The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-02
MANY FEATURES
ON PROGRAM OF
Y. c. LAST NIGHT.
Activities for Winter
Sc ason Outlined
by Re g a tt a
Committee.

Presentation Of the Kennedy trophy
symbolic Of the championship Of the
Pensacola Yacht club for 1922, to Brent
Watson by DR.. Mallory Kennedy, donor,
radio concerts, an eulogy to boats by
Rear Commodore Rox Cowley. incident
ally chairman of the first class commit
tee, and a detailed report of the regatta
committee outlining activities for the
winter season were the principal fea-
lures Of the regular meeting Of p. Y. C.
last night.
No list OF features, however, would be
complete without mentioning the chow
drill. participated in by every one of the
45 or more members present. The COM
ponent parts Of this important number
on tho program were mixed properly
by Uncle Dace, the old darkey who
presides over the pots for the sailors,
under the watchful and exacting optic
exercises OF Secretary Frederic, who in
his inimitable just-so fashion sees that
nine-legged spiders do not spin their
trapezes about the clubs floating home.
The feed was one that would delight
any sailorman, TO say nothing about
the effect It would have on an immi-
grant from sunny Italy--or one who
toys with the keys Of a brand new type
writer.
Spaghetti a la Italian with Pormesene
cheese-whateYer that meanS-capped
off with a dessert invented by the mimi
table himself, was satisfying to the
writer-he never misses a chance to in
fict the privilege Of the fourth estate
and he believes from the look OF con-
tentment on the faces Of those who
slowed away several miles of Ida spa
ghet" under their suspenders that it
served everybody else likewise.
Special Radio Concert.
The radio concert was furnished by
the Electric Shop especially for the
yachtsmen through cooperation of The
Journal. A major portion Of the program
was taken up with ,renditions by the
Rainbow orchestra. Mac" McMorris a
genuine radio bug without a doubt,
one who makes his living that way, tin
kered with the receiving outfit.
He fixed the contraption so that the
sailors could hear the harmony coming
from an orchestra in one of the swell
ford allowed that he would like for the
bunch over in Havanafto -''send" little
Of the stuff that made them get tnata-
way" while they were at it.
Doc" Kennedy calculated that the
screeching noise coming over the thing
was the Fascist and Communists mix
ing it outside the gates of Rome.
All Of which reminds me that 1 know
as much about radio as "Cap'n Charlie"
Cottrell-they call him "Rockpile" when
the fishing talk begins-does about the
Einsteln theory of relatively.
Capt. Rox Cowley, who nurses those
fish class sloops in carrying out his Of
ficial duties as chairman of the fish class
committee. delivered an eulogy on boats
in ag, ,Ia 81
and p. Y. &C sloops specifically.
Biggest Cruise Sunday.
It was definitely decided by the mem
bership that the biggest cruise of the
season will be held to F'loridatown and
return next Sunday morning. The dozen
or more motor boats flying the p. Y. c.
pennant will leave Magnolia street wharf
at $3.50 o'clock, cruise to Floridatown
where the members, their families and
friends will spend the day, returning to
Pensacola late in the afternoon.
The regatta committee also sug-
gested holding a combination fishing and
hunting tournament on Thanksgiving
day. 1t was received with enthusiasm
and after much discussion over the al |
legged prowess OF several OF Ne best en-
TIGERS of the flnny tribe on the gulf, |
Commodore Hutchinson appointed Com |
modore Peter Lindenstruth, captain of
other.
They will pick their colleagues via the
love me, love me not" route, using the
membership roster as the flower to be
destroyed and their knowledge of the
ability of each to guide them in their
selections. The losing team will be the
goat" TO the extent of a full-fiedged
Thanksgiving supper to be served at the
club Friday night following the day Of
competition.
In formally presenting Brent Watson
with the privilege of having his name
ngraved on the open -to-an club chal-
lenge trophy, Doc Kennedy told Brent
that he believed he Won the final race
because he sailed a better race tnan any
other skipper on the course that day
and predicted that, If he continues to
san as he has recently. he would be
representing Pensacola in the Upton re-
gattas of the very near future.