New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-07
Cochran Defence Yacht
Wins by Two Minutes
in Light Breeze.
NOISY GREETING AS
SHE CROSSES LINE
Power Boats Get in Way at the
Start and Spectators
Have Thrill.
By CAPTAIN J. c. SUMMERS.


ica's Cup, defeated the flag officers yacht
Resolute yesterday by minutes So sec
ends actual and . minutes 40 seconds cor
rected time in a race OF 29ss miles on
Long Island Sound.
It was the first real test that this splen-
did pair Of cup defence yachts have had
under light weather conditions They
were equally fair for both. and the Gard
rer designed sloop fairly outsailed the
Herreshof yacht,
The start Of the race was marred for
the moment by what might have rested
in a serious accident, but for the quick ac-
ton OF Captain William Dennis of the
Vanitie. The power yacht Buffalo, owned
by c. T. Wills. but under charter to others.
laid squarely across the course Of the
yachts as they were crossing the line. The
Vanites start was spoiled because Cap
tain Dennis had TO keep off 10 avoid run
ming the power boat down.
What a rousing welcome the Nanitie
got at $3.50. when, with shapely bronze
port side shining in the waning sunlight.
she swept across the line a handsome
winner. While the whistles screeched
and the thousands cheered Billy Gard
ner her designer standing aft near Cap
tain y s. Cochran. her owner tossed his
hat in the air, as did Captain Harry Half
and Captain Dennis had his say after
ward.
The race was one of three for a cup
offered by Vice-Commodore Frederick c.
Fletcher. of the Larchmont Yacht Club
the dates for the other two being June %
and July l. The races are on the point
system. allowing five points for victory,
two for a second and one for third, so the
Nanitie has five points to her credit.
The Vanitie's sails were in Infinitely
better shape yesterday than in her E'st
light weather race and she showed the
Improvement in her speed Off the wind
and by her pointing" better in the wind
ward reach.
The wind was variable. being northwest
and light at the start, shifting TO the
westward during the first round Of the
course and going to the southwest in the
second round. 1t was strongest for the
final leg Of the course, from oak Neck
buoy 10 the finish.
The course laid by the regatta commit
tee-Horace Boucher and Harry Maxwell,
assisted by +. Pynchon-was from Par
sonace Point buoy, about two miles east
Of Larchmone 10 the red span buoy off
Greenwich Point (six miles; thence to
the Oak Neck buoy, off the Long Island
shore -four and a quarter niles; thence
e. the finish line -four and fve-cighths
niles. This course was sailed twice over,
making twenty-nine and three-quarter
miles in all.
The first leg Of the first round was
close reach on the port tack, the second
beat 70 windward and the third
reach 10 the home mark. The first leg OF
the second round was a broad reach, in
the second they were able 10 fetch the
Oak Neck mark in one starboard tack
and tie final leg was a close reach on the
port tack
The aftcrguard OH board the Nanitio
IN the race besides her owner, Alexander
Smith Cochran. were William Gardner
who designed the yacht; Charles Lane
IOor and Fred VI. Davies
Upon the Rcsolute's quarterback were
Charles Francis Adams. %, her helms
man, Robert W Emmons, %, j. =. Nor
gan. Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Parkn-
son and George Nichols. Captain Harry
Half was at the wheel Of the Nanitie be-
fore the start
The steam and power yachts that 9c-
companied the yachts over the course IN
oluded the Narada, Henry Walters; the
Garcia. Leonard Richards; the Mohicdn'
4. s. Cochran; the Tarantula, w. K. van
oerbit jr.; the Oneida. T.. G. Benedict:
ElNeIgOn.
lri the Elreba. II. Darlington; the War
nor. 81. j. Whitncy; the AlacritN }. NJ.
Macdouoggh; the Anahna. August Hech-
schcr; the Mermaid. J. =. Morgan; ;he
Isabella. George T. Runk; the Marie,
Pynchon & Clark; the Ranger. II. w.
SiOcum; the Ovyhee. Charles r.. Berncr;
the Dreamer, Charles Lee; the Virginia.
vs.. L. darkness, and the Sioux. +. 9.
Bourne.
At thirty seconds before the starting
signal both yachts were well TO the west
ward Of the line on the starboard tack.
Just at the whistle Dennis set his small
reaching jlb-topsail. Adams following suit
with the Resolute.
Both gybed 70 starboard thirty seconds
afte- the starting signal and approached
the line on the port tack. The ResOIutes
80 was dropped. 20 give draft 70 the
rcacher. but Dennis kept the staysail ana
lib on the Vanitic She had the weather
berth. az both came for tho line almost
y beam and beam. Dennis shaving the com
mlttee tug Dalzelrs port side as they
passed. with less than length abeam
between his yacht and the Resolute
Suddenly tho power yacht Bunalo
doomed up night IN the course OF both
yachts "Get or the cOurse' was the
yell that vent up from Dennis from the
committee and hundreds Of others.
The Bunalo's skipper started his boat
ahead In time 10 get IN the course or the
Vsnite Dennis WAS lufins the bronze
yacht out % get good windward posi-
ton lie had 10 keep of 20 avoid "a col
lisiOn and his start was spoiled There
Was no excuse for the Bufalo's skipper
and every yachtsman ~ sight was thor-
oughIy disgusted with his blunder
The actual time Of the start was: the
Res1lutc. il7.z4: the Yanitie, iI7% the
handicap time WAS III. both yachts hav'
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