The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-03
SOUTHERN MARINE
MARATHON OF 1921
is TO BE BEST EVER
Ex- Commodore Percy S. Bene-
dict Heads Committee in
Charge of Event

1hdi &c Vi Event
With the advent OF spring the fan
cies OF most everybody take sudden
turn and tnasmuch as st. Valentines
day is passed we win not take Il upon
ourselves TO discuss the life OF Dan
Cupid but will touch upon the forth
coming racing season OF the S. Y. c..
TO which the fancy OF every dyed in
the-wool yachtsman has long since
turned.
Although several months intervene
before the starting sun win be fired
that viii send the power boat fleet over
the route or the Siuthern Marine
Marathon. froa New Orleans 20 PEN
sacola. Fla. plans are already under
way 10 make this event the greatest
race or tts KIND ef an time, This an
ual race. most of Which Is sailed on
the'outside course j. she longest long
distance race staged by any yacht club
now that the historic Bermuda races
have been discontinued.
Commodore Howard most certainly
was bent upon making this years race
red letter event In the life OF the
club when he appointed as chairman
or the Southern Marine Marathan COM
mlttee none other than that human
dynamo" and through sportsman, Elk
Commodore Percy 5. Benedict. 1t is
edless 20 tell thar the race this year
Win be a real bang-up affair with a
number OF new speedsters in the fleet
that win very likely set up now rec
ords for the racers OF 1922 10 shoot
at.
The Southern Marine Marathon Is
always sailed on or about July 4th. but
due 90 the fact that the country's
natal day will fall on a Monday this
year II is very likely that the event
win be started on the nigh OF Friday,
July 1, the slower craft leaving west
end At shutdown and the faster craft
leaving the following morning. This
starting schedule would give the fleet
an entire day at Pensacola before par
ticipating I'm the regatta on July 4. IL
IL planned that the boats viii leave
Pensacola on Tuesday, July and from
there cruise to Mobile bay. where the
entire fleet WIN be greeted by an ar
mazda from the Eastern Shore Yacht
club. which will escort the visitors TO
their clubhouse at Magnolia beach. The
fleet viii remain over night, our MEM
bers To be the guests of our brother
yachtsmen from Mobile.
Leaving Magnolia beach. the boats
will head for the gulf again, this time
bound for Biloxi and in race forma-
ton, for Il will be between these two
harbors that the Julius Werner cup
will DO contested for.
The Southern Marine Marathon tro-
ply is a cup which was won last year
by Captain Theodore Grunewald's Gre
ole Sue, but this year Sue had better
look to her laursls for there viii be
a number OF new Rchmonds in the
field. Captain Howard N. Moody's new
Haona, which IL reputed to knock off
thirty-five miles per hour, will be
among those present, as will also new
boat now being built by Nanny Sporl.
Captain w. p. Stewart Is also ex-
peoted to enter his new Great Lakes
cruiser Sunshine, which has a speed
in excess of twenty miles an hour. In
addition to those there will be the
Indra, the Elolamar and the Half
Noon. all speedsters OF the first water.
The Southern Yacht clubs second
elapsed time prize Is another trophy
TO be contested for and then, too, there
is the First Handicap price and the
Percy s. Benedict trophy for cabin
cruisers making under ten miles per
hour. II is also highly probable that
the Pensacola Yacht club will offer a
cup 10 take the place Of the San Car
los trophy presented by the Pensacola
hostalry OF that name. the same being
retired last year by commodore
Banedict's Violet, she having won the
event two successive years.
The long-distance event OF 1920 was
highfy successful, there being eighteen
eutrfes, OF which there were eleven
starters. II IL Chairman Benedict's
hope to have at least twenty five
starters this year with rs many as
fIfteen actual starters.
The Southern Marine Marathon had
its birth way back In 1912 when Cap
tain William az. Carrie donated the now
historic Carlo cup. in order TO encour-
age seamanship and also for the pur-
pose OF bringing to the fore al 1.-The
possibilities OF the then undeveloped
internal combustion engine. The race
TO Pensacola has been an annual one
ever since with the exceptions of 1917
and 1918. when II terminated at Biloxi.
for during those years we were at war
with Germany and the harbor at PEN
sacoia was planted with mines. The
distance from New Orleans is 1sS stat
ute miles.
Chairman Benedict has announced
that the committeeman who win serve
with him are Messrs. Gordon III. Chap
man. h A. McKoy, e. b. BENJAMIN and
w. Fl. Parham.--Barometer, New Or
leans.