The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-30
Cheers and Whistles Greet Capt. Stickler as Boat
 Finishes Firs!
SHOOT YACHT FIRST
 TO COMPLETE COURSE
Speedy Queen City Yacht Club Entry Makes Jour
 ney in Under 4 Days

Flying the colors of the Queen City Yacht Club, the Dolphin II. ! owned and explained by Ray E. | Stickler. crossed the finish line lere at 12:34:35 D. m.. local tina oday, the first entry in the Capi- | tai to Capital Yacht Race 10 com l plete the course. It's elapsed | time for the 903 mile journey was 96 hours, minutes and B sec l onds, and it's running time 90 hours, 45 minutes and 25 seconds. With Captain Stickler aboard
 the Dolphin Il, were K. T. Eos
 ter, chief engineer, and Elmer N. Hutto. pilot. Except for about six hours and 50 minutes the trim little racer has been running
 continuously since leaving Olym- pia at 12:30 D. m. June 26. yet 1t came into port here with it's en- zine in perfect running condition, practically in shape to start on it's return trip.
 Escorted to Finish Escorted to the finish line by three vessels, the Seattle boat was greeted by footing whistles on shore and on small boats in tho harbor, As it. swept past the rock lsa>a,n int@ Xs4w from the water I front, hundreds of people. who damned the docks from the City Dock to the new Government Dock, greeted it with cheers and waving hats and handkerehiefs. i, Crossing the finish line at it's full cruising speed of 10 knots. the Dolphin circled the official scow at the finish line. then swung h behind the Race Com mittee's official boat and moved easily to a berth at Femmer's
 dock where it was tied up. The official boat, T-10, with
 members of the Race Committee,
 President Wallis s. George of the
 Chamber of Commerce, and sev- eral guests aboard the Fisheries Boat Widgeon, and the Pacific, owned by J B. Caro X Company, left here at 12 noon and met the
 Dolphin short distance down the
 Channel. following the Dolphin
 closely into port.
 Greeted By Governor
 As soon as the boats were moor ed President George, M. $ Whit
 tier, Chairman of the Race Com mittee, and other members of the Committee, boarded the Dolphin,
 welcoming Captain Stckler ani his companions to Juneau and congratulating them on their mag nificent race. In short time the entire party were taken in autos to the Governors Mansion where the yachtsmen were formal ly greeted by Gov. George A. Parks while movie cameras click ed
 Captain Stlekler presented Gov.
 Parks with letter from Gov. Roland H. Hartley extending greetings from the State of Wash ington to Alaska. Later Captain
 Stickler and his companions gave
 brief account of their voyage to newspaper men and committee
 men and then went to the cable office to get telegrams away to
 families and friends in Seattle.
 Afterward they were shown
 around town.
 Goes Without Sleep Captain Stickler was the only
 one on the yacht to show the
 strain of the race. He had been
 without sleep for practically the
 entire four days consumed. De-
 casonally when he was relieved
 at the wheel by MT. Hutto, he laid down and rested but the re- sponsibility of navigating
 course over which none of the
 members of the crew had ever
 travelled was so heavy he was
 on the alert continually.
 The first three days of the journey was made under cloudy skies. The nights were dark but
 weather and water conditions
 were favorable with few ex- captions. The most unfavorable
 conditions were reported in Clar-
 ence Strait where rough water and a quartering wind on the port side were encountered. AS an evidence of the smooth pas sage. however. the Dolphin car-
 ried small cedar block of wood