New-York tribune., 1922-08-03
Schooner Vagrant and Sloop Carolina Again
Share Honors in Astor Cup Yacht Contests

and half miles to Hen and Chickens
Lightship. From there they had a
reach Of four miles to Vineyard Sound
Lightship. The last leg gave the
yachts run down the wind to the
point from which they had started
The last leg was seventeen miles.
The wind was blowing at sixteen
knots at the start and held COM
paratively true until the squall broke,
when the heavy rain fattened it sud
denly and effectively. For while the
yachts foundered around in dismal
fashion, but when the scowling clouds
took themselves off to the Westward
the breeze came up stronger than ever
from the Eastward and this permitted
fine finishes.
1t was so dark during the thickest
part of the squal that the yachts
passed out of sight of the fleet of
power boats that were following. Wind
and tide from opposite directions
kicked up q sea that made things COM
pletely miserable for those with tenn
peramental appetites. Some of the
see the Astor Cup events sailed to-day,
came back tonight crying, never
again."
The winning yachts this afternoon
were sailed by their owners. Commo
dore Vanderbilt had the Migrants
Nichol was at the tller of Carolina.
Rowdy, winner of the Raymond Stra
chan trophy, was sailed by H. S. Duell.
The schooners to race for the Astor
Cup were: Vagrant, Commodore Har-
old S. Vanderbilt; Queen NAB, Nathan
iel Ayres; Irolita, E. Walter Clark;
Osonkara, Carl Tucker; Flying Cloud,
w. W. Stewart.
The sloops racing for the Astor cups
for sloops were: Carolina, Vice-Com-
modore George Nichols; Istalena, Car
roll B. Alker; Georgia, Herbert Cow
perthwaite, Harpoon' F. D. M. Straehan,
Barbara, Frank c.. Paine; Butterfly,
Stuyvesant Wainwright.
AS far as could be ascertaned
through the maze of sea and squall
Commodore Vanderbilt's Vagrant led
from the START to finish. She was first
over the starting line and finished a
minute and nineteen seconds ahead of
Queen NAB, the property of Nathaniel
F. Ayres, Of Boston. The latter boat,
considerably smaller than the Vagrant,
was we'll handled and sailed gallant
race. Some five minutes astern of
Queen Nab was e. Walter Clark's Iro-
lta, followed closely by Osonkara
owned by John F. Lawrence, another
Boston Corinthian.
Flying Cloud, the property of Win
throp Aldrich, finished last but might
have been up among the leaders had
it not been for the fact that foremast
hand was swept overheard off Hen and
Chickens Lightship when a particularly
heavy wave struck the schooner. That
the man was saved was due solely to
the fact that Jimmy Barr, who was at
the wheel of Flying Cloud, made a
"fisherman's gybe" that almost carried
the vessels sticks away, and ran along
side the sailor as he was battling for
his life in a swirl of whitecaps.
Two lifebuoys had been thrown to
the man, but both were swept beyond
his reach by the seas. Barr, however,
brought Flying Cloud up to the strug-
Cling figure in the water as though he
were rounding a mark in hard race
and ran SO close that a deckhand was
able to reach him with a boat hook
The foremast hand fell unconscious
on the deck when they finally got him
aboard, but was in good shape when
the finish line was reached
Carolina, among the sloops, delivered
one Of the splendid performances for
which she is noted. On board with
Vice Commodore Nichols were w. B H.
ler Duncan and Ralph Ellis, racing
combination calculated to take lot
of beating. When Carolina won the
Astor Cup last year she was expert
menting with a Marconi, and it worked
amazingly we'll. 1t had been rumored
that she might return to this rig for
to-day's Astor Cup struggle, but she
went out and won with her usual gaff
rig. Carroll B. Alker's Istalena was a
good second, being fifty seconds astern
of Carolina at the finish.
The first leg of the annual cruise,
starting tomorrow morning off Brent
on's Reef Lightship, will see the fleet
racing 311a miles 10 Mattapoisett. On
Friday the feet races to Vineyard
Haven and on the following day from
Vineyard Haven to Provincetown, where
the yachts will remain at anchor over
Sunday. The indications tonight are
that about seventy-five boats will take
part in the cruise.