The New York herald., 1922-12-17
N. Y. YACHT CLUB
TO ELECT OFFICERS
Annual Meeting to Be Held in
the Clubhouse Next
Thursday.
BY ARTHUR r. ALDRIDGE.

The annual meeting of the New York
Ischt Club will be held in the club
house on West Forty-fourth street next
Thursday evening and in addition to the
presentation of reports to the members
by the officers and committees officers
will be elected 20 serve next year.
Few changes have been made. but the
few are important. Commodore Harold
S. Vanderbilt, Vice-Commodore George
! Nichols, Commodore Vincent AS
tor Secretary George A. Cormack,
Treasurer Tarrant Putnam and Meas
urer Harold w. Webb have all been re-
nominated and Will be reelected Mr.
Putnam. the treasurer has held that
Office since 1901 and next in length of
service to him is Secretary Cormack.
who began his long service in 1902. sue
ceeding J. " S. Odde
The principal changes are made in
the membership and race committees.
The nominees for the membership COM
mittee are Charles Lane Poor, II. G. s.
Noble, Henry A. Bishop, Capt. r. ID.
f. Townsend Irwin. The race committee
as nominated is Gherardi Davis Clinton
Mackenzie and oliver Iselin.
Capt. W. Butler Duncan. who has for
many years been high in the councils of
the club and who has been chairman Of
the membership committee from 1913
until the present time, has retired. He
thinks i. is time for younger men to
do more of the work and while his ad-
vice will always be sought he will not
take an active part in club management
Capt. Duncan began yachting in 1884
and he joined the club in 1889 He
sailed on the Vigilant. Defender, Co
lumbia and Reliance in trial and Ameri-
ca IS cup races and in 1901 was manag-
ing owner of the Constitution, the new
yacht built for cup defense. Constitu-
ton, after long series Of trials, was
found by the committee to be somewhat
slower than the Columbia and selected
that yacht to race against Shamrock H.
Capt. Duncan then represented the New
York Yacht Club on the challenger.
In 1891 and 1892 Capt. Duncan was
rear commodore of the club and he was
fleet captain to Commodore Lewis Cass
Ledyard later. He has also served as a
member of the race committee. He was
chairman of the Atlantic Coast Confer
ence when the present rules were adopted
by all clubs in this country and he has
been largely Instrumental in organizing
many of the one design classes.
On the race committee II. de B. Par
sons retires. Mr.. Parsons has served on
this committee since 1905, when the
late Oliver f. Cromwell was chairman
held that Office until now. He has han
died every regatta and all races of the
club during his terms of office.
Davis Succeeds Parsons.
Mr.. Gherardi Davis. who succeeds Mr..
Parsons as chairman of the race COM
mittee. Is comparatively newcomer in
the racing game. and he SAYS his chief
regret in life is that he did not become
interested in yacht racing earlier. He
has owned several yachts, which he
named Alice. and with these he has been
very successful, particularly In the races
OF Class Q and the New York Yacht Club
; thirty footers. He has been prominent
In the Atlantic Yacht Club and the Sea-
wanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. Cln-
ton Mackenzie of the race commit
tee is an old Seawanhaka Corinthian
Yacht Club man and was elected to his
present office last year. Oliver Iselin.
the new member, Is OF a family of
yachtsmen and represents the younger
generation of amateur sailors. He Is
son of William e. Iselin. who owns the
schooner Enchantress, and nephew of
I. oliver lselin, who managed the cup
J yachts Vigilant. Defender, Columbia and
Reliance.
The other nominees are House Com
mittee-Samuel A. Brown. Charles NJ
III.
Library Committee-F. Gilbert Hins
dale, Robert c. Bacon, Capt. ]. r. Car
ter, u. S. N
Model Committee-C Sherman Hoyt
} Charles ID. Mower. Horace f. Boucher.
, Committee on Club Stations j P.
Morgan, Vincent Astor, ]. Harvey La =
dew
These men were selected by the Nom
mating Committee Henry Walters.
. 1 chairman TaKfc
nelius Vanderbilt, Arthur Curtiss James.
George f. Baker. Jr.: Wilson Marshall
Dallas b. Pratt, Daniel Appleton Gren-
Vile Kane and Thomas w. Slocum.
/ New York Athletic Club Dinner.
The annual dinner OF the yachting de-
partment OF the New York Athletic Club
was held In the club house last Thurs
day evening. This yachting department
is really a club within big club. and II
Is very healthy organization. with flag
officers. club station, committees. &C.
About 150 members and guests dined to-
gether. and among those noted were:
Commodore Williams. Harry Ander-
son. f. III. Tucker. Harry "A. Jackson.
, Stuyvesant Wainwright. Herbert r..
Stone. c. A. Marsland, Donald III. Cowl,
Walter s. Sullivan. +. Il. Raymond and
many others well known as racing
yacntSmen. 1t was most enthusiastic
} gathering because the New York A. c.
; had very successful racing season last
7 summer and all its races were remark
able for the closeness of the contests. In
the seventeenth annual Block Island
!. race only minutes separated the first
four yachts after 100 miles of sailing.
In the center OF the dining room was "A
large table loaded down with sllverware
, and these prizes were presented at the
: close OF the evening by Walter s. Sui
: livan, chairman of the race committee, TO
, the successful yachtsnen. Mr.. Sullivan
in presenting each prize briefly told the
: nature of the race and something Of the
record
. These winter gatherings are growing
In popularity. Yachtsmen feel that their
season OF sport is short They do not
have many chances to become ac-
q,usnted while sailing their yachts and
then. except In their own clubs. meet
only their club members. They want
; moro of these reunions to become more
: closely acquainted with the men of the
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