The sun., 1919-08-31
LACK OF BREEZES
MAR YACHT RACES
Bensonhurst Club Holds Cham
pionship Series on the
Lower Bay.
X-TRA IS DISQUALIFIED
Supper's Mouse Takes First
Place in Knockabout Glass
Gale at the Finish.

Lack of wind at the scheduled start
ing hour almost ruined the annual re-
gatta of the Bensonhurst Yacht Club
and the ninth race to count on the
championship of the lower bay yester-
day. There was so little breeze when
the regatta committee. made up of
Richard Rummell, chairman. and S. l..
Finlay, Atlantic Yacht Club, broke out
the course signals at the Sea Gate sta
ton of the Atlantic club that It at once
was decided to postpone the start so IS
to allow more yachts to reach the start
ing line.
After a delay Of fifteen minutes a
small feet of fifteen craft was sent OF
in the lightest of south airs. The COM
mittee picked n course that helped the
yachtsmen, in SO far as the tide was con-
cerned. It was from the starting line
Off Sea Gate to Bensonhurst, to Fort
Hamilton, and then back to the starting
line. AS the wind came II was a reach,
a run and close reach home. On the
home leg, the longest of the course, the
yachts were favored by strong ebb
tide.
The wind freshened slightly and
backed into the west as the craft drifted
around the course. AS they were COM
ing homo at the end of the first round
rain squall broke. At first 1t did not
premise to be very severe, and the COM
mittee decided. as the wind was fresh
ering, to give the yachts one good round.
1t certainly was some round. Before
the little fellows got home, Gravesend
Bay was whipped into a sea of rolling
whitecaps by a good forty knot gale.
Rain fell so hard that the committee. in
its station, could badly recognize the
yachts as they CROSSED the finish line.
In the teeth of the gale all the yachts
came home with the exception of four
Two. however, reported that they had
fouled the Sea Gate mark and asked to
be disqualified. Both were in the knock
out class, one being X-tra, the property
Of S. II. Church. which led home the di-
vision. With X-tra disqualified, first
place went to f. T. Supper's Mouse.
Fantasia. the property of I. L. Beebe,
Jr., was the only second division yacht
to finish. The third division of TIE
handicap class was won on corrected
time by Scud. sailed by its owner
Lewis Atkinson. a thirteen-year-old boy
He finished when the wind was blowing
the hardest The summary:
HANDICAP CLASS-FIRST DIVISION
START s:So-CoURsE 10 MILES.
Yacht and Owner. HMs. Inns
Ethel. H. Christensen. ......... Did not hnish
HANDICAP CLAss-sECoND DIVISION
START DISCOURSE 10 MILES.
SAlllh. tEtNdl. ..'-...s..... Dlu not nnisn
| Chippewa, J. X. Birch. ......... Did not finish
| Fantasle I. L. Beebe, Jr........S u II 90 .
| GRAvESEND BAY KNoCKABoUTs-STA
S:4o-CoURSE rs MILES.
X-tra $. R. Church. 81 "a dis
Mouse. Z. T. supper. z7s2 lTs
An-X, Il. Ftzgibbon. ............5 20 o5 ~ o.
| Skylark, F. B. Jansen,.........s g II ! s. 1
| Chico, W. B. Goodw1n..........5 ~ 33 dis
Masque. J. A. Bjerkee. .........5 IS 81 SO 8
| Poke Along. d. o. Davis. Did not finish
| HANDICAP CLASS-THIRD DIVISION
| START DISCOURSE 365 MILES
| Alcyon, r. Reeck .................4 80 0S o. q
| Scud, l.. Atkinson. .............., . Of oil II :
| Bug IL, II. RETAINER. OS Is Is ]
Bob Cat. j. Christensen. ....,..5 II II 81
| Corrected time on Scud, .02 So; Bug IL.
Il ! :0s "a Alcyon, :09 :0S Bob Cat, l:lO -.