Evening star., 1934-06-24
e Racing CRAFT
SAIL SOUTH TODAY
Adventurous $50 Miles to
Bermuda BeCkon Gentle
men Sailors.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW LONDON, Conn, June 23.-
Twenty-nine staunch little sailing
yachts, ketches, yawlS, Schooners
cutters and sloops will start from
this port early tomorrow morning IN
the tenth ocean race to Bermuda.
The feet was riding at anchor in
the harbor tonight with stores aboard
rigging taut and crew lists complete
Each craft has been certified by the
Race Committee as fit for the adven-
turous 85O-mile course from Sarahs
Ledge to st. Davis Head.
Two hopeful starters dropped out
of the race today, one the cutter
Lamouette, former Norwegian pilot
boat, by decree of the committee.
She was declared unfit yesterday be-
cause of open cockpits which were
not self -bailing. A haSty job of deck
ing over failed to win a reversal of
the committees decision on REIN
spection this afternoon. She prob
ably will sail anyway, though outside
the race.
DuckIing Drops Out.
The other craft which dropped out
was the jib-headed sloop Duckling,
whose owner, Charles w. Atwater of
New York, notified the committee
this afternoon Of her withdrawal.
The fleet will include a number of
renowned ocean racers. Among them
are the yawl Dorado. which set a
new sailing record Of II days IA hours
from Newport. R l.. to Falmouth,
England, in winning the ocean race
Of 1881; Mistress, Water Gypsy and
Grenadier. other transatlantic vet
Grams; Eugene E. Dupont's staysail
schooner. High Tide. which won the
Gibson Island race of last year; the
yaWl RugoSa II, and the little Mar
olehead schooner Malay. winners, re-
spectively, of the Bermuda races OF
1928 and 1890 The sloop Edlu, and
the yaWl Stormy Weather, were built
for this years race.
The largest craft in the feet is the
Philadelphia ketch Astarte. which is
eligible only to win the special prize
for beating the corrected times of all
other starters. She will go with tbs
class A boats at am. Eastern stand
ard time). The smaller B class boats
will be sent away half an hour earlier
The starters, owners and time allow
ences are as follows:
Class A-COunteSS. Jack r. Aron
New York, 6:33:24; Dauntless. George
A. Whiting. Baltimore. 6:57:29; Dorado
Olin Stephens, New York, 7:O2:4O;
Edlu, R. j. Schaefer. New York
l0:i9:l2; Falcon II, Gilbert Ottley
New York. 2:15:24; Flying Cloud
PierrepOnt E. Johnson. Northeast Har-
Dor, 5.2S:48; Grenadier, H. A. and S
Morss. Marblehead. Mass, 1852 %;
Hannah, Richard c.. AmeS. Machias-
port, Me, 4:43 100; High Tide, Eugene
E. Dupont. Wilmington, Del, 1:0l:37;
Mandoe. D. Spencer Berger, Sachems
Head, Conn, 5 SO :O3; Mistress, George
E. Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. Y, 3:10:34
Nam Sang. Joseph H. Plumb, Marion
Mass, 3:57:00; RugoSa II, Russell
Grilnen, Wexford, r. L, 5:43:12;
Savannah, Frederic c. Rogers, New
York. 9:l6:26; Shine. Henry K. Hill
Toronto, 3:49:06; Skylark. William S
Gould, New York, 3:l2:35; Stormy
Weather, Philip Leboutilliere, New
York. 1l:46:42; Teal, r. Graham Big.
low, Greenwich. Conn. 9:41:O2: Tere.
gram, Robert L. Garland, New York
6:47:55; Vamarie, Vadim s. Makaroff
Oyster Bay, N. Y. 0:44:47; Volante
A Lee Loomis. jr., New York. 10:24:21;
Water Gypsy, William Mcmillan. Balti-
more, 7:50:13; Zingara. Robert P. Ba-
ruch, New York, 8:0l:52.
Glass B-Baccarat, Russell A. Alger
jr., Crosse Point, Mich, 14:23:32
Cyclone, F. Jay Wells, Chester, Nova
Scotia, 11:51:06; Dainty, Alfred A
Darrell, Hamilton, Bermuda, 2O:O7:47;
Jubilee, Gilbert Dunham. Larchmont
N Y, 15:46:ll; Malay, Raymond w
Ferris, Marblehead, Mass, 14:45:25.
Glass C-Astarte, Lawrence N. Reeve
Philadelphia, plus 3:03:l2.