New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Two Continents
Me for Yaclat
And Net EEonle,l's
Boat Races and The Davis
). Cup Matches TO Mark
an Era In Snovlsgs,aasl.io
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races scheduled for July and August
the tennis matches for the Davis Cup
snd the Anglo-American struggle for
the polo Championship OF the world to
be played, the enthusiast who prefers
competition with an international
favor will find the summers program
to be one that could hardly be im-
proved upon.
After the Resolute- Shamrock races
FOR the Americas Cup last GUNNER
Sachtsmen declared that this wotld be
an "off season and that there would
not be anything doing among amateur
wlndjammers until 1922, when Sir
Thomas Upton was expected to make
ms nth effort to take the famous old
tankard back to England with him.
King Albert of Belgium took big
reef in the 'off-season" idea when he he
offered gold cup for race from
Sandy Hook TO Ostcnd. to he started
here at noon July 4. This event has
Already stirred the irtevoat OF yachts
'Yfen throughout tho world and there is
now no doubt that il will be the
greatest international sailing contest
the sport has ever known. SO many
different nations are to be represented
that the struggle will be truly en-
blematic of the amateur sailing cham
pionship of the world
All Salitng IFaft 3llglble
The event is open - any sailing craft
actually enrolled in the feet of any
recognized yacht club.
The transatlantic races will hardly
have crossed the finish line off the Bel
gian coast when the eyes of the yacht
ing world will be focussedon another
international sailing contest that in
point of interest is second only to the
King Albert cup event.
Thi will be match race to be sailed
at Cowes, England, during the week
yachts representing the Seawanhaka
.Corinthian Yacht Club, of Oyster Bay,
and the Royal London Yacht Club.
louA> boats will be entered by the
American organization and four by the
British.
The winner will be awarded trophy
offered by the Royal Yacht Squadron of
Great Britain.
All of the starters in the Cowes
event will be of the six-meter class
and will measure between twenty and
twenty-three feet on the wateriine.
Each boat will carry a crew of three
men, and the sail area of each craft
will be from DIS to $50 square feet
All will carry the Marconi rig and the
length of the mast will be limited to
twice the waterline length of the
yachts.
Four Of the six-meter yachts are now
building in this country and nine are
nnder construction in England. Alter
the American entries have had series
Of trial spins in the water of Long
Island Sound, in May, they will be
shipped abroad, leaving this country
about June is,
The Seawanhaka Corinthian club
house at Oyster Bay will be opened
month earlier than usual, it was an
nounceG yesterday, in order to permit
the American yachts to make their
headquarters there during the prelimi-
nary workouts.
Four British Boats to Race
While Uncle Sans representatives
ere tuning up in Long Island Sound,
the nine British boats will be engaged
IN series of elimination races in the
Solent. From the nine there will be
four selected to meet the Americans.
More than ordinary interest is being
. taken in this event locally, because two
OF the American contenders are being
constructed within the corporate limits \
! of New York City and both were de-
signed by. New Yorker. These yachts
are being built at City Island and were
designed by William Gardner, of No.
| broadway, creator of the Atlantic, win
rer of the trans ocean race of 1905 for
the Kalser's cup, the schooner West
! ward, the bronze sloop Vanitie and
other famous racing machines.
One of the Gardner boats is under
construction at the Robert Jacob yard
and the other at the Nevins plant, both
on the shore of City island The other
~swo contenders for the Royal Yacht
squadron trophy are being built down
East. The keel of one has been laid
~ the famous Herreshoff yards in
Il
I completed at the Burgess yard in Prov
Il incetown.
|, Both the Gardner vessels will be of
mahogany and one will be operated by
a syndicate composed of Richard
Boardman, John Saltonstall and |.
townsend Irvine. The other is for w.
A.. w. Stewart and Winthrop W. AL
drich.
I The boat under construction at the
Herreshoff yards is from a design
drawn by w. Startling Burgess for
| raul Hammond, rear commodore of
The Seawanhaka- Corinthian Yacht
club, and G. Sherman Hoyt, who was
the American representative aboard
shamrock Nv in the Americas Cup
( 1aces last summer. She will fly the
ccolors of the Seawnahaka organization
Boats Designed by Experts
| :: The Yankee flyer. being built at
I1ioFiuScbo"H, was designed by Star
ling Burgess and Burgess Payne, both
members of families that have been
identified with American yachting for
generations. She will represent the
Eastern Yacht Club of Marblehead.
The British entries which will take
part in the elimination trials in the
Solent are the creations of the most
famous marine architects in Great
a Britain, and they will be sailed by the
leading amateur shippers Of that coun-
try.
Added interest attaches to this in
ternational contest because of the fact
that one of the six-meter boats flying
the Union Jack will be sailed by Will
Liam. P. Burton, the much criticized
sskipper of Sir Thomas Lipton's last
challenger for the Americas Cup, Ac-
cording to English yachting experts
Captain Burton is looking forward to
the Cowes struggle as an opportunity
to redeem himself in the eyes of his
coun'rymen.
Captain Burton and Sir Godfrey Col
lin are to have q joint interest in q
yacht that is being constructed from
designs drawn by Alfred Mylne, IA
nous British architect. Mylne has
also designed yacht for f. A. Rich
ards, English sportsman, end is build
ing one for I. o. GlenCoats, which
the latter designed himself
Glen Coats is one OF the most promi-