Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21
On the Rumble Seat.


of your runabout so heet2
Oh sometimes Father wants to ride.
And that is Fathers seat.
What is that. IT'S surely rain:
Twill wet the float
Oh. here, Take this. twill keep you dry,
And it is Fathers coat
What is that that wakes rest
At 6 from Branfords halls?
Oh Fathers breakfasts halfpast g.
And that is Fathers call
What are those you're setting there1
This shirt-waist collar hurts
Oh. drop those things and do this now
They're only Fathers shirts.
What are these? Oh never mind.
Though rage his heart It fills:
They're tubes and tires and gas and such
They're only Fathers bills
With the beginning of racing for our
defenders and the launching Of Shamrock
" interest In the coming international
contest and in all yachting matters Is In
creasing in leaps and bounds. And the
sport is an old one. as sports go.
The first of all yacht clubs was known
as Cork Harbor Water Club" and was
established as far back as 1720 at Cork.
Ireland. Some eighty years after. club
was formed in England. known as 1.-THE
Cumberland Society," by men interested
a yearly cup. 1t was not. however, until
1872 that the Royal Yacht Squadron was
founded at Cowes. After that. yacht clubs
were established throughout the British
empire in many places The boats built
in those years were indeed constructed to
last There is said to have been a yacht
built some time in the 1905 that was
actually racing up to twenty years ago.
In America, the first club was the New
York Yacht Club, organized in 1874. Since
then, as in England, many clubs have
been formed, but that which has given
the greatest impetus always to the sport
in the public mind is the international
race first started by the New York Yacht
Clubs member. Mr.. ]. c. Stevens, who
commissioned either William H. Brown or
George Steers foreman in Browns and
an Englishman, resident in New York,
who had designed and built New York
pilot boats, to build schooner Yacht
which Mr.. Stevens expected to enter IN
in that year. 1851. Although this "Ameri-
ca did not compete for the queens cup
after all. because Mr.. Stevens found that
there was time allowance clause IN the
provision. she did race for cup put up
by the Royal Yacht Squadron on his ar
rival in England. When these gentlemen
found that Mr.. Stevens objected to the
time allowance they put up another cup
and the America" was successful in de-
feating fourteen other yachts for the first
of the international yacht races.
The Americas cup, thus sailed for
and won by the boat designed by VIII
liam H. Brown or George Steers, his
foreman for Mr.. Stevens Of the New
peted for again for nineteen years.
August 8. 1870. the second race in this
country for the trophy. and the second
race of this string of international con-
three yachts crossed the starting line.
The Cambria was the big English boat.
Included among the American boats
was the old America and the schooner
Magic The Dauntless was also in the
race. This is the schooner that raced
the Cambria across the Atlantic for a
stake, which was won by the Cambria
The Magic. Dauntless and eight other
of the Cambria and made still greater
gains out toward Sandy Hook. The
Sandy Hook light ship was the second
turning point, and there the Magic
home before the wind with a very con-
siderable lead. The Cambria gained
somewhat, running free. but was beaten
20 minutes and 12.7 seconds by the
the old America, also beat out the
Cambria. In 1871 Mr.. James Ashbury
of England. the owner of the Cambria.
challenged again. specifying that some
seven races be sailed. the winner to be
decided by four out of seven. In this
race there were not a host of other
Yachts but it was one defender against
the challenger. the defender being the
schooner Columbia. and Mr.. Ashburys
boat being named the Livonia Once
more the American boat won by twenty
five minutes. The second contest was in a
very strong breeze. and it was believed
the Livonia would stand better chance
This she did but still the Columbia
won by over ten minutes. In the third
race the Columbia carried away heI
flying lib and later experienced such
trouble with her steering gear as &c
necessitate the lowering Of her main
sail. and this lost her the race by
IS minutes and 20 seconds. A new de-
fender was selected for the fourth race
This was the Sappho. which beat the