The New York herald., 1921-07-05
ISTALENA WINS IN
LARCHMONT RACES
Rear Commodore Mallory
Breaks Rear Commodore
NichOls's Run of Luck.
SIS YACHTS CROSS LINE
Light Winds Make Finishes in
Contests on the Sound
Very Late.
IS YACHTS CROSS LINE
by ARTHUR F. ALDRIDGE.

Rear Commodore Phillip R Mallory
Of the American Yacht Club yesterday
sailed the so footer Istalena and won
On the annual regatta Of the Larchmont
Yacht Club. Incidentally he put a stop
to the winning career OF Rear Comfno-
dore George Nichols, who has been TAX
ing everything with his sloop Carolina
That yacht finished second. beaten AZ
seconds. Commodore Mallory had with
him on the Istalena Holland S. Duele
and 1t was the first time those two
yachtsmen had handled a so footer.
OF the ninety-eight yachts entered
for this race sixty-five crossed the
starting line. Lack of wind in the
morning prevented many from reaching
the line and it also necessitated a post
ponement of the start for half an hour.
"A light wind from northeast by north,
which came shortly afaer noon. war;
ranted the race committee in sending
the yachts away. The committee was
Horace c. Perrin, Harold I. Flint WILL
lam Harvey Smith. Jr. Hamilton b.
Downe and Arthur Knapp. They chose a
course which would give windward
work on the first leg, but the wind died
out and later came in from northwest,
which made the last leg Of each triangle
windward work. A time limit had been
yacht In class had to finish before
O'clock and no times were taken after
$3.50 o'clock. None of the thirty-footers
or yachts In the 0 and P classes were
able to reach the line before the time
limit and those yachtsmen who do not
own power tenders were very late in
getting back to harbor
After the Carolina finished in the so
foot class Grayling, sailed by Commo-
IrxY-A ID ,1v y~n
calmed half way across the Sound She
kept on. however, to the finish, crossing
the line at S:0S :03, and Acushla, sailed
by J. A. Mahlstede, finished little more
than eighteen minutes later
The so footers got away fairly we'll,
with Istalena at the windward end of
the line. Carolina at the leeward end,
with Grayling between the two, followed
BY Acushla. Virginia, with her owner.
L. F. Crofoot at the tiller, was handi-
capped three minutes. They reached to
the Greenwich Point mark, where Gray
ling led, with Istalena and Carolina very
close IT was another reach across the
Sound and Istalena had q good lead at
the Hampstead mark. In the beat across
the Sound in very light air Carolina
cut down the lead considerably.
Eddie Fish sailed Grey Dawn of the
O-clan against A. v. Lockwood's Maisie.
with Jerome Monks at the tiller. Grey
Dawn gave up early and Maisie could
not finish in time. The 30 footers
and the Nahma and Hayseed w got as
far as the second mark but could not
get home.
Algol won in the Sound schooner class,
with Moira second. w. BarlSlie Henry
won his first race with the Dolphin In
the second handicap division. Robin
Hood won In the third division.
Eight started In the Victory class, and
Aierts, sailed by Cornelius Shield, won
again. II. VI. Curtis's Mongolia was
second. and Jennie S. Morgan, Jr's.
Navy Rose third.
A Bryan Allay sailed his six star
class yacht Twinkle and won handily.
Tho summaries
NEW YORK YACHT CLUB-50 FOOTERS-
START IL :40--2f MILES.