Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-08-14
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night held the crowd down some
what, better weather conditions
Saturday and Sunday resulted in
an over-capacity crowd of sight
seers. Every available room was
taken and scores of young men
slept in sleeping bags, wrapped up
in blankets or curled on benches
in the parks, band pavilions or
any spot which offered some pro-
lection from the elements.
AS usual, some of the visitors
celebrated a little too boisterous-
ly and spent the night in Putin
Bays Jail. Law officers suspected
that some of their guests arrang-
ed their arrests purposely-it was
warmer in Jail than outdoors.
First winner in the regatta was
Arthur Shomer's Pop-N-Jack, a
Class R sloop from the Cleveland
Yacht Club, which was the victor
in the annual race from Rocky
River to Put-in-Bay early Satur-
day morning.
Shomer~ won the Commodore
Alexander Winton trophy after
fighting violent squalls through
the night. The boats left Rocky
River at 8 p. m. Friday and his
boat. crossed the finish line off
Middle Bass Island at 4:49:::20 Sat-
urday morning.
Close behind was Commodore
Lee Wilson's Lightning, another
Class r sloop, which crossed the
finish line at 5:O0:::45. Third place
in the 53-rnile race was Bob Will
liamson's sloop Doress, seven min
utes and II seconds behind Light
ming.
Deep Wster Winners
Deep water races from Cleve-
land, Toledo and Detroit also
were preliminaries to the main
events this week. Winner of the
Toledo section was Howard
Punches Dolphin which had an
elapsed time of 6:40:::42 for the
32-mile course. Only other boat to
finish of the 10 starters was
Walter Schmidt's Chance, an l.
class sloop.
Cleveland winners were: Cruis-
ers: Russell Jacks Elf II, first;
Richard Newpher's Hukailu, Sec
ond; Don Heisner's Saracen, third.
Racers: Alfred Edgerton's Robin,
first; Sigfried Mueller's Caprice,
second, and Francis Paulsen's
valhalla, third.
Detroit winners were: Racers:
Carlisle Wilson's Bove, first; Rich
ard Sullivan's Startling, second;
Ray st. Johns Lii Singva, third.
Cruisers A: Gilbert Pingree's Red
Head, first; Norman Sarns' Rev
elry, second; Robert Neisley's
Malabar vi, third; Cruisers B,
Douglas Wakes Trig, only boat to
finish; Cruisers C: Jack Cullen's
Albacore, first, and Meteor, Sec
ond.
With over 300 entries compet-
ing, boats of every type and de-
scription were moored In the spa
cious bay but there seemed to be
hardly room for another arrival.
At the municipal docks, boats
were moored three and four
abreast. 1t is the worlds largest
fresh water boating event.
Races were held Monday
through Wednesday, with addi-
tional events Thursday in case /
any had to be postponed earlier in
the week. Following the close of
The HYA event at Putin-Bay,
many of the visiting boats will go
70 Vermilion or Port Clinton for
heir annual regattas this week
End.
Six of the boats lost their spars
forenoon when a fresh
lor'wester greeted nearly 300 sail.
ng craft in the opening events of |
he Goth annual ILYA regatta at
3ut-in-Bay.
Races in all seven handicap
classes were ruled mo contest"
as one of the markers had
been swept away in the heavy
'eas. Shippers were to decide ii |
hey wished to resilt the, race
Thursday or let the remaining two
'aces decide the series.
Walt Swindeman of Toledo |
Yacht Club and his Yankee Doo-
lie won the Lightning Class race
against II competitors with a II.
second edge over Wes Wiedrick's
Detroit entry Wee. Dee H..
Edward Fromme of Devils Lake
Yacht Club piloted his Elf to vic
ory in the Nipper Class of IA en-.
ries. o. E. M. Keller's o K won
he Comet race while J. J.
ireene's Beanie, also, Of Toledo,
ook the Rebel Class heat.
Alec Chapman of Detroit took |
he L Class race with Walt |
Schmitt's Chance of Toledo in Sec
md spot. Other opening day win
lers were: Class r, Alfred Edger-
on's Robin, Cleveland; Inter
axes, Herbert Gill's Wild Fury, |