Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12
19 Boats Away
Well Bun(hed
In 25O-MiIe Sail
Kitfihawk Is First
to Cross Starting
Line at Port Huron
BY GEORGE +. VAN


PORT HURON, July ia
northeasterly breeze off the Mich
igan shore sent the fleet of 10
starters reaching along their way
in the eighteenth an
nual Port Huron-Mackinac race
today. -
The feet was divided into two
sections, the racing cruiser boats
and the racing class hitting the
line at 2 p. m. well punched. The
cruising division, smaller in size,
crossed Is minutes later.
The honor of being the first ship
across, dubious as it might be in
this 250-mile race. went to John
Timken's Kittihawk.
A half-hour after the start,
Charles Sorensen's White Cloud
and Harry Fletcher's 72-foot IL
meter sloop, Iris, were leaving the
fleet behind as expected. Both are
scratch boats in their divisions,
White Cloud in the racing cruising,
Iris in the racing.
Fletcher and Sorensen, however.
have a side bet on who'll be the
first boat to finish at Mackinac
Island. The prize is the Homer
Burdeno Cup.
On EUen Terms
Wilfred foot, Gme fner s
Apache and George Naumann's
Estrellita were sliding along on
even terms with cutter Kittihawk,
last years winner Not far behind,
was Eddie Wunsch's Mink. Charley
Beck's Hostess III was half mile
to windward and moving along in
good order.
The three eight-meters, Ernie
Crates Shamrock, Fred Temples
Rangoon and Perez Darnell's Pin
tail, already were having their
boat-for-boat scrap. It's the first
time more than one eight-meter
ever has sailed in a Mackinac race,
and inasmuch as they are all OF
the same one-design class, the trio
should have good battle all the
way up to the Straits.
Among the cruising boats which
crossed the line was the cutter
Capytan of c. M. Boutell, and
Trent McMath's schooner Spin
drift. These two boats were just
getting into the picture as their
shippers went on a course to
Georgian Bay for cruise after
the start.
Andy Langhammer's Rambler
VI, Tom Lofts Duchess, Perez VIII
liamson's Rainbow w started al
most together in the cruising class,
followed by E. c. Balch's Iolanthe,
Paul Adams Lurer and Bob Nees-
ley's Kittiwake. The latter is the
only schooner in the race and a
sure-pop to win the Yerkes trophy.
Artistic Success
She is given little chance of win
ming in her division, but she al
ready is an artistic success, boast
ing the only good quartet in the
fleet with Leonard Jerome, Glenn
Carter, Chef Cook and George
Snyder doing the vocalizing.
Eddie Flinterman's Pequot, Bert
Edwards DoSjock III and Harvey
Luce's Adonde completed the fleet
in the cruising group.
Iris is carrying one of the larg-
est crews in the race and Fletcher
has a good outfit in Ralph Hay
wood. DR.. Alpheus Jennings. Tom
Fletcher, Jack Echelemeir, John
Kendall. Don Baird, Ken Corson,
Dose Clark, Earl Murch and Fred
Dore.
The first Mackinac boats gen.
orally finish sometime Monday,
with the stragglers coming in for
the next "a hours as usual. Both
White Cloud and Iris, however,
have the stuff to finish on Sunday
night as Manitou did two years
ago. A fair wind all the way might
see half the feet up at the island
Sunday, but that wouldn't jibe
with the Mackinac tradition, which
gives the fleet a good run, a buck
TO windward and calm at various