New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-19
Morgan's Crawling Leads
Fleet of 5O-Foote~s i'm
Larchmont Y.C. Feature
By Jack Lawrence

| LARCHMONT, N. Y, July ia
slashing racing breeze that came smok-
ing out of the south southwest filled
the second day or the Larchmont Yacht
CLUBS annual race week with thrills
and brilliant finishes.
For the first time this summer a
championship regatta was blessed with
surface of the Sound with gleeful
whitecaps and buried lee rails in a
smother of foam. The wind blew true
and steady all day, and it kicked up a
sea that was lively enough to drench
shippers and crews on big and little
boats alike.
Several starters appeared to get
enough of the heavy going in the first
leg and neglected to finish. Two of the
New York Yacht Club thirty footers--
the Rowdy and w. H. Hoffman's Mink
dropped out of their field, and one of
them was towed to port in a crippled
condition.
AS on Saturday, the opening day of
race week, the smaller types of racing
yachts predominated this afternoon.
The little fellows received some rough
treatment at the hands of the SOU
wester, but for the most part they
made brave showing.
Yacht Blown Over Line
The smart breeze made the Jockey
ing for the starts exceedingly brill
liant, and in some of the classes this
work was so fast that tn boats mar
rowly missed fouling each other. In
tn Arrow class one of the yachts was
blown over the line before the start
ing whistle was sounded from the
committee boat and had to be recalled,
while in another getaway two Of the
starters crashed into the stakeboat on
the weather end of the line. Neither
was damaged, however, and when thew
untangled themselves they continued
the race
j. P. Morgan's Graylng was spec
tacular winner among the New York
Yacht Club 50footers, showing the
way in field of five. Grayling was
sailed by Ralph Ellis, who handled the
big black sloop with remarkable skill
after getting away to a start that left
him considerably astern of Acushla
and George M. Pynchon's Istalena.
Virginia got away to fine start, but
lost so much ground in the second leg,
beat to windward, that she was un-
able to finish better than last. Spartan
and Carolina, the latter owned and
sailed by George Nichols, appeared to
forget the rest of the ftd in an ef-
fort to jockey each other out of posi-
ton just before the start and they
seemed to be out of the running when
the yachts Strengthened out for the
first leg.
In the windward leg, however, Caro-
lima pointed high and shook off Spar
tan and caught up with Virginia and
Acushla, both of which had been passed
by Commodore Morgan's Crawling.
Race Is Three Cornered
The race then resolved itself into
three-cornered struggle among GRAY
ling, lstalena and Carolina. Grayling
did we'll on the windward leg and came
about for the broad reach to the finish
with comfortable lead which her
skipper managed to hold despite the
efforts OF the Pynchon entry and Caro-
lima.
The first leg Of this race, which was
over triangular course of twenty-one
miles, was a broad reach to the red
spar buoy off Greenwich Point, a dis
lance of nearly nine miles. The next
leg was nine-mile windward beat to a
mark off Motifs Point, Long Island,
while the last was another broad reach
of three miles to the finish line.
The New York Yacht Club 30-footers
made their usual fine showing and en-
gagged in some of the best racing of the
day. M. E. Hatfeld's Nautilus, after
aged to hold her advantage throughout
the race, winning by a comfortable
margin from Ogden M. Reid's Lena,
brilliantly sailed by her owner. The
entire field appeared to be closely
grouped as the last mark was turned
and the run down the wind started.
These sporty boats made a great sight