FOREST AND STREAM. 



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her favor for a twenty-mile course ; but as our chartB may not be 

 right, ami we not so learned as some otherB, we had nothing to do 

 but submit to an injustice— an error of judgment. As Gad's 

 actual time was 5h. 55s. , and the actual sailing distance 25 miles, 

 she was 55s. too slow, and the judges decided "No race." We 

 argued that the day was not what was called for, and would like 

 the stipulations six knots or more ; so on agreement the articles 

 were altered. By roquest of the referee we decided to waive our 

 right to start to windward, and if Ihe nest time wo started the 

 race could not be sailed to windward first, we would willingly go 

 to leeward and beat back to suit referee. As Gael's folks had 

 drummed this all the time for their own advantage, we hung off, 

 and asserted our claims ; but when it began to breed discussion in 

 our judges' circle, wo concluded to keep harmony in the ranks 

 even at a loss to ourselves. 



"Tuesday, Oct. 14; same time and place," was the word sent in 

 by the judges for a second trial. We left our mooring with hardly 

 steerage way on to got to our destination, but the ease looked 

 almost hopeless. The indications were, a breeze to the southward; 

 but whether we should get it early enough for the race patient 

 waiting only would disclose. 



Tile steamer Psyche hove in sight with the sailing master of the 

 Gael on board ; he proceeded np along side the judges' boat, the 

 cutter Enterprise, and entered into a parley. What the sailing 

 master said wo did not know. The j udges came on board of us and 

 we asked where the Gael was (this was off City Point, South Bos- 

 ton,) and they told us " she lay at her moorings, East Boston. We 

 asked if they intended to put in an appearance, but could get no 

 definite answer. They showed plain signs of backing out and, as 

 they had the ear of the judges, we made up our minds we should 

 not only not handle their money, but would never see the stakes. 

 We offered them if they would go to the appointed place— "Bos- 

 ton Light"— to sail them for some prize to pay for going down. 

 Hail for fun or marbles. Sail her in any wind or water for the ci- 

 gala, or a dinner, and let the other matter rest until we could get 

 a favorable chance. 



The judges went on board the steamer with out request, came 

 back and reported the sailing master would not accept. We stated 

 then we would go to the light and wait for our breeze, but were 

 thunderstruck when the judges said they decided tho race off and 

 would refund the money. We were indignant at this state of 

 lira and said we should go to the appointed starting place and 

 if we found the wiud we wanted should claim the money, or a race, 

 but we could not alter the judges' decision Dy coaxing or entreaty. 



We went to Boston Light, found a splondid southeast breeze 

 and a heavy sea. The judges stated that our rules required us to 

 start at 9 A. M. Why did they not think of that on the first trial, 

 when we did not get to the starting place until afternoon ? We 

 were at the light before 12 M., sailed over part of the course and 

 proved that one of the judges made a mistake when he stated our 

 little boat could not sail in such a sea. She was like a duck, shoot- 

 iug up to the top of a heavy ground-swell and sliding down the 

 other side, occasionally dipping her beak and shaking the brine 

 from her round, smooth sides. We proved her weatherhnoss. 



Why was the Gael so reluctant to put in an appeaaance ? Was 

 alio afraid of the Sunbeam, or the rough water, or both ? Why 

 did she challenge us and put us to the expense and loss of time ? 

 She never made an appearance the day appointed by the judges 

 Under the circumstances who was entitled to the prize? In our - 

 first trial her Jrienda made a great noise and she was presented 

 with a consolation prize. We never would have accepted such a 

 thiug. The Sunbeam has earned all her prizes, and wants no 

 others. Our race will never come off beoause they decided (from 

 former trials) that our claim to being the fastest boat to wind- 

 ward is jttafc and they backed out at last. Hedge. 



Sunbeam's skipper certainly makes out a strong statement 

 in bis yacht's favor and it will now be in order for Gael and 

 the judges to render an accounting. 



CORINTHIAN CRUISERS. 



Sax Francisco, Oal., Dec. 20. 1878. 

 Editob Fobest and Stkeam : 



I am gratified to see that the discussion on Corinthian yachts in 

 the Forest AND Stream has brought to tho surface such valued 

 authority as i: IIard-a-lee," and after the arguments pro and con_ 

 on the question of model and rig have been digested, and the 

 various good and objectionable points of the "broad flats" and 

 "narrow deeps" duly set forth, the Corinthian contemplating 

 building a boat can come to an intelligent conclusion, pay his 

 money, and take his choice. I feel "constrained," however, 

 before abandoning the field, to take up some of the theories ad- 

 vanced by " Hard-a-lee" on the question. I will endeavor to ob- 

 tain the work he refers to ("Down Channel"), and see if the expe- 

 rience of the author can oarry conviction to my mind on the 

 superiority of the narrow deep cutter in a gale of wind over the 

 "broad flat," having seen some rough weather myself in the 

 latter craft. 



Firstly— There is a vast difference between a boat "lying to" 

 and under way in rough water. It is quite true his outter may 

 have proved herself au excellent sea boat under such cireum- 

 stanooa, inasmuch as nho was making no perceptible headway, 

 lint on the contrary, was constantly receding from the coming 

 wave and therefore leas liable to "dive" into it. Again, it is 

 pretty generally the case that boats are modeled and built to suit 

 the waters wherein they are used, and as the English Channel, 

 acoording to my limited experience, confined to crossing it in 

 mail packets, is almost as turbulent and uneasy a Bheet of water 

 as I wish to boo, and as yachting in England must almost entirely 

 be done in rough water, John Bull has followed in the footsteps of 

 his fathers, and built his boats according to the ancient theory 

 that what was good euough for his grandfather was good enough 

 for him ; but as we oannot very well bring tho English Channel 

 over to our yachts for a trial of their sea-going qualities, and none 

 of ours have been tried there, the comparison loses force. In 

 building a yacht for Corinthian sailing, we necessarily consult 

 the oharacter of the water and navigation where she is to be used. 

 While the ambitious yachtsman can by a little effort find water 

 quite rough enough to satisfy him at times by cruising outside of 

 Saudy Hook, he, as a general thing, has no great call to poke his 

 nose into it ; but should he venture out, as I have often done, 



into the waters of our broad Pacific, there would not necessarily 

 be any occasion to change the broad, buoyant boat for a "diver." 

 I have oftou tested the very problem " Hnrd-a-lee" suggests, and 

 oari answer bis conundrum aa to how the lht-bottom behaves ; and 

 as 1 am spared to write this, it is presumable that my craft never 

 illustrated his fear lha! the might bounce up, by reason of her 

 buoyancy, and Hop over. Our " broad flats'' have no such un- 

 seemly habits, are not given to suoh gymnastic performances ; on 

 the contrary, by reason of their buoyancy, are bke corks, lively, 

 and come what may, in the way of a Bea, they can always be found 

 on top, instead of "sounding." They are safe, for the reason 

 that they recede from a Bea more rapidly than a deep boat, and 

 ,ny boat that will "give way" to a sea is always acoounted by old 

 sailors as a good Bea boat. They are not aa likely to " trip" as a 

 deep boat, inasmuch as the line of immersion is never below tho 

 moving surface of water ; there is nothing for the sea to get hold 

 of to cause that unpleasant little caper. " Hard-a-lee" says he is 

 not convinced that scows, although good for San Francisco Bay, 

 would be a success in the English Channel. Who said they would 

 be ? And yet thoy go outside and cruise on our coast, which is 

 quite as rough, certainly, as our Eastern coast, and do not lay to 

 any oftener or sooner than the sharp-bottomed schooners that 

 cruise in company. I might ask what kind of a figure his English 

 cutter would cut on a Jersey mud flat, or along the Sound harbors 

 at low tide. Ho would have a delightful night's rest with his boat 

 at the angle she would present. • ' Hard-a-leo" may have had a 

 boat that walloped about in a seaway, but that fact, coupled with 

 16ft. beam, doea not necessarily imply that it was the fault of the 

 beam, but more likely the result of a bad model. I have seen deep 

 and narrow boats that did the same thing, and for the same rea- 

 son—! e., bad model. The model has quite as much to do with 

 a boat's ease in a seaway as anything else. As to the argument 

 offered that the Mohawk carried away her bobstay, that accident 

 is likely to happen to any craft, sharp or flat, and either would do 

 just what tho Mohawk did. 



Take " Hard-a-lee'a" dimensions as his idea of a properly pro- 

 portioned boat— 36ft. keel, 45 over all, 6 to 6)4 deep, 12lt. Din. ex 

 treme beam ; and I presumably start out with him in my craft— 

 of same length, but 14.6 beam, Gin. deadrise, i% deep. He will 

 draw 5ft. ; my boat will draw about 2. 9 or 3ft. I will have an 

 equal amouut of freeboard j my cabin will be 1ft. 9in., and conse- 

 quently more roomy and comfortable, for a foot in cabin width is 

 liko that proverbial inch on a man's nose— counts up amazingly. 

 Wo get out into the Sound with a spanking breeze, and while my 

 craft stands squarely on her bottom, and the decanter and glasses 

 stand safely on the table, " Hard-a-lee's" craft is over on 

 B side, and uulosa tho crockery has been secured, baa gone to general 

 destruction. I "heel" over six inches, perhaps, while his lee rig- 

 ing is scooping up the water, bis freeboard is unusable, and his 

 side becomes the sailing model. By virtue of standing up my 

 centreboard is much more effective, and my boat is holding a better 

 course. Bye and bve "Hard-a-lee" must reef. I go along, carry- 

 ing all sail comfortably. We reach Bridgeport, and run in for a 

 harbor for the night, as the weather looks a little nasty. 1 run 

 close to tho wharf, and anohor. "Hard-a-lee" must drop bis 

 anchor a much longer distance off ; or if he runs in with me to b< 

 sociable, and the tide goes out in the night, I hear a sudden ker- 

 chunk as I lay snug in my wide berth, accompanied by a jingling 

 of smashed crockery and smothered imprecations on the cook who 

 omitted to stow it away. "Hard-a-lee" passes a miserable night, 

 trying to sleep on tho ragged edge, bis boat lying down on her side. 

 In the morning we turn out fresh and ready for a start, with a fail 

 wiud, but we must wait for two hours for the incoming tide to float 

 off " Hard-a-lee" from tho mud, most of which time he is consum- 

 ing in the effort to get breakfast under diifisultioa, unless I take 

 compassion on him, and invite him aboard the " broad flat" ae 

 act of humanity ; and so we go. And so we mentally compare 

 different degrees of comfort all the cruise, "Hard-a-lee" stubbornly 

 refusing to admit that his sharp bottom, much deadrise, and 

 cranny craft ia one whit inferior to ours. Finally, we strike rough 

 water, where be has been wanting to catch us. We keep right 

 along with him, taking no more water on board tbau he does, 

 going just as faat, and if we have to "lay to," there we are— very 

 buoyant, very dry and very comfortable. Now, where has he 

 advantage ? Not in speed, not in safety, not ir stability, and 

 tainly not in comfort ; and if he is a sensible man, he will mentally 

 resolve that, when he gets back, if Jones still admires his boat, 

 and expresses a wild desire to purchase, he will oblige Jones, for 

 Jones is a good fellow, and he would like to see him have a good 

 boat. The next thing you hear of ''Hard-a-lee" he is building 

 a new boat, with ISin. more beam and loss deadrise. Now, t 

 poae " Hard-a-lee" had started off in your blarsted English cutter, 

 with its V shaped bottom and tape-worm dimensions, how far 

 would he have got, aud what would bis chances of Heaven be after 

 the amount of fearful imprecations it would call forth ? He would 

 leave her stuck in the mud at Bridgeport, and go home by rail, 

 damning Corinthian yachting as a fraud and a failure. 



In using tho term " broad flat" I do not intend to imply that I 

 advocate a scow bottom ; on the contrary, I give my boat a sharp 

 entrance, a moderately hollow hue below water, and a correspond- 

 ing run, but retain all the floor possible. I will concede even 12in. 

 deadrise, inatead of G, but carry my breadth well out, with a sharp 

 knuckle, so as to get all the bearings I can. The midship floor 

 timbors can bo made perfectly straight, as I avoid anything 

 approximating to a round or barrel bottom, in which there is no 

 stability. Above water she can be made as graceful and present- 

 able as any other model. A good sheer makes her dry, and raises 

 her bowsprit above tho plunging mark ; in fact, it will seldom go 

 under, and not as often as the stub straight spar of a cutter. And 

 my bowsprit is on a line with the sheer of my forward deck, and 

 not " braced down" on a curve to pick up every sea, acoording lo 

 the accepted style of your Eastern small craft, — and some large 

 ones, too, for that matter. 



I have a friend, a thorough yachtsman, possessing skill and 

 talent for drawing (that I am Badly deficient in unfortunatly,) who 

 has promised to make a aeries of outline drawings that will fully 

 illustrate our styles of crafts, and tho worthy Secretary of our 

 yacht club. Charles G. Tale, Es.p, will try to find time from his 

 arduous editorial duties to get up some diagrams and sketches of 

 the modified "dandy rig," aa adopted by the yachts of the San 

 Frauoiaoo Xacht Club, all of which will bo forwarded to tho Fobest 

 an» STBitAji as aoon ae the aforesaid proverbially procrastinating 



oldecilt" first mentioned can be forced up to the effort, from 

 which au idea can be formed of such a craft aa I have tried imper- 

 fectly to describe, all of which will, out of compassion for your 

 benighted condition, be respectfully submitted for your onlighten- 

 X. So, load up your guns, and get ready to give ua a broad- 

 sido of criticism. Pobqees. 



Tin-Coated Shot.— A look through Capt. Bogardus' shot 

 guu at the conclusion would have delighted any old gunner 

 who has known what it is to have the gun badly leaded, and 

 has experienced something of the rubbing and scrubbing pro- 

 cess of cleaning. The shot used by Capt. Bogardus was the 

 tin-coated shot of the Leroy Shot and Lead Manufacturing 

 Company, 2G3 Water street, N. Y., and by his direction no 

 cleaning of the inside of the barrels was attempted. They 

 were inspected, but beyond a few specks of powder duBt, 

 they were clean at each change, and the duty of his assistant 

 was confined to cooling the barrels. The trial was a complete 

 success for the Leroy Company, and Ihis with the other ad- 

 vantages granted to "tin-coated shot should make it a favorite 

 everywhere. 



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Bhxuhd Championship.— The Grand World's Billiard 

 Tournament is now in progress at Cooper Institute, this city 



fiinw of (JUshess. 



Notice.— Chess exchanges, communications and solutions shonld be 

 addressed " Chess Editor FOkkst ani> Stbbam, P. O. box 54, VVolcott- 

 ville, Conn." 



Problem No. 40. 



Motto : A Long Look Ahead. 



White to play and give mate In three moves. 



solutions to pkoblems— no. 30. 

 Three solutions : Q-BJ, Q-K7 and the anther's. 



FKOBLBM NO. 37. 



Game No. 9l>.— SCOTCH GAMBIT. 

 Game In the International Toarney between Don C. Rogers, of 

 Detroit, Mich, , and Mr. E. H. Heath, of England : 



White. 

 Heath. 

 1— P-K4 

 2-Kt-K. B3 

 3-P-Q4 

 4— 13-UB4 

 5— Castles (a) 

 B— P-Q B3 

 7-F-y Kr4 

 S— P.O. E4 

 9— Q-Q Kt3 01) 

 10— S-K Kr,5 

 It— Q Kt q-i 

 12-0, K K (e) 



Black. 



Rogers. 

 1-P-K4 

 2-Kt-Q U3 

 3— P tfcl P 

 4-B-Q 84 

 5— P-R3 (i>) 

 6-P Q« <o) 

 7— B y Kt3 

 8— P-Q 113 

 0-Q-K2 

 10— Kt-K B2 

 11— Castlca 

 12-B-K3 



White. Black. 



Heath. Rogers, 



I 13-P-K5 ( o 13-Q Kt tics P 



!l4— KtlksKt 14-0.-Q3 



I 15— R tks P 15— Q.Q3 



hi-B tks Kt lij-p tK.-f B 



17-IMC K5(B) 17-Q-KB6 01) 



15-B tks B ID JS-tl H.s lit (J) 



1(1— B-K 135 19— K R K (k) 



20-Q Q (I) 20— B tks B P ch 



21— K-R 21— Q tks Q 



22-RtkaQ, 22— P-Q7 



White tcsigueu. 



notes. 



(«) Castling at thestli move Is decidedly inferior to P QB3 or Kt-Kl5k 



(10 Of course. The correct play. 



(<•) Although this move is often made at this point, B-K Kto la nonsld- 

 ered better. 



(rf) This jooks formidable, but Black neatly parries the attack. 



(t) Should have taken Q P with B, and then White has an open and 

 attacking game. 



(f) The advance of this P leads to a aeries of exchanges which prove 

 disastrous to White. 



(;/) This R to K seems a belter move. 



(A) A good move. It is hardly possible now for White to avert 

 disaster. 



(0 This move is forced. He h-is hardly anything else let r„ 



(j) Black is skillfully pursuing his advantage. 



(k) The strongest move. 



(() Although B.Iks B P ch looks promising, It would he of no avail. 

 White's best move at this juncture would have been Q-Kt, bat even 

 this would not have saved the game.— Hartford Times. 



Game No. ST.— ODDS Q R -REMOVE WHITE'S Q R. 

 Another specimen of Australian chess : 



White Black. 



H. Cbarllok. A. J. Loughton. 



1-P-IC4 1— P-K4 



2— P-Q4 2— P tks P 



&_Kt- K B3 (a) S— B-Ktfi ok (b) 



4-P-QB3 4-PtKaP 



White. 

 H. Charliek. 

 C-B-Q B4 

 T— Bika p 

 9— B-K Ktr. 

 White lorced 



Rlaelc. 



A. J. Longhton. 

 B-P.Q4 (c) 



7-Q-U3 



S— y-Q Kt3 (d) 



'"" three 



.— P tKS P 6— 13-B4 moves (e) 



notes (F, M. Teed), 

 (a) 2— B-Q3 is frequently played when giving a piece, and probably 

 offers more chance to the tlret player thin this move. 



{h) P-Q3 or Kt-Q B3 would be more advisable, though the move made 

 is best in even games. 



(pi Perhaps intending to follow this by 7— R-QB3, but White could 

 then play S— B tks KBP eh. 



<<f) B— Q.-Q3 Is Hie only move, for If s— Q-K Kt3, 3-B tks P ch, win- 

 ning Q or mating at once. 

 fe) B-BtksPch 9-K-B! I U-Kt-K5 eh 11-K-KtS 



10— Q,-Q,S oil 10— K tks B 1 12— Q-QS mate 



—Botyoke Transcript, 



