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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[.Text 13, 1883. 



THE LYNM CLUB AT THE TOURNAMENT.— Edit or Forest and 

 Stream: In your issue of June 29, page. 434, among the reports of "The 

 Trap," I note that the Lynn Central Club make an assertion which 

 shows either lamentable ignorance in common parliamentary usages, 

 B ji iv i i,i, ,1 hv the non-attention to the rules of the Massachusetts 

 in, of which they are members, or "pure cussed 

 the slang phrase, covering as it does much of the 

 Eew won ■ The facte of the case are these: 

 -laws and shooting rules of the association have 

 r undergone revision by a committee appointed 

 he whole matter having (as required by Article 

 ition)been proposed at one meeting, laid over 

 the next, due notice of the same having been 

 . belonging to the association. Besides, copies of 

 ■been forwarded to every member of the asso- 

 ■ ing no excuse for anyone to remain in ignorance 

 >ur which reads as follows: "Contestants must 

 n representing their home club, :". c, with the 

 si lence, or the club with which the shooter has 

 tlie six months previous." The writer 



at the tournament, though e 



(JJaaS B: 11 t 



English laui 



i 

 during the t 

 for I!!- r«un 

 XITT. of the 



and acted u\ 

 served on e^ 

 the new edit 



ciation. ther 

 of. Shootiu 

 shoot with i 

 club nearest 

 practised th 

 v;ns prase 

 and fails 



the committee carrying out the rules as laid "down. The remedy 

 should have been (as an Irishman would say, before the sickness.) in 

 attendance of the club's representatives fit the association meetings, 

 opposing and defeating, if in 'he majority, the alterations of thecou- 

 stitutiou, etc., or failing in that, contenting themselves with the posi- 

 tion of araiuority and behavior befit ting men not schoolboys; and not 

 become with others, as was manifested on several oceasions'duringthc 

 late tournament, kickers and grumblers. The least a club can do is 

 to take its part in the management of any matter, and to forward 

 the purposes of its organization by attending the meetings of the as- 

 sociation, and take part in the deliberations, and not leave to a few 

 the whole task, and then grumble at the result of their labors.— T 

 (Boston, July 1, 1882.) 



FALL EXYER, Mass., July 4.— The Fall River Gun Club held a 

 glass ball and clay pigeon shoot on July 4, which was well attended, 

 and all present had a very pleasant time. The matches resulted as 

 follows: 



1st— 7 balls, Valentine and Bufflnton 1st. Allen 2d, Wood 8d. 



2d— 10 balls. Ho II 1st, Allen 2d. Bufflnton and Braley 3d. 



3 1— 5 birds, Bufflnton and Braley 1st, II. Bralev 2d,' Wood 3d. 



4th— 6 pair balls, Valentine 1st, Bufflnton 2d, Allen 3d, Wood and H. 

 Braley 4th. 



5th— 7 birds. Hall 1st, Bralev 2d, Valentine 3d. 



'■•i !■-": ' ill'-, E - ib ,'ii ■;■--' Yni:'.:, ■ : . l^vh ■ :i: 



7th— 10 balls, Hall 1st. Valentine 2.1, Bralev 3d! 



8th— 7 ba'Is, Valentine and Bufflnton 1st, Hathaway 2d, Hall 3d. 



The eighth match for silver cup was shot to-day and resulted as 

 follows: 



Birds 



Valentine 1 111111111 



Jackson " 1 111111111 



Sheldon 1 11111110 1 



Bufflnton 1 1110 11111 



Hall .1001110111 



Curtis 1 10 1111111 



Cornell.... 1 110 11 



Wood 1100101110 



Ties on 19. 



Balls 

 111110 111 1-19 

 11110 1111 1—lfl 

 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1—18 

 1111111 0—16 

 111110 110 1-15 

 1 1 Ow —10 



1110001 000—9 

 010100 000—8 



Birds 



1 1 



1 



Balis 

 1 1 1-6 

 1 1-3 



shot, and 



W Glaccum...31 

 ChasGranger.25 

 J. Glaccum...21 



Chas Nagel...21 

 F.lener. ... ..21 



L Maisch 21 



Valentine 



Jackson 



Valentine winning- cup for the second time. 



The regular 20 ball match for club gold badge was the 

 resulted in Sheldon winning the badge. 



THE ALGONQUIN GUN CLUB.— Regular semi-monthly contest 

 on July 6. 



Dr Griswold 11110111 110101101 Jl 1—16 



Hil> 111111110111111110 1 1-18 



Hanna 1 110111111111111010 1—17 



Saner 11 111 11 1 11 111111010 1—18 



Auld,Sr ...0 001000111111011101 1—13 



Wilson . 001111110100011001 0—10 



Cassebeer 1 111111111111111011 i_ig 



VanSehaick 01010010111110 1010 1—11 



Auld. Jr 1 110111101101111101 1-16 



Lundie 1 1 1 1 1 001 110101 1 1 000 0-12 



Greener 111101011 11 11 1 0011 1 1—16 



Gordon 11 1 1 1 1 1 001 1 1 1 0001 1—13 



Edey 10101 10111111110111 1-16 



In shooting off ties Cassebeer won first medal. Sauer won second 

 medal, and Hill got third medal. 



BATH, Me., July 5, 1882.— At a prize shoot given by the Eastern 

 Steamboat Company, at Mouse Island yesterday, participated in by 

 members oE Sagadahoc Fish and Game Protective Association anil 

 Riverside Club, of Topsham, the following score was made. Fifteen 

 balls, 18yds. rise, Card rotary trap: 



Charles Goud ...1 1 1 11110:1 mill— 14 Ed Keene 111110111111111—14 



AG Goud 111011111011111— IS EBVinlekersonllOOOlllOinOOO— 8 



Geo H Goud . . .110111111 101111—13 H A Stetson . . . 111000011111110—10 

 Cyrus Keay.. ..111111101111111— 14 A S Alexander. 11101 1001101111— 11 



SumuerStrout.. 111011111101111—13 A Leighton 111111101111111—14 



MCHall 111101110111110-12 .las Purington .010011110010111— 9 



In shouting off ties on 14, Cyrus Keay broke 6 balls straight, taking 

 first prize. A. Q. Goud took second prize, breaking 7 out of 9 balls. 

 M. C. Hall took third prize. 



FIRST GERMAN GUN CLUB, NEW YORK.— The regular quar- 

 terly shoot of the above named club took place at their club grounds 

 New Doip, S. I., June 31: 



H Zahn 21yds. 0010111111— 7 Br Hudson.. ..21yds. 1111010111—8 



1111110111-9 Ch Brown 21 1111100111—8 



- : : 1 r;.:l,r:ler 21 0011111111-8 



0111100111-7 J G Klein 21 1011011110-7 



0110000101-4 WWhigam....21 1011111111-9 



OOlMlOOOll— 4 Fr Pf sender... 27 1111101010—7 

 1111111111-10 Adam Goetz..21 1091001110— 5 



The first prize, consisting of a gold medal, was awarded to L. 

 Maixh. 



W, Glucum and W. Whigam shot off for the second prize, the 

 former winning. 



WASHINGTON, D.C., July 7.— The members of the Capital City 

 Gun Club made the following scores at twenty balls each on their 

 grounds to-day. Balls sprung from a Card rotary trap, screened, at 

 18yds. : 



Blagrove 11111 10111 11111 11111—19 



Farnsworth 11101 Hill 11111 10111—18 



Wagner 11110 11111 10111 11111—18 



Mack ... 01111 11111 10101 lim— 17 



Peck Hill 01100 11110 01111—15 



Short. 11111 01101 10101 10110-14' 



Adams 11100 00110 11101 01011-12 



Horsford , 11100 10001 10111 10110-12 



H.King 01111 11101 00110 01010—12 



Morhous OHIO 11011 10000 11101—12 



Stoddard 10111 11110 10100 00101—12 



Young 10001 11101 01101 10101—12 



Eldredge 01100 OHIO 11011 00010-10 



MOLTNE, Til.— Score of a match shot by Messrs. H. A. Stewart and 

 Jap. Magill: 35 glass balls each, 31yds. rise: 



Magiii 11111 m 10 11111 11110 11110 11110 niio-so 



Stewart 11111 11110 Hill 01101 11111 Hill 10110-30 



Second match, at 20 balls each: 



Stewart 11111 11111 11110 11111—19 



Magill , 11111 um mn imo—19 



Magill and Stewart are the champion trap shots of the town. They 

 shot, a pigeon match the other day, plunge traps, which Stewart won 

 by two birds, the score being: 



Mills ,...:imi 11111 11110 11110 11110—22 



Stewart 11111 Hill Hill moi 11111—24 



TOPSHAM, Me., July 6.— Regular shoot of River Club for club 

 badge. 16 single balls and 6 pair. Card rotary trap, 18yds. rise. 



AQGoud 11111111011111)0 11 11 11 10 10-20 



G E Keene IIIIO1II1IIHOI 01 11 11 01 00-1!) 



SStrout 110101110101110 10 10 10 10 10—15 



C LTork 010010101111X110 10 10 11 00 01-12 



CKeny 101111111111110 10 11 10 10 11-20 



G M Lee.... ...00100111 1110010 00 10 00 10 10—11 



O Goud .111111111111110 00 01 10 11 11—20 



Ties on 20: A. Q. Goud 10111, 4; 0. Keay, 11111, 6; C Goud, 01011. 3. 



WHITF.STONE GUN CLUB, July 4, 1882.— The third match for the 

 championship goblet took place to-day, with seven men at the trap. 

 There was also a second pi ize, a silver scarf-pin. The day was windy, 

 cousr quently some of the scores were a little "off." Ten clay pigeons. 

 15yds. rise, club rules: 



..0111111111—9 A C Wilmerding 0110100101—5 



..1110)11001—7 I J Mirritt, Jr (J011101000— 4 



, .0110110111— J TH Pratt lOOOOw. — 1 



1110000111—6 



Ties on 7 for second pls.ee: Smith 111. 8; White 010, 1. 8imonds 

 took the cup and Smith the scarf pin. 



CH Simou.i.-. 

 IT Be Witt Sun'tl 

 lv G White, Jr. . 

 M Hoffman.. 



LYNN CENTRAL SHOOTING CLUB.— Lynn, Mass.. Juno 37.— 

 Match No. 12. The scores made in the above match were as follows: 



E W Webster 0111101111-8 F A Johnson HOlOllllO— 7 



H W. George 11 11110111-9 J II Frost 1111101011-8 



J P Randall 1019110010—5 



MINNESOTA TOURNAMENT.— The shooting tournament, held 

 under the auspices of the Minnesota State Sportsmen's Association, 

 is now in progress at Como, having begun yesterday. The shooting 

 will continue through to-morrow. 



altogether, the performance of the Maggie bids fair to eclipse that r 

 the Madge, and by the time the. season is ended, the superior spec 



nd the old school doctri 



IBS put aside once and 



AND STRKA3I rejoicC3, 



fdchtinq mjd (femwmiQ. 



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15— Merrimack Y. C, Club Match. 



18-Buffalo Y. G, Annual Matches. 



18— New Bedford Y. C, Annual Cruise, Narragansett Bay. 



21-Quincy Y. C, Third Cluo Match. 



•2-i— Kastern Y. C, Cruise Eastward. 



22— Hull Y. G, Annual Club Matches. 



22— Atlantic Y. O. Annual Cruise. 



22-Jeffries Y. G, Club Match. 



23-Quaker City Y. C. Harbor Cruise. 



25— Jersey City Y. C. Ladies' Day. 



29— Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. Open Boats and Canoes 



39— Beverly Y. C, Second Championship Match, Swampscott. 



29— Royal Nova Scotia Y. S. 1st. Class, Vice-Commodore's Cup 



39— Royal Nova Scotia Y. S. 2d Class. Rear-Commodore's Cup. 



29— Royal Nova Scotia Y. S. 3d Class, Secretary's Cup. 



2— New York Y. G, Annual Cruise. 



3— New Bedford Y. C, Second Class, $50. Principal Clubs. 



5-Jeffries Y. C, Club Match. 



5— Hull Y. G, Sweepstakes Race. 

 5-19-Quaker City Y. C., Annual Cruise. 



8— Salem Bay Y. C, Second Chamoionship. 



8— Jersey City Y. C, Ladies' Day. 

 8-12-AmeriVn.! ; tu-n- A n .oeiait .r, I't-sun [„■.!;:■< eni-.-.'... 

 10— Southern Y. C, Annual Sweepstakes. 

 12-Huli Y. C, Second Club Matches. 

 13— Merrimack Y. G. Club Match. 



14— Royal Nova Scotia Y. S., Ocean Match to Chester, 1 prize 

 16— Royal Nova Scotia Y. S., Chester Town Cup, 2<1 prize. All 



Comers. 

 18— Roval Nova Scotia Y. S., Ocean Match to Halifax, 1 prize. 

 19— Hull Y. C, Open Races. 

 19— Jeffries Y. C, Club "Uatch. 

 22— Jersey City Y. C, Ladies' Day. 

 23-Quincy Y. C, Fourth Club Match. 



Southern Y. C, Tnter-State Regatta. 



23-HuIl Y. C. Club Championship Match. 



24— New Bedford Y. C, 2d Class Schooners, 1st Class Sloops, 



8100, $75. Principal Clubs. 

 26— Beverly Y. G, Open Regatta, Marblehead. 



em Bay Y. G, Championship Sail-off. 

 89— Hull Y. G, Club Championship Match. 



2— Beverly Y. C, Third Championship Match, Marblehead. 



2- Jeffries Y. G . Club Match. 



3— Royal Nova Scotia Y. S.. Mayor's Cup and third prize. 



4— East. River Y. C, Fall Matches. 

 Hull Y. G, Club Championship Sail-off. 



4-Quiucy Y. C. Fifth Club Match. 



5-,Iersey City Y. G, Ladies' Day. 



9— Merrimack Y. C, Open to All Match. 

 10— Quaker City Y. G, Harbor Cruise. 

 16— Royal Nova Scotia Y. S., Three Classes, one prize each. 



Royal Nova Scotia Y. S.,' Yachts be bs sailing race. 



Royal Nova Scotia Y, S.. Charlottetown, P. E. IT 



19— Jersey City Y. G, Ladies' Day. 

 24— Quaker City Y. G, Harbor Cruise. 



1— Quaker City Y. c . s.'i.veeu c-uise. 

 3— Jersey City Y. C, Ladies' Day. 



MAGGIE'S BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE. 



THERE has all along been some hope in the minds of many that 

 the string of defeats we had to take at the. hands of Madge last 

 year were exceptional. That we had been "taken unawares." and 

 that lack of preparation was the key to our losses. To the closer 

 observer this seemed a very lame excuse, since no one discovered 

 this lack of preparation beforehand which unfolded itself with such 

 astonishing rapidity after the battle. But five minutes before the 

 first of those memorable races the cutter rig with its double jibs and 

 loose-foot mainsail was "pooh-poohed." A single jib, you know, was 

 a much better driving sail, and a laced mainsail could lie much 

 closer; and, besides, who ever knew a square-headed topsail to set 

 on a windy Then again, lead ballast was all nonsense; iron was the 

 thing; good enough for American boats, and nobody cared whether 

 the foreigner carried lead or not. So much the worse for him if he 

 did. It was a foregone conclusion that the cutter would be beaten 

 "as though she were at anchor"— the very expression put into cold 

 type by more than one of our esteemed but very poorly informed 

 con temporaries. 



Whew! But how our eyes were suddenly wrenched open when the 

 news flew up the city that instead of the supposed monotonous sail 

 over for our own adored light draft, the "nasty, deep thing" had 

 turned the tables on us and" made a procession out of the affair, to 

 the utter discomfiture of the antediluvian sloop rig and those pet 

 theories about "sliding over the water." When the firstbeating was, 

 to use a vulgar but expressive phrase, thoroughly "rubbed in" by 

 five more similar disasters, until no fresh victims could be found to 

 come to the scratch, and we had to resort to challenging the little 

 ten-tonner with a sloop twice or thrice, her size, in a vaiu effort to 

 keep up a bold front: then, all of a sudden, we discovered that we 

 "had been taken unawares"! Yet the fact of Madge's coming had 

 been heralded to all nearly a year beforehand by Forest and Stream. 

 and the owners of the boats matched against" her knew of her ex- 

 pected advent and all about her record abroad, and had been cau- 

 tioned by this journal that we might find in the cutter the veritable 

 Tartar she. proved herself to be ! "Taken unawares" under the cir- 

 cumstances was very "thin"' as a reason, however agreeable to sooth- 

 ing national pride. 



By a stroke of good fortune an Eastern sloop got in ahead of the 

 Madge, but was roundly beaten the next day. Yet upon this bit of 

 fluke" our friends in the East tauilded new hopes, and pointed with a 

 s mil e of calm, conscious superiority to the poor, thrashed fellows of 

 New York, and said: Madge may beat you, with your flat-irons, easy- 

 enough, but just bring that cutter round this way and we will show 

 her what sloops can do ! It so happened, lucky for Boston, that the 

 cutter had satiated her owner with the belt of scalps clipped in New 

 York, and the clipper went out of commission. So the issue, or sup- 

 posed issue, with Eastern yachts, was still an open question. 



The lull was soon to be broken, and a lesson (haven home in the 

 East as decisive as that taught us here in New York. This time no 

 one can aver being "taken unawares." All Boston, all the world 

 knew the crack fifteen-ton Maggie was coming. Her doings at home 

 had filled columns of Forest and Stream, and were duly noted by 

 the local press. All knew what was to be expected. Yachts likely to 

 meet the foreign flyer were thoroughly overhauled, put in best pos- 

 sible condition, sails were bent from the famous loft of McManus & 

 Son, and none better are made in America. 



So in course of events Maggie put in an appearance and underwent 

 the stereotyped jibes of bucolic critics, and her stock was sent below 

 par No match for Boston sloops sure. But Maggie bided her time. 

 She first showed up at the annual race of the Eastern Y. C, June 31, 

 and there started in by leading the whole fleet, big and little, in hei 

 beat to the first mark when the big Addie, double the cutter's size 

 and 15ft. longer on load line, succeeded in covering the cutter and 

 eventually ran by. The cutter then began closing the gap when the 

 jaws of her gaff gave way and she retired. Of course, she failed to 

 score officiary, but that was of little moment, since she had more than 

 demonstrated her ability to do so had it not been for the mishap. 

 Consequently all hnnds'were eager so see what she would do in her 

 :t attempt. In the Dorchester match, sailed June 3, she came t< 



the line a second time, took the head 

 of about the same load line length, an 

 her maiden win. It is true that Hespi 

 wind during the contest but at the 

 virtually landed the good things offet 

 preconceived ideas in Boston and the 

 built craft quaked just a little in theii 

 But a good deal more quaking was i 

 the flying fifteen again 

 purse in the regatta ge 



all, 



ichiding s 



t Hesper 

 ed, scoring 

 r retired owing to a lull in the 

 time the cutter had already 

 ad. This was a trifle against 

 most ardent admirers of home 

 shoes. 



1 store, for only two days after 

 up smiling and raced all coiners for a 

 •ously provided" for by the wise CityFathi 



of Boston. A glance at our reports will give del ails of what happened. 

 Maggie gave the fleet one pea); at her fantnil, beat big and little, 

 good and mighty good, and landed her game in a neat clean fashion, 

 which proved stunning to the sloop school and thrilled with joy those 

 who favor progress of ideas and improvements in our models. Taken 



lies 



c.d til 



mgh to w 



have giv 



ish the day at hand when the 



re good 



ay to 

 ivful inflictioi 



of 1 



tional scale by a big euttt 

 as certainly as the sun rises and sets, unle 

 upon some other string than the woll-wc 

 which the praises of beam and the disec 

 have been sung till we have been nearly 

 lanche of thrashings from Madge, Mayg'h 

 Bird i rto the bargain. 

 The childish stipulations in the A-t 



•u, threadbare cord upon 

 nflture of depth and lead 

 overwhelmed by 

 and the catboat Mocking 



9 led to 



for that baubh 



Cup deed of gift make ub 



the 



fe enough from 

 correspondence 

 will pay us a vis 

 mento, though . 

 what are we to i 

 Fast as she is or. _ . 

 and reaching is not winning 1 

 ter? Fanny, perhaps: I at n 

 in a blow! Wehave not yet f( 

 that a flat-iron could cope wit 

 occasion. Mischief is out of 1 

 Julia— well, it is a question wh 

 hope? Echo answers, Whev 

 courting the favor of clubs am 

 be for the sake of occasional ' 

 door, shuts his eyes and floats 

 ride on the popular wave than .., , 

 will valiantly screech Gracie and Fannie 

 old traps, but we fancy a warning from a journal like I 

 Stream, whose ideas and principles have been founder 

 such repeated searching tests in the case of our smaller 1 

 be heeded now that all doubts on the question have bee 



_., but from Our private 

 believe that a crack British ■■forty" 

 challenge for a purse or private me- 

 ■pudinted Cup. And pray, 

 rr Surely not the Gracie. 

 r performer to windward, 

 if Who else can we mUB- 

 catch it outside the Rook 



« i 1 rasher on such an 

 of. in racing order, and 

 Wherein, then, lies our 

 tge newspaper scribe, 

 ■piiiate the powers that 

 mt at the club's back 

 It is so much easier to 

 > have any principles. Such worthies 

 ' he way of 



about r 



wfl] 



moved. 



Our warning is this: If ever a fair battle between our big craft. 

 and an acknowledged ei ickcutter from abroad is brought "about 

 our national fame as yacht, builders will sink out of sight in a flay 

 unless radical departure is made, in new vessels from the preceding 

 shoal or beamy type. We gave that warning before Madge arrived 

 and we lost half our prestige as a yacht-racing nation. Maggie fol- 

 lows up in Boston waters, and even our own national invention, the 

 catboat, is knocked out of time by a brand-new, untried British pro- 

 duction a few days after her launch, before sails were stretched or 

 her tnm was got, or the crew could learn how to take her! 



The practical bearing of Maggie's flue doings upou the question of 

 type we will return to upon another occasion. In the. meantime 

 builders and yachtsmen have food for thought enough to provide, in 

 the light of experience gained, for the day fast approaching when 

 we will have to face a big outcer for better or for worse. 



AN UNFORTUNATE CRUISE. 



Editor Forest and Stream; 



The cruise of the Pacific Yacht Club, a San Francisco organization, 

 to Mare Island, on Juno 17, was an unfortunate one. About ten yachts 

 started up. When near Mare Island light the main boom of the 

 O'Connor jibed over, and a young man became entangled in the 

 sheet and was killed by the force with which his head was brought 

 in contact with a quarter bitt. This threw a damper over the whole 

 cruise, of course. Instead of the arranged race on the next day the 

 yachts started back as thev pleased, singly iusti ad , ,f a-s a fleet The 

 wind blew nearly a gale in Pablo Bay, where there was a very heavy 

 sea running. Borneo? the yachts had to square away for the- straits 

 again. One yacht, the Elia, went out three limes, each time bein" 

 compelled to return. The last time, in racing with another yacht! 

 and trying to "head reach" so as to get to windward of another In 

 stays, she caught her centerboard on a rock, as they were standing 

 inclose to the rocks close under Mare island lighthouse 1 hole was 

 stove in her bottom, and she was beached to save her from sinking" 

 The sea broke over her on the beach, so she was completely wrecked 

 The sloop Annie, formerly of New York, attempted to beat down 

 under balanced-reefed mainsail and close-reefed jib. Inth 

 sea off Point Penole she would jump sometimes nearly out of water, 

 so her centerboard could be seen. Finally she dropped off a sea, and 

 her centercase sprung a bad leak. They had to bear up and scud for 

 shelter. The big Aggie, with five tons of lead on her keel and an 

 iron centerboard, stood way over on the flats, ami when in rather 

 shoal water the centerboard chain broke and the. in >n hoard anchored 

 the yacht immovably. A passing steamer took the party home to 

 the city, the yacht remaining till next morning. This is the first 

 account on record of any one being killed while on a yachting trip in 

 San Francisco Bay. It is also the first tunc a yacht was ever lost in 

 the bay. The San Francisco Y. C. has been organized since 1869, and 

 never lost a member or a boat. The gentleman killed was not a 

 yachtsman, but. was one of the guests aboard. The one who lost his 

 boat is a good sailor, but thought his boat would do as much in a sea 

 way as in smoother water. Paoificus. 



RACING IN A BLOW. 



THREE or four years ago our San Francisco correspondent, 

 "Sancelito," wrote an account of a nice on that bay, in whioh 

 '•e mentioned casually that the vawl Startled Fawn had carried her 

 lil well beating to windwai d against a 35-mile breeze. Some of our 

 »aders took "Sancelito" to tasic for e\;u;i'eratiug the force of the 

 ind, but he sent us then a certificate from the U. S. signal c ~ 



that on that day, d 

 the windward 



sends us the foil 



igthe 



- Hi mil.. 



n 3 T 



wind blew in the. channel who 

 S per hour. The same gonti 



betwei 

 takes t 

 Ovsci- 

 time t 

 meter 



u the yachts Nellie, and 

 iceasion to write us that 

 'er for the record of th 

 he yachts started, it w 



ing till 

 SUtiol 

 )ehim 





nt of 



unsatisfaetor 



the. 



olow 



1 he force of the wind at the 

 somewhat, under the lee, being 

 Server adds to this live miles an 

 e channel. This makes the wind 87 miles per hour, equal 

 : of 6.84 pounds to the squn re foot, a good breeze to beat 

 ■d against. Down by Hunter's Point, to leeward of the 

 big wind gaps in the hills, the wiud was worse than off Fort point, 

 and some of the squalls there keeled the yachts nearly over. Both 

 yachts had lead keels and iron ccnterboards. The San Francisco 

 yachts are heavily rigged and low sparred, for it must be remem- 

 bered these are not storm winds, but are the regular summer after- 

 noon zephyrs of the San Francisco climate. According to signal 

 service calculations a "high wind" is from 3.1 to 40 mi'es; from 4U to 

 CO miles is a gale. A breeze ,'!.) to 3.j miles in the channel in San 

 Francisco is common, and 25 to 80 an every afternoon exp: 1 1 ■ 

 summer. 



The race between the Nellie and Flour do Lis had been looked 

 forward to with great interest. The Fleur de Lis belongs to the 

 Pacific Y. C. , and « as built by J. Nichols. The Nellie belongs to the 



to the 



San Francisco Y. C , 

 the club and builder of the pi 

 The Nellie is 60ft. over all, 5B.U 

 has a heavy lead keel and iron 

 all, Sfl.lO on water line, 18.6 be; 



built hv Matthew Tun 

 •sChispa, C. 



lil, Two 



stc; 



. and 4ft. Sin, d 

 ind 7 tons iosidi 

 .insa.il, and the 



Flel 



easui'er of 



oand Pearl. 

 wsbft.,and 

 J 63ft. over 

 i:, nj ■ d 

 elhe carries 

 b Lis a gaff 

 ncr- 



rd 1 



tops were crowded with pi 

 with double reefed foresail 

 whole foresail single reef 

 free to Hunters Point, roui 

 the beam to Goat Island, 

 Nellie, contrary to all expectat 

 leeward stake boat. The othei 

 the wind. They now had a hard 

 miles. The 

 sorneh 



i the hill 



B. The Fleur do Lis crossed Hi- hie 

 i boimet out of jib. The Nellie had 

 namsail and bonnet off jib. They ran 

 g which brought the wind forward of 

 ere the windward work began. The 

 , gained 2 minutes 34 seconds to the 



tahi i 



.apposed to be 



fastest on 



aft. Ovi 



sail out. 



nds 



head against the opposing fot 

 Windward and he let her take 1 

 keel. The helmsman of the Fl 

 of lead on the kct 1, whs afraid 

 ing been rigged by rule of th 

 along losmg ground all the tin 

 Gate, where the v, esther stake 1 

 to stow her foresail. The mi 

 competitor so far al 

 ignominiously beaten 

 heavy puffs " 



ng. blowing some tbJT&y-sev¥D miles an 

 short sea. The beat was against a three 

 boats had all Shgj could do to make 

 '■ pi. Turner sailed the Nellie to 

 ily sale with her lead 

 Lis, although he had live tons 



-:.,..,! .. bid . tivei spurred, htiv- 



:umb as a racer. He kept "pinching" 

 ne. When the Nellie Denied the Golden 

 boat was plunging bows under, she had 

 ,an astera eewighis 



i helm and squared away tor home, 

 . tteaed of the 

 lent clubs, and 



was a boat sailor, not a yachtsman. Such an occurrence never 



