New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-10

classes crossed the line with lee rails
almost awash and carrying balloon jib
! topsails and maintopmast staysai!s
/ They were led by George w. SCOTS
! Miladi, which crossed about the middle
Of the line, with the little Stamford
schooner, the Whileaway owned by Il
NJ. Billings, under her lee. I. f. Ray
nond's Hopewell was next away; then
| Edward Corning's Elemah crossed at
| the lee end, with W. 5. Eatons Taor-
nina on her weather. J. ". Birds
Dervish and James Ford's Katrina
were next away, close up TO their lead
ers, and so was the little Sound
schooner MORA, owned by Clarkson
/ Cowl and sailed by the Whiting broth
| ers, Butler and Kenneth, assisted by
: their wives.
/ Led by L. Walter Clarks Irolita, the
/ largest class of schooners got away at
1890 o'clock She made a splendid
picture as she crossed the line at a r.
knot clip, with every stitch Of canvas
4 they could set drawing and her lee rail
down to the water. Close 10 windward
| Of her came George +. LADDERS Endy-
mion. then Commodore Pratt's Sea Fox,
with Francis SINNERS big Constella-
tion-her first pearance on the cruise
next. Cleveland II. Dodge's Corona
was on her weather quarter and T. l..
Leland's Ariel 10 leeward.
Keen Battle for Weather Berths.
Rolling gently in the old Atlantic
swells. through which each yacht was
ploughing a furrow Of foam, the big
| feet OF thirty-two racing craft, with
/ the wind abeam 70 starbOard. sped
/ away, making fast time 10 the east-
ward and heeling "scuppers to- in the
strong breeze. Not 10 be outdone in
the racing game, former Commodore
Arthur Curtiss James ordered all
SQUARE sails loosed and sheeted home on
his auxiliary bark, the Aloha, and she
I was Keeling off twelve knots or better
when she passed West Island an hour
after the start Leonard Richards
/ also set the Carola's square sails and
I,lovd Phoenix made all plain sail on
the Intrepid. The regatta committee,
Immediately after the last starter had
! crossed the line, was taken from the
] tug 10 J. p. Morgan's steam yacht Cor
sair which then steamed at fun speed
for the finish line off West Chop, 81
miles to the eastward.
The feature Of the 17-mile reach from
\ the start 10 the Vineyard Sound
Iightship-the first turn in the
course-was the luffing matches In
dulged in by the oldtime schooners.
that seemed to be responding 10 the
"caI Of the sea" and were battling for
weather berths in this stretch Of ocean,
over which they had travelled for many
wears on other cruises.
! First IL was the Endymion and the
| Corona that got into lufting argu-
rnent. Then the Seafox and her big
| sister. the Constellation, had 1t out
They lurfed and luffed until they were
away off 10 windward OF the course.
Meanwhile the old Ariel. Colonel fran
ole 7 Leland's schooner, with her
working head sails down and Dig
baIlooner pulling IKE a steam engine
bent her course and gained on the
others Finally they quit. and when
,bev got back on their courses IT was
found that Commodore Pratts Seafox
WAS the leader, although the Constella-
ton had gone through her lee not long
before The Endymion, too had won
ont in her bout with the Corona
The IroIita First Around the L'sntship'
The "ffties" meanwhile had oeeh
having few luffing matches but all
had settled down TO business before 'he
pqhtship was reached. This oio req
beacon was rounded first by 'he
ochooner Irolita. which had long ieao
- the rest. when she eased sheets and
cot sninnaker 20 starboard Tor the
twentv-mile run up Vineyard souhd 10
the nnish. The Corona. the seafox' the
rndvmion. the Constellation ana .he
Ariel followed the Irolita in tna' oiue,
each setting her spinnaker AFTER rouiiu
,ne as did the Avenger, the shiiiin@
and the Dorello and the "ffties.
OFF the west end OF Nasna"e,"
leland al D m. the Joyant was the
leading Up" class sloop, the "iho""'0