New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-25
THE ELENA SAILS TO
VICTORY ON SOUND
Defeats Old Rivals on Her
First Appearance Of the
Season in a Race.
ISTALENA ALSO SCORES
The Avenger Beats the Medora
on Fourth Day of Big Re-
gatta of Larchmont
Yacht Club.

Morton ]. Plants schooner yacht Elena
sailed her first race yesterday for the cup
offered by Commodore Leonard Richards
of the Larchmont Yacht Club In the
fourth series race OF that organization
and she won handsomely from her COM
petitors In Class b, in which her owner
had elected to sail. She allowed tho
Irollta and tho Enchantress 1 minute 81
seconds each, and defeated the first
named IL minutes 80 seconds and the
second 10 minutes 90 seconds in sailing
twice over a triangular course on the
Sound Of fifteen and quarter miles. One
hundred and twenty-nine yachts started
in the race, and all except two finished.
1t was the first appearance OF these
three schooners on the Sound this season.
and their work was watched with much
interest by the hundreds OF yachtsmen
who were cruising near the starting ana
finishing line.
In a light breeze from the westward the
start was made at 1855 o'clock, the Elena
crossing the line under good headway
with the Irolita and Enchantress close
alongside Il was fair wind to the first
turn, FIVE and half miles away TO the
eastward, and with booms to port and
balloon lib topsaalls set, they made good
time. The Irolita set her spinnaker to
starboard, but II did not draw well,
The second leg OF the course, which took
them across the Sound to Motifs Point
Buoy IN Hempsted Bay, was reach, ana
from there TO the home mark II was
close fetch. The times Of the schooners
and the big sloops at the end Of their
first round were as follows: The Elena
2:42:51; the Irolita, 2:5l;2l; the Enchant-
ress, 2:5912; the Avenger, 25SO5; the
Aurora, 3.O3:3s; the Istalena, S:G:24; the
winsome, 3:06:49; the Medora, 30I:59' and
the Adventures, 3:lO:5S.
The S5-foot sloops Winsome, 1stalena
and Aurora made a good start in that
order, with the Istalena in the middle
While she and the Winsome were indulg-
ing in a luffing match soon after the
start, Cornelius Vanderbilt had his spin
maker set on the Aurora and that sloop
was making good time on her course
She led the Istalena by 46 seconds at
the end of the first round, but before the
FIRST mark had been reached on the sec
ond round the Istalena had taken the
lead, increasing It on the other two legs
until she crossed the finish line, win
ner from the Aurora by 2 minutes o.
seconds and from the Winsome by 8
minutes II seconds.
Harry L. Maxwell's sloop Avenger
made a fine showing in her race against
the Medora At the end Of the first
round she was leading by IL minutes o.
seconds, and after giving the Medora her
allowance she defeated her by minutes
IS seconds. The Joyant beat the Cara
Mia minute 10 seconds, and the Nepsi
won from the Caprice by 1 minute So
seconds. The schooner Vandalia won
from the Daffodil by l minute 10 sec
onds.
The winners In the other classes were
the More JOY, the Gamecock, the ldler'
the Sue, the Armada, the JOY, the Ma
toma, the Kenosha, the Maryola, the
Wild Thyme, the Ogeemah, the Tur-
Quoise, the Loon. the NJ. & F. II, the
Scylla, the Scaup, the Twinkle, the Avis.
tho Edna J., the Mouse, the Zip, the Bar
nacle, the Iney and the Tautog.
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