New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25
All Records Smashed as
the Sounds Greatest
Armada Races.
THE CRAWLING WINS
THE SERIES PRIZE
Morgan Yacht Has Hit chest
Score at End Of Weeks
Contests.
i'm CAPTAIN LAMES c. SIMMERS.

By CAPTAIN JAMES c. SUMMERS.
The proyerbal "Larchmont luck
was with the yachtsmen of the Larch-
mont Yacht Club yesterday az the end
Of their race week, for they not only
broke the weeks record IN the matter
of starters 40 big and little yachts
crossing the line but they had
steady breeze from the oast-northeast
that sent them at good clip over
their various courses and enough OF II
10 permit them all to finish IN reason
The Ventura, one Of the Cities"
owned and sailed by Commodore
George F. Baker, jr., Of the New York
Yacht Club, was the winner IN that
class yesterday by , minutes and oil
seconds from J. p Morgan's Grayhng,
but the Grayling proved the winner OF
the series prize for the week on points,
she ha,ing fni. he'd first three times
and won "a points 10 the Ventura -;
Ralph y. Ellis'S lroquois ii was third
with 80 points.
The winner for the fourth time in
the "thirties" yesterday was +. II.
Prentice's Hope. Ogden NJ. Reds
Lena was the second yacht 10 cross
the finish line. She was beaten only
IS seconds by the Hope, which, with SO
points TO her credit, won the series
prize for the week. The Lena
captured second place, with 81, and the
Alera third, with 80 points. The Okee
was fourth, with 81 points.
In the schooner class f. Walter
Clark's Irolita won the class prize
from Commodore Ford's Katrina by
10 minutes 81 seconds, corrected time,
and she also won the Larchmont cup
for schooners. whore all vessels OF
that rig sailed as one class. The
Queen Nab won from the Miladl IN
class "F" by minute as seconds.
Addison c. Hanan's crack sloop Jo-
sephine made a clean sweep IN her class
for the week by winning yesterday for
the sixth time. She defeated K. &.
Budd's Amoret by l minute p seconds
and captured the series prize. Twenty
two "stars'-the greatest number OF
the weeks started in that class, and the
winner of the day and of the series
proved TO be Willis and STANDARDS Al
tair. The winners in the other classes
were: In the handicap claSs-First d.
vision, the Dorinda; second division,
the Veda; third division, the Peg, and
fourth division, the Grace ii. The
others were the Alice, the EleanOra. the
Wahneta, the Whit. the Teal, the Mar
garet. the Mae D.. the Grasshopper, the
Rudy Duck. the Emerald, the Dart, the
Verge. the Shadow, the Half Moon, the
Mile. Boss. the Curlew, the Bill Nye,
the Gamecock, the Chickioker and the
Ogeemah.
No prettier start has been seen this
season than that Of the schOoners at
o'clock. There were FIVE Of them, and
thew came for the line, between the
committee tug Fred b. DalZell and the
southwest stskeboat, on the starboard
tack. with every stitch of canvas they
could spread, including baby Jlbtop-
George W. SCOTS Miladi was first
away after the signal at the lee end
of the line. Commodore James B.
Ford's Katrina crossed next, just TO
windward of T.. Walter Clark's lrolita.
Hendon Chubb's Queen Nab was wei!
up TO windward. with the little STAN
ford schooner Hopewell under her lee.
The Katrina tackled 20 port first ana
was followed in a few moments by all
the rest Greenwich Point, their first
turning mark, nine miles TO the east
ward, was rounded first by the Irolita.
From there to the second mark
Motifs Point they had a fair wind
wits spinnakers set to port, and thence
TO the finish a close reach. The lro-
lita led all the way.
The "ffties" sailed the same course
after one of the best windward starts
they have had this season. With sheets
trimmed pretty fiat they rau parallel
to the line during the thirty seconds
preceding the signal. When the whistle
sounded all luFed al once and shot
over the line within a minute, the
Samuri, steered by Eddie Fish, leading
the Carolina by about half length.
The Barbara, the lroquois II, the
Spartan and the Ventura crossed beam
and beam.
In few minutes all went TO the port
tack and stood across the Sound for the
Long Island shore, holding q good
breeze, and the fight for the windward
position was on. The Ventura won il.
Rounding the Greenwich Point mark
first, she was soon travelling Fast with
boom to starboard and spinnaker to
port for the Motifs Point buoy She
finished well in the lead, as stated
The "thirties" sailed a good race
from start 70 finish. All went for the
windward end Of the line az the start
except the Lena, which, by choosing the
Ice end, got away with a good full and
when she tackled with the rest, to port
she had a fairly good position. She and
the Hope had keen struggle for first
nlace and she was boafpn nv only q