New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
RACING SLOOP
ACUSHLA SOLD
TO HAMERSLEY
Jennings's Pauline Prize
Winner in Championship
Series Among 'Forties'
Nv CAPTAIN JAMES c. SUMMERS


One Of the tangible evidences Of the
increasing interest in yacht racing as
live sport is the frequent change
IN ownership IN yachts Of the one
design and other classes. This occurs
for various reasons-not always be-
cause boat is out Of date. Often
the owner Of racing yacht which
has not been winning in her class as
often as he thinks she should sells
her at sacrifice to a man who, by
some judieious alteration in rig or
sail plan, develops the latent speed IN
the yacht and makes a prize winner
out OF her -.
Sometimes an owner, like Cornelius
Vanderbilt, who has taken an active
interest in the sport since he was d
boy, and who delights in racing MS
own yacht fnds that pressure OF DUST
ness. and-in his case military duties,
prevents indulgence in his tayorite
pastime. At the helm Of his bo-ioo'
sloop Aurora he mas won many races
in competition with the other one
design sloops Of that class, the ls'a-
lena and Winsome.
Both Of these have changed HANDS
but Commodore Vanderbilt, being at
tached 20 his boat, refused many
offers for the Aurora. She was out
of commission for several years, put
last summer she was at the starting
line in the squadron runs OF the ne"
York Yacht Club. and she showed her
old-time speed by winning one OF the
most coveted prizes the Astor cup LOT
sloops as we'll as the cups onereo OE
the commodore and vlce-commouore'
Out of Commission
A recent important transfer was the
sale. by Herman Steinbrugge, OF the
Larchmont and other yacht CLUBS, OF
his sloop Acushla-one Of the mites
r TO Louis Gordon Hamersley, OF the
New York Yacht Club. whose thirty,
The Okee. was so successful last sum
mer as prize winner in the Long
Island Sound and other races. Inc
Acushla WAS not in commission !ast
summer, but her late owner gave heI
a new set OF spsrs Just before be sold
her. 1t goes without saying that the
Yacht will be at the starting line next
season in the races Of that popular
class. w.
Nine "ffties" were pullt py Ihe hs. n
reshoffs during the winter OF IsdZ- 10
for members Of the New YORK fachV
Club. who raced them that season
1919 and during the succeeding
wears. The names and present o"n Tt
of the yachts in the class are: o,i IN
Crawling, J. p. Morgan; the Csrolihs,
George Nichols; the Ventura, George
+ Baker. IT.; the Barbara, Harry
PAYNE whitney: the Ssmuri, William
Farl Dodge; the Spartan. J. NJ. Mac
donough; the IroQuois II, Ralph Ellis;
the Pleione, Z. T. Irwin, and the Acush-
la. l.. G.. Hammersley. The hrst I'VE
named raced during last season, Com
modore Bakers Ventura being the WIN
ner Of the championship prize.
Pauline Prize Winner
Announcement was made last week
that the winner Of the championship
series prizo among the "forties" was
the Pauline, owned by Oliver u. Jen-
nings. and handled in most OF her
races BY Charles l.. Perrin, OF the
Larchmont Yacht Club-and not Wiison
NarshalPs Jessica, Sc stated IN last
Mondays Tribune.
II is understood that the class com
nittee-W Wilson Marshall, George M.
Pvnchon and II. s. Duell, owners, re-.
spectively. of the Jessica, the Mlstral
and the Rowdy-which is elected by
the owners Of all the yachts Of that
class. made an error IN allotting the
percentage, which is the basis Of the
computation TO determine the winner
Of the series. nj.
The matter was referred TO Fleet
CAPTAIN Grenville Kane-the giver OF
the prize-who. after careful inspec-
ton of the records of the races sailed
decided that the Pauline was the WIN
ner Of the series.