Evening star., 1937-08-01
MILES RIVER MEET.
BIG SHOW Of WEEK
Program of 81 Races Will
Begin Friday-Contests
for All Classes.
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, JR.

'Ao year typlcally sleepy
Eastern Shore fishing town,
will be sthrob with activity
this week as yachtsmen from Balti-
more. Washington. Annapolis, Norfolk,
Philadelphia and as far away as New
York gather for the sixteenth annual
regatta Of the Miles River Yacht Club
what Larchmont Race Week Is to
Long Island Sound, the st. Mikes
regatta Is to Chesapeake Bay. Its
the biggest nautical gathering in
those waters with power and sailing
enthusiasts alike getting their share
OF events. Spectators afloat or lining
the shores can get theirs, too, be it
the race OF the 225-cubic- c-inch hydro
planes for the Bushmill Trophy or
the colorful event between the Chesa-
peake Bay log canoes for the Gov
ernors Cup.
AS In previous years the log canoes,
those -beamed affairs that ap-
pear ready to 60 over with their kite
like spread of canvas, should steal
the show. Such old-timers as the
Island Bird Of Caulk Kemp, jr., and
the Margaret P. Hall Of Duke Adams
compete for the Capt. Sidney w.
Covlngton Trophy for canoes built
prior to 1917. George H. Wilson'S
Magic, winner last year: the May
flower OF Howard Strong and John D.
Williams Mystery, all newer transom-
stern craft, will race for the Capt.
John B. Harrison Trophy for log
canoes launched since 1917.
Program Has 81 Events.
THURSDAY is reeistratio day. at
which time Long Haul Creek.
site OF the yacht club and center of
social activity, will be crowded to
oVernoWlng. For Friday and Satur-
day, total Of 81 events in sailing and
power craft have been scheduled,
More than $50 trophies will be
awarded.
William c. Mills, commodore and
regatta chairman. reports that three
times as many entries have been re-
corded to date as were filed at similar
time last year.
For speedboat men there have been
slated events Of unlimited displace-
ment runabouts for the Miles River
Trophy, runabouts of all classes, in
Guiding handicap cruiser, chance and
free-for-all; outboards in A. B, C and
midget classes: 1876, 225 and gold cup
hVdroplanes, and an unlimited speed
boat race.
Sailors of stars, Is, 18 and 2O-foo.
knockaboutS, Jersey crlcketS. scrappy
cats, comets albatrosses Riverton
prams, Barnegat sneak boxes. canvas
leeboard canoes, dinghies, St. Michaels
scoWs, moths, snipes, free-fo all
cruising class meters, log canoes and
free-for-all handicaps for boats from
Is to 2l feet and IS feet or under will
have their places on the program.
Two Courses for Races.
THE course for power boats, along
the St. Michaels shore Of the river. is
ga miles to lap. The shallov-d draft
sail boats will race over an inside
course across Miles River around
Fairview Point. For the first time,
comets will race outside below Herring
Island along with the stars, log canoes
and cruising classes.
Potomac and West River sailors are
expected in large numbers. either sail
ing or having their craft towed across
the bay by cruisers. Washington
comets that will be stacked against
outstanding craft from Philadelphia
and the Eastern Shore at Oxford Ale
Werner Smythes Sassy Too, Clyde
Crults So-Blg, Dr. Albert Pagan's
Gwen, Dick Doyle's Freya. Jack Zim-
mer's Serena and Ernie Covert's Es-
capade. Scornng toWs from local
cruisers now anchored at Galesville.
some Of the comet skippers are plan
ming to sail over. That is, if the
weathers right.
With two new 20-footers just
launched the past week, this class of
the West River Sailing Club is hoping
to clean up. Dick Hartge has been
burning the midnight oil to get his
new Defender, sleek transom- stern
craft with black hull, overheard. The
silverhulled Wings, a double -ender,
has been primed by Carroll Smith to
challenge Osburn Owings in Vanity,
Mermaid Of Capt. Oscar Hartge, Bud
Line in Shady Lady, Twig Bush's
Cricket II and herbert Neilys Spray,
Albatross Glass Filled.
I ED by Commodore Bill HeintZ in
Madic, all nine albatross shippers
have indicated they will be on hand.
Three of the Capitals four top
speedsters will trail their boats over
this week. Edward Baltz, commodore
Of Corinthian Yacht Club, is ready
for class I and j runabouts for the
Miles River Trophy event and the
chance cruiser race in his large boat.
His speedboat Fifty-Fifty will be
taken across from West River by the
parent cruiser, Fifty-Fifty.
Jack Schneider in the Chiquita re-
Joins the scene with his boats bottom
shining like glass and a new engine
to replace one put out Of whaek last
month He will be racing IN the 1885,
cubic inch events along with Jimmy
Orme, who has been catching all
recent nearby regattas in his Wooden
Horse. Jim and his vncle, Gardner
Orme, are competing this week end
in the Chester River Yacht and Coun-
try Club regatta It's not final, but
Jim hopes to be driving Jack Hyde's
Wrinkle III in order to enter the 1855.
As a finale, on Sunday morning,
larger sailing boats in racing and
cruising divisions start of from
Tlghman Point for a "raceback"
sponsored by the Maryland Yacht
Club. A distance Of % miles. the
course lies out Of Eastern Bay, south of
Bloody Point Light, thence up the bay
passing east Of Sandy Point and
ending OF Baltimore Light.
Thomas Donates Trophy.
A MONG starters will be Arthur
a Clephane's s-meter Loke. Dr. El-
liott Campbell's schooner Rumpus,
and George Jensens sloop Black
Hawk.
John Charles Thomas, the famous
baritone, is scheduled to present
tror,hies SATURDAY. NIGHT IF he makes