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RIDGE BOATS WIN
RACES AT CLAIBORNE

NAOLO M OLALDUNNE
he list of starters was not as
as had been expected, as a mum
of the boats were becalmed in
bay and were unable to make
borne until late in the afternoon
lie of them came in after the
was well under way and, While
ir captains and crew were disap-
nted they bowed their good
craftsmanship by remaining on the
ne as near the finish line as they
lid get and cheering the winners
they come in. Others were so far
wn that they turned back and
mt home when they found there
is no chance for them even to get
the finish.
With ropes taut and canvas
FETCHED to fresning southwest
reeze that followed a dead calm
,hich lasted through the morning,
pur big bugeyes swung across the
#AS doomed abroad the regatta COM
littee>boat atI2.45 O'Clock.
ous2hds of men, women and
dren hurried to points of vantage
he end of the great breakwater,
bwded the two largest steamboat
harves and lined the shore for
alf-mile in either direction and set
[p a cheer as the boats sped across
The line.
Start Unexpected
The start of the races came I'M
so far as the crowds were
Concerned They were caught una
ware, as it were. The fiat calm and
The postponement flag" which flew
from the mast of the regatta COM
mittee boat from 1890 A NJ, the
hour the races were supposed to be-
gin, led them to believe that the con-
tests had been postponed Indefinite
".
BY 12.45 O'Clock the breeze had
luickened. 1t was apparent that the
start of the first race could be made
within a very short time.
The regatta committee held 2 nur
RED conference and as he breeze con
.inued to freshmen with each minute
a decision TO start was quickly ar
rived at TIE warning gun doomed
md the bugeyes hoisted sail and pre-
pared to get under way.
L y
gun doomed across the water and the
boats began jockeying for places.
The Emma a. Faulkner, Capt. e. S.
Leonard, of Cambridge, was the first
Of the four craft to file away across
The line. The Edith Marcy, Capt.
Richard Chesser, OF St. Georges Is
and, was second over with the Lot
lie Thomas, Capt Harry Branniga3,
River Springs, third, and the Leroy
Capt. Harry n. Wood
bourne, Solomon's Island, last. The
Faulkner, was showing the way as
ong as she could be distinguished.
The starting gun of the first race
was the 5 minute warning gun for
he second contest between the skip
Jacks, which began jockeying for
he start.
Scores of the spectator boats
which had sought harbor when a
;quall seemed imminent were back
1t their berths by the time the skip
Jacks were sent across. The two
)ugeye classes had been thrown into
,ne and as TWO open skipjacks had
ourneyed all the way from Tangier
Sound under the misapprehension
hat they could enter the regular
Ikipjack race, it was, decided to have
[ special race for the two boats, the
EernonI.ee ang-the Est1xr w.
Seven boats in the skipjack class
the Geneva May, Capt. William j.
1orstman, Wenona; the Agnes Capt.
Arlie P. Baker, Cambridge; the Re
,ecca T. Ruark, Capt. w. A. Cook,
Cambridge; the George w. Abbott,
5apt. j. L. Murphy, Tilghman's; the
\. w. Phillips, Capt. A. B. Hadda-
way, Tilghman's; the Raymond s.,
Capt. C. O. Cummins, Tilghman's,
md the Elsie, Capt. Charles F.
1oubourne, Oxford-were well lined
10 when the starting gun crashed
,yer the water: They had anchored
lear the starting line, Tightening
heir sheets only a moment before
he time for the starting gun.
1t was a pretty start, the boats
,eing apparently almost on line and
continued neck and neck until we'll
Town toward Poplar Island, the To-
alton of the first turning buoy,
marking the end of the first leg.
The canoes were the next to start
md their race furnished the real
hrills of the contest.
Thousands of people were in Clai-
,orne for the races. They came from
Ill sections of the Eastern Shore IN
and horse-drawn We
licles. The town had the appear
nee of a great carnival, with all
orts of stands spread out in every
direction.
Hundreds of persons came down
rom Baltimore as early as 4 O'Clock
IN the ferry Automobiles filled all