The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-18
RESOLUTE GETS AIR
As VANITIE DRIFTS
Uncertain Winds That Become
Flat Calm at Times Mar
Racing at Sound.
WOMEN MASCOTS ABOARD

Lack NJ wind marred the race % the
Resolute md Vanltie at Larchmont yes
terday. The wind hacked and hauled and
more often than not was up and down.
Thunder squalls in the distance. which
threatened To break at any moment. IN
tense heat and rain made tho day n most
unpleasant one The Rcsolute finished
first and beat the Nanitie 81 minutes
is seconds corrected time. That differ
ence tells briefly the condition OF things
on the Sound
Miss Bourne. daughter VI Commodore
Frederick q. Bourne. sailed on the Resn-
lutte. and Mrs. John Purrqy Mitchell. wife
OF the Mavor. was on the Nanitie. Mrs.
Mitchell had the pleasure of seeing the
Nanitie get the better of the start and
old the lead FOR about half IN hour
Then the yacht was becalmed and Miss
Bourne's influence as a mascot began to
assert itself. The Resoluie picked up
a light air and kept going mill she had
a lead of IL minutes at the first mask
This was IN the first leg ot the course.
which was IL miles long.
When the committee went out to the
line the wind was light from west by
north ana later caine west. The course
was to a mark off Long Neck Point,
then across the Sound to oak Neck and
back across tie Sound again to Larcn-
mont. The preparatory was made NJ ! 20
O'clock And for a time In the maunu-
wiring the Resolute had the Nanitie
we'll covered. hut Commodore Vanderbilt
very cleverly got the Nanit!c away from
he Resolute n headed for the line
with the Resolute to locward They
were on the starboard tack and Resolute
had broken out her balloon tih topsall
when the starting sigma sounded at ! 30
o'clock. The Nanitie reached 10 the
weather or committee boat end " the
line, rybcd and crossed with : seconds
to spare. The Resolute was pcnalized is
seconds and she too gybed. but had 10
lift the balloon over the stay.
The Vanitic headed across the Sound
toward Matinnecock PoiIt and for "A few
minutes the two yachts had u luif,ne
match. The wind was SO llght that each
skipper had decided to tack 70 lecward
and Nani,io heading across the Sound
increased her lead. She gybed AZ 90,
the Resolute followed half a minute
later. Then the Resolute headed higher
than the Vanitie. which stood for the
outtA u ~ sAt'Ns "N'
over to the Connecticut shore and on
that side of the Sound found n light all
drawing off shore. while the Nanitie out
IN the middle of the Sound was hc.
Gained. Skipper Adams mad the mos;
of this light wind and while II almost
failed at times the Resolute was able 10
get to the Long Neck mark II minutes
In the lead.
1t was a reach to the next mark and
the wind had fallen SO HAT that 1t Was a
long, tedious journey. From oak Neck
l. was windward work home and wheI
the Resolute had reached bout the mid
die of the Sound thu wind hardened n
little aud she was able to sail well IL
the finish. She crossed the line "a
s:04:l5 and then the NInitie could Just
be made out in the haze. The Nauiti,
finished AT s ;3O.l9.
Commodore James II. Ford enter
tanned the amateurs, who a been sail
inE the two yachts. At dinner In ,ht
clubhouse last night. Among 'hov,
present were Robert W EmmonS "a
Charles Francis Adams, George \, cor
mack and George Nichols ~ the lIeso
lutte. Cornelius Vanderbilt. ". Butler
Duncan. James ID. ~Sparkman and Com,
mander Sawyer Of the Vanit!e, as wei
as several members % the club.
The two yachts will haul out 10 clear
his week at CITY Island and will ther
go 10 Newport TO race there July -, -
aud %. The summary:
S~LOOpS-CLAss -COvRS >, MILES