New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-06

day morning, and ends at Marbleht
| To-day's race was seventy mile
| struggle across the green depths Of
! Nantucket Sound, over the dangerous
shoals and tide rips Of Cape Cod, and
then along that thirty-mile stretch OF
/ glistening beach where the bones OF
thousand ships lie bleaching.
The word struggle" is used ad-
visedly. 1t was all Of that and then
some. The fierce duel between Vice
Commodore George Nicholss Carolina
and this same Istalena yesterday in
the run from Mattapoisett to Vineyard
! Haven was generally regarded as q
record breaker in the history of New
York Yacht Club cruises, hut this bat
! tie between the same sloops, with F
| D. M. Strachan's Harpoon, class
mate, playing q dramatic part, made
| the Mattapoisett-V Vineyard Haven af-
| fair seem tame in comparison. Mr.
! Strachan's Harpoon incidentally, fin
| ished second to Istalena and knocked
| Carolina out Of what seemed p certain
victory.
Istalena has now gathered under her
billowing wings all the cups for sloops
/ cruise. On Thursday she took the
Navy challenge cup in the run from
Newport to Mattapoisett. In the race
from that port to Vineyard Haven yes
terday she took the Rear Commodore's
cup, offered by Vincent Aston. The
trophy she captured to-day in her mag
nifcent seventy mile dash to this port,
was offered by Commodore Harold s.
Vanderbilt.
Flying Cloud Wins Again
The cup offered by Commodore Van
derbilt for schooners was taken by
Flying Cloud, the property Of Winthrop
| W. Aldrich, son of the late Senator
! Aldrich. Flying Clouds performance
in this cruise is duplicate of Ista-
lena's. She, too, has captured the navy
challenge cup, the rear comm odore's
cup and the comm odore's cup. 1t was
said here tonight that this is the
first time in the long history Of the
| boats have divided these honors.
Flying Clouds victory to-day is nota-
Bile because she is smaller than several
of her competitors, but it was Istalena
who had the real heartbreaking battle.
She fought for every foot by which
she won out, and she never had a
| breathing spell or a moment of rest
from the time she started her seventy
mile voyage until she crossed the
finish line off Provincetown Harbor
this evening. She started in the glow
of sunrise and finished in a sea turned
to gold by radiant sunset.
Istalena can probably thank Harpoon
for her triumph to-day. She was en-
gagged in desperate effort to get out
from under Cardinals lee when Har-
pooh, forgotten in the intensity of the
struggle with Carolina, came breezing
up the Cape Cod beach with q bone in
| her teeth, and in a brief encounter
with Comm odore Nichols's black hulled
sloop solved all of Istalena's problems.
Carolina was forced to take her at
tention from the business CT sup
pressing Istalena to take care of this
new peril that had arrived in the shape
of Harpoon. When Harpoon and Caro-
lima clashed in a duel for the windward
berth Istalena said to herself, Let
EN- fight it out, it's none Of my af-
fair" And she promptly went off
about her business. She had gone
when Carolina thought to look for her
again. and while Carolina was taking
that look Harpoon gathered the wind
and all the advantage that goes with II
and escaped. Carolina was left in the
lurch and finished q rather poor third.
taken by Carolina and Istalena in their
own little squabble for the windward
berth that permitted Harpoon to steal
up on them After she arrived the
situation got beyond the control Of
/ Commodore Nichols and the confusion
spelled his ruin.
The seventy mile scrap for the Com
modore's cups was waged under cloud
less skies and over a sea of cerulean
blue. There probably never was q
more perfect day for a yacht race.
| When the start was made from Vine
yard Haven Harhor at o'clock this
morning there was g brisk breeze blow
ing directly out of the west, and it in
creased in velocity during the day just
enough to give lee rails ducking now
and then.
Last night q heavy fog settled over
Vineyard Haven and there was every
reason to believe that the weather to-
day would be thick and altogether I'M
suitable to the occasion Exactly the
opposite turned out to be the case and
the sun came up through the summer
haze over the bluffs of East Chop in a
blaze of diaphanous glory.
The race committee announced last
night that those boats that elected
not to make the long voyage around
Cape Cod would be towed through
Woods Hole and the Cape Cod Canal
and would race from the eastern end
of the canal to spar buoy off Long
Point, Provincetown. The New York
thirty-footers took advantage of this
proposition. The "thirties" are fine
sea boats and would have made the
trip without trouble, but it would have
required so much time that it was de-
cided by their shippers to make the
shorter race via the canal. The fact
that several of the "thirties" were not
equipped for outside cruising probably
had something 60 do with the decision
! to abandon the voyage round the Cape
Two of the fovty-footers, the Squav
and the Sally Ann, and one OF the
Larchmont 80" sloops also elected to
take the tow through the canal.
Yachts Start on Schedule
| Despite the fact that to-dav's harbor
I start was madt at $50 q. m, there were
| scores of motor Yachts out TO rive the
racing fleet proper send-off The
! starting line this morning was made
| between three-masted schooner an
| chored off East Chop and a buoy that
was laid by the club for the occasion
/ The start was the first one in this
cruise that has been made according
| to schedule, so far as the time was
7 concerned. it was the first start in