New-York tribune., 1913-08-13
SEARCHL|CHTS FIND
YACHTS At THE FINISH
Gains BeSet Contestants and
Sun Sets Before All Hands
Reach Port.
TROPHY GOES TO IR0LITA
Tribune's Dispatch Boat Sends
Wireless Call That Brings
Aid to Newcomb Carleton's
Stranded Sunshine.

by E. Walter Clark, former commodore
OF the Eastern Yacht Club, won the COM
mOdOreS cup for schooners in the fourth
run of the New York Yacht Club cruise
to-day, defeating the Corona by l hour IA
minutes 3 seconds. Edgar Palmer's Ne-
mona won the cup for the second division
of schooners, beating the Katrina by IS
minutes 52 seconds, The cup for the first
division of sleeps was won by J. z. Nor
gan's Grayling which beat the Acusha
by % minutes seconds. The Class
sioop Windward, owned by the Monks
Brothers. was the only starter in the
second division II soops
II was dark before the first yacht. the
Irolita. crossed the finish line between
J. r. Morgan's steam yacht Corsair and
Half Way Rock. Coast signals ana
searchlights were used to pick out the
numbers on the sails of the yachts. As
soon as the results were known they
were flashed by wireless from the Cor
sair. anchored four miles away. to Ihe
Trbune's dispatch boat Forward.
II was learned tonight that the revenue
cutter Acushnet, as the result Of a wire
less message sent her from the Tribune's
sistance OF Newcomb Carleton's schooner
Sunshine. which ran ashore on Monomoy
shoals Yesterday. and saved that yacht
and her crew by pulling her off the shoal.
Commodore Dallas B. Pratt, of the
New York Yacht Club, with George a.
Dixon. the fleet surgeon; Franklin Plum
mer. the feet chaplain, and George A.
Cormack. the secretary. paid formal
visit TO the Eastern Yacht Clb soon after
. O'Clock tonight. They were met at ;he
picr 10y Commodore Robert Treat Paine,
2d, and his flag officers and escorted
To- the clubhouse, where, after the usual
courtesies. a buffet supper was served In
the large dining room. The centrepicce
was a reproduction Of a lighthouse on
rock. showing a red light Commodore
Pratt was congratulated by Commod >re
Paine. who owns the sloop Shimna, upon
the success of the cruise. and the health
OF the owners Of the yachts that won the
Commodore's cups in tO-days run was
drunk
The run to-day was made in weather
almost diametrically opposite to that eX-
perienced on Monday in the long trip
around Cape Cod. That was made in hall
4 gale. with heavy seas and spray flying
continually To-day's racing was done in
light winds and calms. with the broad ex-
psnse Of Massachusetts, Bay as smooth
as a mill pond.
While nearly half OF the yachts de-
serted the fleet at Vineyard Haven there
= ere enough at the starting line this
morning TO show the appreciation OF the
Yacht owners for the four cups that Com
nodore Dallas 3. Pratt has given for the
winners in the four divisions OF sioops
and schooners in this forty-one-mile run
As 4 result, six schOoners and eleven
sloous responded 10 the call OF the regatta
Committee when they set their signals TOR
the start.
with a hearty cheer from the sturdy
ssharfolk of ProvincetOwn, including
prettv girls by the score. who were crowd
ing the decks and cockpits Of catboats ana
o,ber craft the feet was sent away soon
after 10 o'clock in n light breeze from
the west II was when the DIG schoohe'
l-olita. with a cloud of canvas on heI
gxsDt across the starting line OF Long
Point AZ the entrance TO the harbor' that
they cheered. and well they might TOT
ype really presented an inspiring plctute'
First away vas r. 4. Monks htlie
Windyard the only sloop of the + 'IasS
that came around the cape. Iheh Ao'-
lowed = 10 10 o'clock. the l. Class sloopS
,re,qer and Shimna, beam and beam
with the Avenger few feet TO Winu"aru
m bcr rival Both had ballooners set
and hooms 10 port. The Avenger was
,t-ered bv Harry J.. Maxwell an" the
sbirona bv her owner. Robert Treat
Paine. ID.
Eight of the 500 started on the next
signal. at 1929 o'clock. Ralph Ellis iro-
quois II was the leader. She hac on
board. besides her owner and MIS-. hll'a'
Nr and Mrs. Arthur Iselin. G. Maurice
Heckschers sloop Acushla folowed tho
FJt,s boat close TO windward. and 10 the
weather Of her came w. r. Dodges's Sa-
rnuri Those on board included Frank II.
Jones. who had the stick when she crosseo
the line. lack Johnson. Abott Brush ana
l. Burt Hart j. +. Morgans Grayhhe
came next, and crossing the hne nght
On her weather quarter sped the spartan
gieered by William Butler Duncan. 1he
barbara handled by Robert Bacon, was
next away: then came the Pleione All
~ them crossed the line within two min
utes
The stern division ran at once INTO d
calm streak. while the leaders went aneau
in few minutes. getting the hrst ol
neu, breeze from about northwest Ny
north. This made IT head wind TOT al
hands for northwest by north ohe-q""'
ter north was the course from Race roi,i'
10 Marblehead. The Windward causnl
the new breeze FIRST. then the ANc"s'
and the Shimna. At this time % ih'" u'e'
after the start. the Avenger was ieho'"e
the sbirnpa by nearly. II not quite
ouor,rr q, mile. The Windward was
few hundred yards ahead OF the W
ger The Ellis sloop, Iroquois H. was VIC
first az the "5Os" 10 get the ne"
She was then leading Carolina ii oy
about two hundred yards ana WIN '"'
ssmurt one hundred yards behind
These three. working In snort 'aoHe
along the beach. had margin OF NOR
than a mile on the rest. whicn lay oe
calrned between Long Point ara "oou
End The Grayhng, the barbara W,
pieione and the Acushla, OF the V'S'
"a ,ha schooners Taormina, Katrina
trol,.a ard Corona were all caught IN the
doldrums for the best part OF nan d"
bour The Taormina and the Acushia
ue,e once 80 close alongside OF each other
that they all out fouled.
one hour after the start or the nrs'
class the Windward was still In 'front.'
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