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HUDSON TOURNAMENT. 



UDSON, Wis.. Oct. 15. -The following scores were nmdeat the 

 secona annual tournament of the Hudson Rod and Gun CluD, 

 Sept. 31. 32 and 23. The aUcndance was very light, hut the shoot- 

 iTie: was \ip to the average. . ,^ . . , 



'Match at lo siniilc T'.-(iria hlarkbirds, 18yds. rise, National rules: 



Kopriva llllliUlimil— 15 Hosford 111101111101111-18 



Wilcox llllOI 1 \ 11011 10-13 Bonte niimill01111-l4 



Balsom 111111111111111-15 Cam 000001101011111- 8 



Thomas 111101101101 111-12 Baker 010111100111010- 9 



McCmie UOllOllllllllO-12 Jones limOOlOllllll-13 



Ties on 15 for first divided. Ties on 12 for fourth at 3 birds, 21yds.: 



Wilcox 111-3 Thomas --^IJ— 3 



McCune 000-0 Jones 111—3 



Second tie: „ n 



Wilcox 110-2 Thomas 111-3 



Match at Peoria blackbirds, 1.5yds.: 



Jonea , 00 10 11 10 11-0 Balson 11 11 10 U 11-0 



Wilcox .11 10 01 11 10-7 McCune 10 11 10 11 00-6 



rfliomas 41 11 11 11 10-« Hosford 10 11 00 11 00-5 



Konriva .10 U 11 11 10-8 Carli 10 01 10 10 10-5 



Bonte 10 00 10 00 10-3 Baker 11 10 10 00 11-ti 



Ties on 6 at ISyds.: Won by Jones. 



Match at 10 singles and 5 pairs Peoria blackbirds: 



Wilcox 1111111111 11 11 10 11 11-19 



BalBom imillOOl 11 11 11 11 11-18 



Jones 0100011101 01 00 10 00 10- 8 



Thomas 1111011111 11 10 10 11 10-16 



Kopriva 0001111111 10 10 11 11 01— M 



Bonte 0001101110 00 01 10 10 00- 8 



McCune 1110111011 00 00 10 10 11-12 



Match at English sparrows, Sfiyds. rise, both barrels, National 



Wilcox 0011111101-7 Kopriva 1101111101-8 



Balsom 0111100111-7 Bonte 1011111010-7 



gliomas 1100111111—8 Jones OllOlOlOll-O 



McCune 1111011111-9 



Ties of 8 divided, ties of 7 won by WHcox. 



Second match at Peoria blackbirds, 15 singles, ISyds. rise: 



Wilcox 001111111110011-11 McCune OllOllinillOll-13 



Balsom 111111111111111-15 Paul 111110111111101—13 



Jones 110111111110111-13 Thomas inillllllDUll-14 



Ties on 13 divided. 



For best average score in Events Nos. 1, -3 and 5 Balsom won first 

 with a scoJe of & out of .50, Thomas and Kopriva second with 43, 

 Wilcox third with '13. 



Match at Peoria blackbirds, 7 singles and 4 pairs; 



Balsom 1111111 11 10 11 10-14 



Jones 1111111 11 11 11 11-15 



Wilcox 1111101 U 11 10 10-13 



■ Thomas 1111011 10 1] 11 11-13 



Kopriva. 1111110 10 11 11 11—13 



Mctjnne UlOllO 10 10 11 10-10 



Ties of 18 divided. 



Match at live pigeons, 10 singles, 30yds. rise, both barrels: 



Wilcox lllillUOl-9 McCune 111101 1110—8 



Thomas 0111111111—9 Jones 1111110110—8 



Paul lOlllimi-9 Carli 1010110001-5 



Balsom 1111111101-9 Long John 1110111111-9 



Goss 0100110011-5 WiUman 0101110111-7 



Ties of 9 miss and out. Paul and Long John tied on 6 and d i vided. 

 Ties of 5 won by Goss. 



Match at 10 single English sparrows, 26yds. rise, both barrels; 



Wilcox llOllOlOJO-6 Jones 0011011001-i-: 



Paul 1111011010-7 Hosford 1101111110-8 



Thomas 1110111111—9 Carli 0101000000-3 



Balsom 1111011111—9 McCune 1111110110- 8 



Willman 1001000100-3 



Ties on 9 and 8 divided. 



Tliird Day— Team shoot at 10 singles and 5 pair Peoria black- 

 birds: 



Hudson Gun Club. 



Balsom UHIUIOI 11 11 11 10 11-18 



Jones lOOulllllO 01 01 11 10 10-13—30 



St. Paul Gun Club. 



Wilcox - 1111011001 U 11 11 10 10—15 



M F Kennedy 1111111101 10 10 01 00 10-13—28 



Stillwater (iun Club. 



Harris 1111101011 01 11 11 11 01-10 



McCune 1111111000 10 01 U 10 10-13-39 



St. Paul Gun Club. 



Thomas lllimill 11 10 10 11 11-18 



Kopriva 1111111111 11 10 10 10 10—10-34 



St. Paul Gun Club. 



Daly ..lllllUlOO 11 01 00 10 00-12 



Spencer.... llllllllll 10 10 01 11 01-16—28 



Ties on 18— For best individual score at 6 singles and 3 pairs birds: 

 Balsom Ullll 1111—10 Thomas 110111 1111—9 



Match at Peoria blackbirds, G singles and 2 pairs: 



Wilcox Ullll 01 11- 9 Kennedy 101010 10 10-5 



Daly 111011 11 11- 9 Harris Ullll 11 01—9 



Balsom Ullll 11 11-10 McCune Ullll 10 10-8 



Kopriva 111101 11 11— 9 Thomas 110111 11 11—9 



.Tones lllOU 10 10— 7 Spencer 111110 11 00—7 



On shoot off for second, Wilcox and Thomas divided. 



Match at Eve pigeons 8 singles, 30yds.. both barrels: 



Paul 01111111-7 Spen cer 10111100-5 



Thomas , 10001111 -5 Harris UOll 101-6 



Balsom lllllUO-7 ]\Ic Cun e 00101000—2 



Wilcox 11100011-5 Goss 10110100-4 



Kennedy 10011111-6 Jones. 10111010-5 



Daly. 01111011-6 



Ties of 7 and 6 divided; ties of 5 divided on shoot off by Thomas 

 and Jones. 



Match at Peoria blackbirds. 10 singles: 



Balsom 1011111011-8 Paul UOOIUUI— 8 



Kennedy 0010010111— 5 Spencer 1111111101—9 



Wilcox.' 0011101111—7 Goss 1000000100-2 



Thomas OlUllllU -9 Hosford 1000011101—5 



McCune UOOllllOl-7 Harris OUOOIOIU— 6 



Daly lOUUllU— 9 Jones lUllOllOl-8 



Prize for best average (fine gold watch valued at 875), won by 

 Jas. P. Balsom; second (,|3o), F. M. Pain: third (Dickerman ham- 

 merless shotgun), Chas. Paul; fourth ($15), Jas. L. Wilcox; fifth 

 (|10), McCune; sixth (2.51bs. Dupont powder), H. W. Jones. 



Beauttfol. 



THE INTERNATIONAL MATCH.-William Ellieott, of Laun- 

 ceston, Cornwall, MTites to the Shootino Times, London, Oct. 8: I 

 notice with pleasure an international shooting challenge from J. 

 E. Bloom, Esq., Cincinnati, O,, published In your last issue. Un- 

 doubtedly this friendly invitation will be accepted by British 

 sportsmen, and a representative team selected to test their skill 

 against the Americans. I should like to ask thi-ongh the medium 

 of your interesting paper whether it is possible for any one who is 

 not a member of any gun club to be chosen as one of the team, if 

 his skill in shooting is proved to be one of the highest oi'der? 

 "Wlietlier the team would be chosen by a gun club committee, or 

 -\sliether there should be an open tournament and the best men 

 selected, or at least placed on the list from which the team would 

 eventually be selected'? As it will be a great honor to be a repre- 

 sentative, some method should be adopted to give every one a 

 chance to prove their being eligible.— WiLXOLiM Ellicott. 



NEW DORP, S. I., Oct. 21.— Emerald Gun Club, of New York 

 city, regular shoot at live pigeons, ground traps, 31, 35 and 30yds. 

 rise, SOvds. bound, club rules, four prizes; 



T Oseikei, 21yds . . . .0001000110- 3 S McMahon, 21 lOUlUUO— 8 



R Regan, 21 llllOUlU— 9 P J Murphy, 31 OOIOOOUU— 5 



G V Hudson, 30 lUUOllU— 9 P J Keeuan, 31 1000001010- 3 



NMaesel, 30 UllOllOU— 8 HRubino, 35 1100001100— 4 



T Codey,85 1111111111-10 PButz,25 1100111111- 8 



C M Grainger, 35. . .1111111011— 9 J Glaccum, 30. . . . . . .0101101011— 6 



M Cherry, 21 0101010011- 5 J Mackin, 31 lUlOOUOl— 7 



J Maesel, 25 IIUUIUU- 9 A McHale, 21 1001110101- 6 



J K Voss, 25 lOOmim— 8 G Eemsen, 25 1100101101- 6 



P Schrader 1100110111— 7 J W. Godfrey, 35. ...OllllUllO- 8 



Thos. Codey won first prize. Ties, miss and out for second, 25 and 

 30yds.. C. M. Grainger won; ties, miss and out for third, 25 and 

 30yds.. N. IMaesel won. Ties, miss and out, for Oseikei Trophy, 

 21yds.,' F. Schrader woii.-THOMAS Codey. 



NEWTON, N. Y., Oct. 13.-North Side Gun Club of L. 1., first 

 shoot on new club grounds, Train's Meadows, house warming new 

 club house. Match at 7 pigeons, 5 ground traps, handicap. 80yds. 

 bound, club rules, badge and one money prize: 



Siems 1010111-5 Kroger 1001011—4 



jMannine lUllOl— 6 Dr Franz 0111101—5 



Winhol^ UllOOO— 4 Mercken UlOlOl-5 



Barlow 1111011—6 Bohmke. UOaHO— 3 



Lyon 1111000— 4 Biglow , . .1011101—5 



Duryea llOUOl-5 Stocky 0110110-4 



Wahlen 1010100- 3 Smith UlOOU— 5 



Terrett lUUOl-fl Grau 0001011—3 



Riker 1011111-6 



Ties for first, miss and out; Manning 2, Barlow 3, Tei-rett 1, 

 Riker 1. 



ST. LOUIS, Oct, 17.— The members of the Western Gun Club 

 closed their season to-day on their groimds at the foot of President 

 street. As is the custom on their breaking up days a large crowd 

 of their friends was on hand and the hospitality of the old stand- 

 by was well taxed. The aftair was one of the pleasantest of the 

 season, over four-fifths of the members participating and every- 

 body being wuR pleased. There were many ladies among the vis- 

 itors on tlie grounds. The shoot was at 10 Peoria blackbirds and lU 

 Ligowskv clay-pigeons, screened traps, 18yds. rise, ties at 21 and 

 24yds. rise at Peorlaa, miss and out; no handicap: 



Blackbirds. 



JGSchaaf UimilU 



Siehonman, Jr lUlUllU 



Herman Nagel UOllUlll 



Hill 1111101111 



Crayon lUlomU 



Le i'ai-vre OUIOIUOI 



Kurka UUlUllO 



Baker OOUUlill 



Fox 0101100111 



Williams OlllOlUU 



Bauer lOlUlUll 



Dennig OOUOllUO 



Linck lUOllOlU 



Lenharth 1001011110 



Dixie.. 1111010111 



Everts 1011111101 



Benecke, Jr lOUllOOOl 



Courvoisier llllllllll 



W J llassfurther 1010111110 



Heithana ; 01 U 1101 01 



Klaus OUOIOIOU 



.Siebeninan, Sr 0010101111 



Labadie UOOOOllU 



Miltenberger 0101100101 



Seheer 0101111100 



Kacer 1001101110 



Maewitz - 0110100111 



McGiveny OOUOllUO 



DMack. UOOIOUOO 



Benecke, Sr 1001001010 



Reinhardt 0101000110 



McDowell OOlOOUOlO 



Freiesleben - 0110000000 



Lemp OOCOOIOIOI 



J Hassfurther 0000001000 



BROOKLYN, Oct. 20.— The annual shoot and dinner of the Coney 

 Island Rod and Gun Club were held this afternoon at Van Siclen's 

 Hotel, Coney Island, and proved to be a great success. The mem- 

 bers went down bv coach from the Fountain Gun Club House. 

 Only three traps were placed on tlie salt meadow on the other side 

 of Coney Island Creek, and 32 members shot, all trom the 25yd. 

 mark. The first prize was divided, 11 divided the second. The 

 score is as follows; „ 



McLaughlin 0111110-5 Hagan Ulllll-7 



Lanzer: lUUOl-fi Weber 0111111-6 



Wingate 1110011-5 Post 1100111-5 



Def rane UUU 1—7 Kingsbury 1011011-0 



Blattmacher 1110110-5 Courtney 1001011-4 



Schlieman 0111111—6 Eddy llllUl-7 



AvTes UOllll-6 H C Brown llllUl-7 



Shevlin llllUO-6 McCarty 1111011-6 



Ennis 1011111-6 Bushnell UUOll-fi 



Kerrigan Ill 0011— 5 Delma r lUH 01—6 



Greenman 0011111—5 Furey 1111011—6 



LONG BRANCH, N. J., Oct. 15.— At the regular bi-weekly con- 

 test of the Adautic Gun Club, of North Long Branch, to-day, tlie 

 follo^vinff score was uuwle nut of a possible 10 glass balls: G. West 

 10, Wm. Barber 10, J. W. .ybertson 9, E. W. Reid 9, C. B. Reid 9, 

 Geo. Hovt 9, John Holman 8, A Tice 7, J. Q. Smythe 6. 



Clay-Pigeons. 

 1101111111—19 

 1111110111-19 

 lOUllllll-18 

 1111110101— 17 

 OllUOUU— 17 

 1111111111-17 

 1011110111—17 

 1010111111-16 

 UllUJll!— 16 

 1011101101-16 

 0110[a0111-15 

 UllUlOll-15 

 1001100111-15 

 1110111111-15 

 UllOOUOl-15 

 1101001010-14 

 0011111111-14 



oeiooijiioo-13 



1110101000-12 

 1101001100-12 

 1011001101-12 

 lOOOUlllO-12 

 1010101011-12 

 0100111011—11 

 lUOlOlOUO-U 

 1010001110— 11 

 1001010101— u 

 0110110100—11 



1110001011-11 



1011010110-10 

 1010011110-10 

 OIWOUOIO— 8 

 1010101001— 7 

 0001001001— 6 

 UOOOIOIOI— 6 



tHchtittif. 



YACHT RACE EXTRA. 



rpTTE Yacht Race Extra published by the Fokest and Stre.4m 

 Is on sale at all news stands, or may be ordered direct from 

 this office. It is a 16-page re^^ew of international yacht racing up 

 to the last races. Has many illustrations, the lines of Galatea, 

 Madge, America, Schemer, plans of Genesta, chart of course, etc 

 Handsomely printed on fine quality paper. Price 10 cents. 



"CLOSED AND GIVEN TO THE JURY." 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Your issue of the 14th contains an article by Mr. Kunhardt pur- 

 porting to give complete records for the season of Bedouin, Shona, 

 Clara, Ulidia and (ialatea. 



He makes ciuite a pretty argument in a very simple way, viz: 

 omitting many facts that go directly against his theories and mis- 

 stating other facts. This is no new course of argument for the 

 Forest and Stream but when carried to such lengths is likely to 

 grow somewhat tiresome. 



It is plain he knew when writing that the Eastern Y. C. sailed a 

 race Jrme 29 and what boats sailed in it, because he makes a great 

 fuss over Clara's beating Active, and Bedouin beating Thetis; but 

 when we get down to Ulidia's record he omits any mention of the 

 race; the fact being that Active beat her although handicapped 

 by losing her topmast. 



It is not true that Shona frightened all other sloops out of 

 Eastern Y. C. race, neither v^as there a slashing sea that day. 

 Shadow was the only other boat in tlve club which ever races in 

 that class, and her owner and skipper M'ere both alioard Puritan; 

 had it not been for this Shadow would have won to a certainty as 

 Shona lost bowsprit. 



Mr. K. omits all reference to the NcM'port i-ace. It did not 

 amount to much, but his record is not complete without it. 



He says he concedes that "a tolerably good sloop can spoil some 

 kind of a plug called a cutter," and for that reason he confines his 

 list to the four cracks named above. 



Did it ever occur to Mm as just possible that vei-y few of the 

 sloops he mentions as being beaten are cracks: tliat many of them 

 would be called "plugs" by any sloop man, and that the only two 

 sloops on his list are Shadow and Cinderella/ 



So much for his facts. Now for his conclusions, in which, to a 

 certain point, I agree with him; that is, I think Bedouin. Clara or 

 Ulidia can heat any old-fashioned sloop of their class. But it is 

 not pi'oved they can beat a modern crack sloop equally well 

 handled. 



Bedouin is to-day the best boat afloat in her class, but what else 

 is there? All her competitors are old-fashioned boats except Thetis, 

 and Mr. K. admits she is outclassed. 



Clara, admittedly the best cutter ever buOt of her size, and cer- 

 tainly the best handled cutter ever seen in America, has met a lot 

 of the same old boats and beaten them time and again, as she can 

 certainly do; but she has also met one good boat, Cinderella, in her 

 first season, badly rigged for racing and not sailed anything like 

 as well as Clara. She has beaten her, but by steadily diminishing 

 margins. Had Cinderella had a crew like Clara's, I think the 

 record would be different. 



Ulidia's record, as stated above, omits her defeat in E. Y. C. 

 race; there is, ho^vever, no sloop of the moderu type in her class. 



Shona is a good boat and was beautifully sailed in her only real 

 i-ace, Sept. 4, where she distanced a lot of boats that certainly are 

 not "cracks" and beat Shadow 3 to 4 minutes. Mr. li., however, 

 says nothing of the fact that the day was made to order for her; 

 heavy sea, moderate ^vind, and about the whole course to wind- 

 ward or running before the Avind; he forgets also that Shadow was 

 at once anxious for a match. 



After w^atching the races closely all the season I feel confident 

 for one that a good modern sloop of their own length can beat 

 either Bedouin, Clara or U^lidia, and I think Shona also, especially 

 if it blows. 



1 had intended to point out some errors in Stranger and Thetis 

 records, hut I see "Sloop Crank" is ahead of me. " FA_tH Play. 

 Boston, Oct. 23. 



A NEW KEEL BOAT FOR THE EAST Rm:R.-A keel yacht 

 will be built this -winter for racing and cruising, by Com. M. J. 

 Chard, East River Yacht Club. She wiU be tmtt. over aU, -SOf t. 

 1. w. ]., 10ft. beam and 5ft. of draft, with 3 tons of ballast inside 

 and 1}4 tons on keel. She will be built by Mr. Samuel Ayers, at 

 Bay Ridge, and will be named Sea Gull. 



A MEDAL FOR CAPTAIN GULLY.-Capt. John Gully, of the 

 tug B. T. Haviland, has been presented with a gold medal bv the 

 Pi-esident of the New York Life Saving Benevolent Association for 

 his gallant service in rescuing the seven survivors of the schooner 

 Sarah Oraig, whicli cai>8ized off Sandy Hook on. July EM) last. 



THE SEASON'S RECORD. 



IF I break my resolution to belay on the cutter-sloop question 

 and x-eply to the strictui-es of "Sloop Clrank" in your last issne, 

 it is only with the object of setting the matter Btr;iight before the 

 public. Personally 1 do not deem the hairsplitting of "Sloop 

 Crank"' worthy of notice. 



Ho intiinalehi that sloops were not afi-aid to enter against Shona 

 in the Eastern 1 . C. But as they failed to do so I have the advan- 

 tage. As foi- Shadow, the only sloop for which your correspondent 

 can really speak ^vith anlhority, slie saved herself a good thrash- 

 ing in the light of the later Beverly open match. I am then told 

 that Bedouin did not win in the New "iork Y". C. second class, hut 

 Thetis. In the reckless language of your eoi'respondent I might 

 reply, "This is untrue." Bedouin has been denied the prize in the 

 first class, which was awarded to Priscilla. But if Bedouin be 

 finally decided to have won in the first class, it is a great deal 

 more honor to the cutter to win from the Big Four than from a 

 second rate racer like Thetis, and the latter is welcome to the 

 barren honor of Avinning in the second class because lucky enough 

 to find no cutters opposing her. Thetis has been beaten time and 

 again by Bedouin anyway. 



In the Fourth of .July race, in Boston, I am told that Syren was 

 ent.^red "merely to oblige," etc. Of course. But it does not in the 

 least (leti'act fr(un Sti-iinger's victory, and besides where were the 

 sloop men this time again ? A\Tiere have they been all this season? 

 Why do they not race instead of taking it out in bluster ? I did 

 not forgot the Newport race at all, but purposely omitted such a 

 fiasco, not wishing to count in the victory of the cutter Clara 

 gained under such irrelevant conditions, ;ind in my review ex- 

 plriined the object sufficiently for any person who permits his 

 understanding to work and does not allow spleen to crowd it out. 

 As for Stranger and Thetis, I did not "as tisval" shirk the perform- 

 ance from Newport to Marblehead, mi distinctly siated that as 

 neither of these yachts is a recognized crack racer, their doings 

 were beside the scope of my review. 1 also distinctly rieclined to 

 be responsible foi- everything and anything goiiis' by the name of 

 cutter, and admitted that there arc all grades of cntlei-s as regards 

 speed just as well as there arc sloops, from tlie fasi ent to the slow- 

 est, and that it is tiie most natural thing in the woi'ld that a sloop 

 should beat a cutter whenever the former L;i.i)pens to be the 

 smarter boat of the pair. Ijirteed the occasional defeats of some 

 cutters are absolutely necessary to establish the position I have 

 taken on the question of tytie. Hence, the defeat of the Stranger 

 — presuming it to have been brouglit about on the merits of tJie 

 boats, which 1 very much question— is u(jt the hitter gall to me 

 your correspondent presumes. 



On the other hand it is really "Sloop Crank" who "as usual" 

 shirks (he real issue set forth in my review. It is simply this. Dur- 

 ing last season the recognized racing cutters won twenty-one 

 races hand running against two for the racing sloops, as near as 

 the data were obtainable . That record hears out most fully my 

 modest claim, that with such preponderance, the cutter has earned 

 her title to rank at least equally with the .sloop in point of speed. 

 This truth w ill he admitted by all persons open to reason, but 

 hardly by your correspondent, who, with singular perspicuity, 

 signs himself a "crank." C. P. Kunhabdt. 



BRITISH RACING SKIPPERS. 



THERE are two classes of yachting commanders in Great 

 Britain. First there is the ordinary cruising skipper, Avho is 

 a good, steady all-round man for coasting work and can race his 

 A'casol well in the local matches, where his knowledge of tides and 

 ofi' shore bn-ezes wliich blow out of particular glens is of much 

 value. Then there is the racing skipper, who is supposed to be a 

 master of the art of yacht sailing, and as much superior in his 

 w-ay to the cruising skipper as the professional jockey is to the lad 

 Avho rides the thoroughbred regiUarly at work at Newmarket. 

 To describe ftdly the development of the British racing skipper 

 would be to give in detail the history of British yacht racing. 

 "Old White," who was the captain of Sir Robert Gore Booth's hig 

 cutter the Adelaide, was possibly the first of the genus, and a first- 

 rate man he was, either in steering big or little boats. That was 

 thirty-live years ago, or shortly after the America, schooner, came 

 over and shattered all otir notions as to the adv'antages of bellying 

 mainsails with flowing "after leaches." The advent of the Fiona 

 brought to the front .lohn Houston, of Largs, who at the tiller of 

 the "Old Fawn," as she was familiarly termed in her best days, 

 proved inAdncible. Captain Houston had a weakness for tight lac- 

 ing his craft possibly, and his "wee bit pu's" at tack, halliards or 

 inirchase jjroved very sore on the spars, hence his craft was some- 

 times known as the "timber-breaker." Tim Walker was a con- 

 temporary skipper who had also a great reputation, and in the 

 Mosqttito, and latterly in the Cythera, he proved himself a very 

 able steersman, but 'he never "liked to be at the tiller when the- 

 winds blew so "werry paltrv." Lemon Craufield, in the Neva, and 

 latterly in the Prince of Wales's yacht the Formosa, did much to 

 develop the fine art of racing a British cutter, and could hold his 

 own with all men at a schooner race, as evidenced by the successes 

 of the Miranda, httt schooner racing has gone out of fashion, un- 

 fortunately for the best interest of the sport. The race of yacht- 

 ing jockeys Avhich succeeded those mentioned is headed by O'Neil, 

 of the Irex, who is undoubtedly at present the Fred Archer of the 

 fleet. He made his reputation in the forty-tonner Myosotis, added 

 to it in the Cuckoo, in his matches against the Vanduara and the 

 Samoena, and then in the flying Annasona raced to windward of 

 all engaged in this particular calling. Tom Diaoer, his opponent 

 in the matches against the latter, sailed tiie Marquis of Ailaa's 

 Sleuthhound to perfection, but he had always under his charge the 

 worst boat of the two, which were twins fi'om the stocks of Fife of 

 Fairie. Diaper made his reputation in Major Ewlng's famous 

 forty-ton cutter, Norman, the "green with gold ball" racing flag of 

 Avhich will long be remembered. As to Ben tiarris, his opponent 

 in many a tough match when the latter had charge of the Blood- 

 hound, he has long been under hatches. He was like White, one 

 of the verj- old school, and had won many matches in the Solent. 

 Rather a good forecastle yarn is still told of him at the time he 

 was in command of a yacht belonging to an eccentric nobleman, 

 now deceased, who. whether in dressing himself, his hunt servants 

 (for he was an M. F. H.) or his sailors, was rather parsimonious. 

 Oite day the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron at the club 

 windows at the castle obsei'ving Bisn hoist a strange signal — a very 

 strange signal— in the rigging-, and after they in vain tried to make 

 out by telescope and binocuTar. hailed the old skipper, asking him 

 what signal it was. "Signal be blowedl" shouted Ben across the 

 water, "It's the governor's No. 3 paii- of breeches which I have been 

 a washing of." 



Harry Thompson, of Vanguard fame, could take all out of a "fly- 

 ing sixty" that a man could; but since he sailed the Samoena m 

 her first season ill health has not allowed him to play a leading 

 part in the past time. Mackie, who steered the celebrated steel 

 cutter Vanduara during her first season, was as good a man at the 

 tiller as one would have when there was enough of movement in 

 the atmosphere to keep all day drawing a balloon topsail, but had 

 no patience in light airs. He was the first Ensrlish yachting 

 skipper who sailed his vessel with all cabin fittings in their proper 

 places, refusing, unless hard pressed, to allow of their removal to 

 suit the trim of the boat. He has now resigned the tiller alto- 

 gether, and is engaged in the wintering and putting into commis- 

 sion of yachts at Rothesay, in the Island of Btite, where it is need- 

 less to say his A-ast expeiuence and his knowledge of the shipAvright 

 trade, to Avhich he Avas trained, served him well. Woods, of the 

 Egeria, Avas famous ;n his day, and Avas most successful Avith Mr. 

 MulhoUand's old "County Down Girl," as his cliarse was termed, 

 more especially in Channel matches. Duncan, off the Marjorie, 

 Avon his spurs on the Clyde ten-toimer Lancer; hut it Avas not till 

 Mr. Coats's ten-tonner Madge Avas delivered from Watson's hands 

 that he attained to the front rank among yachting jockeys. The 

 way he handled this little vessel, first in British waters and then 

 in American waters, won for him the admiration of all true judges 

 of boat sailing. In the contests between his vacht, the Marjorie, 

 and the Irex this seasorv, he has divided fairly the spoil; and if he 

 lacks the dash of O'Neil at starts and mark boats he makes up for 

 it Avith shrewd Scotch "canniness" or caution, and sails his own 

 boat — that is, minds not the misleading maneuA"ers of yachts 

 ahead or astern. J ohn Barr, Avho is one of the skippers paid to go 

 out and race a yacht in America, is simply invincible in ten-ton 

 yachts, as has been avcU proved in the cutter Neptune. He was 

 the first yachting jockey who ca' er received a special retaining fee 

 to give up the comforts of larger craft and race a smaller boat. 

 The abore ai-e among the most successful of British yachting 

 skippers past and present, though no doubt old names, such as 

 Archie Blair, and "Rad" McKirdy, of Largs, and "Bauldy" Wright 

 and -Jameson of modern days, aauII crop up in conA^ersation OA'er 

 bygone days, as well as Avill those of possible greater fame at Cowes 

 and KingstoAvn. In regard to the ordinary seamen, no yacht was 

 thought a fcAA^ years ago to have a chance unless she had a creAV 

 composed of Colchester oyster-fishers; but Itchen Ferry and 

 Southamptom now- give as good material as is wanted for southern 

 boats, and Mackie and Duncan have drilled Clyde crews to a high 

 state of perfection, and Scottish-built boats no longer require 

 English crews to saU them, aa they did ten years sgo.—PaU Mall 

 Gazette. 



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