October 21, 18S0.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



235 



— Tbo Jtauhattmi Cricket Oliib are tn be coDgrabilated in having 

 ficcureij the servicoa of Artkiu- Smith, late professional of the 

 Peninsular Club, of Duti-oil. Id addition, the president, Mr. .Jamea 

 JVhitB, of the 51. G C, pleusPd with the mccem aud inoreaBC of tlie 

 organiiiatiou ujider h;s luRtenug cure, has promiHed to engage at 

 hia private espenKe, II M- ■Olid profesHional to hisb-iict the junior 

 members of the oluli. .M i he annual raeetijitf held on Oct 12, the 



Hie ouBUJiig year ; I'rcaident, 

 ii^ideut, Sir. Ma*-'keazie ; Second 

 iird Vieo-Pre»ideiit, Mr. Kerhy ; 

 ; Socrclor,-, ilr. I.. I.utc ; Trcas- 

 d; ri.miTiit.t.L-,:, Merthrs. 

 ilchi^rs. White, LoTe, 

 lived that any member 

 I'lub, except in college, 

 to be a member. The 

 ■ember 2. 



1 1.-^laud Club, will take 

 itch being the Yotmg 



HM-,r.„ 



.-t hi: 



foUuwUif: i.m,XTH «eie ui.-c 

 Mr. JaiiieH Wliiie : TirBt Yi. 

 Vieo-rii-iilr^i.l, rir. Jlalthe'.v 

 Pourlli - . - ;. 7,Ir. ? 



•ami 111' I ■ i ;.ry, 



Jack... ■ ■ ^Uu 



HOHford, JriiKiii- iimi JiicK^ii-i 

 Ofthe club who KlionJd I ■■:.;, 

 school or coiiimirrial el. t. iii, htniiiid 

 Manhattans will clo.no this aeaboij'a iil 

 — George Lane, profefitiioual of the 

 his annual benefit on Saturday, tl 

 Americaa vs. Staten islanders. 



L'sLAWKUL Bats — HI, Louis, Sept. 10. — 1 Mto lately beau meas)- 

 raing tbe bats of our cricket club, and I find they are all too wide. 

 Tlie laws of the Maiylobono Cridset Club diBtinotly states that the 

 width of the bftt "shall not exceed four and one-quarter mches." I 

 bare measured the width of a nirmbcr of Corbott bats aud overj'one 

 was of esoespive width ; one Cobbott bat, "made expressly for an 

 Amerii^an dealer,'' is fully four and one-haK inches in rndth, and very 

 few of iiiH bats fall below torn- and threo-oighths. I do not wonder that 

 ihi Cr.ljbetthas bccua very po]julai' bat; I wonder whose make will be 

 most popular und for what reUBon. The impropriety of such bats 

 bomg adiuitted is obvious. I venture to say that wore the blades 

 of any club cliallongod that uot one of those intended for fuIl-Bized 

 bats could bo admitted to a match ; some boys' biits could perhaps 

 be found, but no mens' sizes. If soimi action is uot taken by the 

 ■irticl, clubs fiud asBOcJiitiouh coi.cerumg tlie legal diuieusions of 

 Hi gvo..v Ir, Tip even wider than they are 

 ide for himself a l,at that shall lie six 

 ive game simply, or comjiel his oppo- 

 ifonn to the rule, for his bat would be 

 eh ia an eighth ot an inch over width. 



"iili olbiit-i, they will SOI 

 A phiyer can have m 

 f ^ witle and play a defeu> 

 h to have their blades ooi 

 iiore illegarthan one wh 



Will you pleune call atteutioii to this matter iu yom- columns, and in 

 BU doing as.^i.Ht iu making the game more uniform than is now the 

 case? J. B. C». 



[Wo take pleaanro m pubhahing the above oommumcatiou because 

 we know the statomeut it contaius to be a correct one. Wo have 

 meaenred a uumber of bat« recently, liolh m New York ftnd Phila- 

 delphia, and found that many of them were much too wide. An 

 extra quarter of an inch, whether on the end of a man's nose or 



erl v.vm. . 



iMterfo 



•■ ■•. ■,■■•..■ .^ ..I, I/.. i . .-. i:Im this, if it 

 , ,■, ..I :,■! I ,,.: ..I ■■,-,. may pub- 



. -,i >■..... L i._,„,.i:„i|j,.^ ii„;i.-,, ii-oui wLic'u thu i;iicki;U.ig piiblio may 

 draw tbeir ovra deductiona.J 



CoLijiiinc..:! VS. CiNOMSATi. — Theae- two cltibs of tile Butskeye- 

 State met at Colnmbus, Ohio, and played theij.- firet match of the 

 seaaon, on .Sept. 18, which resulted in favor pf the home orgMii?.a- 



lii 



SCO 



OrNOINSATI. 



F. Ta;. 



It. \L • 



s#eon<i innin^it. 



. lilin.lC'S, b. Mllue. 



T. Tjiylur, 0. Tylci- :■; c. U. Uaii 



Ik, b. Tyler o b- Milne. 



r.vlor, 1). T.vler. : Notout.. 



15. It. II 

 nubii 



a. Hi 



Huti-i 



I aytor. b. 



:... J 



. . . ixvloiv 



OOI,T77ltBCB. 



b. u. T. • 



b. Howe 



c. Stallai 



LI), w. b. P. Tavloi 



Llttii.L. i.a, ._. , . ixvlor, , 8 not out 



Tvler, b. tiuwe ^ U. Howe 



cblltDS, not out , 2 to t>uC 



Clarlc, 0. H. T. Taylor, b. Howe. S to bat 



E.xtraa , S Extras 



lotiil..„.....,..,.M. SO Total 52 



aranat<itfti..i.j ,, ; nw 



ANALYSIS OF BOWLINO. 



COIjiraiBCR. 



M'd'as No Ball. 



viiHL iniiliiga. 



Walker 21 



SlaUanL 12 



11. L. Taylor i..- 30 



Wfcts. warn. 



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U 



Two Oelebsateti Crioketjskb. — ^The "WMtS Star 'stedmer 



C'eliii', W'lneh fu'rived in this port on Friday Itisi, biid onliutird 

 iwoof Englnnd'sinost fttmimscriekolers, :\[easrs. |-[. D. ami 

 I. D Walker. On their iirriviil they iveiit lo the Brunswick 

 Ilijtel, whore tliey Slopped iiiilil Tuesday. Before le«viuL' 

 New York we liad a plcusatil aliat wih the former, whoui >' 

 found iu Ms room suffering from a had attack of gout. Ai 

 ibongh tills is tlu! first visit of the brothei-s Walker to Ameri- 

 cti, they were only prevented by sickness in 1873, from being 

 tQembers of the Engli-sh viaitiug team of that year which 

 came out under the captaincy of Mr. Fitzgerald. It will be 

 remembered tliat E. Lubbock and Pickering at the last mo- 

 ment filled tlieir places. The Messrs. Walker are on a tour 



of pleasure with Kew Zealand a.s their destination. They 

 will \'isit Niagara, Chicago, Salt Lake City, sailing from San 

 Francisco in about two weeks time. 



— Piu-ents, do not use vile drugs or nostrums in your famEics, 

 but use pure Hop Bitters. 



^Hchtiit^ Httd ^oatin^. 



FIXTURES. 



Oct.— Dorchester Y. C. Union Oceau Kegatta. 

 Nov.— Boyal Bemiuda T. C. Cruising Tnm Bace. 

 Dec. 2— Koyal Bermuda V. C. Cruising Trim Bace. 



THE SHUFELDT CUP. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



I send inclosed a photograph of the "Shufeldt Cup," presented 

 by Henry H. Shufeldt, Esq., Vice-Commodore Ooonomowoc Yacht 

 Club of Oconomowoc, Wis. Engraved on the port side of boat is 

 the following inscription : 



Henry H. Shufeldt. 



V. C. 0. Y. 0. 



September, 1880. 



On the starboard side the following : 



TliLs Cup 



Is to be Sailed tor Monthly. 



The Wmniug Yacht at each 



Eegatta 



Sliiill fasten to it a Silver Coin, 



Engraved -with name and date. 



It shall become the property of the Yacht wmniug it for the 



fifth time. 

 Along the side of the cup liole.s liave been driUed to hang the 

 coins from. 



The first regatta for the eup was sailod Sept. 14. Yachts en- 

 tered : Euda, Sunbeam, Sortie, Magic aud Annie, all of tbem sloops. 

 The Buda, owned b\ Ferd. W. Peel;, Esq., of Olneago. won, with 

 Sortie second, Magic third and Sunbeam fourth. The Buda holds 

 the cup tm the Jmie Kegatta ot 1881. \T. B. E. S. 



The yachtsmen of the lakes exhibit so much spirit iu adopting all 

 phases of racing that the strojighold the sport has t.'dv- 

 the West argues weU for its rapid growth iu the future. 



ceptive meaam'e of size. Commodore L. A. Fish and Messrs. J. L 

 MurcoUus and E. A. Willard acted as judges for the day. Mr 

 John tK Prague tooled Fanita, and Mr. W, A. W. Stewart th 

 Regiua. The former measm-es 14ft. mean length, aud th 

 lattx-r 4Sft. Both had been put iu the linest trim, and cam 

 out in muslin from Sawver's famous loft. Fanita had wisel 

 changed to double head sail aud lead balliist, but the change wa 

 mode so late that her best trim under the new "cpiasi cutter"' orde 

 of things could hiirdlv have lieen fairlv got. uor were crew and 

 owner as familiar with f h-- lim- roints of trimming the '"two jibs " 

 as the older haiuk ■ nk The com'se was from Bay 



Bidge, around southv ■ ' i c-ship and home by the same 



course. Prize, a cu] I, i ruie of race, eight hours. Mr. 



Stewart put Ids ship o,.-:i lii._ ,_o.c i, iijb. 14m. 18s., with the beamy 

 boat foUfwiug at lOh. 14m. o.k-,., the wmd being hght from 

 west-southwest, pegging out toward the Narrows, and the tide the 

 tail end of the ebb. Both trimmed down tlat on the port tack aUd 

 crossed to Staten Island. Here Famta went around too soon, Eegina 

 gaining by w'orking a slant in shore, which ran her out to wind- 

 ward of her opponent, giving her a lead she maintained all da.y. 

 First clear of the Narrows, she struck into a nice working breeze, 

 sweeping up Earitan Bav, which lifted her clear aw.^y from danger 

 for a long time. The Spit was fetched around by the leader at 12h. 

 3m. Is., and bv Fanita at 12h. 19m. 13s. As usual, the exasper- 

 atmg " calm streak " was found in the bight of the Hook, and it 

 was tedious drifting all the «ay to the outer mark, which Eegina 

 made at 3b. 46m. 35s.. with liarcUj steerage way, followed by 

 Ellsworth's fauc\ at 3b. o3ni. 50s." A southerly breeze of vei7 

 modest preteutious took the vessels home, Fanita bringing it up 

 With her aud closing much of the water between the two yachts, the 

 finish being reached by Eegina at 6h. 26m. lOa., and Fanitft 

 6m. 4Ss. later, or 6m. iSs. of actual time. Deduct the 3m. Is. 

 illogically granted and it leaves Eegina the victory by 3m. Is. As 

 the race was not made within the Emit allowed by some 12m., the 

 .judges declared the mutch void, Mr. Stewart thereupon offered to 

 sail the next day, but JIi-. Prague's busmess engagements compeUed 

 ■ " '■ " ud it was mutually agreed to lay the nu;e over till 

 ere is very little to be drawn from the day's work, 

 liiug it was that Fanita must be classed a fast yaoht 

 on the other that excessive beam is not nece"ss(iry 

 eutaily it illustrated the deceptive character of 

 ent, and the growing popularity of the double-bead 

 I lia\e '• fought and bled." and which now seems in 



,. .„.. .._., leeiving the recognition due it even as a racmg rig, 



all the back draft lore of theorists to the contrary notwithstanding. 



Eastern men are hardly aware of the large number of clubs and the 

 numerous races established dmlng the past few years on the fresh 

 water seas. In some respects we might profit by their evample. 

 Measurement by all three dmieusions, mixed rig races, and above 

 aU, free entry foi- all comers, whetlier fl\nng the club biugee or not; 

 fi\Ing starts and valuable pri7,eB are now predomiuent fefaures of 

 the sport iu the West. 'The amount of cruising done in open water 

 ia more extensive than ■witli ns in proportion to the nmnbcr of craft 

 in commission, and is already exercising an influence upon the 

 build of WosttTn boats, and both cutter and yawl rig find favo)' in 

 consequence. 



KEGINA-FANITA. 



IT was unlucky that the match between these two sloops, sailed 

 over the A. Y. Ik com-se Oct. 10, should have come to naught 

 on account of light and vacUlafmg au-s m place of the tiue winds of 

 the fall. It was a mere matter of llukes all day, and the race was 

 not even finished in the stipulated eight hours. There -was uot 

 even a chance to compare the sailing of the crat^ with a view to 

 drawing some sort of conclusions between the two. The match 

 was governed by the rules of the .\tlantic Y. C, 'with owners at the 

 wheel, and mean length for meaamement ; the latter of course very 

 much iu favor of Fanita, giving her 3m. 12s. aUowance, though on 

 the more equitable basis of size they would have met on even 

 tenns. Virtually, then, IStr. Stewart was imposing a handicap upon 

 his yacht of over 3m. without any just cause— a striking example of 

 the"falacy of length measm-emeiit. Had the race been close, within 

 the margin of 3m., the cud mni "/kirv'' »oiild bave gone to 

 Fanita, though iu common"; i ■ , ,i, i,: , lekinged to 

 Eegina. In otbcr words, wlnl mo an allow- 



ance from the latter for her :. . . , L '.vas paying 



nothing for briuging to the Inic 1,1. ...o ..,.. o, o.ui.i „:id depth." In 

 this particular match Mr. Stewart may bave had ^o much faith in 

 Ilia fine vessel that, in order to bring about a contest, he was 

 m lliu g to abide by the handicap imposed by a faulty rule ; but had 



hirri to declii] 

 next season. ' 

 If it proved an 

 on one liand a 

 to speed. Inc 

 length measim 

 rig, for whicli 



A 'COON AS A SAILOB. 



AWAY back in the early fifties the nondescript yacht Decoy, as 

 she was then called from her pecidiar shape, startled" the 

 old stereotyped fogies by her speed, stability and comfort. She 

 i*as Rubsequently admited to be at least ten years in advance of 

 her time. Her "crew consisted of twelve young meu, all of them 

 merchants' clerks, then average weight being 125 pounds, slippery 

 as eels, and when stripped for a boat-race ahowmg the unmis- 

 takable signs of the gynnnasium. To see them slip over to wind- 

 ward with a forty-pound sand-bag would have delighted a cu'cus 

 actor. Discipline and a never-failmg conseiousuess of their abhity 

 added to the breeding of gentlemen made them real boat sailers. 

 They were cahed "qiull drivers," "tape me.asmers," by the old 

 boaters of those days ; yet how humiliating to old siiilors to be al- 

 ways beaten by squirts. I had been told by a noted mihtaiy man 

 that gentlemen made the best soldiers, and I selected my crew from 

 that element, beheving that the pride and sphit of a right meaning 

 man gives him superior power in any condition of life. That I was 

 correct was then demonstrated, and'sinee jiroveu by the success, as 

 business men, of every one of that httle crew. Most of them are 

 still living, and some" of them locat here. This is sm'e to meet 

 their eye, aa none of them seemed to have forgotten then- early 

 trauiing, or the hardpresam-e of business to have obliterated then: 

 taste for yachthig. They are Fobest asd Stkeaji men, and some- 

 how their sons take after them. Naturalists of the present day 

 seem to thiult that instinct in the annual creation amounts to rear 

 son. Oue of the Decoy crew was a pet 'coon, raised from a baby in 

 the boat-house, and he' could talk, and mtelhgently too, aa I will 

 show. 



Our yacht never sailed without liim, he was (as we terra it here) 

 " forward man.'' Often when the sea was heavy it would wash 

 him from the deck into the boiling foam, but hi an instant he was 

 again at his post, and gave us ah to understand by a pecuhar gut- 

 tm-al sound that he meant business- He delighted to sit on the 

 end of the bow-sprit, and when we would cross a boats bow, or 

 take the wind out of her saU he talked. Sometimes a combing sea- 

 wotild chase him up the jibstay a foot or two, but he never failed 

 to regain hia old position. In moderate weather, and the water 

 smooth, he would come aft, and looking at me knowingly, would 

 mount the tiller, and, with one paw placed a-fifeetionately on my 

 ann, would saU the boat for miles. Then he did talk. He had 

 been shot at several times from rival boats, and he knew them all 

 as \vell as we did. Once he was badly htrrt, and falhng from the 

 end of the bowsprit mto the water, I "picked him up as he drifted by. 

 Tbo liall had passed through his intestines. He was a sick 'eoou, 

 almost untp death. We ran into Gloucester were a surgeon, a friend 

 of ours, carefully attended to his wound. How often he thauked 

 that man for his' kindneas the God that has given hie to aU only 

 can tell, for he was then too weak to talk. We all loved him, and 

 it was reciprocated. How our hearts wanned and thi-obbod in 

 sympathy for that innocent, unofrendhig atom of the great Croa- 

 tian. H'e got well, but he iie\ er ventured out on the bowsprit any 

 more. Qiriet afternoons in the boat-house ho would climb nj) 

 gentlv into mv liaramock and softly comb down my heard with hia 

 paws,' and bnish the thes away until 1 snored, then he knew I w'fts 

 dead to all earthly things, and iu a muiute he would have my 

 watch aud money down to the last cent, and in fact everything 

 about my clothea". Uuhlie, however, the genus man— ■with all his 

 God-like gifts — he gave his plunder back, and told me plainly he 

 could have robbed me it he hked. There he is, as m hfe, and will 

 you beheve, he talks to me yet. E, G. W, 



LIGHT DEAUGHT THEOBIES. 



Editor Forest and Strfmn : 



I acareo know which a>stonishei 

 which Jlr. (;lapha 



bufiiri 



there been any wind, 1 

 ingly accepting an Uli : 

 (rize. It is in raises k i 

 aud tonnage that the 



glavinM.. .■Jiili;,..k > 

 Mr. 



d to pay d.--arly for so obhg- 

 ii-.leaclhig uiode of measmiug 

 i.-:v mated as to perfoi'iuance 

 lie leu;,'th standard is most 

 :\ur duos II lii-ticr matters to advauce that 

 :i-t as well bave built Hcgiua -nith more depth 



an J i i ikii, mav not happen to Buit him in the pui-umt 



or ■■-:■■ : ■ . , iliiio; iiVool il;.;- •jiii^iio,, tiiaitbegreat llarenud 



.1 vacht, invohing :t 



i.oh!iA-ior m rough 

 ■upl>-"l ^^^th great 

 ■- _ ■ ■ ., Ibis bo ti-ne or not 



iu uo wise all cctB oui- reasoning, for owuctb shotUd be allowed to 

 buUd as they aee fit, thereby develophig the best model by actual 

 experiment. A rule, then, which either handicaps or olae forces us 

 into a certain rut, ia certainly not one to be eucotuaged, though it 

 had a sound fotmdatiou in logic. 'This has never even been 

 claimed for length, the tmiversal reason assig^ned for its use bemg 

 its ••simphcity," as though it 'nere not simpla enough Iu stretch 

 the tape line a few times more and to perform a schoolboy's prob- 

 lem in multiplication and ditdsion to obtain the real and 'not a de- 



appareut ■want of logic deduced iro 

 boat, vu-tuaUy the '•skmim-k,-" was tn.-,l twcul' 

 been condemned thron' . ;, > .i ■■ 1 •■ i ■■ i. , i. 

 fifty-odd feet long, wii > ■ i ; 



a long stern. With ■.■- 1 . : - 

 absolutely good for uuta.o,., „,i.i. .n. .i .o. i, 

 would knock yom- teeth out. T sa-.v the llich 

 Fort Lafayette and make one tack up lo Hobol 

 ended at that time ; Jjuckv made six tacks 

 place and '■ Bob " Fish was at the tiller. I'ako 

 liiulders — what does theu- experience always 

 Steers ended in the defc|.i .-Vmerica : Fish in tb. 

 15ft. cb-aught: Kirbv iu the .\i-row. with beav, 

 draught for that dav. E\eu 2Stt. Band-bag bo 

 ■d6 deep a-i tliev Uheii to be ami carry uioy tkai 

 1 lemember when twoutv ba^gS was a set of 1 uU 



snugger iig : and I'oiiFsr ,vm.. ^ i ni: o., i 

 the cause of honest boats and classiu- i 

 'The smack which EUsMovtb built at II 

 the stocks, capsized uot Iouk ago m Si n 

 near ch-owniug. Doubtful principles, in 

 notice the Fafuiii has come out with dor 

 to the hounds Instead of currying the jil 

 The attempt at oopymg bv men who wi 

 being "practical," ia hardly a buccoss. 



lieliliv twice 

 .lie weight. 



a:!Sft. boat; 



ov they use 

 iuely. And 

 lenL If we 

 ill be found 

 r foim and 



,i.l'.o.uriug 



-ii.'l ■' ■■■ came 



I i.niU yachts on. I 

 d tail, but both lead 

 ay up the masthead, 

 lut the idea of not 

 A Yachtsilu*. 



