Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-23
INTERNATIONAL SCHOONER
 RACES MAY BE CALLED OFT


 A. P.)-It was still an open question tonight whether there would be any further raciNg between the fishing schooners Bluenose of Lunenberg, N. S. and Henry Ford, crack Glouces- terman A host of fisher folk and sport enthusiasts, continuing the heated re- view of yesterdays race, hoped that tho big schooners would head out to sec tomorrow morning to race 1t out.
 With the international committee standing by it's race committees rul- ing that there was no official sane ton for the contest in which the Glou cesterman beat his Canadian rival, de- fender of the championship of the international fisheries, Captain Clay ton Morrissey and the men of the Henry Ford continued an aggrieved discussion of the question to race or not to race.
 Captain Morrisey felt he had been robbed of a victory rightly won, he said, and explained that he was only preparing to meet the committees de- mand for further reduction of his sail area
 The fact that Captain Angus Wal ters and the men of the Bluenose said they considered yesterdays race a vic try for the Henry Ford to his mind
 
 the technical considerations that the race did not have an official start. There were indications, too, of a full fillment of the belief expressed by Sec retary of the Navy Edwin Denby when he came ashore from the Henry Ford last night that half the schooner S crew would not race again if the Ford was denied victory.
 As an offset to the ruling that took victory from the Henry Ford after ] it was thought she was crippled be- yond hope of success by sail reduc- | tion to meet official specifications was | the fact learned today that she sail | ed yesterday with canvas 135 square feet more than the official interpret l ation of her sail plan would allow her. | She went out to the start, it was learn i ed, with the statement from H. E. | Silver, chairman of the trustees of the Halifax Herald cup that carries with it the championship that she was subject to confirmation of the meas ures. The excess it was explained to- day, was due to a misunderstanding of the application of certain rules on the part of the official measurer. w. w. Lufkin, collector of the port of Boston. who is chairman of the in | ternational committee, in announcing today that it must support the stand l of it's race committee that the contest was unsanctioned, added that with the | development that the FordS sail had
 not been reduced enough, a protest l from the Bluenose would have been l in order had the Henry Ford been declared the winner.
 1 The international committee held nc l meeting on the matter. Captain 1 Charles H. Hardy one member, was
 odtspoken in his belief that the ruling 1 of the race committee should be re- versed, but the other members ap- | parently were not of that mind. Gloucester, recovering somewhat from the excitement caused by the decision last night, learned for the first time of several things that had
 happened yesterday. The F'ord's sail ing with too much canvas was one The fact that Secretary of the Nay1 Denby who had sailed with the Glou-
 cestermen all day, held the wheel over
 the last part of the race, was an. 1 other.
 There was some discussion over the
 unexpected sailing qualities of the l Henry Ford as compared with tho
 Bluenose, but to the American boas
 of the beating administered all ths
 way on a 40-mile course, Canadian
 adherents pointed to the fact tha 1 there was no real windward Yor[ I yesterday and that the BIuenose wa;
 still their favorite against the Henr7 Ford for a race with normal condi tions of wind.