New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-10
Kings Classic
Will Be Great
Yachting Event
Sandy Hook-to-Ostend Race
a Big Boon to Water Sport
in Its s'Revival Year,
By Jack Lawrence

FOR two years past old hard shcllcd
students of the iib and mainsail have
been saying that the World War killed
yachting. Up and down the Atlantic
se&board they have sighed lugubriously
never come back. They declared with
dismal assurance that we could never
see again the glorious days that ended
with the cloudburst of 1914
The rattle, bang and roar of busy
yacht yards, from Charleston to Mas.
sachusetts Bay, have silenced the pes
simlsts. The pulsating Developments
OF the last two months have convinced
few of them that the game is not
dead, or even ILL.,
The pessimists have now turned
their funeral attentions to the pro-
posed contest for the gold cup offered
by the King of the Bclgians for an
ocean race from Sandy Hook to Ostend.
Their dope is that this event will at
tract no entries because of starving
Europe and the general high cost Of
amateur windjamming.
Keen Interest in Classic
This argument does not appear to
stand up in view of the fact that the
keenest interest in the Kings classic
has been shown in the countries that
nave JUST emerged from I'VE years OF
war. To be exact, Belgium itself. onlv
recently freed of the invader, is the
center of enthusiasm, and the little
nation. according to the latest advices
from abroad, is going to scrape up the
cash to detray the expenses of sending
an official entry to the starting line
off Ambrose Lightship.
In England, Holland aud the Scandi
navian countries the transatlantic race
has also evoked a great deal of interest
and the indications this week are that
held OF starters superior to that sent
away IN pursuit OF the "phony" trophy
offered by the former German Kaiser
IN 1905 could be enlisted if the con-
test receives the support from the
united States that it deserves.
If the King Albert Cup race is held
1t will be the stellar event of a spec
tacular yachting season, season with
much more of an international flavor
than that of 1920, when the New York
Yacht Clubs Resolute turned back Sir
Thomas Lipton's fourth attempt to
capture the Americas Cup.
If the ocean race is sailed according
to the plans suggested to the American
committee by Baron de Cartier, Bel
gian Ambassador and at present King
A.bert's yachting representative in this
country, the boats will be sent away
from Sandy Hook at noon on July 4
and the winner should be sighted off
Ostend in about two weeks. This
schedule would bring practically all of
the entries into port at Ostcnd by July
so, which is the Belgian national holt
day.
Great Meet OF Cowes
One week later. off Cowes, the sec
ond and perhaps the most interesting
of the two big internatio maritime
events of the year will be held, when
four American six-meter sloops, carry
ing the Marconi, or, more properly, the
Bcrmudian rig, will meet four British
boats of the same type for a trophy
which has been offered by the Royal
Yacht Squadron OF Great Britain.
According to reports from London
the elimination trials to decide which
boats are to defend the cup are al
ready under way in the Soent. Eng
lish yachting critics appear to believe
that the contest for the Royal Yacht
Squadron's trophy is to become an an
nual fixture, and that in the event of
its being carried off this year by the
Americans a British challenge will see
the second sailing of the event in this
country in 1922. In that case the con-
tests here would probably be held off
Newport.-~
The Royal Yacht Squadron is the or
ganization that, more than half CEN
fury ago, offered the trophy which has
now become famous as the Americas
Cup.
The American challengers are now
being completed here and will shortly
be working out on Long Island Sound.
They are s5ib and mainsail craft and
will be manned by amateurs Two of
the American candidates were designed
by William Gardner. creator of the
famous .Vanitie, the bronze sloop which
contended with Resolute last summer