New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-22
GREAT FLEET SAILS
IN TICKLE BREEZES
1ne Hundred and TWenty-one
Yachts Out for Second Day Of
LarChmOnt Week.
THE BARBARA WINS AGAIN
Josephine Beats Out Stranger
in Bitter Fight All the
Way in Race for
P Glass.

Under clear blue sky fccked here
and there with white clouds. and In tickle
h-oezes from the uorthward and west
ward. another great fleet Of small craft
raced on Long Island Sound yesterday FOR
line prizes offered by the Larchomut
Yacht club.
ON this the second day Of It's race
week" lg yachts, manned by some 500
Corinthians, crossed the starting line off
,he breakwater. and although it was "a
light weather day with many fukcs.
there was keen competition in al Of the
tventy-six classes. and a prettier picture
has seldom been seen than when this
white winged fleet spread itself from east
10 west and from shore TO shore of the
sound. the waters Of which were smooth
as the proverbial miilpond.
Harry Payne Whitney nfty-foot sloop
Barbara, the winner Of Saturdays race
in her class. was first across the finish
line yesterday beating the lroquois II.
owned by Ralph y. Ellis, by minutes 6
seconds. +. Randolph Spartan was
third
All Of the nine slOops forming this class
made pretty start al 1870, J. =. Nor
cans Crawling, steered by her owner
getting away in the lead at the lee end
Of the line, with the Ventura, Carolina ii
and Spartan a length or two astern. The
Pleione had the weather berth close up
10 the stern Of the tug, W. r Dalzell,
the Barbara. Samuri and Iroquois II
crowding each other in her wake and
their shippers shouting for room.
All had their reaching jib topsails set.
but soon after a spirited luiiinS match be-
tween the last four named they had 20
take in those sails. as the wind canted
10 the eastward and headed them of. To
their first mark. off Greenwich Point, 81
miles away, it was first close and then
a broad reach. Gybing there they had
another reach across the Sound of nine
miles 10 the buoy off Motifs Point and
windward work from there TO the finish.
Il was in this that the Barbara did her
rest work. outpointine the Iroquois II and
Spartan and finishing close-hauled on the
port tack
The six sloops that got away in the
p class had some close racing. especially
between the new Josephine, handled By
her designer Addison G. Hanan, and r.
p Jenkss black-hulled Stranger. from
Narragansett Bay. The Josephine started
in the lead and in the weather berth, with
her opponent almost on even terms at the
lee end Of the line.
Seven Of the New York Yacht Club
"thirtes' made good start almost with
the gun, J. II. Mahlstedt's Okee leading
ogden NJ. Reds Lena at the weather
end Of the line by about a length The
Nepsi crossed slightly in advance OF these
Two a. the lee end Of the line, with the
Roydy on her lee quarter. The racing in
II lass was keen. considering the light
and variable winds encountered on their
Triangular course OF fourteen and five
eighths miles. j. L. Cutters Alera win
ming by only ffty-eight seconds from the
Lena, which had the Carmelita twelve
seconds IN her wake
The winners in the other classes were
the schooner Vandala. the Gamecock'
the JOY, the Sally *. the Mist, the
Twinkle, the Mignon, the Lewanna. the
Topaz. the Oriole. the Petrol, the PiXy
the Mile. Boss. the Hamburger, the Gar
the Mary Jane. the Twinkle. the Mouse,
the Dart. the Virginia. the Tautog' the
Wasp and the Papillon.
The summary follows:
NEW YORK Y. C.. o-FOOTERS-START.