The New York herald., 1921-07-25
YACHT CRUISE OF
N. Y.Y.C. Is AT HAND
Fleet Starts East Wednesday
Morning From Glen Cove
HarbOr.
BY ARTHUR #. ALDRIDGE.

Glen Cove Harbor win present a
pretty picture tomorrow afternoon and
Wednesday morning. The fleet OF yachts
of the New York Yacht Club will
father there and early ond Wednes-
day morning will start on cruise to
the eastward. The cruise win not be
as long as II has been in former years
and will not extend beyond Newport
but II will be a good one and the fleet
will be quite large.
Commodore ]. p. Morgan will lead
the fleet with his steam yacht Corsair.
and a meeting of captains will be held
on the flagship tomorrow evening, when
some minor details of the racing Will be
arranged.
The commodore on Wednesday morn
ing will order the fleet to proceed to
Morris Cove, and as soon as practical
after that order the race committee VIII
start the racing yachts. The race Will
be from q line off Matinicock Point TO
the southwest breakwater at the en-
trance to New Haven harbor.
To Head for New London.
On Thursday the race will be to New
London, on Friday TO Block Island and
on Saturday to Newport. Then after
days rest the yachts will race off New
port for the Astor and Kings cups and
for prizes offered by the Newport yacht
Racing Association.
It Is five years since the New York
Yacht Club held its cruise. Then the
yachts went to Buzzards Bay and back
to Newport That. too. was the last
time the fifty-footers were racing until
this year.
The fleet of yachts will be quite large
At least thirty-hve will take part IN
races. and the feet Of steamers and
auxiliaries will be much larger.
The flag officers of the New York
Yacht Club ere all very keen racing
men, and they will take part in the
races. Commodore j. p. Morgan owns
and sails the 50-footer Grayling. Vice
Commodore II. S. Vanderbilt will race
his schooner vagrant, and Rear-Com-
modore George Nichols Will race the 5O-
footer Carolina. In the class or oo-
footers, in addition to Grayling and
Carolina, will be George NJ. Pynchon's
Istalena, Henry B. Plants Spartan, l.
Gordon Hammersley's Acushla and L. +.
Crofoot's Virginia. formerly the Samuri,
owned by w. Earl Dodge.
Fleet of .'Foritcs."
The feet Of forties will be F. d. NJ
Shawara, Charles Lee Andrews's Pam
pero, Spencer Borden, Jr.'s, Sally Ann,
]. $. Lawrence's Squaw and possibly
some others owned on the other side
Of Cape Cod.
The I.archmont 81 footers, Gray
| Dawn, owned by p. II. Johnson; Maisie,
owned by L. V. Lockwood, and Georgia
owned by II. NJ. Cowperthwaitc. Eddie
Fish Is to sail the Gray Dawn and Il
Burton Hart will sail the Maisie, which
promises that the racing in this class
will be keen.
The 30 footers will include Ogden
Reid's Lena. F. w. Belknap's Alera. w
G. Low. Jr's. Houqua and D. Rail
Richardson's Mi3pah.
In the schooner classes in addition I'd
the Vagrant will be II. G.. S. Mobiles
virginia, Cleveland II. Dodg ge's Corona,
Herbert NJ. Sears's Constellation. Henry
w. Howe's Ingomar, earle Tucker
Ohonkara. Nathaniel +. Ayers Queer
Nab, Il. r. Bisss Shawna, William 5
Eaton's Taormina. III. S. Shonnard.
Sonnica and Edwin Farnham Greene''
WIndward.
The steamers will not be as prominent
as before the war. but in addition t
the Corsnir, the handsome black flag
ship. there will be former Commodor
Arthur Curtiss James's Aloha, the BIZ
barque rugged yacht; w. X. Wander
, bits Eagle, Henry Walters Narada
Wilson Marshall's Ansantawae, Mrs
William l.. Harkness's Cythera, Cyru
H. X. Curtis's Lyndonia and Peter w
Rouss's Winchester
vincent Astor's New Yacht.
/ Among other attractive yachts in ad
dition to the large feet OF power Graf
will be Vincent Astors new Nourmahal
G.. NJ. Pynchon's Vasanta. ii. III. Ray
, mond's Scotian. L. ID. NJ. Strachanl
Lady Mary Walter c. Huobard's Pala
din H., Clarkson Cows Navigator. y
@. Herreshoff's Hellanthus and Fred
erlck c. Fletcher's Ariadne-
The race committee Is composed o
H. de Il. Parsons, Frederic o. speddei
and Gherardi Davis They VIII time tn,
yachts from the flagship Corsair.
Western Boxers Defeated.