Evening star., 1938-08-28
CAPITAL SAILORS
|NF|NAL REGATTA
Comet, Moth laureIs to Be
Sought-Harding Scores
in Race Series.
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, J

While no one likes to admit 1t,
least of all = racing enthusiast, the
bay yachting season rapidly is coming
10 = close. For those local shippers
and many Washingtonians who sail
nearby, one Of the busiest years in the
history of the sport on Chesapeake
Bay will close with the ninth annaul
regatta of the West River Sailing
Club next Saturday and Sunday
The popular sailing center at Shady
Side, no exception to the tradition
that Labor Day marks the end of
summer boating will be the scene of
two days of extensive competition in
two internationally recognized classes,
one national class and numerous local
divisions. Twenty-six events that
should attract close to IS entries are
scheduled
Snipe, moths and comets lead the
list of classes that include albatroSSeS,
20-foot open bosts, 20-foot restricted
craft, Hampton one designs, 18-foot
knockabouts, 16-footers and 14-foot
mockabouts. A special cruising
class race for owners of large auxil-
ATleS Is on tap IOT SUNDAY.
Youngsters in Races.
A boys race and girls for junior
members of West River Sailing Club
opens the regatta Saturday morning.
The climax comes with the sailing
Sunday afternoon of two free for -alls.
one for boats is to 81 feet and the
other for boats under Is feet. A
colorful event when craft are per-
mitted to carry as much sail as they
can lug without danger of taking of
1t will see the entire feet blanketing
the river.
Although the following Monday Is
q. holiday, club officials always have
made point of keeping the day open
for sail-offs in the event of ties or post
ponements 1t also affords an oppor-
tunity for shippers coming from distant
points to sail or trail their boats to
home ports.
Snipc, Moth Glasses Full.
Early entries. according to Com
modore Osbourn Owings. indicate that
a group of snipes from the crack feet
at Sparrows Point Yacht Club in
Baltimore and moths from the Mago-
thy River and comets from Severn
River and Washington will turn out.
Capital moth sailors include Lee Harri-
son and Jack Babcock. while cometeers
are Ernest Covert, Col. H. H. Jacobs,
Clyde Cruit, Werner Smythe and Jack
thinner, all competing today at the
Annapolis Yacht Club regatta Among
skippers of the keen 20-foot class will
be Judge Prentice Edrington and DR..
Albert Pagan.
Aboard the 158-foot Coast Guard
cutter Pamlico race committee of w.
w. Heintz, Paul Tomalin and John
Hofen will see that the proper signals
are given and that the boys follow the
rules of the North American Yacht
Racing Union.
A dance has been arranged for Sat-
nrday evening at the Oaks, near Gales
vile. Sunday at 8 pm. the West River
Sailing Club trophies will be presented
ut Wagners Point
District Boy Scores.
The w. r. S. c. summer series of 10
races closed last Sunday with total
OF % boats competing since early June.
Landing on top in two of the four
classes was a pair of youngsters, one
from Galesville and the other from the
District.
John Harding, jr.. of Washington,
wrested the 20-foot open crown, long
held by Osbourn Owings in Vanity,
from the latter by a margin of 80
points. Youthful Arthur Fifer of Gales
vile ended up with comfortable mar
gin over eight albatross shippers in his
Raven. In the 20-foot restricted class,
q tie turned up between Ralph Youngs'
Myray and Herbert Neily's Spray
They'll sail it off next week end Ver-
ner Smythe, in Sassy Too, won the
comet prize, nearly hundred points
ahead
Final standing in the series: