New-York tribune., 1922-07-30

that has been out since pre-war days.
There will be q notable array ofS
schooners racing, among them being
the Vagrant, the flagship of Com
modore Harold Vanderbilt, very en-
thusiastic racing man and an excep
tionally skillful skipper. ViceCom-
modore George Nichols, another master
hand at the fine art of yacht naviga-
ton, will be sailing the fast fifty
footer Carolina, and Rear Commodo
Vincent Astor will be along on the new
motor yacht Nourmahal, which will be
used this year as race committee boat.
Altogether there will be ten schoon-
ers. racing and about twice as many
large sioops, so that when the squad
ron gets under way there will be an un
forgettable marine panorama for those
lucky enough to be along. For the
first time in some years the feet will
go around Cape Cod and will visit pic
turesque Provincetown, Gloucester and
wind up at Marblehead, off which
grand old port the classic Kings Cup
race will be held. This prize is an an
nual trophy instituted by the late
King Edward and continued by King
George.
One Class in Kings Cup
In the Kings Cup race all vessels
start in one class, but it is essentially
contest for larger boats, as schooners
must be sixty feet long on the water
line and sloops fifty feet in order to be
eligible. This excludes the classy
forty -footer, and of course the N. Y.
Y. C. "thirties," one of the oldest and
most popular of all the classes. The
snlall boat skippers have not been
sighted however, for on Kings Cup
day. week from Wednesday, a special
prize will be raced for by the smaller
craft.
busy to-day, as a sort of preliminary
cruise, combining the fleets of the
Larchmont and the Indian Harbor
yacht clubs, will begin when the COM
bined squadrons of these clubs meet
off Captains Island in Long Island
Sound and start for the eastward. The
first days run of the preliminary cruise
will be to Morris Cove, New Haven;
the second day to New London and on
devious of the New York Yacht Club.
Commodore Ford of the Larchmont
Club and Commodore Grahame of In
dian Harbor both said yesterday that
practically ali the larger vessels of
their clubs. both sail and power, would
join the cruise to Newport and it was
expected that the preliminary feet
would total about seventyfve boats,
The number of power yachts is excep
tionally large this year.
Next in Importance to the Kings
Cup from a racing standpoint will be
the races for the Astor cups, which
will be held off Newport on Wednes-
day, starting at noon, daylight time.
There is a cup for schooners and one
for sloops, and vessels famous in
/ American yachting annals have won
these prizes in former years. These
cups were first given by the late John
Jacob Astor, lost in the Titanic dis
aster of 1912.
Fleet Starts Out Thursday
On Thursday, with harbor start at
! 10 a. m, the big fleet will leave New
/ port on squadron run to Mattapoisett,
/ on picturesque Buzzard's Bay. The
/ Navy Challenge cups are prizes for the
winners in the different classes on this
/ run. On Friday the squadron run will
be from Mattapoisett to Vineyard
Haven, on the island of Martha's Vine
yard, and the rear commodore's cups
are the prizes.
Yachtsmen will have to step lively
the following day if they keep to the
commodore's general order" which
calls for harbor start at 5 a. m. for
the run from Vineyard Haven to Prov
! This racing will be for the commo-
dore's cups. Sunday will be spent at
Provincetown and the squadron will
dress ship, another gay picture if the
dav is good.
On Monday, August 7. starting at 9
a M, the run will be from Province
! town to Gloucester for tho ,icoco,,