New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-21
W|NSOME TO THE FORE
Leads Aurora and lstaIena to
Finish Over LarChmont Course.
WEEK OF RACING BEGINS
Fine Breeze Fills Sails OF Big
Fleet on Opening Day OF
Annual Fixture.

The officers and members OF the I>dIC
mont Yacht Club were congratulating
themselves last night on the proverblal
'I.archmont luck" for they opened their
race week with a record number of start
ers in their first series race. One hun
dred and thirty yachts, in twenty-five
classes, crossed the starting line off the
breakwater, beginning at lis o'clock,
when the big sloops were sent away. IT
was 2.25 O'Clock before the last OF the
feet got away.
The start was made in a fine breeze
from the south-southwest, and it con-
tinued steady throughout the race. The
65-foot sloop Winsome was the winner In
that class from Cornelius Vanderbilts
Aurora. by minute 80 seconds, the 1sta-
lena being third boat. These two made
a pretty start down the wind with bal
looners set 1t was a run to the first
mark, beat from there 10 the second
and a reach to the third. The times at
the end OF the first round OF the course
which was thirty and one-half miles in
all, were: Winsome, 1858; Aurora, 1850;
Jstalena, 3I702 The Winsome maintained
her lead to the finish.
The racing in some Of the other classes
was close. The Avenger and Medora
sailed a good race, the Medora having an
allowance of minutes 81 seconds, won
the other classes were the Corinthian. the
Carlita, the Gamecock, the Nandalia. the
Interim. the Red Wing, the Natoma, the
Joy, the Yukan, the NJ. and F. II, the
Mile. Boss, the Amethyst, the Loon, the
Snapper, the Venus, the Mary Jane, the
GO Go. the La Rochelle. the 1ney, the
Alice and the Wasp.
A prettier or more inspiring sight has
not been witnessed on the Sound for
years than the start Of the various class
es. their battles for positions at the hne'
and their final getaway with sheets eased
well off to port, balloon jibtopsails set
AID pulling splendidly In the freshening
breeze,
An hour after the first signal the
Sound. as far as the eye could reach to
the eastward, was dotted with the white
sails of as fine a feet of racing craft as
ever competed for the Larchmont prizes.
Spirited indeed was the start of II. l..
Maxwelrs sloop Avenger. II. G. S. No
bles new Medora, T. NJ. Davies's Ad-
ventures and Z. S. Booths yawl Phan-
tom. and Of the eleven New York Yacht
Clubs "thirties," led by ]. Pierpont
Morgan, jr's, Phryne. with her owner
at the helm. After racing over 1917
mile course the Carlita proved the WIN
ner in this class by only seventeen sec
onds from the Caprice. The Nepsi was
third, the Ibis fourth and the Phryne
fifth.
The Corinthian, sailed by her owner.
Howard c. Smith, won In the class ty
Just 10 seconds from the Joyant, and the
winner in the small schooner class was
w Butler Duncan's Vandalia, from the
Algol, which made her first appearance
Yesterday. She was sailed by c. L. Poor,
;r.
There was some exceedingly close rae
ing in some of the small classes. For in
stance. the Yukan, Of the Larchmont in
terclub class, won from the Whit by one
second, and the Amethyst, of the Jewel
class, from the Topaz by FIVE seconds.
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