New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14
CAROLINA / WINS IN
HOWL|NC NOR'WESTER
Pembroke JoneS's Fifty.Foot
SIocp Gets Class Prize in
ManhasSet Races.
P"...I,YSNc MAN 0l.,-2B0ARD
Another Leaps Into Heavy
Sea to Save Him. and
Then W. Butler Dun.
can Rescues Both.

Ru~v,nc her lee rail n 2 smother OF
foam as she hoe'cd TO q twerty-hve-fnot
breeze the ffty-foot soon Yacht Caro-
lima IT. owned h. Pembroke Jones. Of
the Kew York Yacht Club. crossed the
finish line Of Execution Light. yester-
day afternoon the winner OF the prize In
her class in the fan regatta OF the Man
hasset PAY Yacht Club.
Six Of rho "ffties' started ard after
as hard a race as they have sailed on
the Sound this season. nearly half OF Il
being windHard work she won in ! NM
ute % seconds from W. F. Dodge's Sa-
muri Tie rroquos ri was third and J.
y. MorGan's Craving fourth. II blow
so hard N the squalls that only working
topsa.ls could be carried. The Acushla,
which started FIVE minutes late. luGged
club topsail all through, hoping in vain
TO gain on the others.
Addison G. Hansn's Josephine. With
her owner AT the tiller. won in the up"
class from w ~. Childs's Joyant by s
minutes So seconds. The Corinthian. with
a broken gan. was only beaten six Sec
onds by the Joyant. The thirty
Rowdy won from the Phryne by 10 min
utes 50 seconds. and the schooner Van
dalia. steered by David Duncan. capt
ured the prize in the Sound schooner
class by minutes seconds from the
Mora.
The winners in the other classes were
the Petrol. the Joker. the Red Wing. the
I I.e~anna steered by Mrs. Kenneth
/ Whiting-whch defeated the Yuron by IS
seconds; the Gree the Mile. Boss, the
| Dodo. the Venus. handled by c. G. Davis.
and the Chickloker.
There were some thrills before and dur
Ing the race. for bowling Northwestern
covered the Sound with whitecaps. throw
ing the spray high into tho Fails ot the
| Yachts and testing not only the spars
and rigging 20 the limit. but also the skill
! OF the shippers. Reefs were tucked In
/ some OF the mainsails Of the small craft.
/ Judge John Proctor Clarke. who sailed in
/ his sons sloop. the Bahette, helped to put
/ two reefs in her maiusail. J. ". Alker's
/ Alerion carried away her tiller. and the
, Corinthian broke her gan I'm the wind
ward work.
A drowning accident was barely avert
ed when a small boat towing astern OF
/ George Nichols's Phryne capsized. throw
! ing a man overheard who was in her
/ bow When he did not appear after more
| than a minute one OF the yachts crew
| Jumped overheard and swan for him. He
managed IN the heavy sea 10 get the man
on the boats bottom and hold him there
until W. Butler Duncan. with his launch
Wanceche. went alongside and rescued
both men.
The start OF three OF the Cities" was
exciting. Timed almost to the second. II.
/ p. Whitney's Barbara with Robert En-
mons. 81. nj the wheel. got away first.
with the Carolina RI length or so 70
! leeward and the Iroquois II between them
both The samuri and the Graylng
crossed more than a minute late and the
Acushla 1--WE minutes late.
! II was broad reach FOR them 20 the
! first mark. of Woolsey's Reef Gybing
| there. they had another reach across the
/ Sound 70 Oak Neck Buoy and a beat from
! there 20 the finiSh-twenty-one and three
quarter miles in all James ". Alker. T..
A. Serck and A. W. Nilsson managed the
race from Stephen II. Mason's power
Yacht Leda. which had been placed at
their disposal by the owner The club
went out OF commission for the season
after the race
The summary follows
NEW YORK YACHT CLUB Jo-FOOT CLASS
] START. 12:i0-COURSE. 2I& MILES