New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11
Herreshoff Sloop Winner
After Trailing Over Two
Legs of Course.
HAS DECISIVE LEAD
ON CORRECTED TIME
Gardner Boat Shows to Advan-
tage Early in Race, but Is Head
ed in Beat to WindWard.
BY CAPTAIN JAMES c. SUMMERS.

BY CAPTAIN JAMES c. SUMMERS.
When the big white HerreshoG sloop
Resolute crossed the finish line yester-
day in the New York Yacht Clubs race
for the Glen Cove cups she was tho
winner of four out Of five contests in
which she met the Gardner designed
sloop Vanitie during the last eight
days.
In yesterdays race the Vanitie had
the best of the start, and she was the
leader over nearly two legs on the
2Sh mile course. Yet the Resolute in
the windward work Of 1885 miles, with
the aid, it is true, Of some favoring
slants of wind, defeated her rival by
minutes Al seconds elapsed time and
by 4 minutes AZ seconds corrected time,
the time allowance being figured at
1 minute 7 seconds in favor Of the
Herreshof sloop.
With the wind light from the south
west, the pair of candidates for the
defence Of the Americas Cup played
for places at the start off Motifs Point,
and when the signal sounded at 1910
from Commodore George F. Bakers
Viking Cornelius Vanderbilt. at the
Vanitie's helm, had the resolute under
her lee, both being on the port tack
The Vanitie's skipper used up all of
his handicap time of two minutes, and
crOqgof tho 1iva a. 10 N tho
signal. Captain Adams gybed the
Resolute, hoping to get a better posi-
ton, and before he was able 10 cross
the line she was handicapped l minute
Is seconds.
Both broke out ballooners for the
race across the Sound 70 the first turn
Parsonage Point Buoy-which they
rounded in this order: Nanitie, l:41:43;
Resolute, 1:43:31. This was a lead Of
l minute AZ seconds for the Gardner
sloop, and she had gained Al seconds
in the 3 = mile reach from the start.
Gybing to starboard, the Vanitie's
crew set her spinnaker to port and
made a straight course for the next
mark, 1915 miles to the eastward-Long
Neck Point.
Captain Adams OF the Resolute tried
lacking down the wind as a means Of
gaining the land, and in this he was
successful. He executed five gybes of
ten minutes each close TO the Connecti-
cut shore, while the Nanitie continued
on a straight course with her spinnaker
set At the Long Neck mark the times
taken were: Resolute, 1919; Vanitie,
3:23:25, showing that the Resolute was
then the leader by minutes % Sec
onds. The wind shifted to the west
southwest at about 2:30, and this gave
the Resolute a lift before she reached
, the Long Neck mark
The last leg was a beat TO wndward
across the Sound to the finish 1885
miles away. Both yachts made long
board on the starboard tack toward
Huntington Bay; then. coming about,
they were able TO fetch Matinicoek
Point. The Resolute held her lead well
in the freshening breeze and finished
4 rather easy winner.
Captain Nat Herreshof was on board
the Resolute.
The "fifties" made pretty start
ten minutes later than the Pesolute
and the Vanitie. W. +. Dodge. Sam
uri, with Edmund Fish at the stick,
got away in the lead in the lee berth.
The lroquois was aext, VIII the
Ventura between these two. Tie Csro-
INA anu iht DhtDtid CAOccth ltt Inc
length astern of tha Iroouois II,
with the Spartan close up. The Zines
taken at the Parsonage Poiat buoy
we're: The Samuri, 1851; the Bar
bara, 1854; the Spartan. 1855. At the
second mark, Greenwich Point. the
Samuri was timed at 5:04 and the
Barbara at 3:05:15. Thc Samu1 held
her lead on the beat to wrnjward
from there to the finish, winning from
Harry Payne Whitneys Barodrl by
2:35
The "thirties" got away to good
start and the winner on time proved
TO be the Okee, owned ~ Commodore
]. A. Mahlstedt, of the New Rochelle
Yacht Club She did no. win a cup
however, her owner not being a MEM
Der. Her win counts as one IA the
championship series. The AGRA was
the official winner, with the Silhouette
second and the Lena third.
The summary follows:
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