has been pur.
chased by a member of the Hampton
Roads Yacht Club of Norfolk The YES
sci Will be hauled out at local shipyard
in few days to receive an overhauling
and no doubt she will be entered in the
races this July.
The auxiliary bugeye yacht Wild Duck
out of Florida for New York anchored
on the club last Sunday for a short stay
Her owner. Charles Robinson Smith Of
the New York Yacht Club reports that
the vanguard of the winter cruising fleet
IS just beginning to move northward ow-
ing to the very late season. and that the
bulk of the cruisers will not reach Ches-
apeake bay before the last OF May.
All was merriment at the Potomac
camp last evening, when the first smoker
Of the season was given and the enter
talnment committee, consisting of Messrs
A. b. Dent, d. Spencer Bliss W. ]. Ba-
con. E. c. Parker and c. H. Bowie, were
Gwen 'hc siHCeTe tndHkS OF every man
present for the elaborate program pro-
vided by them The Washington Loan
and Trust quartet started the bail roll
ing by rendering several popula: ballads
in operate style and. with the POSSIBLE
exception of George Walker who gave Il
| splendid exhibition of legerdemain stunts
they were the stellar attraction of the
evening The songsters were Karl Min
nigerode. E. r. Berkeley, F. T. Gait and
H. NJ. French.
tenor solo was rendered by c. Tay-
| Tor Chewing. concluding the musical
| program for the evening.
The Old Dominion Club Of Alexandria
was represented by Capt. Jim" Douglas
and trusty band Of young oarsmen. AID
Mr. Douglas formally rendered Capt
Smith with an invitation to send a four
| to the Memorial day regatta, which will
| be held off the Virginia city.
| The Old DominiOns also offered 10 FRO
vide the Potomacs with q boat 81 az, ID
| they be unable to use their own shell,
| which is at present I'm the Georgetown
| College houseboat ana slightly ont Of
| shape for racing. Several good, snarpy
| fights We're pulled off between the fist
| ically inclined members OF the club and
| Walter Thrall and Edward Iuell- had
| the hardest go of any pair. Their scrap
| lasted about eight rounds All finally cul-
minated i'm draw after 10th had been
| knocked down two three times, much
| to the delight of the bowling audience
| 1t was expected that Joe Turner and
his wrestling partner would he on hand
! to exhibit their scientific mat work. bat
! at the last minute ii was announced that
! tthey would be unable II appear.
slight accident occurred last Sun