New-York tribune., 1920-05-23
Saves
Two Sailors
From the Sea
Photographer Averts Irag-
edy as Herreshoff Craft
Was Trial at ii Miles
Bv lack Lawrence

gerreshoH cup ysCH' Nesolute oeieaVeo
:. ysnitie here this afternoon in one
:. .he most thrilling and spectacular
-. ever seen on Long Island Sound.
:. she drove across the finish line,
..,,sS far over, her lee rail awash
I'D her crew clinging for dear life to
.,v,binr they could grasp, there was q
~,ebtv crash as an extra heavy puff
:. x,nd out Of the northwest snapped
N. Resolute's mast Off twelve feet
,bove the deck.
At the same time her topmast
,.ekied ard the whole cloud of white
esryas came hurtling down athwart
~. tiny stake boat that marked the
finish line. Shrouds, haly&rds, tackle
and sails swept along the Resolute's
spsh deck in a mad tangle as the
ersr's great momentum kept her driv-
inc forward.
Officers ard men fought to free them
selves OF the twisted wreckage. Carl
Anderson. seaman, and the Resolute's
mate. whose name could not be learned,
failed TO extricate themselves from the
wrecked gear ara were swept overheard
With il. The heavy rigging started to
sink and the Two wen were pulled down
with IT,
Two Near Drowning
They undoubtedly would have been
drowned had l. noe been for the fact
that the race comittee had given per-
mission to two motion picture photog-
Ysohers and reporter to watch the
finish Of the cortes: from the little
s.akeboat. The cra't, used only as q
turning mark, was completely obliterat-
eo from view as the belying mainsaii
Of the racer collapsed upon it.
The cup yachts seventy-foot boom
missed the stakeboat's bow by less than
three feet as il fell into the water, and
Of her Struck by either of these
pieces, she would have been shattered.
As it was. the three men in her were
kemmed in BIZ canvas and tangled ropes,
-.ichard Sohartf. one Of the photo
graphers got OUT 8 pocket knife and
cutting slit in the sail crawled
through and ass s-ed his two COM
panions. They emerged in time to see
Anderson and the Resolute's mate be-
ing pulled down by the sinking rigging
ScharF had movie camera with him
and with the prongs of the tripod
reached out to where the two sailors
we're struggling and literally speared
Anders n as he was going down. Both
men ne aaged to clutch the tripod and
were ruled along lie the stakeboat.
Near rwnilo the Res0lute. chan~ed in
a seconds ti'no from beautiful white-
winged racine machine to bare and
dsmas ed hull, had come TO halt and
he q ateur skipper. Charles Franc 5
Adam o. the New York Yacht Club
ordered he one lfeboat lowered.
Vanitie just Misses Wreck
Meanwhile the bronze Naritie, with
a. sails SCI and looking as though her
own str.ck n ght carry away a any
moment. came booming along in the
Resolutes wake and just managed to
lbe IN time 10 miss the wreck. Rear
Commodore Nichols, Of the New York
Yacht Club. skipper Of the Vanitie
stood by until the Claribel. a large
motor yach- dying the flag of the
Larchmont Yacht Club, raced TO the
scene and lowered two Of her boats
By this time Anderson and the Reso-
ute's mate had been dragged into the
s'aaeboat by the photographers. Ir
ten minutes score of yachts were
On the scene and Offering help, includ
l ing J. P. Norga0's Corsair. with hel
!. owner in command. The two sailors
l we're transferred 70 the Xarifa, where
| tney we're reported to have suffered nc
l INJURIES beyond swallowing q lot Of