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pretty girls and well-known canoeists, and the river fairly swarmed 

 -with canoes and rowboats filled with spectators. 



Additional interest was lent through the entries from the Passaic and 

 Atalanta Boat Club, and in several of the races the oarsmen made the 

 canoeists hustle. 



The races were as follows:— 



Event I. Sailing Senior— First, George P. Douglas, Ianthe C.C. ; L. B. 

 Palmer (did not finish); George Manley (did not finish). 



II. Sailing Junior.— Not called. 



III. Paddling Open Canoe, Single Blade— First, George P. Douglas, 

 Ianthe C. C; second, F. L. Newell, Pequonnock; third, Mark Freeman, 

 Ianthe; ourth, Fred Cummings, Ianthe; fifth, George W. Petty, Ruth- 

 erford. 



IV. Paddling any Canoe.— First, Frank McLees, Rutherford; second, 

 C. V. Schuyler, Arlington; third, James Duguid, Jr., Ianthe; fourth, 

 H. S. Allen, unattached. 



(Race for the "Commodore's Cup.") 



V. Senior Paddling.— First, Mark Freeman, Ianthe; second, George 

 P. Douglas, Ianthe. 



VI. Class 2, Paddling.— First, Harry S. Farmer, Ianthe; second, E. 

 P. Payne. Atlantic B. C. - 



VII. Junior Paddling.— First, Louis LeRoy, Ianthe; second, J. Ham- 

 ilton Braine, Ianthe. 



VIII. Tandem Paddling, Open Canoes.— First, Douglas and Duguid, 

 Ianthe; second, Pell and Jenkinson, Passaic B. C; third, McLees and 

 Petty, Rutherford. 



IX. Tandem Paddling, Decked Canoes.— First, Freeman and LeRoy, 

 Ianthe; second, McLees and Petty. 



X. Club Fours.— First, Braine, Hobart, Kniep and McLees, Ianthe ; 

 second, Duguid, Farmer, Freeman and Douglas, Ianthe; third, Gott. 

 Gilmore, Jenkinson and Pell, Passaic B. C. 



51. Upset Paddling.— First, R. Kniep, Ianthe; second, George P. 

 Douglas, Ianthe. 



Mr. James K. Hand acted as judge and starter. 



The guests of the club were most hospitably entertained during the 

 regatta and through the evening. 



not asking for boun ties, subsidies and similar Government aid, at least 

 be left alone as much as possible; and yet this is but one instance of 

 the apparent hostility of the Government toward the noblest of 

 sports. 



In the present case the figures are comparatively small, but they are 

 convincing. The bringing of Spruce IV. to this country has estab- 

 lished a new class of racing craft, hitherto unknown here, and has 

 attracted very great interest throughout the country. Six boats have 

 been built to meet the challenger, at an average cost of at least $700 

 each, to which the olub adds $500 for the cup. The expense of alter- 

 ations to the boats, steamers for the races, etc., will bring the total 

 outlay among American mechanics and tradespeople to some $7,000 

 to $8,0C0; and the races are likely to lead to the construction of 

 many more boats this winter. 



In 1886 two British canoes visited this country for similar interna- 

 tional competition, the result being that canoeing received the strong- 

 est possible stimulus, to the benefit of all concerned in canoe building. 

 With all this there has never been a British canoe imported into this 

 country since 1886. Even in the event of a victory for Spruce IV., 

 there is no danger of any importation of British half-raters. Apart 

 from the duty, these boats cost fully as much in England as here; and 

 they are not so well adapted for American conditions. So far as 

 American yacht and boat builders are concerned, they could well 

 afford to pay for the occasional importation of such a racing craft as 

 Madge or Spruce IV. merely for the sake of the great stimulus to 

 racing and building. A wiBe and foresighted national policy would 

 encourage such international competition instead of placing such 

 heavy and useless penalties on sport. 



A Meet on the Passaic, 



The annual meet of the Associated Canoe Clubs of the Passaic River 

 will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 20, 21 and 22, at 

 Bend View, on the Passaic River, to which aU canoeists are cordially 

 Invited. 



The races will be called Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and the 

 regatta committee has arranged the following programme of races: 

 Event 1. Sailing. 2. Sailing and paddling combined. 3. Paddling. 

 (These three races are for the Record trophy.) 4. Paddling, open 

 canoes, single blade. 5. Paddling, tandem, open canoes, single blades. 

 6. Paddling, tandem, decked sailing canoes. 7. Paddling, club fours, 

 open Canoes, single blades. 



The camp site selected is one of the prettiest parts of the river, and 

 very accessible to out-of-town canoeists. The Newark branch of the 

 Erie Railroad to Avondale or the Boonton branch of the D. L. & W. 

 R. R. to Lyndhurst land within half a mile of the camp. There is a 

 hotel directly across the river, where meals and accommodations may 

 be secured by those who do not wish to do their own cooking or 

 camping. 



The racing promises to be unusually interesting. In addition to the 

 well-known paddlers of the Ianthe, Rutherford and other Passaic 

 River canoe clubs, a number of outsiders are expected. Messrs. Mow- 

 bray and Plummer, of the New York C. C, as well as a single and tan- 

 dem crew from the Red Dragon Club, of Philadelphia, are expected; 

 while the Passaic Boat Club, of Newark, are going to send their tan- 

 dem and club four crew that gave the Ianthes such a close rub on 

 Labor Day. 



Mr. F. H. Wickware, Jr., of Rutherford, is chairman of the Associ- 

 ation, and Mr. H. S. Farmer, of the Ianthe Club, secretary-treasurer. 



Shenandoah River. 



Camp Gbove Hill, Va„ Sept. 1.— Com. F. R. Webb, George N. Beall, 

 Dr. E. Lacy Gibson and J. Baldwin Ranson, of the Shenandoah C. C, 

 Staunton, Va., are enjoying their annual canoe cruise on the Shenan- 

 doah River. The weather is good, the water at a fine cruising stage 

 and beautifully clear and the fishing excellent. The party will cruise 

 to Harper's Ferry and will remain out about three weeks. 



. F. R Webb. 



A. C. A. Membership. 



Atlantic Division: Fred. E. Hecklinger, Geo. W. Kirk. Central 

 Division: Miss Marion H. Wright, Miss Margaret J. Wright, Miss 

 Martha J. Robbins, Miss Lillarene R. Hopkins. Northern Division: 

 Ernest Bolton, Montreal. 



fachting. 



Steam Yachts and Launches 



Built by Marine Iron Works, Clybourn and Southport avenues, 

 Chicago, 111. Free illustrated catalogue. Write for it.— Adv. 



The great international race having passed, to the disappointment 

 of thousands, a smaller but very interesting one begins on Saturday 

 of this week. After all that has happened of late, it should not be nec- 

 essary to speak further on the importance of giving a perfectly fair 

 and unimpeded course to the two representative mosquito craft that 

 are to meet off Oyster Bay. 



On the occasion of the recent trial races there, a few of the steam 

 and sailing yachts bound through the Sound or into the harbor dis- 

 played an utter disregard of the small craft engaged in the race, 

 washing and blanketing them in the most reckless manner. After the 

 lesson of the late races we hope that neither through ignorance nor 

 selfishness will there be any interference on the part of the attendant 

 fleet. 



The past week has produced two instances in international sport 

 which must be viewed with regret by all true sportsmen, of whatever 

 nationality. If British yachtsmen have nothing to be proud of in the 

 action of their representative, Wyndham Thomas Wyndham Quin, 

 Earl of Dunraven, in hauling down his fighting flag in the face of an 

 honorable opponent and a fair course, Americans have equal cause of 

 shame in the conduct of the National Government toward the British 

 yachtsman who seeks international honors in a smaller class. In spite 

 of established precedent in similar cases, and of correspondence be- 

 tween Mr. Brand and the Customs some time since, the owner of 

 Spruce IV. has been put to needless trouble and delay by the Customs 

 authorities in New York, and has been able to redeem his boat only on 

 the payment of a duty of 25 per cent., which will not be refunded to 

 him when he takes her home in a few weeks. When Mr. Brand and 

 his little boat arrived on the Fulda every effort was made by the race 

 committee of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club to have the boat 

 passed at once by the Customs authorities and shipped to Oyster Bay, 

 there being little time before the international races. No one for a 

 moment supposed that a yacht brought into the country for a few 

 match races would be made subject to duty, but such proved to be the 

 case; apart from the loss of time, annoyance and fees, the British 

 challenger was requested to pay a duty of $50 for the blessed privilege 

 of sailing in American waters. The boat was landed on the pier at 

 Hoboken on Monday night, Mr. Brand not being allowed to take away 

 even a pair of boots or a couple of small bags of loose duffle; but boat 

 gear and clothes were retained on the pier until Friday, subject to the 

 handling and meddling of the curious. The duty was finally paid by 

 the Seawanhaka Cor. Y. C, Mr. Brand being the guest of the club. 



It would be hard to estimate the benefit which the United States as 

 a nation derives from its yachting, from the interest of thousands in 

 nautical matters, from the naval reserve, the technical work of yacht 

 designers, and the direct employment of thousands of seamen and 

 mechanics. The present year has witnessed an expenditure of over 

 $200,000 in this country in connection with the sailing of three inter- 

 national races. It would seem only just that yachtsmen should, while 



On Sept. 11 the death of Mr. J. L. Ashbury was announced in Lon- 

 don, and though no particulars are known, it is understood that he 

 died on Sept. 3 from an overdose of some narcotic. No yachtsman 

 has been more thoroughly disliked and execrated by Americans than 

 the first challenger for the America's Cup, the man who first rescued 

 it from oblivion by racing for it in 1870 and again in 1871. Looking 

 back for a quarter of a century, and contrasting the treatment of the 

 last challenger with that accorded to the first, it must be admitted 

 that Mr. Ashbury had much right on his side, and was very badly 

 treated by the holder of the Cup. His first overtures were fairly 

 made, and in a spirit of sport, but they were met by a positive refusal 

 to enter into that mutual agreement distinctly specified by the true 

 deed of gift, and he was allowed but a single race, and that against a 

 fleet of twenty -three schooners, all starting inside the Narrows. 



It was on the occasion of his second challenge next season that he 

 made the claim that has been so generally condemned, that he should 

 be allowed to sail twelve races, having challenges in the names of 

 twelve clubs, he to take the Cup in the event of winning one race. 

 Although the odds here were but twelve to one against the New York 

 Y. C, while the club had taken an advantage of twenty-three to one 

 in the previous year, it is needless to say that no such terms were 

 granted. The races were finally sailed with the stipulation that the 

 home club should have four yachts of various types in readiness, select- 

 ing whichever it chose on the morning of a race, against the one sea- 

 going ship of the British challenger. Out of the series of seven races 

 agreed to the defender won five and the challenger one. In the course 

 of the long and bitter controversy for what are now considered as the 

 absolute rights of a challenger, Mr. Ashbury did and said many 

 things which greatly angered his opponents; but it must be said on 

 his side that he was opposed by men who were determined to keep 

 the America's Cup in New York, and to give to a challenger nothing 

 which could be withheld from him. The fight of Mr. Ashbury made 

 him many enemies, but rendered an important service to the cause of 

 fair sport in international yachting. 



The Yachtsman, in reviewing the history of the America's Cup and 

 the three deeds of gift, falls into some very ridiculous blunders. It 

 not only describes the Cup as given by the Queen, but Titania as a 100 

 ton cutter. 



Then It speaks of the New York Y. C. as "the owners of the Cup," 

 apparently ignoring the terms of the original deed by which the Cup 

 was given in trust to the New York Y. C. to be held only until won by 

 a foreign club. As the trustee, the New York Y. C. had no sole right 

 of ownership, and once won from it, the Cup could be no more its 

 property. Speaking of the second deed of 1882, the Yachtsman states 

 that the conditions were then amended so that: "Henceforward both 

 challenger and defender were allbwed to make what arrangements 

 they liked by mutual consent." 



This is about as far wide of the facts as could well be. The original 

 deed of gift expressly stipulated as the basis for a match a mutual 

 agreementjbetween the two parties; failing which, and not before, the 

 challenger could claim one race with six months' notice, etc. In the 

 first races for the Cup, with Mr. Ashbury, the New York Y. C. posi- 

 tively refused to enter into any mutual agreement, and denied the 

 right of the challenger to demand such agreement, limiting him to 

 the ultimate provisions of one race over the club course with six 

 months' notice; and further compelling him to sail against the whole 

 fleet. Though more liberal terms were obtained by hard fightiog in 

 the three following races, the right of the challenger to a mutual 

 agreement was denied up to 1887. 



When the second deei was made in 1882, the mutual agreement 

 clause was taken from its prominent position in the original deed and 

 made secondary and subordinate to certain other conditions; and 

 when the third deed was made in 1887 the mutual agreement clause 

 was pushed into still deeper obscurity, the opening clauses calling 

 for a complete surrender of the challenger to the holder by the 

 disclosure of the dimensions. One looks for such blunders as the^e 

 in the daily papers, but hardly in a yachting journal with reliable 

 sources of reference at hand. 



We note that in answer to a query the New York Sun states that 

 the America's Cup is owned by the New York Y. C. ; this is not the 

 case. As already stated, the Cup is only held in trust by the club. 



Among the many different craft seen outside the Hook last week 

 there was nothing more antique and odd-looking than an American 

 sloop which was about the line on one day. What she was we do not 

 know, but everything about her, with one exception, carried us back 

 to the time of the Mischief- Atalanta races, when cutters were almost 

 unknown and such craft were still common. She had a low black hull, 

 with a knee under the bowsprit and a sa wed-off stern, a high mast and 

 short topmast and gaff; and a bowsprit painted black. In spite of the 

 big trunk cabin and other evidences of her American origin, she was 

 not quite free from British contamination, having a jib and forestay- 

 sail in place of a single big jib; but in all other respects she was a 

 typical example of an obsolete type. It was hard to realize that barely 

 a dozen years separated her from the great blue-sided cutter which 

 was Bailing in defense of the America's Cup. 



There is one class of people at least who should appreciate the 

 action of Lord Dunraven in failing to give timely notice of his inten- 

 tion not to start on Thursday; though the fleet was by no means as 

 large as on Saturday, the steamboat owners reaped a harvest of prob. 

 ably $50,000 on Thursday, all of which would have been lost to them 

 had Lord Dunraven made a positive statement to the committee on 

 Wednesday evening that he.would not sail next day. 



< "Sailing in Two Classes." 



New Rochelle, N. Y., Sept. 16.— Editor Forest and Stream: If you 

 are a believer in fair play you will publish the "other side" of the 

 question re Mr. Elsworth's letter regarding the Huguenot Y. 0. race 

 published last Saturday in your paper, a« his remarks, while partly 

 correct, are misleading. "I entered the Kittie in the second class for 

 the Huguenot Y. C. race, expecting to meet the Ethel, but found only 

 one boat, the Monsoon. I asked the regatta committee about forty 

 minutes before the preparatory signal to be allowed to go up a clasB, 

 not remembering or knowing the rule, that as my class had filled I 

 could not go up; here I was in error, as was the committee. The 

 course and start for the first and second class catboats was the same, 

 only the first clasa boats sailed twice around and the second class 

 once. After the race Mr. Elsworth very properly protested and was 

 given the race in the first class, which was right and satisfactory to 

 me. The committee awarded me the prize for the second class, but I 

 declined same, writing Mr. C. M. Connolly at the time that as I had 

 sailed (wrongly) against the Mary and won. but was justly disquali- 

 fied, I did not consider it right to take the prize in the second class." 



I am not desirous of any cups not won fairly, and as the Kittie has 

 won thirty-one first prizes in two years I do not need them. 



Hazbn Moh.se. 



Cleveland Y. C. 



CLEVELAND — LAKE ERIE. ' 



Monday, Sept. 2. 



The fall regatta of the Cleveland Y. C. was sailed on Sept. 2 over a 

 course of 7 miles to leeward and return. The times were: 



Start. T"m. Finish. Elapsed. 



Com. Gardner 11 07 07 12 31 5fi 2 49 57 3 42 50 



Anona 11 07 10 12 34 17 3 13 37 4 00 27 



Alert 11 08 47 12 30 47 2 57 31 3 48 44 



Clipper 11 09 12 12 51 42 Did not finish. 



Gypsy ..11 10 19 12 41 35 4 12 05 » 5 0110 



Corsair 11 10 52 12 43 38 3 24 37 4 13 45 



Ida K 11 12 24 12 44 08 3 33 52 4 21 2K 



Petrel 11 13 35 12 44 44 3 52 39 4 46 04 



Com. Gardner won in first and Ida K. in second class. 



THE AMERICA'S CUP RACES. 



Second Race— Triangular Course. 



Tuesday, Sept. 11. 



After remeasurement and thorough preparation for the second 

 race, Defender and Valkyrie lay off Bay Ridge on Monday, being under 

 way in the afternoon and lying at anchor off the Atlantic Y. C. station 

 all night. Early Tuesday morning they towed down to the Lightship, 

 and were ready long before the committee and the spectators arrived. 



The day promised little, a brisk S. W. wind in the night had disap- 

 peared, and a light southerly breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. 

 The sky was cloudy and overcast for a time, and the air was warm. 

 When the attendant fleet reached the Lightship just before 11 o'clock, 

 there were many vessels, but fewer than on Saturday. As in the first 

 race, they crowded close to the yachts, several newspaper tugs were 

 close on the line, and the big iron steamer Yorktown lay just north of 

 it, not far from the committee tug which formed the western or 

 inshore mark. Being the second race, the course was triangular, and 

 the course signals set were: S. ; N E. by E ; and N. W. by W. 1% W. ; 

 10 nautical miles to each leg. While the fleet was in the Bay the skies 

 had cleared, and when the preparatory gun was fired at 10:50 the sun 

 was shining with a midsummer fervor, the sea was smooth and free 

 from fog and haze, and there was a moderate breeze from the 

 south, more than enough to insure a race within the time 

 limit if it held. The two yachts were under clubtopsails 

 with baby jibtopsails aloft. With the gun they started to 

 work for position in the ten minutes yet to run, both 

 coming from the wrong side of the line, Valkyrie to windward and 

 both on starboard tack, crossing the line and standing on to the west- 

 ward and then jibing, Defender leading in this maneuver and Valkyrie 

 immediately following and coming on the other's weather. They 



now stood back to the east, with about three minutPS still to run, but 

 right in the way lay the big iron coasting steamer Yorktown loaded 

 with spectators. As the safer, if not the only course. Defender went 

 under the steamship's lee, but Valkyrie, further to windward, could 

 easily weather her. As Defender came out under the ship's bows she 

 luffed for the starting line with over a minute to go; and Valkyrie 

 came down on her, being a little free. Valkyrie luffed up on the 

 weather of Defender, and as she did so and shot ahead her boom 

 touched the starboard topmast shroud of Defender, a shackle on the 

 end of the boom caught the shroud and held until the end of the 

 spreader broke, slacking off the shroud and letting the boom go clear. 

 Defender's topmast bent to leeward like a whip under the strain of 

 the great clubtopsiil, and the wonder is that it was only sprung and 

 did not break short off. Valkyrie continued for the line and crossed 

 13s. after the gun, while Defender bore away toward the Lightship, 

 then came about on port tack and crossed the line at 11:01:15. Having 

 crossed on starboard tack Valkyrie held on a short time, but tacked 

 inshore just as Defender crossed the line under her lee. 



The accompanying diagram shows as closely as possible the general 

 course of the two yachts during the last seven or eight minutes of the 

 preparatory interval It is a difficult matter to estimate accurately 

 and sketch quickly the complicated evolutions of such swiftly moving 

 craft, and the exact relative positions of the two yachts, the York- 

 town and the committee tug (in particular the space between Valkyrie 

 and the tug) are disputed by both parties, but th« diagram is suffi- 

 ciently correct to give an idea of the situation. Comparatively few 

 persons in the fleet saw the collision, most of the vessels being on the 

 wrong side of Defender, and very little was known as to the exact oc- 

 currences save that Defender displayed a protest flag, to which the 

 committee responded with an answering pennant. 



In time and position Defender lost nothing; she was already in a 

 bad place under Valkyrie's lee, and she gained instead of losing by 

 availing herself of the privilege specially secured to her by the two- 

 minute interval, of going back and crossing alone later on if she 

 chanced to be out-maneuvered by Valkyrie in the struggle for weather 

 berth; in fact, she would have done better in Saturday's race if, in- 

 stead of following Valkyrie over the line and taking her back wind, 

 she had, after failing to blanket Valkyrie, worn about, and started 

 well to windward in the Jm. 10s. then left her. In the present case shy 



