The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-01
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
FOR CUP DEFENDERS
Series Of Twenty-Five Races Ar
ranged Exclusive Of
Club Cruise.
FIRST ONES JUNE 2, 8 AND 4
But Polo Games May Conflict,
So That Change Is Likely
Are i'm Special Class.

A tentative schedule has been arranged
BY the owners and managers of the three
cup defenders and the several yacht clubs
which gives the three yachts twenty-five
races exclusive of those during the New
York Yacht Club cruise and such trials
o. may be necessary after that cruise has
ended II is possible that this schedule
may be rearranged and that II may be
necessary to select other dates for the
races now scheduled for the early part of
June.
According to the present arrangement
the first races will be June 2, and =.
These are to be under the auspices of the
New York Yacht Club and are to be sailed
on the Sound. The starting point will be
of Great Captains Island, which is near
Greenwich. That point has been chosen
by the regatta committee Of the New
York Yacht Club because ii enables the
committee to select a good course. which
may be fifteen miles to windward and re-
turn. should the wind be from favorable
direction. or around a triangle Of ten
miles to "a leg. Should these distances
be impossible the course may be short
ened and sailed twice over. The starting
point and the probable courses are settled.
but Il is possible that the three yachts
may not be quite ready for racing at that
time. In such an event the dates will be
changed. There Is no idea now that they
will not be ready. but 1t is hard to pre-
dict what may happen when they begin
sailing and there may be some delays in
getting them away from the builders
yards.
The next race. is scheduled for the
Larchmont Yacht Club on June s. and at
ter that the three yachts will take part
in three races outside Sandy Hook under
the auspices of the New York Yacht Club.
The dates for these three are June 10. II
and ~, and the courses will be the same
al for the international races and under
the same conditions far as possible.
These courses will be fifteen niles to
windward or leeward and return and
around a thirty mile triangle. with one
leg, the first II possible. ten miles to wind
ward. The starts will be made from the
Ambrose Channel liGhtship
The international polo match will be
played early In June. and as the yachts
men want to witness the polo games and
the polo men want TO see the yacht rae 5
the dates are to he arranged so that there
will be no conflict.
All the races in June with the excrp-
ton of the three of Sandy Hook will be
on Long Island Sound and the courses
will be made as long rs possible. In
July the cup defenders will 20 to Newport
and race out in the open. where the
courses will be thirty miles in length laid
Just as they will be for the cup races
themselves.
The annual New York Yacht Club
cruise will be from July 81 TO August S
and the programme probably will be a
rendezvous at Glen Cove, with races
through the Sound. stopping al Hunting
ton, Morris Cove, New London and New
port. and then 10 Vineyard Hav,n and
back to Newport. This plan has not
been accepted yet but II Is finding more
favor than any other.
The Astor and Kings cup races will be
sailed eff Newport as usual. but the de-
lenders this year will not be eligible TO
compete for those trophies nor for the
nag officers cups which are offered for
the runs from port to port.
When the cup conditions were arranged
il was agreed by tn. New York Yacht
Club and Royal Ulster Yacht Club that
certain requirements Of the New York
Yacht Club rules should be waived One
Of these Is section 4 OF rule 5. which says
'Floors must be left down. bulkheads
ana doors left standing, water tanks kept
IN place. Each yacht shall keep he,
galley fixtures and fitting on board anC
In their place"
The three defenders are built to compl,
with the rules to govern the international
races. They have no bulkheads, no doors
no water tanks and no galley fixture,
and consequently cannot sail agains
other yachts in the usual club races Th!.
makes the defenders special class b,
themselves and as such they will be cared
for They sail under their own rules.
A. they cannot compete for the usua
prizes the club has offered special prize.
for this class and they will be started
after the rest of the fleet in such event.
a. the Aston and Kings cup races.