The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-06-06
HARDER TESTS
FOR DEFENDERS
Yachts to Commence Long Series
of Practice Meets Next Week

New York, June with the pass
ing of the first few tuning up tests of
the trio of yachts striving for the nom
or of defending the Americas cup
against the shamrock ", next Sep
TENDER the shippers and crews are
preparing for the all-summer series of
racers which will evolve the success
full candidate To he CHOSEN by the cup
committee from the Resoute, Defiance
and Nanitie. During the coming week
the yachts will pass from Long Island
Sound to the ocean course off Sandy
Hood for three tests under sterner
conditions over the same course which
will be used i'm the cup races There
will follow a week devoted to repairs
ana changes in the yachts to be sue
ceeded by two weeks more of Sound
racing. All of these events Of which
there are eleven on the schedule will
be Of preliminary nature. I'm fact,
they have been arranged more To get
the boats and crews in condition for
the more serious tests off Newport in
July and August, when THE Americas
cup committee will sit in Judgment on
the performances ana select the best
boat To meet the Shamrock ".
The starts for all the racing i'm the
Sound will he off Great Captain Island
near the entrance to the harbor Of
Portchester. Half a dozen courses Of
from 20 To 80 miles each have been
laid out, some of which will carry the
yachts down the Sound beyond Stan
ford. while others will take them well
up To Execution Rock and over 10 the
Hampstead shore. With starts off
Great Captain Island it will be posi-
BILE To lay a fiftecn-mile course To the
winward in case the breeze is from the
prevailing direction, southwest.
Eleven years ago. the three cup
yachts, Reliance, Constitution and CO.
lumbia. were given numerous trial
races in this part of the Sound, but the
starts were off the Long Island shore
near Matinicock Point, and it was
found difficult to send The boats to the
windward on the first les.
by agreement between the managers
and the regatta committee of the New
York Yacht club fifteen minutes will
be allowed between the warning and
the starting signals for the fight for
position. Two minutes will be given
for the yachts to start and i'm that
brief period each boat will be timed to
the second. as she crosses the line. If
she is late, her time will be taken as
starting at the end of the two minutes,
although she may he three, five or even
ten minutes behind. The stru- gle for
the best places at the line. the weather
berth if the first leg is to windward, a
snug place away from the others with
the wind clear if the course is To lee
ward, is the supreme test of the sail
ing master and many a race has been
won or lost through success or failure
at the outset.
The helmsmcn of tie three yachts,
George NJ. Pynchon on the Defiance.
Charles T.. Adams, End. on the Resolute
and William Dennis on the Nanitie are
master hands at the starting game ana
the best yachting sport Of the year will
be in watching the game played by
these cool. calculatne shippers. II Is
Il rare game-this handling of big
powerful yacht. especially in breeze,
while even in sof, weather the very
best judgment is required. Each as he
stands at the wheel must know just
where his own boat is how fast she is
going, where the other yachts aIe and
how fast they are sailing. lie must
know wien his own boat has the right
of way, and when his opponent must
give way and i'm tight place. not to
take an inch or conccdc one. or the
race Is lost