The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-27
NOT ENOUGH WIND
TO SPEED YACHTS
First Days Racing Of Big
Fleet on Interclub Cruise
Has to Be Postponed.
NEARLY 100 CRAFT READY

GREENWICH, Conn. June cs-There
was lust enough Wind to-day 20 enable
n Few Of the sailing craft 20 cross the
Sound from oyster Bay. This wind did
tot come until after 3 o'clock In the az
,ernoon. and by tina; time the races had
been declared IN Tor the day and many
cf the yachts had accepted tows. II
We tc have been .he first dly ns iacin;
Of the in;erclub cruise. hut tire yachts
mon had 20 he content with ve:~ h,'le
cruising and no facing More than
eighty Yachts were At ~Seawanhaka Har-
hor on sunday. and there we're In add
tiou three vessels - the Coast GIard -
Gresham. MonlCan ana Ashuinet-ahu
the torpedo boat destroyer Nacdonoueh.
The Coast Guard cutters are to keep
.hc courses clear and the Macdonough
Is he vessel Of the race committee
Commodore Howard 8. Smith was 10
charge Of tire big fleet At oyster Ray
and he presided at the mess dinner
served on Sltu-daS night. after which
there was an entertainment and later
dancing sunday was 4 dismal DAY. WIN
rain and fog. but the spirits ~ 'Ne
Nachtsmen were no, dampored al all,
They We're anticipating a week OF me
sport and entertainment.
Among the Yachts In the harbor were
Commodore n. G. smiths Iuhrah. for
mer Commodore Robert r. Tod's Na-
toura, J. +. Morgau's Crawling, former
Commodore Dallas r. Pratt'- Sea Fox
George W. SCOTS M!ladi. 7. W, Rouss
] Winchester, George N!Cho!s's Carolina
Commodore George +. Bakers Ventura
\ X. Rourne's Black Duck. Emhu y
McI,eau'e .1,o'ue. A. :. Cochrar's Dolly
Bowen. Commodore +. l.. Cpjohn's Fly
away III. Commodore W H. Childs''
~lovance, Commodore F. Y Webber''
Nareva. J. W. A'ker's Florence ant
I Alcda. Commodore W. l. Riker's Geo
Iadua. Johnston de Forests Mink. George
Bullock's Wiudwsrd. Horace L. Bou
! cheers Z!ta. q. q. Jenningss Whippct an'
Pauline. Or. James Bishops Pampro
n :. Duell's Rowdy. c. NJ P~ynchon'i
Marie and Mistrar and clarkson Cow!'
Navigator.
The lice, was ordered to leave the har
hor az . o'clock this morning, A tina
time the water was like glass, the sail
and flags hung limp and there was not
sign of wind anywhere, The sailiul
craft were lowed out Of the harbor q
the starting line al the black spar buoy of
I.loyd's Neck and there the committee
Horace T.. Boucher. Richard A. Monk
aud g +. Chapman-on the torpedo boa
DESTROYER waited while the yacht
drafted. The time set for the start wa
10 o'clock and then the first postpone
mcnt signal was set. Every fifteen min
utes the whistle OF the M~acdonoug'
called attention to this signal. 1t VIA
iu~sufrerably hot and at times a powe
boat would take a line from a sailiu
craft and tow Il about. making a hrecz
and allowing those on board to cool on
The committee AZ . o'clock decide
that II was no use waiting n longe
and called the race of for the day. TIL
sailing yachts were to have been starte
FIRST and then the power yachts sent OF
IN. mower craft did not need wind, bu
those a, the line tired Of waiting an
called their contests IN by making fo
Indian Harbor early in the Afternoon
Those mower yachts left took lines froi
the sailing craft and brought many I'M
!. tn, harhor on the Indian Harbor Yacl
cub soon after 4 o'clock and the ne.
was turned over to Commodore W. /
Childs,
in the evening he yachtsmen dined
the clubhouse, after which there was a
entertainment and later dancing. tt
run tomorrow is to Huntington. II
star. will be made at 10 o'clock and n
finish will be OF the Beaux Arts, II
Huntington Yacht Club will enterta'
the Wis; tors. The courses are short.
there IL any wind the finish will he earl
hui no times will he taken after 5 o'clo,
, In the afternoon. Commodore Childs
|, tho Indian IIarbor Yacht club will
y In charge Of the fleet until Huntinst,
IL reached and he then will turn II
command over to Commodore +. |" ~
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