New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

sumed a commanding lead that will b
Atmospheric conditions were dis
tinctly favorable to the Americans
hight airs prevailing throughout the
day. There was never a sign of the
real heavy blow that the Britishers
We're so anxiously looking for.
The star of the American quartet
Sbs,, %as J. T. Bermingham's Lea, sailed by
sherman Hoyt She was the first of the
slx-meter squadron to finish, defeat
ing II. B. Plants Clytie by
minutes and seconds, William
Childs's BEsprlt came in third, five
seconds astern of Clytie. Grebe, the
fourth member of the American team
and veteran of our unsuccessful con-
tests with the English off Cowes last
year, was in fourth place this after
noon.
Thirty-six seconds astern of Grebe
was Sir John Wards Jean, the first of
the English boats to finish. Jean made
by far the best showing of the English
fleet. W. T. Robertson's Caryl finished
in sixth place, considerably back of
Jeain. G. j. Stephens Cola was
seventh and Reg, the property of N. G.
Neil, was a distant last
There was little teamwork in this
opening cup struggle. What little there
was came in the somewhat languid
maneuvering before the start, when the
jockeying of her teammates enabled
Lea to get away to a fine start which
she never lost. The race gave the
boats six miles of wlndward work and
six off the wind in legs of three miles
each.
Lea, sailed quite masterfully by
sherman Hoyt, proved a wizard in
beating to windward, and it was here
that she opened up the lead that gave
her the decision. The other American
boats also seemed able to point higher
than their English rivals. The latter
looked best running down the wind and
in the second leg it seemed as though
Jean might overhaul the ghosting Lea.
A fleet of 200 yachts gathered at the
starting line to see the racing craft
start around the course. Among the
larger powered craft were j. Percy
Bartram's Caritas, Thomas Dewitt Guy
ler's Alert, Ogden T. McClurg's Indian
and Philip H. Johnsons Lurline, Mem
bers of the Seawanhaka Corinthian
Yacht Club and their guests were
aboard the chartered steamer Mount
Morris. There was also an excursion
Crescent, and numerous excursions
from Stamford, Bridgeport, Greenwich
and New Rochelle aboard craft OF va
rious sizes and degree.
Walter Bowes's Mistral, one of the
New York Yacht Club 40-foot sloops,
and Charles Smither's n Glass sloop
Alice, as well as A. B. Fraser's yawl
Tern were among, the larger sailing
craft in carrying the sea-going gallery,
The government patrol in charge OF
the course was under She command of
Captain William Lahey, ~ S. N, with
his flag aboard the mine %'%yer Shaw
NUT The other navy craft comprising
the patrol were the destroyer Mahna,
Commander Aubrey W. Fitch, COM
manding officer; the destroyer Mau1y,
under Lieutenant Commander w. W.
Wilson, and the mine sweeper Lark,
Lieutenant R. Rohange, commanding.
Start OF Stamford Light
The committee decided to. establish
the starting line about two miles
southwark of Stamford Light. At that
hour the wind was light and coming
from the the southwest. The commit
tee arrived early at the line on board
of the converted subchaser No. 247,
which belongs to Vice Commodore F.
C. Paine, of Marblehead. After wait
ing for half hour, the chairman, Col
gate Hoyt, hoisted the course signals.
The signals read south by west one
half west, indicating that the wind was
from that quarter.
The stake boat was at once taken
over towards the Long Island shore,
almost at the entrance of Oyster Bay.
The course was three miles to wind
ward and return and as it had to be
sailed twice the yachts were to have a
race of twelve nautical miles. All the
racing craft came to the line under
tow and soon were sailing around the
committee boat.
AT 1880 p. m. the committee sounded
the preparatory signal. Then came the
first bit of team work on the part of
the yachtsmen. C. Sherman Hoyt was
IN command of the american team. Act
ing under his orders the other yachts
men worked themselvs into position to
cover" their respective opponents. 1t
was apparent that Vice-C Commodore
Hoyt had ordered L'EsDrit to cover
Reg, Grebe to look after Jean, Clytie
to watch Caryl, while he would watch
Cola.
The usual iockeying was seen as the
yachts stood around the starting line
When the signal finally was set at
40 p. m. the craft crossed on oppo-
site jibes, with Caryl apparently get
! ting the pest of the start, being nicely
oerthed by w. F. Robertson at the
weather end of the line. She crossed
On the port tack. Then came Jean, on
The starboard tack. She was followed
| by Cola, also on the starboard tack.
| Clytie was the first IF the American
| yachts to get away, crossing on the
port tack
Reg Followed by L'Esprit
Then came Reg, on the starboard
tack. The next to go over was LEsprit,
| which crossed on the starboard tack.
| Grebe made a poor start, being the last
| to pass the line, hauled on the port
tack. At that hour the wind was
about eight knots, but holding true and
! steady from the general direction of
the southwest.
The yachts at once started short
! bitches toward the windward mark.
| The legs were about one-half mile each
4 in length. Lea, Clytie and Reg stood
/ on the port tack to the westward. The
/ others settled down on the starboard
tack and moved toward the Long Island
| shore.
i When the yachts came about and
/ stood on the other board it was seen
| that the boats which stood to the east
| ward had done the better work When
/ they met L'Esprit crossed the bows of
| all the other craft Also. it was rather
| peculiar that on the second long board
1 the yachts that stood to the westward
/ had the better of the race. The wind
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