New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-15
The MurieI Wins Navy Cup in
Final Run of New York
Yacht Club Fleet.
SLOOP PRIZE TO AVENGER
Fog Fails to Mar Races
Owners Regret That
Trip Is at
an End

FROM stan correspondent OF ! ne tribune
on Board the Tribune's Special Dis
match Boat of Marblehead. Mass. Aug.
1.-The schooner yacht Muriel. owned
~ Charles Smthers. commodore Of the
Tarchmont Yacht Club. swept across the
Anisb line of Half Way Rock this after
moon the winner OF the challenge cup for
scbooners offered by the Alumni Asso-
citation Of the United States Navy. IL
uas the sixth and final squadron run Of
fre New York Yacht Clubs cruise Of 1913
ard the race had been one Of twenty-four
miles from Gloucester 70 this port. The
NIur,el defeated +. W. Clarks lrolita on
time allowance by minutes SO seconds.
The winner Of the sloop cup for this
race was the Avenger. owned by Harry
7, Maxwell. She defeated the Shimna
by : minutes IS seconds and the Dorello
II by 3 minutes 45 seconds. In the regular
classes the figures show that in the New
York ffty-foo: class ]. p. Morgans
Crawling won from the Barbara ny IS
seconds. ". =. Dodges samuri being
third and the Carolina IL fourth. In the
= class, G. D. Iloyd's Armoret defeated
the Windward by minutes 55 seconds.
Commodore Dallas B. Pratt, when seen
on board his flagship. the Sea Fox. said
Of the cruise: 1t has been a most de-
lghtful and satisfactory cruise. No mis-
haps have been reported and every one
is here happy and sound The weather
conditions have been ideal and my only
regret is that the cruise is so near its
end"
H. de b Parsons. chairman OF the
En4 81 H1
close Of to-day's race, as he stood upon
the bridge Of Rear Commodore ]. Z.
Morgan's steam yacht Corsair, and asked
what he thought II the cruise as whole,
said:
1t has been most successful through
out. We have had excellent weather up
Till this morning, when the fog inter
fered for a little while The racing has
been spirited. l should say satisfactory"
Fleet Captain Franklin Plummer was
quite enthusiastic at the showing made
and at the welcome rendered 10 the
yachtsmen at every port visited.
Signals set on the flagship Sea Fox at
o'clock this afternoon announced that
the squadron would disband at $50
o'clock in the morning. and tonight the
Come guests OF the Eastern Yacht Club at
its house on Marbehead Neck. That club
holds a special race for the "ffties' to-
morrow over its courses in Massachusetts,
Bay.
By consent Of the yacht owners who
were 10 start in the race this morning
the leg Of the course which would take
them TO and around the Cape Ann
Vhistling buoy. increasing the distance
thirteen miles, was eliminated. This
gave them yesterdays course reversed.
a quarter OF an hour before the start
r. Roy. an aviator. came out from
Gloucester in a Burgess-Wright hydro
aeroplane and after flying over the feet
that was mustered off Eastern Point at
q height of about 800 feet he pointed his
machine direct for Marblehead.
Just as the starting whistle from the
committee boat Moran sounded, at 10 10
o'clock. mantle Of fog from the east
ward came sweeping down on the fleet.
II was Just possible 10 distinguish the
numbers on the mainsails Of the yachts
as they crossed the line between the
Moran and the whistling buoy off Eastern
Point.
First away was the Monks brothers +
class sloop Windward, with C. Demarest
Lloyd's Armoret close under her lee beam
The Amoret luffed across the wake Of the
Windward the moment she was clear
then kept of again in an effort 10 blanket
her adversary. They were soon lost In
the fog.
The Dorello II. the Shimna and the
Avenger crossed together on the next sig
nal Cl0I5). with the Dorello II in the
weather BERTH the Shimna in the middle
and the Avenger 10 leeward. Harry Il
Maxwell, the owner and helmsman Of the
Avenger had as HIS guest on board Victor
/ Curnuock Of the Seawanhaka Corip-
THAN Yacht Club.
Eight Of the "hfties" started on the
next whistle. 1920 led by c. {. Rumrills
Pleione. which set spinnaker to port soon
after clearing the lee end OF the line.
The samuri, steered by Frank Bovine
Jones. was next away. she. like the 9TH
ers. having sheets essed well off to star
board and a balloon jib topsail set. Ralph
y. Ellis's Iroquos II got away IL the
middle OF the line, with the Grsyling, her
owner. J. F. Morgan. at the wheel. close
under her lee. The Acushla AMI the Bar
para crossed 100 eDoil anu N'A' iNNo4iN''
while the Carolina II. sailed by George
W. Robinson, got away among the first
and well 70 windward.
OF the three small schooners that start
ed George W Scotts Miladi was first
away at the windward end OF the line.
Charles smithers's Muriel made good
start with balloon main topmast staysail
and balloon jib topsail drawing well as
she crossed the line.
L. Walter Clark's big schooner lrolita
started alone on the 1890 signal, and the
auxiliary Venona Ave minutes later
To the Boston Lghtship the course
was s w by S "a s, and the distance
fourteen miles. All the feet, with good
breeze over their port quarters made fast
time on this Hrst leg. The fog shut them
from the view Of the accompanying steam
and other yachts until y o'clock. Fifteen
minutes later the racing craft came into
view from the lghtship. They were some
three miles 10 the eastward spread out
fan shape. The Iroita was several miles
10 the southwark. She gybed TO port at
1926 and hauled up for the hghtshlp on
the star board tack
The scene as the eighteen whlte ana
black hulled yachts converged on ther
way 70 the nghtshp was picturesque
each spreading it's pyramid OF snowy
canvas TO the breeze.
The times taken from the deck OF Inc
TrIbuns's steamer as the yachts luned