New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
Sou'wester Saves the Day
for Yacht Contests
on Sound.
NEW MAMMA AGAIN
CLASS VICTOR
Remarkable Water Brushes
Wind Up Race Week
Many Yachts Compete.
Nv CAPTAIN JAMES c. SUMMERS.

Not since the Larchmont Yacht Club
has been managing races on Long
Island Sound-and that covers a period
of some thirty years-has 1t had sucn
q remarkable contest as that of yes
tsrday. which wound up its race week
for 1915.
Only those who witnessed the start
and finish of the race can realize the
good judgment exercised by the re-
eatta committee in turning what
seemed complete failure into a certain
success for, after waiting for breeze
for three hours they were able. with
the assistance Of q light air from the
southeast, to start 113 yachts over the
short courses. At five minutes TO 5
o'clock the last yacht was crossing tho
starting line and at FIVE minutes past
8 the last of the 1i3 yachts had COM
pleted their courses, and the race was
finished-with the help, of course, OF
a rood sou'wester that came along and
saved the day.
Finishes with Rail Awash.
With her lee rail almost awash, T..
Walter Clark's schooner Irolita swept
across the finish line the winner in
her class, leading the entire feet at
4:47:26. She had defeated j. b. Ford's
Katrina by 7 minutes l9 seconds. cor
rected time, and she had won, in addi-
tion to her class prize, the much COW
eted Larchmont Cup for schooners.
The "ffties" did not start, but the
"forties" sailed a fast and spirited
race from start to finish. Chick Perrin
won his first race with o. G.. Jennings's
Pauline, bringing her across the finish
line a winner in the class by min
utes % seconds from G. VI. Pynchon's
Mistral. Wilson Marshalls Jessica was
third.
In the "P" Class the new Nahma won
again, defeating the Joyant by 2 min
utes 10 seconds and capturing the Sc
ries prize for the week. Among the
"thirties" the Ados, owned by F. L.
Richards, was successful, winning in
the class from Juanita by minute IL
seconds. The winners in the other
classes were the Arvia, the e Bar, the
Veda, the Twinkle, the Thane, the Vir-
ginia, the VI. and F. II, the Ogeemah,
the Pontiac, the Turquoise, the Vespa,
the Mingo, the Curley, the Rascal w.,
the Wabisi, the Gnat, the Vega and the
Little Hope. Before all the classes
were started the schooners were finish
ing.
Irolita Away in Front
While the schooner Irolits was ap
preaching the finish s big hydrosero-
plane, carrying two men, swooped
down from the sky into the water and
raced first off the yachts weather side
and then of her lee beam. The ma
chine then rose and soon disappeared
over Long Island.
By reason of the light air from the
southeast the start of the schooners at
3:40 was little better than a drifting
match. The Irolita got away in the
lead, with the Katrina on her weather
beam and the Miladi a few lengths
astern. Their courses lay across the
Sound 70 Natinicock Point. When
about half way over the good breeze
that all hands had been praying for
came from the southwest. The Irolita
got it first Trimming sheets 70 meet
it, she made fast time TO the gas buoy.
Gybing around it al 4:l2, she led the
hatflna tnere Dy nFe ana tne Mllaui
by six minutes.
Meanwhile the "forties" had started,
with Wilson Marshall's Jessica in the
lead, and with Rowdy, the Mistral, the
Pauline, the Black Duck, the Pamparo,
the Maisie and Shawara following in
that order, closely punched. They got
the breeze in about ten minutes after
the start, as did the others, and soon
the Sound presented as pretty a picture
as has been seen this season, when the
ll3 white-winged racing craft spread
out like fan in the southeast.
So quickly did the classes begin 20
finish that 1t put the committee, Howell
Perrin and his associates, Harold C.
Pryer and Sandford G. Etherington, on
their mettle 70 catch the finish times,