New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
alag Officers " Yacht Is
Alone at the Finish of
Larchmont Race.
VAGRANT BREEZES
FAVOR THE WINNER
Great Fleet of Contending Graft,
Small and Large, Furnish
Marine Moving Picture.
By CAPT. JAMES c. SUMMERS


Close hauled on the port tack. and
with her lee rail level with the water
the New York Yacht Club flag offieers'S
Yacht Resolute crossed the Larehmo,.
Yacht Clubs finish line late yesterda,
afternoon the winner Of eight out q,
the nine races she has had with the
Vanitie this season.
The Resolute won by 26 minutes a.
seconds actual, by p minutes IS see.
onds corrected, time, and by sboa,
three miles in distance. Her yietory
was one Of luck, for the Gardner yach.
lay becalmed for nearly half an hour
while the Resolute made fast time ia
a good breeze.
After some clever mannuyring az the
start, Cornelius Vanderbilt, at the Van
tiles helm, sent that s.oop across tho
line &c seconds in the lead. The wild
was fresh from the westward Both
yachts gybed 70 port or the line, ne
Resolute then being of the Vanite's
starboard quarter.
with balloon jib topsails set, ths7
began a luffing match 10 the southeast,
ond for eighteen minutes stood acroa
the Sound, far out Of their couru.
which. was east by north quarter north,
to the buoy off Long Neck Point, Ii.
Vanitie gybed first at i+9, the Res0.
lutte following a minute later.
By taking a mid-Sound course "a,
Vanitie ran into a calm spot, Will.
Captain Adams, lufing the Resola,s,
Rugged the Connecticut shore, and hslt
q breeze that sent that sioop around
the first mark fifteen minutes ahead 0.
her rival. The race practically ended
there for the Vanitie, for she was neys.
able to overhaul her adversary. Il was
a reach across the Sound 70 Oak Meek
Buoy-the second MARYLAND the Reso.
Lutte had a still greater lead at tina,
turn. From there 20 the finish IL vss
a beat 10 windward and the Herreshot
sloop had il all her own way. She
crossed the finish line at 6:O4:l5-9j
minutes 4 seconds ahead OF the Vsnitls
One hundred and twenty-one yachts
started in the race, and from a spect.-
tors viewpoint it was one Of the best
marine moving pictures they ever saw
on the Sound. The yachtsmen WHO
laced and did not win, however, hal
tales to tell when they landed aboc:
soft spots" hukes and other obstacles
that made their friends think the much
boasted "Larchmont luck" had desert.
ed them.
J. P. Morgan's Crawling, with Harry
Maxwell at the tiller, brought tina:
Yacht home a winner among the "at-
ties by the good margin OF minute,
3 seconds, the Spartan being seeora
This class made picturesque start At
2:05. spread out across the line, via
Harry Payne Whitney's Barbara in tie
lead.
Eight of the "thirties" made a pretty
start. all crossing the line within
minute, some setting spinnakers 10 por;
at once +. II. Prentice's silhouette
was the leader at the start, with he
Alera, the Mink, the Lena, the AlenOn
II, the Hope, the Banzli and the Ofss
following in that order.
J. A. Mahlstedt's Okee came home tie
winner in the class by - seconds from
the Alera. Ogden ~ Reds lena va
third, leading the Banzai by minutes
and seconds.
Addison e. Haran. at the til.eC o. BIS
fast sloop Josephine. won hard Tough.
race from r. b. Budds Amore- 0y la'.
30 seconds and from G. p CRANBERRY
Anita b. 81 seconds. The Amorets
elapsed tine was f:ll:44, and some
say those figures were respo, .ble 70!
her defeat.
The winners in the other classes
were: The lrolita, the Margaret, tae
Wild Thyme, the Nile Boss the Rel
Wing. the F.reAv. the Wh,ecap, the
Huihechee, ,ae Opal the Dacoil, the
Ogeemau, the Dart. the .ag.et the Ne.
reid. the Little D.rper. ,ae Yam, the
Teal the Merry Widow .ae Grass
hopper tfe A~viad the Gfwecocs.
OF the three scnoorers tha. started
ars- of all IN Che race T. Walter C.arks
.ro.,a was the only one able to hniia
by o'clock.
The steam yachts shat accompins.
the racers over the courses included j.
=. No~san's Co~sair. Ns-t. Walter
Nan ia. George =. Baker RS, VkHs
F. O. Bourne, Alberta. -cs F.ore''t
.hc Cor5re. and tho laa...a The races
for yachts .r Glass; K a.. below VII! m
r.''aI 1r .I.rt..