New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-02
Carolina Also
Captures Prize
Among Sloops
Adams, Resolute's Skipper,
Pilots Nichols Craft TO
First Place OFF Newport

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NEWPORT, r. l., Aug. 1.-vice- Com
mofore Harold S. vanderbilt's schooner
yacht vagrant and Rear Commodore
George Nichols's Bermudian-rigged
sloop Carolina won the Astor cups here
this afternoon in spirited race over
triangular course off Brenton's Reef
Light Vessel
vagrant was sailed by Mr.. Wander
bilt himself and Carolina was plotted
to victory by Charles Francis Adams
Cd. the famed Corinthian, who was skip
per of Resolute when that sloop de-
feated Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock
" in the Americas Cup contests a
year ago.
The cups offered for to-days races
were put up by Captain Vincent Astor,
who is following an annual custom
established by Colonel John Jacob
Astor, his father. With the possible
exception of the Kings cup, offered by
George v of Great Britain, which is to
be raced for tomorrow, the Aston cups
are the most coveted trophies in Amer
lean yachting. One is offered for
schooners and the other for sloops.
Cardinals Rig Changed
Vice Commodore Vanderbilt's Va
grant was loked upon as an almost
certain winner in the schooner class
to-day, but Carolina, one Of the New
York Yacht Club fifty footers, was
something Of dark horse, in view of
the fact that rig was changed from a
gaff and topsail affair to the Marconi,
or Bermudian, only twenty-four hours
before the race. 1t was regarded as
certain that this rig would give her
added speed in windward work, but the
experts we're inclined to believe that
she would be much slower off the wind.
In the latter respect they were wrong.
In the legs that gave her run and
a reach Carolina did remarkably we'll
She outfooted two of the schooners
and rounded the first and second marks
Hammersley's Acushla, the leading boat
among the sloops. The last leg was
a seventene-mile thrash to windward
against smashing northwest breeze
and turbulent sea.
Overtakes the vagrant
In this leg Carolina proved herself
= wizard. She outpointed all her
rivals and at one stage of the beat
overhsuled Vagrant While she had
been unable to overtake Acushla in the
run and the reach which preceded the
homeward thrash, Carolina simply fed
from the entire field, when she began
to poke her naughty nose into the wind.
The distance of the triangular
course was thirty eight and a half
miles, the first leg being a run Of six
north to Hen and Chickens Ligntship.
off the entrance to New Bedford Har-
Dor. The second leg was a close reach
o. four and one half miles to Vine
yard Sound Light Vessel. The last was
beat of seventeen miles back to the
starting line between the flagship
Corsair and Brenton's Reef Lightskip.
The wind was strong and steady out Of
the northwest throughout The race
and the seas were so high that they
frequently broke over the yachts and
drenched all on board.
Yachting sharps ahere tonight are
inclined to believe that Addison G.
Hanan's MAMMA, feet sloop of the
Up" class, would have defeated Carolina
o.? corrected time had not an accident
put her out of the race a few minutes
after she rounded the second mark.
Mamma Snaps Mast
Mamma had made one port tack ON
the last leg and had come about for
starboard hitch when an exceptionally
heavy gust Of wind caught her in the
trough of the seas and snapped off her
mast about twenty feet above the deck.
Her mainsail came down in a billow-
ing cloud on her deck and forty feet
of her mast toppled into the sea. In
moment she was being tossed about
Lelplessly while Captain Hanan and
his crew struggled to free themselves
from the tangled rigging.
The steam yacht Narada, owned by
Henry Walters, of Baltimore, saw
Mammals precicament and went to her
assistance. After much perilous
maneuvering a line was passed to the
little sloop and she was towed back
to Brenton's Cove.
The wonderful work that Carolina
did in the windward leg of seventeen
miles Is indicated in the official times
given out by the regatta committee of
the New York Yacht Club tonight.
They show that while Acushla was
leading when the beat began, Carolina
not only passed her but gained 13
minutes rs seconds on the thrash.
Acushla finished second and J. P.
Morgan's Crawling, sailed by Junius
Spencer Morgan. was third, nosing out
L. F. Crofoot's Virginia only a few
seconds before the yachts flashed over
the finish line.
There were only three starters in the
schooner class and Commodore Van
derbilt's Vagrant had things very much
her own way after the second mark
had been rounded. Nathaniel F.
Ayres's Queen Nab and CARL fuckers
Osonkara, gave Vagrant something of
q tussle in the first leg, but they were
distanced in the close reach to the
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