New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-27
Vast Fleet of Pleasure and
Racing Craft Makes COrln-
thianS Show Their Skill
in Holding Helms.
THE ELENA SHOWS SPEED
Outsails the Irolita in Close
Race, While the Acushla
Again Demonstrates Her
Superiority Among
the "Fifties.

The Larchmont Yacht Club took posses
sion of the west end Of Long Island
Sound yesterday lust as absolutely as If
it had fenced it off twelve miles east Of
the club and hung Up a sign reading mo
thoroughfare west of here"
Never in the history Of Yachting in these
waters has such picture been presented
as that Of yesterday, when one hundred
and seventy-one yachts of all rigs and
sizes spread themselves as far as the eye
could reach 20 the eastward and from
shore TO shore like the white fringe OF
great fan. II was really the most won
derful marine moving picture that ever
greeted the eye Of either yachtsman or
)andlubber. partly because il was the rec
ord number Of yachts that has started In
arv race on Long Island Sound and also
nv reason Of the delightful weather con-
ditions in which the race was sailed. Inc
officers and members were congratulated
last night on the success of the day ana
the race.
From all the yacht clubs within a ra-
dius of twenty miles big and little craft
arrived off the Larchmont Breakwater
all the morning until at 1:55 o'clock, when
the regatta committee gave the signal Ior
the schooners to start in this, the maj
race of race week" there was hardy
room for the starters in each OF the
thirtv-6ve classes TO manoeuvre for posi-
lions.
Commodore Charles Smithers. at the
wheel of his flagship, the schooner Mu-
rieI timed the start so nicely that he
sent his Yacht across the starting line
less than five seconds after the whlstle'
She was the leader of class OF eight
schooners. of which the Elena was sec
ond. the Irolita third, the Similar fourth
The NIiladi, the Grace II, the Ariel ana
,he Sea Fox-owned by the commodore
of the New York Yacht Club, Dallas b.
Pratt-followed in the order named.
All Of them had balloon jib topsalls set
and sheets were eased well of TO port as
they sped away TO the eastward on their
frst leg Of 10 S-4 miles For the second
log of the course they had a twelve-mile
beat TO wlndward, for, although the wihd
was light from the south-southwest. II
gave them plenty of opportunity for close
work. especially between the Elena ana
the lrolita, the Elena finally winning by
minute "A seconds, corrected time. from
her rival.
OF the "ffties" which got away 70
close and pretty start, with G. Maurice
Heckscher's Acushla In the weather
berth. she did the best work, winning
from the Pleione by 2 minutes 43 seconds
The Iroquois II was third, minute %
seconds in her wake. In the 'P' Class
". Ii. Chlds's Joyant was the winner
after covering 14Smile course. She
defeated the Corinthian by minutes
seconds. the Windward being third and
the Josephine fourth. There were some
soft spots" near the Long Island shore
which the Josephine's crew said she ran
into.
II required / hour and 80 minutes TO
send this big fleet away, and while all
the starts were pretty, from the big
schooners down to the little butterflies,
bugs and red wings, the windward work
of ALL crossing and recrossing each other
as they tackled from the first to the sec
ond marks presented a spirited picture.
AS the great feet came bowling across
4be Sound on a reach from Hampstead
Raw 10 the finish, led by W. Blaisdells
little Gar, with red fish pictured on her
xnainsan above the mineral 3, it was
sight TO inspire any yachtsman.
David Duncan, at the wheel or MS
fathers schoonerette Vandaua, brought
that tidy craft home a winner by 4S sec
pnds from the Rival and l. z. Ray
rnond's Stamford schooner Hopewel
captured first place from the Ahmakola
by minutes z seconds. In the New
york Yacht Club "thirties' there was
some good racing, Johnston de Forests
Nepsi winning by 3 minutes % seconds
from the Rowdy the Alera being third.
Peter w. Rouss's 90" Glass sloop Arvis.
rucceeded in defeating J. Stuart Black
TONS Virginia by minutes IA seconds,
and the Wild Thyme, Of the Larchmont
Interclub class. won from the Whit by
II minutes AZ seconds.
The regatta committee was unable 10
announce officially last night the exact
standing Of the prize winners for the
week, but il is said the yachts that are
surely the winners Of the principal cup
prizes are the Elena, which wins the
championship cup also the Smithers prize
and the Richards series cup. The Joseph
inc is said TO be the winner on points
in the up" class. and the Virginia in the
20" class gets q points. The Arvia and
AIN tied with p points each and the
Suelew has rs POINTS. In the "thirties'
the Nepsi is first and the Rowdy second
on points and the Oriole, Curlew and
Loon are tied in the bird class There
are several protests in the 50-foot class
so that the winner may not be known for
a few days.