New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
The Irolita Double Winner
in Fixtures of New York
Yacht Club Cruise.
SAMURI CARRIES OFF
COMMODORE'S CUP
Cor and Bad Weather Mar the
passage of Fleet Through
Cape Cod Canal.
p, CAPTAIN J. c. SUMMERS.

S.r IN the New York Yacht Club
cruise.
The Resolute finished at 5:OS:24 to-
rrht. beating her opponent by 10 min
,.,es 26 seconds actual and 20 minutes
o seconds corrected time.
The feature Of the dav's run was the
,o,,est for she cups offered by Com
,noIore George +. Baker. ir., in which
: Walter Claik's lrolita defeated the
r,cbs,trcss and carried off the trophy
iced for schooners after an interest
nc contest. The winner received a
,o,o allowance of SO minutes 50 sec
"rds and won BY 10 minutes 50 sec
md. The lrolita also carried Of the
honor in Glass D. defeating the Ka-
trina.
sor sloors IN the first division turned
RI In William T.. Dodge's Samuri,
sailed bv Edmund Fish. She defeated
J P. MorCan'S Crawling by minutes
% seconds actual time.
The Yachts crossed the finish line
of Half Way Rock. lust outside Mar
blehead. with booms broad off to star
hoard and sDlnnakerS set TO port
TsrIv in tho afternoon the wind shift
ed 10 the southeast and freShered con-
,idercbiy. making IL a fair wind TO the
finish. The Res1lute. which had leal
OF half a mile on the Nanitie when of
Nirofs Ledge. increased II to more
than mile 40 the finish. The harbor
has never been so crowded with yachts
q a.! sizes and rigs as 10 Is tonight.
The race Tor the cups offered by
Commodore George F. Baker, jr.. two
for schooncrs and two for sloOps, fol
lowed the passage through the Cape
Cod Canal. from Buzzard's Bay 10
Rarn,table. Of some fifty Yachts flying
the pcruart Of the club. including
thirty steam and power craft. The
trip through the canal would have been
delight as well as a novelty TO the
yaehtsmcr IF 10 bad not been for the
cold. foccv weather that literally put
damrcr on everything. 1t was not
until thc afternoon, while the fleet
was crossing Boston Bay, that the sun
came ont and cleared away the hay
weather
BEFORE daylight this morning skip
pers and crews tumbled out of their
hunks TO Get their respective yachts
ready 90 pc lowed through the Cape
Cod Canal Five-forty-tive was the
time SET for the first Yacht. the sloop
Vanitie in tow of the tug Juno, to en-
fer. and "a few minutes after that hour
.bo was passing in. followed closely
nv the Seminole her tender. A thou
sand feet astern came the tug ORION
,ovlr~ the schooner Queen and the
sooD Posoluto. These were followed
br Commodore George F. Baker. jr. y.
stoan Yacht Viking. the flagship Of
The club. towing the CITIES Venture.
Iroauoi, 7! and Crawling and the press
Yacht Theresa.
The tide I'M the canal was running
vi.h the -achts from west to east Al
from O., to knots. so all OF them
wore lowed on short hawsers 10 pre-
vent them swinging too much at the
turns. -
Along its banks at many points, ana
,.,ecialI,- az tho three drawbrldges,
.brorce ~ men. women and children
Gathered "a witness the passage OF the
Aae. One Of the first men to greer
the fec. was Captain JACOB W. Milier'
vice rresidont Of the canal company:
who came out I'm the Collector, one oil
me canal power boats. 10 see thal Ihe
Gee. On. properly started. Commodore
Baker. in his high speed launch also
assisted in directing the movements
Of the yachts. &C.
T. only REQUIRED two hours and ~
teen minutes for all the sailing craft
10 r9es through the canal.
MANY Of the large steam yaCh'a
went direct 10 Marblehead, lnc'uo'Hs
Morton ]. Plants Kanawha, }. :. MoI-
can's Corsair and F. g. Bourne Al
berta ,..o,4,,
yachts that began the forty mile race
10 Narbleboad. At 11:1O the BIZ ClasS
y sloops were sent away. The YAM
,ie crossed AZ the weather end oil the
line on the starboard tack, gong ABOUT
a. once 20 port. while the kesolute
crossed on the port tack, close up 10
the committee Yacht Viking. ~
Only the Silhouette, Of the "tnir-
ties" was able 70 get away on the
rcxt signal. l1:15. On account OF the
Light airs. Ogden NJ. Reds Lena was
unable 10 reach the line until twenty
eight minutes after her signal ne
Silhouette was then quarter OF
mile in the lead.
At the next signal the schooners
Hopewel. Alice and Queen NAB start
ed. At HIPS the "hfties" were sent
away. with the Grayling, steered by
her owner ]. p. Morgan, in the lead.
She crossed close alongside the Nlklng
on the starboard tack. going about
few seconds later. The Samuri, the
Spartan. the Carolina, the Ventura
the Barbara and the lroquols IL goi
away in that order. The Barbara ana
the lroquois II took the off-shore tack,
while the rest stood in for the beach
north Of Rocky Point. The wind, can't
ing 20 the northward soon after, per
mitted them to lay a course straight
up the beach.
All the other schooners started al
ll:3O with Harold Nanderbilts va
grant in the lead, followed by the
Enehantress and the lrolita, in that or
Ger. The wind was so light at this time
that these yachts had barely steerage
way.
When the Resolute and the Vanitie
tackled 70 starboard at ll:49, ABOUT
four miles south of Gurnet lights
the wind began TO free a little. TINS
gave the Resolute a splendid lift. IL
placed her fully half a mile dead
ahead of the Vanitie, which had been
the windward yacht.
The winner Of the commodore's cup
IN the second division Of sloops was
Ogden VI. Reds 30-footer Lena. She
defeated the Silhouette by s minutes 20
seconds. The winner in the schooler
class, second division, was Hendon
Chubb's Queen Nab. She defeated the
Hopewell by Al minutes II seconds.
COMMODORES CTP-SCHOONERS SECOND
DIVIsION-CRUISE. 81 NILES.
Elapsed Corrected
start. Finish time. time
HMS HAIS I.AiS H.NLS.
xuceu NAB ... II 20 90 So ~ 7:l7.lj 6Z2 :3j
hope~eli ...... II 1000 1916 S37l6 7:0S:52
SLOOpS - SECOND DIVISION 90 COURSE. 81