The sun., 1919-04-27
GRAVESEND YACHT
RACES ARE PLANNED
Opening Event Will Be Staged
on June 81 and Closing
Contests Sept. 1.
ALDRIDGE Is PRESIDENT
iG
Birch Chosen Secretary and
=" GielOw to Be Official
Measurer.
ALDRIDGE Is PRESIDENT

Yacht racing Is to be held on Graves
hend Bay this summer. The decision
was reached at a meeting of the dele
gates OF the Yacht Racing Association
% Gravesend Bay at the Crescent Ath-
ieta Club during tho past week. Not
that the sport is going to como back In
al Its glory of pre-war days with a
week of racing Off the Atlantic Yacht
Club to cap the climax; still It will be
O start in the right direction and
enough regattas will be given to satisfy
the racing men.
g. Prior to the war. the yachting season
on the lower bay began Decoration Day
ana continued until the middle of Sep
eember. Twelve championship regattas
were sailed each season. A yacht to
qualify for title had to sail in at
least eight OF the races During the
coming summer there will be only ten
races. All will be championship affairs.
TO qualify. yacht will have to start
at least six times.
The cutting down of the racing pro-
kramme was done because the delegates
lbelieved that the yachtsmen were not
yet In position to carry through
.pre-war schedule. Owing to the lack
OF facilities at the shipyards. 1t Is a
question II many yachts will be in COM
smission much before the end of June
The delegates argued that 1t would be
absurd to arrange races unless the
yachts were in commission. so II was
decided to start the season on June 81.
one month later than In the good old
days before the war.
Navy Men Indifferent.
Several yachtsmen who had gone
Into the Navy drew attention TO a side
Hight that has never before been men,
toned in connection with the sport. 1t
has been contended that the enlistment
of men in the navy was going to boom
yachting after the war. Men who had
never before gone to sea would grow to
love the water and when they returned
to civilian life they naturally would
take up yachting
"a man who has been scrubbing
decks for pay" remarked a prominent
lower bay racing man at the meeting,
Will not want to do 1t for fun. or at
least not this summer. II he puts his
boat into commission he won't want to
be bothered with racing. All he will
want to do Is to SAIL around in a lazy
manner and forget the hard work that
Is connected with the navy and the
racing end Of yachting
IL u1lS ydCHtsIHdH WHO, py the way,
has served year and half in the
navy, has the right dope, the enlistment
OF men in the service OF Uncle Sam Is
not going to help the pastime.
Championships Awarded.
Although the Atlantic Yacht Club has
made no definite announcement regard
ing a race week. it seems exceedingly
doubtful II the big Sea Gate organiza-
ton will attempt to hold its classic this
summer. No one knows how many
yachts are going to be in comm ission
From present Indication, both the
Gravesend Bay and the Long Island
Sound fleets are going to be small! II
the yachting world Is mistaken and the
sport booms In way that II not now
expected the Sea Gate club may decide
TO give It's annual race week next Au-
gust.
The present plans OF the Atlantic
Yacht Club call for three dsvs OF sport
over the Independence Day holidays. II
VIII include yacht and motor boat rae
ing, water sports and races for hydro
airplanes. Commodore Howard s. Bor-
den. the new senior flag officer at Sea
Gate. Is a hydro airplane enthusiast. He
believes that it Is going to be the COM
ing sport.
The war so upset the plans of the
lower bay yachtsmen that the delegates
held no meeting during 1917 and 1918.
A. a result the championships won dur
ing the season OF 1916 were not awarded
until last week. 1t was announced that
j. X. Birch's Saginaw had won the
championship in the first division of the
handicap class. Other champions fer
1915 are r w Rummelrs Or,ole, sec
ond division of the handicap class; J.
C.. Peirce's Sunbeam in the third division
OF the handicap class c. HolInshed's
Cyric in class S Cecil Platts Skvlark
IN class X; w. T. Inslee's Shadow In
the star class and ]. J. Remmey's Mer-
curry in class Y. The owners will re-
ceive championship trophies at once.
A. r. Aldridge. New York Canoe Club,
has been elected president OF the asso-
eiation. The new secretary Is John X
Birch. Gravesend Bay Yacht Club
Henry J. Glelow again is the measurer
The delegates TO the American Power
Boat Association are w. II. ~ hostile
man. Era Yacht Club: ]. p Kelley
Marine and Field Club, and E. A. Plum
kett, American Model Yacht Club.
The racing schedule for the summer
lssas follows:
June 21-Atlantlc Yacht Club
June 2s-Brookyn Yacht Club.
July 5-Atlantic Yacht Club.
July 12-Crescent Athletic Club.
August New York Canoe Club
August 9-Gravesend Raw Yacht Club
August l6-Marine and Field Club.
$ August 23-Atlantic Yacht Club
( August 30-Bensonhurst Yacht Club
September l (Labor Day)-Atlantlc
Yacht Club.
EAMACIAR n GAMES