The New York herald., 1922-10-08
GLOUCESTER SET FOR
FISHERMEN TRIALS
Mayflower Ban Causes Won
der-BostOn Yachtsmen Are
Keenly Aroused.
by JAMES b. CONNOLLY.

Special Dispatch to TIE New YORK HERALD.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, Oct. THE
American trials for the Fshermen's
Race are to be sailed off Gloucester
this week. and the Mayflower, believed
by many people down this way to be
the fastest fisherman afioat. cannot take
part, she having been barred by the
Nova Scotia Committee.
Many good people are wondering how
she came to be barred. If she is an
honest-to-God fisherman how comes It
Nova Scotia has barred her? II there
her /; or how comes 1t the American Race
Committee stands for her being barred?
There Is no trickery on Americas
part. Immediately after the first Fish
ermen's Cup race, held off Halifax two
years ago. the Americans Gall Glouces-
ter men) sat In with the Nova Scotia
Race Committee to draw UP rules and
regulations to govern future racing be-
tween the two countries. What the
regulations were does not matter here
except that one clause gave to Nova
Scotia the sole right to say what vessels
should be allowed to sail in future races.
Immediately after that first race Nova
Scotia built two vessels. for the express
purpose of bringing back the Fisher
mems Cup. The talk soon came drifting
In that the new vessel was to be much
bigger than anything Gloucester had or
ever did have. Gloucester did not mind
that. She had a notion that she had
pretty nearly reached the limit in size
In her vessels, the limit Of size being
date hxy xph ho ma do tn
pay. A vessel too big to pay--what use
would she be?
Boston fishing interests did not take
the matter OF the new vessel so calmly.
Boston said that the Fishermens race
was no longer a merely Gloucester affair.
II had become an all-American affair,
and IL Gloucester would not then Boston
would build O. vessel to match the new
big Nova Scotians in size and so they
built the Mayflower.
Mayflower Too Speedy.
The Mayfiower had not been fishing
long when the stories began to como In
Of her speed. with succeeding trips the
talk Increased. Running to and from
the fishing banks she had fallen in with
this one and that one (not too slow. any
That she was the festest thing with two
sticks, yacht or fisherman, that had ever
put out to sea was her reputation before
the summer was out.
Gloucester wasn't surpriscd to hear
these things. or course she could SAIL
Being so much bigger she ought just
naturally sail faster than anything be-
fore her A fine old coal barge she'd be
II she couldn't. And II she beat the
Esperanto or any Gloucester vessel In
the trial race why that would be all
right too. She wasn't a Gloucester ves-
sci, but she was an American and she
would be picked 70 defend the cup.
It came time to talk OF entries for the
trial races and then the Nova Scotia
Committee began TO be heard from.
They doubted the Mayhower's eligibility
BY and by came the word that they
would bar her. Gloucester and Boston
both asked why
barred From beginning.
"oh. she was freak boat not a fish,
erman. She couldn't hold the sea-" to
which Boston replied But she's been
coming and going In heavy weather.
Isn't that being able to hold the scar"
could hold the sea, but she was not
bona fide fisherman. The wayfarers Of
the fishing banks looked up to SEQ what
the word meant. and on learning they
retorted. Bona fide, hell, II you mean
she's not sure enough fisherman! We
always thought a fisherman was n ves-
sci with a regular fishing skipper, which
she cert'nly has in Henry Larlxin--and
reg'lar crew o. ishermen--which she
certniy has--and that goes out and gets
good trips O. fish and brings 'em regu-
larly to market. She's got the skipper
and crew and she's been bringin' home
the fish and II that ain't bein' bona
fide fisherman. what is7'
What real fishermen thought of the
Mayflower had nothing 70 do with Il.
she was going 70 be barred and barred
she was. Halifax tried TO get Glouces-