New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
YACHTS RACE IN
VARIABLE WINDS
OFF LARCHMONT
J. p. Morgan's Grayling
Wins Her Second Race
in Big Regatta.
BY Captain JAMES c. SUMMERS.

by captain JAMES I. 81 hMEhS.
One hundred and one yachts crossed
the starting line yesterday on the fourth
day of the Larchmont Yacht Clubs race
week, and, considering the light and
variable wind, some good racing was
enjoyed in the twenty-five classes.
j. P. Morgan's Grayling of the
"ffties"-a admirably sailed by George
Nichols, won for the second time this
week. There were eight starters in
the class, and she defeated Commo-
dore George F. Bakers Ventura, sailed
by Harry Maxwell. by minutes sec
onds. ". +. Dodge's Samuri was the
third boat to finish, and Pembroke
Jones's Carolina fourth.
The winners in the other classes were
the Hope, the Hermes, the Josephine,
the Sonora, the Sally TX, the Twinkle,
the White Cap, the Virginia, the Yuron,
the Eaglet. the Snapper, the Teal. the
Dart, the Verge, the Joyetta, the Ogee-
nah, the Mile. Boss, the Opal, the La
Rochelle, the Merry Widow. the Peekee
and the Mae ID.
1t was windward start for the off
ties and the Barbara, with Butler Whit
ing at the tiller, and Commodore John
Proctor Clarke as chief mate, crossed
the line first at its east end, in the
weather berth and on the port tack
Not being able to cross the bow Of
the Ventura, which approached on the
starboard tack, Whiting put the Bar
bara about on her lee bow.
Tho t-lipc, H. 1rc1un;.
Carolina and the Acushla crossed on
the starboard tack. The Grayling
fetched the first mark Motifs Point
buOy-in three tacks and rounded it in
the lead, with the Spartan second.
From there to the next mark Green
witch Point buoy-it was reach with
booms to port, and in this work the
Grayling easily held her lead Gybing
there, they came for the finish dead
before the wind for about half the
distance, when the wind hauled 10 the
southwest. Down came the spinnakers
on the run, and sheets were hattened
to catch the new breeze. The Grayling
being in the lead, caught it first, and
although the Ventura and Samuri had
good windward positions, through hav-
ing held further to the southwark, they
were unable to overhaul her, and she
finished minutes 6 seconds in the lead
f. II. Prentice's Hope was the first
OF the eight "thrties" to get away at
the signal for that class. She was
followed by the Silhouette the Lena,
the Alerion II, the Banzai and the
Alera, in that order.
The courses were the reverse of
those sailed on Wednesday, so that
all except the smallest classes had
Motifs Point buoy, directly across the
Sound from Larchmont, as their first
turning mark.
The "thirties" had some good wind
ward work on this short leg of three
miles The Hope, the Okee, the Alera
and the Lena had an interesting tussle.
The first named finally earned the lead
and held it to the finish, winning from
the Alera by l minute 50 seconds. with
the Okee third and the Lena fourth.
Addison Hanan's Josephine, sailed
by VIII Swan, won again her class.
beating the Amoret this time by min
utes Sc seconds, and Commodore J.
Stuart Blackton's Virginia, handled by
f. j. Luckenbach, came home a winner
in the ar" class.
Eighteen STARS" started and they
made a close race of it all around the
short course, the Snapper winning
from the Zete by minutes 40 seconds.
j. NJ. Macdonough's Spartan-one of
the "fifties" unfortunate enough
to foul the second mark in rounding
it, which put her out of the race. She
did not finish.
The race to-day will be for Class TX"
ard below. 1t will be the fifth of the
series. On Saturday an open regatta