New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-11
Stirring Contest in Battle
for the Cups Offered
by Commodore.
LENA TRIUMPHS
OVER THE ALICE
Good Sport Promised for To-
day, When Yachts Will Com
pete for the Kings Cup.
BY CAPTAIN JAMES C. SUMMERS.


Clubs cruising squadron for Rear
Commodore Harold S.. Vanderbilt's
cups it proved one of the best contests
of the cruise.
1t was the fourth squadron run for
the big sloops Resolute and Vanitie.
and the Resolute has won three of
them. She defeated the Vanitie to-
day over twentyfour mile course by
4 minutes Is seconds actual and by 5
minutes 10 seconds corrected time.
The Resolute's gain in fourteen and
one-half miles. reaching to the Boston
lightship from the start off CaDe Ann.
was l minute 20 seconds, and on the
nine and three-Q uarters-m reach
from there to the finish she gained 2
minutes as seconds.
The winner of the rear commodore's
cup for schooners of the first division
was +. w. Clark's Irolita. beating the
Enchantress. owned by W. +. Isolin,
8 minutes % seconds. In the second
division Hendon Chubb's Queen Nab
won from John B. Fallon's Timandra
by 8 minutes % seconds. William f.
Dodge's Samuri proved the winner Of
the cup for sloops of the first division
from the j. NJ. Marlborough Spartan
by 20 seconds.
A feature of the days racing was
the performance of Ogden NJ Reds
thirty" Lena, sailed by her owner.
Starting alone in her class in special
race against the 40-footer Alice. she
defeated that yacht by % minutes )
seconds. corrected time. finishing only
30 seconds astern of her opponent.
The lrolita and Queen Nab each won
bo ~
and the Lena.
In a northwesterly breeze the start
between the whistling buoy, off East
ern Point, and the steam yacht Vik-
ing, anchored east Of it, was a spirited
one. With club topsails set over main
sails that showed wrinkles at the tacks
and luffs, as a result of the we,
weather the big sloops Resolute nd
Vanitie manpuvred to the northeast of
the line. The first leg of the course
was to be l4l2 miles dead to leewGrd
to the Boston Lightship, thence a close
fetch of ga miles to the finish, off
Half Way Rock.
At thirty seconds before their sig
nal sounded at 10:40) the Resolute
and the Vanitie, with boOms eased to
port, were approaching the line from
the northeast, Captain Adams having
obtained the weather berth. Both used
up their handicap time of two minutes
before crossing, and when they did it
was under good Roadway, with bal
looners broken out and sheeted down,
the Resolute leading by about length,
the actual time being: Resolute,
10:42:07; Vanitie, 10:42:l3.
Next away, at 10:45, was Ogden NJ.
Reds Lena, the only thirty to start.
The Class n slOop Alice, sailing against
her. got away on the same signal She
allowed the Lena | hour II minutes
IS seconds.
The ffties made one of the closest
starts of the cruise, all crossing the
line within a minute, with the Grayling
steered by her owner, Commodore
J. p. Morgan, in the weather berth.
The Barbara, with Harry Maxwell at
the wheel, was close under the Gray
ling's lee, the Iroquois II, the Carolina,
the Ventura, the Spartan and the
Samuri being abeam of each other tow
ard the lee end of the line, with scarce
ly a length in distance between them.
All carried working topsails and bal
loon jibs. The Iroquois II and the
Barbara were recalled for crossing too
soon, but they did not return. The
schooners Queen Nab and Hopewell
started on the 1880 signal, both carry
ing ballooners.
OF the larger schooners the Irolita
got away FIRST, blanketed by the big
Enchantress, which carried a perfect
cloud of canvas. The Vagrant and the
Timandra followed at the middle and
lee and of the line respectively.
Ten minutes after the start the Spar
tan was the leader among the "fifties,"
with the Grayling second and the Ven
tura third. All the yachts, including
the big sloops were then heading sew
eral points TO the westward of the
course, which was S. w. by S. +. ! 5.
Eddie" Fish about this time began
edeing the Samuri over to the south
ward. J. 2. Morgan with the Crawling
followed suit and so did Harold Van
derbilt with his schooner Nagrant. The
move proved profitable, for the wind
soon after came Ut strong from the
southeast, leaving the majority Of the
fleet far to leeward.
Captain Adams, finding the Resolute
dropping astern of the Nanitie, gybed
her to starboard at 11:l2, crossed the
wake of the Vanitie, gybed back TO
port and placed the Resoiute on even
terms with her rival, which was then
to leeward by about 100 yards. The
Vanitie more than held her own for
a short time until she ran into SOFT
spot. The wind now shifted TO the
southeast, both gybed TO starboard,
trimmed sheets and set staysails and
ibis, substituting reachers for their bal
looners. The Resolute's sheets were
eased about a point and she began to
foot fast IN twenty minutes she was
leading the Vanitie by a couple Of hun
dred yards, and travelling at ten-knot
elm on her course for the llghtshlp.
The Vanitie, with sheets trimmed al
most fiat. pointed higher, but she did
mot foot fast enough and her reacher
was n size smaller than the ResOlute's.
By this time the Samuri and Gray
ling were almost on even terms with
the big sloops, because their courses
had been converging, while the balance
of the fleet. except the Vagrant, were
mile or so 10 leeward of the Resolute,
Vanitie and Vagrant. OF course the
big sloops soon left the ffties and botn
made fast time 20 the Lightship.
II was great race between the big
sloons in the smooth water with the
z lening breeze, the white Jacketed
,ews laid fiat on deck snug up under
the weather rail of each, while lee
rails were level with the watr as they
annroached the Boston Lightship. II
was rounded in this order and times:
p.,,,u,. y 20 IS Enrhan,ress..... y g $
V,nitIe -.... L q Il Samuri .--.---- - -
yAzrant- i - % W S---@
Ly the elapsed times the Resolute
GAINED / minute 20 seconds, the Va
Grant gained minute on the Enchant-
1ess and the Samuri seconds on the
Crawling. The close reach back to the
fnish was uneventful except that me
Resolute continued 10 gain and that