The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-17
LLOYD'S PRINCESS AGAIN
OUTSAILS HER BIGGER RIVAL
Ariel Beaten Boat for Boat in Schooner Class
of Larchnlont Regatta Carolina H. First
Fifty to Get Home

LARcHMoNT MANOR, N. Y. July i6.--
On both actual and corrected time Dema-
rest Lloyd's schooner Princess again de-
feated Ariel. which belongs 20 r. l.. Le-
land, in a special schooner class here to
day. Tho class was the most important
division of tho fourth day Of tho annual
race week of the big Long Island Sound
club. Princess beat Ariel by minutes
and 1s seconds actual time. A she was
the smaller boat II was not necessary
TO figure corrected time.
IL was the turn of Carolina RI. 20 chalk
~ win among the Nifty footers Of the
New York Yacht Club The craft beat
Samuri by 3 minutes and 0 seconds over
a twenty-one mile course. Edmund Fish
continued his winning In the thirty foot
division and crossed the line In Oriole
/ minute and IL seconds in advance OF
O. NJ. Reds Lena. Little Rhody IL again
won In the Y class. scoring her second
victory on the handsome Blaokton trophy.
With the exception OF rain squall
that worked along the New York shore,
and did not break. the boats had all kinds
of weather There were Gains Mt the
start, a good breeze through the greater
part Of the contest and more Gains
toward night. Many OF the classes man
aged TO get good breezes throughout.
Others were hung up In soft spots AZ
result II was not a particularly good rae
ing day although all the craft made early
finishes.
Things at the start did not turn out
exactly AS the regatta committee. made
up OF Horace T.. Boucher and Charles +.
Tower. anticipated. Hardly had the
schooners started than the wind petered
out and the yachts were like painted
boats upon a painted ocean. To make
matters worse, the racing corinthians
saw several working schooners footing
along in splendid style over on the Long
Island side OF the Sound. These boats
had "A southerly breeze that was most
itantallzing to the becalmed racers OF the
Larchmont fleet
Tho schooner division was made up or
tho Princess and tho Ariel The latter was
tho first away. When the signal was set Tor
the start OF the flfty footers the big sloops
found great difficulty in reaching the line
The Caroline II. alone succeeded In making
! a good start. she was followed by the
/ Samuri and the Barbara.
The Pleione and the Spartan were
! late. but both crossed more than fifteen
minutes ahead OF J. Pierpont Morgan
I Crawling, which was hung up with
tho smaller fry. With tho eN-
| canton of the Barbara the hfues AL
stood across the Sound on the port tacR
: trying TO pick up the wlnd tnat was pool'''
/ ing I'm the Sound from tho south. The
first boats TO catch the new breeze were the
Samurt and the Caroline and they quickly
gybed booms TO port and set ba,looners fo'
n broad reach to the first turning marx
Off Greenwich.
The balance OF the feet hung around
the committee boat like Mother Carey'i
chickens. The starting signal was sound-c
. for class after class and not Single
boat could get enough Roadway 10 cross
the line Finally tho southerly breeze
struck the fleet and more than sixty o.
the squadron crossed the line inside of
minute The breeze struck the heets JUS
after the signal for the third and TN
fourth division Of the handicap class ha'
been sounded. The summaries;
SCHOONER cIAss-START, t;25-coURsE
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