New-York tribune., 1921-06-29
Triangular Tie
Develops When
Defender Loses
Hayseed Nv Finishes First,
Consenders Have 8 Points
Each; Final Race To-day
BY lack Lawrence

The -cornered battle being
waged off the rock bound coast of
Greenwich for possession of the Man
hasset Bay Challenge Cup was brought
TO q triangular tie yesterday afternoon
when the New Rochelle Yacht Clubs
Hayseed ", crashed her way to q
spectacular victory over Addison G.
Hanan's Nahma, defender of the trophy
for the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, by
the narrow margin es thirty weight sec
onds.
Hayseed V, flying the colors of the
Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead,
Mass, rolled in distant and some
what discouraged third. This boat al
ready has one leg on the trophy TO her
credit, having won over Nahma and
Hayseed ", on Monday. She made
poor weather of it yesterday, however,
and could hardly have been mentioned
among those present after the first
mark had been turned,
Possession of the challenge cup is
to be decided on the point system, FIVE
marks being awarded for win, four
for second and three for third.
AS result Of yesterdays contest,
which was the second of the three to
be held, each entry has now eight
points to its credit and the race to-
day will decide whether the famous
challenge bowl will go down east to
Marblehead, to New Rochelle or re-
main at its present moorings in the
trophy room of the Indian Harbor
Club. 1t has been there for the last
six years.
Hanan Fails Again
The tall-sparred Bermudian rugged
yachts that are battling for the cup
have all shown great speed in the pres
ent series and it is extremely difficult
to forecast the result
Addison G. Hanan, generally looked
upon as the cleverest small boat skip
per in the United States, has defend
ed the trophy successfully in other
years and there is great deal of con-
fdence among his Indian Harbor col
leagues that ne will be able to stem
the present invasion and drive Nahma
to the necessary victory this afternoon.
Despite Mr.. Hanan's farfung repu-
tation as corinthian he was out
sailed. out-generaled and out-guessed
yesterday by Robert Bowler, skipper
of Hayseed ", who delivered about as
brilliant a performance at the wheel
of his yacht as has been seen on the
Sound this year
By completely out-guessing both
Nahma and the Marblehead entry,
Bowler rounded the first mark Of the
striangular ffteen-mile course with
lead OF four minutes and twenty sec
onds over Hanan, who in turn was
about that far ahead of Hayseed Y.
From that point on the contest be-
came the sharpest sort of duel be-
tween Bowler and the Indian Harbor
skipper, with the latter using every
trick at his command in a desper,.te
effort to overhaul the New Rochelle
sloop.
At the second marx Hanan had cut
Bowers lead to three minutes and
twenty-five seconds and in the five
mile run down the wind to the finish
line he whitfield away at this margin
until only thirty-eight seconds of it
remained when Hayseed " fed across
the line hotly pursued winner.
The race was finished in a pelting
rainstorm which followed an electrical
squall. which was accompanied by re-
volving wind that seemed to blow from
counting sudden shifts in the wind
while the squall was raging, the trian-
gular course provided a beat to wind
ward, broad reach and run.
1t was in the first leg that Hay
seed " did her best work and ran up a
lead that gave her the decision. In the
run before the wind Hanan's yacht
proved USIStlI CIe IiScteSI VI tuS u lO
and was rapidly overhauling the New
Rochelle contender at the finish.
At the start of the race it was OBJ
vious that Hanan did not consider the
New Rochelle boat seriously. He de-
voted his entire attention to keeping
the Marblehead yacht under his lee and
this strategy undoubtedly cost him
the race.
Winner Saves Ground
In the beat to the first mark Nahma
and Hayseed V made ten tacks, while
Bowler covered almost the entire dis
tance in two. 1t was necessary for him
to take a couple of short bitches in
order to round the mark, which
brought the number of tacks taken ur
to four. The New Rochelle skipper's
first tack was held for twenty-nine
minutes and 1t took him far out into
the Sound toward the Long Island
shore and quite out of the company OF
The other two boats. By this maneuvea
he found good wind that enabled him
TO outfoot Nahma and Hayseed V and
In the reach for the second mark
which was black spar buoy off Oystc,