New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-24
THE IROQUOIS II
SHOWS HER HEELS
TO BIG FLEET
Races Away from the
Grayling in Spirited
Race on Sound.
BY Captain JAMES c. SUMMERS.


With her boom swung broad of to
starboard and her spinnaker bellyinS
cut to port, the sloop yacht lroquois
II, owned and sailed by Ralph y. FL
lis, led the feet of eight "ffties"
across the finish line off Larchmont
yesterday. J. P. Morgan's Crawling,
only SO seconds astern, was beaten by
just that close margin after racing over
a course 20% miles in length.
After long period of variable winds
and Gains fine breeze from the
southeast came sweeping down from
the Hampstead hills about o'clock.
1t struck more than half OF the great
feet Of 104 yachts that started some
three hours before just as some were
approaching and others rounding the
second mark in the course-Mott's
Point buoy.
The "ffties" caught it just after
rounding the mark, and n prettier
yachting picture was never seen than
when they began TO gather Roadway
ish line, leaving the smaller craft to
port and starboard of them. The
Grayiing had been the leader, but the
Iroquois II passed her on the way over
and finished winner.
/. f. Raymond's Hope won her sec
ond race among the "thirt;es." She
again defeated the Alera, this time by
the narrow margin of As seconds. The
Alerion II was third. This class got
away to a good windward start, with
the Alerion ii in the lead. They had
some close racing all around the 1874 e.
nile course, the Hope and the Alera
doing good work considering the vari-
able wind.
The winners in the other classes
were: The Josephine from the Anita,
by 3:47; the Arvia from the Alice, by
0:24; the Skid from the DaGmar, by
I'LL; the Gamecock from the Mashnee,
by 2:19; the Affair from the Hydra, by
2:06; the Curlew, the Mile. Boss, the
Peewee, the Mae D.. the La Rochelle,
the Margaret, the Badger, the Opal, the
Shadow, the Thane and the Ogeemah
The winners in the handicap class
were: In the first division the Caro-
lima; second division, the LILLIAN; third
division, the Natoma, and fourth di-
vision, the Miss Modesty.
The start of the "fifties," the first
class sent away, in light breeze from
the eastward, was a spirited one. Some
approached the line, off the Larchmont
breakwater, on the port and some on
the starboard tack. J. 2. Morgan's
Crawling crossed on the port tack and
in the weather berth. Harry Payne
Whitney's Barbara, with George F.
Baker, jr's Ventura close on her
weather beam, crossed at the lee end
of the line so close to the committee
boat as to almost foul her The Ven
tura was forced about by the Barbara.
She stood off alone on the starboard
tack TO the middle of the Sound, the
Barbara and the Samuri going for the
Westchester shore The rest stood
across for Long Island.
Half an hour after the start the
Crawling crossed the bows of all, and
she was the first around the first mark
in the triangular course-Greenwich
Point buoy. The wind failed them part
of the way on the second leg of the
course to Motifs Point, but the Gray
ling, the Iroquois II, the Samuri and
the Ventura kept together pretty well.
On the way over Herman Steinbrugge's
Acushla, catching some of the vagrant
breezes, crept to the front, so that this
class was pretty well punched at the
second mark.
ADDISON G.. Hanan's Josephine scored
her fifth win of the week, and of the
nineteen STARS" that started, the Affair
won handily again.
To-day's race-the last of race week
will be an open one to all classes,