The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-14
TROUBLE MAY ARISE
OVER REGATTA DATE
Other Clubs Desire Days Which
LarchmOnt Yacht Club
Seems to Have Chosen.
ALL WOULD LIKE JULY 4

An anonymous communication was sent
out last week on Larchmont Yacht club
stationery which said. Season Of 1915.
Spring regatta, third Saturday in June
June 10. Annual regatta, July I. Race
week. third Saturday In July--July u
to "a. Fall regatta, Labor Day, first
Monday in September -- September s.
Above please note yachting fixtures for
1916"
As far as IL known the Larchmont
Yacht Club has no regatta committee
yet. II II has. the announcement has
not been made. The regatta committee
IL appointed by the commodore. Last
year Horace f. Boucher was chairman,
lie is now in San Francisco and has said
that his business will not allow him TO
take the position again II II is offered to
him. The announcement OF fixtures Is
usually made by the regatta committee,
and AS the Larchmont Yacht Club Is a
member Of the Yacht Racing Assoca-
ton of Long Island Sound 1t would be
proper to wait until tho meeting Of the
association, when the schedule for the
whole sea son Is arranged. before making
any announcement OF club fixtures.
In former seasons before the Barch-
mont club Joined the association IL was
usual to allow that club which had the
reputation of being the largest racing
club on the Sound. To take the dates as
set forth in the announcement, but there
has always been more or less grumbing
about this In other clubs. Al that time
the other clubs could not see why the
best dates of a short season should go tn
club not in the organization. and about
the time the Larchmont club Joined the
association there was much talk OF some
other club getting July for its annual
regatta.
Now there Is more feeling about the
Larchmont club taking the best dates.
as many yachtsmen are not pleased with
the action OF the club at the end Of last
season. servant of the club through
populations got away with several thou
sands of dollars and large quantities OF
, supplies and members have subscribed
to help make up the deficiency The
club officials inaugurated strict rul"
of economy and among other items of
expense cut down was the appropria-
ton for prizes won in its regattas. Al
the annual meeting these prizes were
displayed and later sent to the success
full yachtsmen with a note which said
that owing to losses In the club the
value of the prizes had been reduced.
The yachtsmen accepted these prizes
without protest. but many thought that
the prizes should have been kept up to
their original value. They were really
debts OF honor. Yachtsmen raced for
the usual trophies and should have re-
ceived them at the end OF the year and
not have been sent a prize of about
half the proper value.
Now there has been talk again of as
signing July TO some other club for
its annual regatta. II is argued that
while the Larchmont club has done
much for racing II is not really IA large
racing club and that the fleet of racing
yachts owned ~ !:s members 10 much
| smaller than that Of other clubs The
Independence Day regatta is the largest
OF the year and some yachtsmen think
| that clubs should have the prize in turn
and that II should not he an annual
| fixture with one club. This will all h.
threshed out NJ the annual meeting OF
the Yacht Racing Association, which will
he held shortly.
Peter Goelct Gerry OF the New Yorl