Evening star., 1947-06-26
Glass B AIar Awarded
Blue Wafer Bowl on
Corrected Time
By Malcolm Lomborne. j..
Star ssaH Correspondent


ANNAPOLIS, Md, june 26-Tne
Newport Annapolis ocean race was
all over except for more sleep for
tired skippers and crews and pres.
ertation of silverware scheduled
ut the Annapolis Yacht Club to-
night.
The big silver Blue Water Bowl.
donated by the Naval Academy
Yacht squadron, will be awarded to
youthful David c. Bailey OF River
side, Conn, owner and skipper Of
Alar, . trim little New York 50
sloop.
For Bailey and his equally youth
full crew-none Is over rs years
old-it was special triumph In
making the best corrected time
In q feet of So racers. None Of
the sailors ever had sailed in an
ocean race before and they were
competing against the best men In
the tough ocean racing game.
Alar, which also takes the class
3 prize, was raced hard and well
for the entire 466 miles. She came
across the finish line of Tolly
Point buoy at 1874 am. yesterday,
the eighth yacht to complete the
course. Ahead of her had come
only the bigger class A racers.
Burma First In Class A.
For finishing first in the feet
Henry G. Taylor's 72-foot yawl
Baruna of New York, wins the COM
modore Magruder Memorial Trophy
But she couldn't save her time on
three other smaller class A yachts
and dropped to fourth in her class
First on corrected time In class A
was Frank Bissell's 53-foot yawl
Burma Of New York. which made a
name for herself In winning the
Boston Halifax race in 1889. The
experts agreed that Burma cashed
In by sailing well east of the base
line from Newport to the Chesa-
peake light vessel. In the process
she caught good southeasterly
wind at sea and came around the
light vessel ahead Of many yachts
that stayed close to the course and
wished they hadn't.
1t. Frank Siatkowski, U. S. NJ.
retired, will receive from Gov. Lane
Of Maryland the Governors trophy
for the Chesapeake Bay yacht max
ing the best corrected time. Sail
ing one of two Naval Academy
yawls, Siatkowski brought his boat
across the finish line at SAB pm
yesterday. Resolute saved her time
on two other Navy yachts that fin
ished earlier in the day. cutter
Highland Light and ketch Vamarie
Nays Yachts Trail.
Highland Light, skippered by 1t
Condr. Jack Riggin, was fourth
yacht in the fleet to finish, but
dropped to fifth place in Glass A
on corrected time. Vamarie, after
trailing most of the way down the
coast, came in about 20 minutes be-
hind Highland Light, but wound
up seventh in her class. Her skip
per was 1t. Condr. Alex Troonin
former sailing master on the famed
ketch before she was turned over
to the Navy.
Howard Fuller's sloop Gesture
winner of the Newport-Bermuds
race last year, placed second ir
Glass A. Third was Commodore De.
Coursey Fales' 19-year-old schooner
Nina of the New York Yacht Club
Second In Glass B was Harvey
Conover's new yawl Revonoc from
Larchmont, N. Y, winner of the
Miami-Nassau race last winter
Yawl Suluan, owned by Harolc
White, jr., of New York, placed third
Suluan was Glass B winner in las
years Bermuda race.
A brisk southerly wind night before
last lightened yesterday and dashed
the hopes OF some of the smaller
boats OF saving their time on the
faster racers. One of these was c
w. B. Whites cutter White Mist
Mystic, Conn, which finished about
z hours after her time handicar
had run out.
Cooks Prize In Doubt.
BY sundown yesterday the last
boats had rounded into the Chesa
peake, including Rear Admiral w
L. Ainsworth's comfortable but slow
sloop Katinka from Norfolk. AS oi
this morning. there still was some
doubt who would win the cook
prize.
1t seems this trophy goes to the
amateur cook on the last yacht te
finish.