The New York herald., 1922-03-08
FOUR CHALLENGE
FOR OCEAN RACE
Brooklyn Field Club Cup to Be
a Feature of Coming
Season.
ny ARTHUR r. ALDRIDGE.

The Brooklyn Yacht Club Ocean Chal-
lenge Cup will be raced for again this
coming summer. The cup is now In the
/ possession Of the New Rochelle Yacht
Club. and that organization viii de-
fend with the Azor, Herreshoff built
sloop, owned by Charles A. Marsland.
Azor won the cup last year through the
default of the Harlem Yacht Club. That
Club was to have defended the cup
against the New Rochelle challenge. but
did not have q vessel eligible to COM
pete.
The American Yacht Club has chal-
lenged for a race. naming tho sloop
Butterfly. owned by Stuyvesant Vain
wright The Butterfly is also n Herrea-
hoff sloop built in 1903. Originally she
was known as Mariquita and as she has
been owned by several yachtsrnen she
has had several names-Ediana, Ish-
koodah Nellie and Butterfly. She is So
feet in length over all. 36 feet on the
water line, IL feet inches breadth and
Z feet inches draught. This yacht
successfully defended the cup in 1920
against the Senta. owned by John G..
Alden OF Boston.
The Brooklyn Yacht Club Challenge
Cup is nineteen years old It's purpose is
to stimulate interest in Off shore racing
and TO encourage the building OF
stanch seaworthy small vessels The
original conditions to govern racing for
this prize are to-day antiquated. Such
rapid progress has been made In the
development OF stanch sailing craft
that many conditions framed years ago
nd lry
was agreed that the type OF yacht called
for in the Brooklyn cup conditions was
no longer built. In order TO keep the
trophy in active competition II was nee
essary to bring those conditions UP to
date.
The New Rochelle Yacht Club. holder
Of the cup. and the Brooklyn Yacht
Club. donor OF the cup, have agreed that
the section of the rules dealing with
displacement that had caused the trouble
should be changed. In future all con-
testants are to receive crelit for their
full displacement and II Is hoped that
this change Will restore the cup into
popular favor again.
The conditions call for courses over
the ocean and that the finish Of each
race shall be IN Gravesend Bay. The
course for this years race will be from
limo Off the New Rochelle Yacht Club
anchorage. through Long Island Sound
and Block Island Sound TO and around
the Vineyard Sound Light Vessel and
then passing south OF Long Island
finish at some point TO be designated
later IN Gravesend Bay. This Is = long
course FOR small craft and II has at
times given tho yachtsmen some lively
experiences through heavy weather.
John 9. Alden of Boston will try
once more 70 take the cup to Eastern
waters and will sail his new cruising
schooner Malabar ". This yacht IS of
the fisherman type and has recently
been finished by Morse Mt Thomaston,
Me- The Malabar IT. will represent the
Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead.
It Is very probable that two Philadelphia
yachts will enter. These are the Mala-
bar. 80 foot water line schooner, built
last year from Alden designs for John
r.. Fell. and the sloop Dorothea. owned
BY Samuel =. Wetherill
Just when this race will be sailed
has not been decided yet. The time will
be arranged, II possible. 80 that Il will
not interfere with the racing in the
regular regattas. and IL may be that the
time will be so arranged that the yachts
arrive ~ their destination during the
race week ~ the Atlantic Yacht Club