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12-Milo Breeze During Rain Storm
Bav Ridge, Md.,-August 12th
Twenty-three Chesapeake Bay
workboats tossing full-salled anu
free across a rolling bay, splatterng
spray and foam.
Workboats? Bosh! The sun
baked Eastern Shore shippers who
sailed them across Maryland's blue
waters. in the second annual Chesa-
peake Bay Yacht Club regatta yes
terday, will tell you how they carry
oysters, crabs and watermelons IN
season. Don't believe it until you
see ii.
Hundreds of people on the wooded
shores of Bay Ridge. near Annapoils
and on nearly 100 yachts lining
broad aisle of blue water, saw them
Saturday as white bay gulls, with
nothing to do but corner the breeze
market. 1t was hard to believe tnat
they ever had done anything else.
Cambridge again carried off The
Sun and The Evening Sun prize
money and the Chesapeake Bay
Yacht Club cups. Two boats from
this Eastern Shore city-the Emma
A. Faulkner, Of the big bugeyes, and
the Agnes. of the big skipjacks-out-
sailed the rest of the bay birds for
the second time in two consecutive
years.
But not in walkaway. Yester-
DAYS races were no drifting partles,
like last years. A stiff northeast
breeze chased them down to the
Thomas Point Light. came across
their beams on the way to Tolleys
Point. and kept them lacking, luff-
ing and jibbing on their way back
to the start. 1t was a mans Doat
race.
Crisfeld had nothing to weep "a
bout. Her George T. Todd hung to
the swift flying Faulkner until the
last buoy and the homestretch. Then
the flying jib on the Cambridge Doat
caught the full wealth of the breeze
and pushed the Emma Faulkners
nose out in front. But not far.
She doomed home with bone in her
teeth. less than four minutes ahead
of the Todd, and not Is minutes
ahead of the Emma Cox. OF ROCK
Hail.
Crisfield talked big after the race
vas over. Wallace Quinn said nls
town would put up wad of money
against a like wad put up by cam
bridge, and would stand back anu
let the George T. Todd do the rest.
He named only one conditiOn-that
they sail in 'Tangier Bay. He sWore
said all Crisfield was behind
him-that the Todd could outsail
the Faulkner any day in the week
any week in the Maryland almanac.
WHY didn't she do it Saturday?
Well they blamed the Emma Faux
ner's flying jib. She was the only
bugeye with flying jib in the whole
series OF races Bay sailormen
watching from the rainswept side
lines shook their heads when she
came out. First they said 1t was
too much canvas-it would sweep
her booms into the sea. When she
carried it outstanding they said II
was a mean trick on the other bug
eyes. But they had to admit 1t was
''workboat" style. A big bugeye
can sport flying jib while carrying
a load of oysters and still be an out
bugeye.
The victory of the Agnes over the.
other skipjacks made it Cambridge's
day almost all around. She swept
over the line ahead of the Lilly Il.
of Deals Island, by nearly
20 minutes. Crisfield had no come
back on the victory of the Agnes.
Her lone entry,the Annie Lee, did
not answer the starters gun. But
give her a flying jib-or, doggone 1t,
don't give her any-and she'll take
on the Emma Faulkner in Tangier
Bay and slap spray all over her bows.
oxford wound up the regatta with
it's own little fight. and the report
of the judges on the race did not
settle it. In this corner, gents, the
Elmer c., with Capt. Collie Hubbard:
In the other corner, the swift and
snappy Elsie, with Capt. Charles
Coulbourn. Both skipper S, Glass 1
and both terrors for speed. But
they gave the Elmer c. third place
and showed the Elsie back in fifth.
The crew of the Elsie came aboard
the good ship Folly, where the judg-
es hung out their flags, to tell the
world that the good ship Folly had
the right name when it came to 1udg-
ing boat races. They pointed to
the Elmer c. cruising around out
there without a care in the world,
and said, why. those birds don't
even believe they won! The gun
doomed when we crossed the line.
and we were third"
But the judges remembered the
Elsie. They remembered her, they
said, lacking around and swinging
past the finish buoy, and they re-
membered firing the gun. But sard
the judges, while the Elsie was tack
ing around one side Of the buoy the
Elmer G. was lacking around the
other side, and the side the Elmer
C. took the right side, while the
Elsie's side was wrong.
The Elsie's crew was ready to ad-
nit that buoy had two sides. but
went away swearing vengeance next
year.
Unconvinced as Crisfield was at the
outcome of the big bugeye race, they
had no argument over the brush De-
tween skipjacks. ClassII. A breezy
boat from Wenona, the Sham R.,
with Capt. Clifton Webster at the
,tiller, breezed across the finish so
far ahead of Crisfield's Vernon Lee
that Capt Ernest Mister didn't bother
to bring the Vernon Lee home at all.
While Baltimore may have been
famous once as the home of sporting
seamen, she has been buster recently
claiming fame at the making OF straw
hats and chemicals. But yesterday
she came back as king of the blue
water when her own sailing canoe,
the Bay Ridge with Capt. Daniel
B. Chambers aboard, showed her
heels to the Pung Tang. of Baltimore
and the Island Bird, of st Michaels.
That was about the last of the
sailing races. When the canoes
were off, they started the work
motorboats and when the first motor
boat came in Cambridge had third
feather in her cap. 1t was Cam
bridges day, that was all. and the
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