Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-27
Gaefina Helps Yawl
In Distress, Sails
Last in Big Race
By MoIcoIm Lomborne, Jr.
Star staff Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 27.-A
tired. bearded group of never-say-I
die sailors arrived off here last
night, sent aloft a red flare and Of
fciaIly ended the Newport-Annap-
oils ocean race which began nearly
a week ago Nearly all the prizes
had been distributed and shippers
and crews were enjoying a party at
Annapolis Yacht Club when Charles
s. Dell, sr., and his weary crew came
ashore from the 42-foot class B cut
ter Gaetina II.
The prizes remaining to be
awarded were the Ships Cook Tro-
ply for the galley slave" on the
last boat to finish and a magnum OF
champagne; donated by the CORN
thians, as a consolation prize for all
hands. Dell and his crew received
the champagne, while Cook Sam
Foster took the silver dishpan.
Gaetina was the last to finish be-
cause her skipper and crew, at a
loss of seven hours, went to, the as
sistance Of the yawl Ballymena from
Newport, r. l., which was in distress
about II miles above Cape Charles
early Wednesday morning.
Dell, who had spent nearly two
years preparing for his first ocean
race, sighted flares from Ballymena
before dawn, altered his course and
stood by the yacht in nasty Atlantic
swelIs until well after daylight.
The Ballymena had carried away
her mizzen mast in fish stakes
earlier. The Ballymena later was
towed to Annapolis.
For Dell, who had responded to
the first rule of the sea going to
the assistance of a boat, it meant
a loss of seven hours and all hope
to placing well in the fleet.
On top of this, Gaetina was
plagued with light airs, squalls and
Gains for the next "a hours. Race
Committee officials here were re-
signed to keeping watch another
night, when Gaetina sent up a flare,
just off the yacht club.
Club members went out in a
dinghy to rescue" the dog tired
sailors. On board in addition to
Dell, who is chairman of the An
napolis Y. C. Race Committee, were
Foster of Annapolis, Sidney Vim
cent and his son Thomas of Hamp-
ton, Va; Ben Howard, Baltimore,
and Richard E. Landlord, Annapo-
lis.
Ballymena, incidentally, gave up
on the Chesapeake, was towed to
the club yesterday and thus was
recorded as not finishing the race.
Earlier in the evening Gov. Lane
Of Maryland, Rear Admiral j. L.
Holloway, superintendent of the Ma
val Academy; Commodore William
Labrot of Annapolis Y. G. and Com
modore De Coursey Fales of the
New York Y. C. awarded prizes to
winners and runnersup in the 1856
mile race.
List of awards:
Blue Water Bowl. awarded by the
corrected time in Glass A and B-Alar'
" Commodore ciS m Maeruder Memorial Tro-
ply, for first yacht to complete-Baruna;
owned by Henry e Taylor and skippered
by John Hallowell.
Governors Trophy: awarded by the
time of Chesapeake Bay yacht--Resolute,
1t. Frank Siatkowski, United States Naval
City Of Newport Trophy. for best cor
rected time in Glass A-Burma' Frank
George E. Roosevelt Trophy, for sloop
ner Of Blue Water tPowD-Renovoc' Har-
John S. Dickerson Trophy. for best
corrected time of schooner or ketch-I
Nina, Commodore De Coursey Fales.
New York Yacht Club Trophies, for best
corrected time in each cless-ClaSs A: |
FIRST: Burma; second r Gesture 4: HOWARD
second. RenoVoc; third, SULTAN, Harold