The San Francisco call., 1913-08-31
'GE ERMANS LOOK
FOR DEFEAT IN
YACHT CONTEST
Shippers and Crews Of the
Challengers on Way to
Marblehead, Mass,
for Races

little boats are to compete will re-
main In the United States.
Shippers and crews Of the German
challengers have started for America
with no expectation OF winning. They
are, however, determined to sacrifice
themselves to the spirit of true
craftsmanship and in the interest Of
German yachting. Their
sportsmanship is further shown in
the decision not to include among the
cnallengers the Resi-. which swept the
Held at Kiel, because she was not
built within the spirit (though within
the letter. OF the regulations which
call for construction out Of mahogany
cedar or other equally heavy wood.
German boat builders learned not
long ago that white cedar, used in the
construction Of some Of the American
boats which competed In former Som
der class races, and Gaboon nahog-
any, with which Resi- is pianked, were
both much lighter than the ordinary
RED cedar and mahogany contem-
plated In the regulations, and con-
sequently gave faster boats. But the
German committee was opposed to
any evasion of the rules, even IL
technical or unintentional, and IT was
decided to exclude Resi- for the reason
that the lighter wood had been used
for her planks.
Wittelsbach X, Angela Iy ana sa-
rum, the German boats now at Mar
blehead, are the best which could be
secured In Germany this year in the
face Of what was practically a strike
on the part OF local designers and
constructors against building Sender
class yachts within the permitted
price limit of s1,400.
CREWS of THE BOATS
Wittelsbach was selected to go to
Marblehead on the strength of her
performances in a light wind and
smooth sea; Serum is expected to do
ner best in heavy weather. and Angela
Is cross between the two The
crews of these boats will be as fol-
lows:
Wittelsbach x-Reinhard Drewitz
(designer), til1er: Christof Alt
townerl, mainsheet; A. MaImberg,
headsails
Angela w. r. Weitzmann. tiller;
Count Won Platen zu HalIermund.
mainsheet: Baron Riedesel zu Eisen-
bach, headsails
Serum-W Waldemar Tietjens (owner).
tiller G. Schulder, mainsheet; Profess
sor Won Eicken, headsails. DIR. E.
Heyes accompanies the crews as
substitute
~~A& . 49, 10 Lie CLdl1E0keI upon
which German attention is concen-
trated. She is owned by the crown
prince, Frederick William, and is his
fourth boat of this name
The imperial yachtsman sailed An
gela himself In the trial races at Kiel
and Travemuende and. it is no secret,
would have been hugely delighted to
match himself against the American
sailors at Marblehead. even with de-
feat in sight, and afterward see a
little of the United States, If he could
have secured his fathers permission.
The emperor, however, remembered
the tumultuous reception given Prince
Henry on his American tour a few
years ago, and set his face resolutely
against any American trip for the
crown prince, fearing that dispatches
from America, describing the unavoid-
ably democratic experiences of the
coming ruler of Germany might inn
pair the necessary awe and respect of
his future subjects for him. In his
place, J. T. Weitzmann, Hamburg
merchant, and one of the most skillful
sailors Of the Imperial Yacht club of
Kiel Will pilot the Angela, with Count
Won Platen and Baron Won Riedesel.
the crown princes friends and regular
crew" for several years. at the
sheets
Wittlesbach x was once owned, like
Angela, by royalty and has had an
amusing career of vicissitudes When
Prince Henry of Prussia and his reg
ular sailing partner, Richard Krog-
mann of Hamburg. were confronted
with the refusal of their regular de-
signer to build a boat for the limit
price, $1,400, they turned to builder
who was less well known, Reinhard
Drewitz, who built for them the Wit
telsbach. then known as Tilly XVI.
Two trials at the Elbe regatta con-
vinced Prince Henry and Krogmann
that this Tilly would not do and in
all haste they ordered new boat for
the Kiel regatta, known as Tilly
XVII. Drewitz bought back the de-
spised discard for $500 and entered it
under the name of Sonntagskind II at
Kiel and Travemuende At Kiel Sonn-
tagskind had not yet found herself"
but in the smoother waters OF Trave-
muende and with Drewitz at the till
er. she showed herself the best OF the
fine weather boats. Christof Alt, the
Berlin yachtsman. who had unsuc-
cessfully tried for the American trip
with his Wittelsbach TX, bought Sonn-
tagskind after her selection by the
committee renamed her Wfttelsbach
X and induced Drewitz to accompany
him to America to steer his own boat.
CURE FOR SEA SICKNESS
The cause and the cure for sea
sickness have been discovered by Doc
tor Fischer OF Bad Nauheim. accord
| ing to a report made by the doctor to
the Munich Medical Weekly
He announces that 1t is the pneumo-
gastric nerve which makes trouble for
| those who go down to the sea in ships.
BY artificially tickling this nerve he
has produced seasickness in patients
| on solid land, and by giving 1t an
! opiate in the shape of an infinitely
small injection OF atropin he has
| lulled 1t to sleep druing an entire
transatlantic crossing. giving complete
| relief to the worst sufferers In the
stormiest weather In the course OF
| series OF experiments DR.. Fischer
| injected drugs which acted as an ir-
ritant to the pneumogastric nerve,
and found that there resulted symp-
| toms precisely similar to those Of
seasickness, including nausea. vomit-
| ing headache. etc.
| Shortly thereafter the physician
/ made trip to America and return
| High winds and rough seas furnished
| him plenty of material. and there was
| no lack of seasick victims who were
| willing to submit to any treatment
| The doctor injected atropin, one milli-
| gram in the case OF men. and three
| fourths of milligram In the case OF
women. In nearly every case there
| was a rapid disappearance or all
] symtoms. Nausea and vomiting dis
appeared within half an hour, and
/! within three or four hours the last
/ symptoms had vanished. Even the
| pulse became regular. Renewed and
heavier storms failed to counteract the