The New York herald., 1921-08-29
YACHTS WILL RACE
FOR CAPE MAY CUP
Schooners Sonnica and Va.
grant Entered for Contest
Over the Ocean Course.
by ARTHUR r. ALDRIDGE.

The race committee OF the New York
Yacht Club announces that there will be
a contest for the Cape May challenge
cup this year. III. S. Shonnard. owner
of the schooner Sonnica, has challenged
and Vice-Commodore Harold S. Wander
bilt has entered his schooner Vagrant
Other yachts may be entered In this
race and the winner holds the cup, sub
iect TO challenge. The race will be
started on Friday. September 16. at
10 so A. NJ. from the Ambrose Channel
light vessel. The course is to be the
lightship off Cape M" and return.
Boys to Sail for Cup.
Thirty-three Massachusetts boys under
10 years. one or two scarcely more than
1c. and representing eleven yacht clubs,
will match their knowledge of seaman
ship and their ability TO sail small
yachts Off Marblehead the first three
days of this week. They will race for
tho junior yachting championship. the
first event OF its kind ever sailed in this
country.
Commodore Herbert NJ. Sears or the
Eastern Yacht Club donated the cup, and
in order that all the contestants may
q
cate OF members has had built three 1s-
foot knockabouts OF the same design.
AS representatives of several Long
Island clubs are expected to be present,
It is anticipated that n similar cham
pionship will be held in those waters
next year, with the possibility of the
winners OF either side of Cape Cod
meeting In a national championship.
The junior championship Of Massachu-
setts is admittedly an experiment, but 1t
has received the unqualified Endorsement
of every yachtsman as a long step IN
advance, not only in placing the game
on a sounder basis, but as a great en-
couragement to the younger generation,
hundreds of whom took their first les
sons this year in yachting.
The clubs which will be represented
by crews of three boys each are An
nisquam, Beverly (of Marion, Mass.).
Cohasset, Corinthian. Cottage Park,
Duxbury. bingham. Manchester, New
Bedford Pleon and Wollaston.
Amerfca's Inst Voyage.
The famous schooner America viii
very soon start on her last voyage to a
permanent anchorage in the River
Severn alongside the Naval Academy.
The New Bedford, Fall River, New
Haven and Stamford Yacht clubs and
tho Newport Chamber of Commerce
have subscribed 5000 each toward the
fund which is being raised to fit out the
yacht under the direction of Charles
Francis Adams, skipper Of the cup de-
fender Resolute. Favorable replies have
also been received. it is stated, from
Providence. Jersey CITY, the Atlantic
Yacht Club, Trenton. Philadelphia and
Wilmington Del. while private individ-
uals are also participating IN the nove-
ment. including Secretary Of War John
w. Weeks and Col. Robert NJ. Thomp-
son, president OF the Alumni Association
or the Naval Academy.
The committee in charge OF the
restoration Of this historic craft TO the
Government after forty-seven years OF
private ownership have agreed TO per-
nit those cities. towns or yacht clubs
raising $500 each the privilege Of having
4 brass plate with the seal of the
organization placed on the rail OF the
boat and OF sending a delegation 70
make a part of the trip. A visit to
each port contributing is also assured,
but the committee announces that 1t viii
be unable to permit the vessel TO stop at
norts which do not show interest. IL is
expected that the trip will be made In
September.