Evening star., 1936-09-24
RACE TOMORROW
IN NINE CLASSES
Swimming Meet Tonight Is
First Competition in
Annual Classic.
BY BILL DISMER, JR.

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tomac River in exactly the same
manner that man first started to
travel on the water, Washington's
greatest annual water classic begins
tomorrow, when two sailing races will
keep nine classes Of shippers on the
waves around Hains Point from $50
o'clock in the morning until late to-
morrow afternoon.
The course will be from a point east
Of the Railroad Bridge down around
bell buoy of Hams Point, up the
! channel almost to the Corinthian
LYacht Club and return. All but the
moth and dinghy classes will race
two laps.
Although the regatta receives its
official opening tonight at the Shore
ham Hotel, where swimming meet
will feature some of the leading mer-
men and mermaids of the East, it Is
the old Potomac that will become the
objective Of every water sports minded
fan for the next three days, starting
tomorrow.
Sponsored by The Evening Star,
which again will present trophies to
successful contestants in each event.
the sailing races promise to start
the regatta of with an enthusiasm
that will continue unabated until
Sunday evening.
Forced to Add Glasses.
MORE than twice as many entrants
AA this year have been received for
the wind-propelled craft than in 1885,
and the demand for representation Of
more kinds of sailing has resulted IN
five more classes being added to this
portion of the regatta.
In addition, officials have decided to
extend the competition over a series
of three races instead of one, as last.
year, with the program calling for
race tomorrow morning, another
tomorrow afternoon and the final on
Saturday morning. Each class-moth,
canoe, dinghey, snipe, comet, alba
tross, 20-foot open, A handicap and
B handicap-will have three races,
therefore, for its own competitors.
The winner. and recipient Of The
Stars championship trophy, will be
determined on the total Of points won
in all three, victory in one by no
means assuring that boat of the til
tie, should it falter in the remaining
races. A point is counted for each
boat beaten, plus one point for I'm
| ishing, plus one-quarter of a point
for first place in each race.
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testants are Washingtonians. who
have taken to sailing this year as
never before, an out-of-town field,
making up in quality what it lacks
in quantity. presents serious threats
to local bids for triumphs.
Comet Champ Competes.
IOUTSTANDING among them may
be the national champion comet.
Aquila. owned and piloted by A.
O'Brien of Perth Amboy, N. j. Al
though there was some doubt this
morning as to O'Brien's presence here,
spectators may look for the gold star
on his sail which would bear the
number 68. The star is the emblem
of national supremacy given by the
National Comet Association.
Incidentally. DR.. John Eiman. pres
ident of the comet class Yacht Racing
Association at the Stone Harbor Yacht
Club. New Jersey, and founder of the
class in 1898, will be here for the re-
gatta and has been placed on the
Sailing Race Committee.
Another patch Of white. new to
Washingtonians, will be the snipe.
Chase Me, present high-point scorer
of that class in the country. piloted
by Charles A. Gabor of Lake Mo-
hawk, Sparta, N. Y. The Chase Me,
competing in a class whose 15-foot g.
inch length makes its members ex-
tremely hazardous to sail in heavy
weather. will be marked by the num-
Der lit. Agility Of the crew alone
determines victory in this class.
Many Other Invaders.
OTHER out-of-town entrants will
come from New York, Providence
(R. ~, New Rochelle, Port Washing
ton IN. Y)s as we'll as places closer
home, such as Norfolk, Baltimore and
Annapolis.
But Washington Is not without its
contenders. D. Werner Smythe has his
Sassy primed for the race of its life
in the comet class. while Osborne
Owings is putting his Vanity in the
20-foot open class. Smythe's Sassy
recently won eighth place in the ma
tional race for comets. while Owings
has been cleaning up this year in the
Chesapeake Bay area.
In fact, Capital representatives will
have two of the events entirely to
themselves, no outsiders being entered
in the Class A Handicap and the Alba.
tross races.
Nationally known figures of the sail
racing game will serve on the Race
Committee. Herbert L. Stone, editor
Of Yachting magazine; w. F. Crosby,
editor of the Rudder. In addition to
Eiman, mentioned above, are the three
most prominent, but several others
well known in the city have con.
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