July 4, 1889.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



499 



BOSTON, Juue 26.— There was a fair attendance of trap shots 

 at the range to-day. The weather conditions were good and 

 several clean scores were made. Among the visiting sportsmen 

 present were Mr. Hall, of Chicago, who made his maiden at tempt 

 at trap-shooting, and, as will he seen by the scores helow, did re- 

 markably well for a new beginner; and Mr. Bowker, of the Natick 

 Sportsman's Club, who, with a light 12-gauge gun. did some ex- 

 cellent work. The principal event was the fifth competition in 

 the gold coin and merchandise match. The following is a sum- 

 mary of to-day's events: 



Cold Coin and Merchandise Match. 



Fifteen clay pigeons and 15 Keystone targets, five traps; Key- 

 stone squad system. 



Clays. Keystones. 



white ouinimiim-H linonni 11111-14-28 



Swift 101111111111111— 14 111111111111110-14-28 



Stanton 111011111111111—14 111110111011111-13—27 



Perry 1111111 11111 111 — 15 1 11 1 1 Oil 1 11 1 U0 1-1 3-27 



Bowker . - 1 11 110111 110101-12 11011111111 1111-14-20 



Choate 111101 1 1 1111 101-13 111X1001111 1111-13-20 



Hosmer 011111111111100—12 110110111111110-12-24 



Wheeler 110111 100101 101—1.0 01 1111 1 1 101101 1 -1.3 -22 



Nichols 101111101111011-13 110010101110101- 0-21 



Curtis 111100110111111—12 111100101100110- 0-21 



Knowles iiiniuiUOOiiOl -10 Oil lOnoin U00— 10-fffl 



Snow 101111011110111-12 011001110(100111- 8-20 



Nelson UUOOtJlll 1100-11 10 1000 110001011— 7-18 



Hall 101011000110101— 8 -00000 UllOOl 100— 0-14 



The winners in the sweepstake matches were as follows: 

 Five Keystone targets. Keystone systom, Knowles 5; 10 Keystone 

 targets. Keystone svsTeru, Swift 10; 7 clays, 5 traps, Swift, Bowker 

 and Knowles 7; 10 standard targets, 3 traps. Stpnfon 0; 10 standard 

 targets, 3 traps, Stanton, Bowker and Swift M; 5 Keystone targets, 

 Keystone system, Curtis and White 5; 15 clay birds, Keystone 

 system, Stanton, Swift, and White 14; 15 Keystone targets. Key- 

 stone system. Ferry 15; 10 clay pigeons, Keystone system, .Stanton, 

 Bowker and White 10; 3 pair standard targets, Stanton and Ferry 

 6; 5 Keystone targets, Keystone system, Stanton, White and 

 Choate n; 10 clay birds, 5 traps, Keystone system, Ferry 10; 5 pair 

 clays, Perrv 9; 10 bluerooks, 3 traps, Stanton. 



The next shotgun competition at. Walnut Hill will occur on 

 Wednesday, July 10, when the sixth contest on the gold coin and 

 merchandise maleh will take place, followed by the regular 

 -SAveepstake shooting. 



TORONTO. June 25.— The third championship match of the Off- 

 Hand Rifle Association was shot over the different rouges to-day. 

 'The day was all that could be desired for fine shooting. Newton 

 Brook, Senrboro' and Orillio made the three highest scores that 

 have ever been made by a/a y teams in the association. The marks- 

 manship exhibited was iudeed wonderful, and proves what per- 

 fection can be attained by practice. The score of each team is 

 appended, and the total matches won and lost out of the three 

 shot. It is but fair to mention that Aliiston shot with only nine 

 men, while all the rest had ten: 



Points. Total won. Total lost. 



Drillia WH 28 3 



JNewton Brook 809 26 4 



Scarboro' 792 35 5 



Aurora 747 23 7 



King City. 736 16 14 



'Tottenham 728 15 15 



Midland 897 12 18 



Point Ed ward 653 9 21 



Aliiston 577 8 33 



Graveuhurst .. 30 



Bradford .. 30 



The fourth match will be shot on July 9. 



BROOKLYN, June 29.— The Crescent Gun Club held their third 

 Tegular monthly shoot to-day at Dexter's Park, on the Jamaica 

 Plank road. Only six members competed for the club badge and 

 extra prizes. C. Hubbell and W. J. Bolton tied for the medal. On 

 the shoot-off both again tied and divided the money, the tie to be 

 shot oft' at 1he next shoot, in the first sweepst ake shoot H. Sfe id- 

 more took first money a; d W. Oilman second. Messrs. Hubbell, 

 Scotland Bolton tied on the second and divided. The following 

 is the fc-ore of shoot. 10 birds: 



W Scott (25; 0000111010-4 W D Oilman (25)... 0U1010101-6 



H Skidmoie (24) 0101010111-6 C Hubbell (25) 1.110010111-7 



E Matthews (33; 0110101001-5 W J Bolton (25) 1100110111-7 



Referee. Mr. W. Mills. » 



W Oil '"'EST E R, Mass,. June 28.— This week at the Coal Mine 

 Brook Ranee- of the Worcester Sportsmen's Club the members for 

 the fourth t 'me contested for the Norcross trophy, and in the 

 snooting off of tic ties K. T. Smith broke 10, O. J. Rugg and 

 Sampson withdrew before the first 5 balls were thrown. In the 

 contest each man had a possible SO; the work of each man in 

 detail follows: 



E T Smith ...26 M D Oilman 22 



> G J Rugg 26 W R Dean 23 



■Geo Sampson 26 C Crompton o 2 



A R Bowdish 25 AG Larkin gi 



W L Davis 25 H W Webber 21 



ABFrankh. 24 F Forehand 30 



K, E Swan . ...23 ALGilman 19 



C 3 Howe 23 OR Ho] man 19 



E B Burbank 23 ORB CJaflin 19 



Dr Bowers , 33 F M Harris 18 



E S Knowles 22 C Forehand, 17 



C Johnson 32 FN Hale 12 



The winners of the trophy thus far are as follows: First, M. 1). 

 Gitman, 2S; second, E. T. Smith, 27; third, C, Crompton, 27; fourth, 

 E. T. Smith, 26; tie score 10. 



NORTHAMPTON. Mass.— The Northwood Gun Club cf Flor- 

 ence had a poor attendance at its weekly shoot June 18. The 

 Keystone traps and targets were used. The scores made were at 

 25 Keystone targets: 



T T Cartwright - 11011 01 1010 1 1011011010010-15 



EL Gaylor O110U1O1.O1DOOO11O1O1O1O1-13 



S Foster 01,101000] IIDDD , J, oiiM-li) 



In a practice shoot: C. O Harris 15 out of 20, Gaylor 10 out of 

 15, Cartwright 9 out of 15. The attendance June 15 was a decid d 

 improvement, and some fair good shooting was done. Mr. C. N. 

 Gaff and E. N. Foote, of the Northampton Gun Club, w ere visitoi s, 

 but did not bring their shooting irons, so borrowed guns. Mr. 

 Gaff used T. T. Cartwright's new Wliitney liammerless, and did 

 some good work. Mr. Foote used several strange guns, but there 

 was no gun that would fit him, consequently his score was not tip 

 to his average. Match at 25 birds each: 



L F Gaylor.... 11109011011X1001101110010- 15 



T T Cartwright OlOOlOlOlllllOlQUXlOOOlO-U 



F W Twiss OOXllOOlOOOllUOlllllO, 1U0-11 



Practice: 



CNGaff XXlOllOilllO.110 011 -15 



E Abercrombie X011111011 



S Foster 1111 101001001 11 -10 



F Xnn r .'.'io i km ,: _io 



L F Gaylor OX10100lll010()li WXX1010U111XX X— 1 8 



E P Feikes XOXOXOOHO — 5 



T T Cartwright 10001101' OoOHOlOllOOlllO —13 



E Foote 10101110000101100011 — X0 



The club will build a new club house; they will hold a small 

 tournament July 4. — Meadow City. 



EATON, N. Y., June 29. — Eaton Gun Club practice at 9 king- 

 birds, three traps, 18yds. rise, American Association rules: 



Peet 111111111-9 Fryer 101111001-6 



Hall 011111111-8 Briggs 101001101-5 



Richardson 110110111—7 Sactiett 110XX0X10— 6 



Bell 110110XXX - 7 Ourtiss 11)0100100—3 



Atkins 001111111—7 Ormsby 100101001-4 



.Cole 101111101-7 



Match, Captains Peet and Richardson: 



Peet 101111111111111-14 Richards'nlllOlllOlloKOl-10 



Cole O11100101111111-11 Hall XX*illi01110XoX-X3 



Atkins . ...11100011010^0119 Fryer OlllllOHOllllX-13 



:. I II 101100001001- 8 Saekett 01101 01110111 1] -11 



Ormshy. . . mill 100000001— 8 Curtis 110110111101110-11 



Bell 111101101000001- 8-58 Stoue lOlOOlOOllHOOl- 8-64 



ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 28.— Score of the Winston— Crosby match 

 shot at East St. Louis, 111., this afternoon, 100 single live birds, 

 Hnrlingham rules, modified to use 10-gauge guns, for $250 a side: 

 J L Winston. . ..1021111102— 8 Wm Crosby . . 2011231111— 9 

 22002 121X2- 8 111X231101 — 9 



2111212132-10 1 1 1131 1111-10 



1XX22212IO- 9 0X2XXXXX0X— 8 



221X211222-10 1111111111—10 

 2oll221H2- 9 1212122111-10 

 1212211010— 8 1112211ol0— 8 



I0O22OOHI- 6 1111112111 — 10 



1212101011— 8 1121111123-10 

 loOllllOll- 7-83 21XXXXXX12-10-94 

 Unser Fbitz. 



BOSTON GUN CLUB, June 29.-A1. the Boston Gun Club shoot- 

 ing tournameut for the experts tit Wellington to-day, the prin- 

 cipal event was the 100 (lav-pigeon championship, to the winner 

 of which was given an elegant gold watch charm. This was 

 taken by J. Knowles of the Lowell Rod and Gun Club, who also 

 took the special prize of $5 given hy the (dub for the best score 

 over 90. Taking into consideration that of the 20 shooters con- 

 testing nearly all were the elite of the different clubs in Massa- 

 chusetts. The. Brockton. Wellington, Lowell, Natick, Worcester, 

 Wiliimantic, Exeter, Massachusetts Rifle and Boston gun clubs 

 were all represented. The winner was heartily congratulated by 

 all the sportsmen present. The names of t he leaders are given 

 below iu the respective sweeps: Initial sweep No, 1, set traps— 

 Choate. North, Bartlett and Stanton. Initial sweep No. 2, set 

 traps— Dickey, Eager. Smith. Spring, Bowker and Bartlett. Ten 

 clays. Perry; 10 clays, Knowles; 10 clays, Knowles, Eager, Choate 

 and Cooper; 10 elavs, Knowles and. Perry; lOclays, Stanton, Smith, 

 Eager and Choate; 10 clays, lioxton, Dickey. Eager and Perry; 10 

 elavs, Allen, Stanton, Choate, Bartlett, Chose, Knowles and 

 Dickey; 10 clays, Knowles, Dickey and Perry; 10 clays, Nichols; 10 

 clays, Ferry awl Nichols 7 Peoriae, Swift; 10 clays, Knowles; V 

 Peoria-, Stanton and Knowles; Eager-Dickey match, 25 elavs. 

 Eager 25 straight, Dickey 17; 7 clays, Swift; 10 Peorias, Swift, 

 Dickey and Nichols; 5 pair doubles. Perry and Choate; 10 Peorias, 

 Swift. Stauton and Eager; 10 tdays, Choate. Totals of scores, in 

 the 100 bird match: Knowles first, 03; Perry second, 91; Eager 

 third, 87; Dickey, Choate and Rowker 86, Nichols 85, Stanton and 

 Smith 83, Bartlett SO, Allen and Piper 77, Swift 73. Roxton 72, 

 Spring 71, Wood 07. Chase, Cooper, North and Gerrish withdrew. 



NEWARK, June 27.— The deciding match in the series between 

 the South Side Gun Olub, of this city, and the Union Gun Club, 

 Springfield, took place on the grounds of the former club, and 

 was a holly contested affair. The teams comprised 12 men each, 

 25 clay birds ea?h man, from 3 screened traps, under national 

 nil 5. The local club was in hue shooting form, but, coul ; not 

 cope successfully with the Unions, on whose team were J. and W. 

 Wolstencroft and W. Morris Pack, three of the best shots in 

 Philadelphia, and John Riggotts, of Roekaway. The result of 

 the match was as follows: Union G. C— E. D. Miller 23, Wm. Sig- 

 ler 25, .1. Wolstencroft. 3t, N. C. Con over 20, John Riggotts 18, W. 

 Wolstencroft 31, W. M. Pack 20, R. E. Williams 32. M. F. Lindsley 

 21. C. H. Johnston. Jr., 22, F. Rrautingham 23, R. Collins 32; total 

 264. South Side G. C— Oswald Von Lengerke 22, A. Beilman 18, 

 W. R. Hobart 21, II. R. Brtintnail 20, L. Thomas 22. T. Dukes 19. 

 A. White 28, A. Quad 24, C. M. Hodden 22, J. Beam 19, E. Geoffrey 

 23, Justus Von Lengerke 22; total 255. A number of sweeps fol- 

 lowed, iu the first of which Miller, W. M. Pack, Teamans, J. 

 Wolstencroft and Conover divided first money on 10 straight 

 each; W. F. Quiinby and A. Sickley divided second on 9 each; 

 Johnson and Goesser divided third on « each, and fourth was split 

 up between Ceo (Trey and W. H. Pack on 7 each. In the next, 

 sweep first, was divided on 10 straight each by Miller, W. M. Pack 

 and W. Wolstencroft; second went to Dukes on 9; third was 

 divided by Sickley, Parlimentand Beam on 8 each, Collins t aking 

 fourth alone on 7. 



WELLINGTON, Mass., June 29 —There was a good attendance 

 at the grounds of the Wellington Gun Club to day ami several 

 clean scores were made in the sweepstake matches. In the silver 

 pitcher match, at 8 clay-pigeons and 7 bluerooks. Dill won with 

 14. The other scores in this match were: Schaefcr and Hatch- 

 ingson 12, Bond. Field, Baxter. Warren and Tilton 11, Stoue 10, 

 Chase and Lang 9, Herrick, Cowee and Bradbury 8. In the mer- 

 chandise badge match, Bradst tec t won with a clean score of 15 

 clav-pigeons. The other Scores were: Field 14, Warren, Lang and 

 Chase 13, Schaefer, Bradbury, Hutchingson and Tilton 12, Snow 

 and Meleher 11, Stone, Dill, Cowee and Bond 10, Baxter and Her- 

 rick 9. Tec winners in the sweepstake matches were as follows: 

 8 clay-pigeons, Hutchingson; 5 clay-pigeeus, Warren and Hutch- 

 ingson; 7 bluerooks. Dill; 5 clay-pigeons, Warren, Schaefer, Chase 

 and Bradstreet; 5 clay-pigeons. Snow, Lang and Bradstreet; 5 

 clay-pigeons, Field and Bradstreet; bluerooks. Baxter; 6 blue- 

 rocks, Warren; 6 clay-pigeons. Meld, Warren and Bowket ; 3 pairs 

 bluerooks, Chase and Warren; 8 pairs clay-pigeons, Bradstreet; 10 

 clay-pigeons. Keystone match, Bond and Dill. The olub held a 

 meeting during t he afternoou, and elected A. W. Gore treasurer 

 of the club, vice C, B, Sanborn, resigned. 



ALGONQUIN GUN CLUB.-New York, June 28.-The club 

 celebrated its first regular monthly live bird shoot yesterday at 

 its grounds, Weehawken, N. J, Preparations had been made' for 

 a large crowd but the crowd was absent owing no doubt to the 

 late hour that the birds were procured and a short notice to the 

 live bird shooters. A large number of birds of a mixed descrip- 

 tion were on hand, some good ones, with a few decidedly poor 

 oues among them. The weather was warm and oppressive, with 

 no breeze, but the shooting was very good taken as a- whole. Dr. 

 Booth of the Eureka Gun Club participated iu the shoot. Mr. 

 Kami of the Times officiated as scorer. Lett barrel counted ¥• 

 bird, at 20 bird.-: Dr. Lor.iley 14, E. H. Fox 15, John Male 16, h~ 

 Rinn 15, J. Hanna 16, P. Tomlin 10J4, D. Simpson 11, Dr. Booth 12, 

 L. Brenner 33. F. Rinn and E. H. Fox shot their match on their 

 first 15 birds. Rinn won killing 1214 to Fox's 11. Rinn shot a 

 10lb., 10-bcre; Fox a 7 3 4lb., 12-bore; both at 35yds. rise, 80yds. 

 boundary.— E. 



Victoria, B. C, June 12, 1889.-27ie U. S. Cartridge Co.: Gentle- 

 men— 1 have used your shells exclusively for the past two years, 

 and the last eighteen months iu salt water shooting, which tries 

 a shell more than anything else, scarcely a day passing but whfct 

 my shells were more or less wet. When I came out here I hi ought 

 a box with me, and on one occasion when boat shooting it came 

 on rough and we shipped considerable water, wetting guns and 

 ammunition; after that mine were the only shells that could be 

 fired. 1 gave all my unloaded ones to my friends and wrote for 

 more, but my letter miscarried and i waited two months without 

 them. During that time I used the few I had over and over, stif- 

 fening the mouth wi h mucilage. Some of them I fired seven and 

 eight times, and they could have been fired again, Since that I 

 have purchased some 2,090 for myself and friends, and have just 

 got another 1.000. I see you advertise an illustrated catalogue. 

 Please send me a couple. They will do you good, I use only 

 Sehultze powder, and have never had a miss or hang fire yet. Your 

 shells I buy of J. Muckleston & Co. Yours truly, (Signed) John 

 C. Coknish.— Adv. 



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lnmver L 8 io (^onesyonimin. 



S2gf~No Notice T»k«n of a iu>u j m,»i lf . ( .trrHspuudentl, 



Joe.— The minnow is often a successful bait, and you will do 

 well to try it in this case. 



G. D. P., London.— For the eggs address H. B. Bailey, No. 51 

 South street, New York. 



P., Philadelphia.— We hear of rockfish or striped bass being 

 caught by hook and line in the surf along the New Jersey coast 

 weighing from 2 to 501bs.. but are not informed how such fishing 

 is done. You would confer a favor on many friends of the sport 

 by giving the required information, such as the season of the 

 year, time of tide, whether high or low surf, the direction of the 

 wind and formation of the beach where such fish would he likely 

 to be found; the kind of bait used and whether bottom fishing or 

 trolling is best. Is rock fishing like dram fishing in the surf, done 

 in little gullies or little channels between the outer edge of the 

 teach and inner b-r, clam bait and sinker for bottom fishing .vith 

 ordinary drum tackle? Casting into the gullies just outside the 

 inner overfall in this way many drumfish are caught from May 

 and October. About J4 to 34 flood tide, wind south cr southwest 

 and moderate surf is the best time to fish. Ans. Strong tackle 

 of the best make is requ'red for the capture of this fish. A stiff 

 rod, not exceeding 9ft. in length, a reel holding about 200yds. of 

 18-thread Cuttyhunk line, No. 6 or 7Sproat or 5 or 60'Shaughnessy 

 hook, and a 2 or 3oz. sinker is needed as long casts are necessary. 

 Fish from rocky ledges in deep water, high tide and a good-sized 

 strf is best. Hip boots and a gaff are required. The best baits 

 are shedder crabs, menhaden, squid, and lobsters. Trolling with 

 spouts is a successful way to capture this fish also. The season is 

 from the beginning of June until October; best in August, Sep- 

 tember and into October, ' 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



ENorasH, Past and Present. By Richard Ohenevix Trench, 

 D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. The Humboldt, Pub. Co., 28 Lafay- 

 ette place. New Y r ork. This is another standard work added to 

 the Humboldt Library Series— a work that has had a sale second 

 only to "The Study of Words," by the same author. Twenty edi- 

 titfus of the latter and thirteen of the former are the best evi- 

 dences of the popularity of the works. A most interesting study, 

 therefore, is the history of the English language past and present. 

 This is Nos. 108 and 109 of the Humboldt Library. 



FIXTURES. 



Juxv. 



Larchraont, Annual. 13. Cane Coii. Deunis. 



Beverl v, Mon Beach, 1st Buz. 13. Atlantic. Cruise, L. I. Sound. 



Bay. 13. R. Can., 25ft. Class, Toronto. 



Beverly, Marbleh'd, 1st Cup. 13-16. Eastern, Annual, Marblo- 



llvde Park, Annual, Chicago. head, and Cruise. 



Buffalo, Open, Buffalo. 16. Rhode Island, Cup. 



Detroit, Cruise, St. Clair. 17. Pleon, Club Cruise. 



Cedar PI ., Special. Briclgep'l. 17. Great Head, 2d Cham. 



Quaker Oif,yCor.,MareusH'k 18. Q.uincv, Second Cham. 



Dorchester, Open, Club. 20. Chelsea, Olub. 



Hull, 70th Regatta. 30. Hull, Ladies' Race. 



Beverl y, Marbleh'd, 2d Cham 20. Be verl \\Mai hiehead,2d Cup. 



Sippican. Annual. Marion. 20. Hamilton, Cruise. 



Great Head, 1st. Cham. 20. American, 2d Cham. 



Hamilton, 20ft. Class. 20. St. Lawrence, Montreal. 



Larehmont, 40ft. Class. 20. So. Boston, Mass.. 2d Pen.,. 



SI. Lawrence, Montreal. Oitv Point. 



So. Boston, Mass., 1st Cup, 24. Pleon, Club. 



City Point. 25. Miramiehi, Miller and Call 



Inter-Lake Y. R. A. Meet, Cups. 



Lake Erie. 27. Corinthian. Marblehe.ad. 



American, 1st Cham. 27. Beverl y, Mon. Beach, 2d Buz. 



New Haven, Animal. Bay. 



Knickerbocker, 20ft. craft, 27. Monafiquot, Club, Ft. Point. 



Ocean Race. 27. Buffalo, Sweep, to Point Col- 



Seawanhaka, Annual Cruise burn. 



Pleon Club, 1st Cham. 27. Cape Cod. 



Great Head, Moonlight Sail. 27. Hamilton, 25ft. Class. 



Lynn. Club, Lyon. 27. Quaker City Cor., Riverfon. 



Beverly, Mon.Beach,2d Open 27. R. Can., 20L . Class, Toronto. 



Corinthian, MarbJehead. 29. Detroit, 2d Pennant. 



Monafiquot, 1 st Cham . Ft .Pt 81. Pleon, Open. 



Buffalo Handicap, to Point 31. Hull, Ladies' Day. 



Albino. 31. Cedar Point. 



A VERY GENEROUS CONCESSION. 



/"YNE of the "generous concessions" that have, been so generally 

 'J lauded by the friends of the new deed of gift is the seleotiou 

 of outside courses and the inferred abandonment of the much- 

 abused inside course. Much has been said about the spirit and 

 liberality which the New York Y. C. has displayed in this matter, 

 but unfortunately the exact truth has eome out from no less a 

 person than Mr. Geo. L. Schuyler, the "surviving donor," who 

 certainly should know what he is talking of. In a late interview 

 in the Commercial Artva liscr Mr. Schuyler says: "The difficulty 

 had to be met. of a stretch at one point of the (New York) course 

 where there was only about 18ft. of water, whereas the Volunteer 

 draws 22ft. with her board down. This obstacle to boats of all 

 sizes, and particularly of the large, class being so rapidly developed 

 of late years, might be much increased in the case of future holders 

 of the Cup if the provision of the old deed requiring the club 

 course to be used was in force. 1 therefore suggested that the 

 deed be so altered as to make a scries of three races in open wafer 

 a condition of challenge races for the America's Cup." It thus ap- 

 pears that the change was made, not. out. of consideration for the 

 1 8ft. 1 1*8 ft of the d cep cutters, but for the 22f t . d raft of the Ameri can 

 "sloops." Mr. Schuyler's words make the meaning as plain as 

 it can be made, he says, "In the case of future holders of the Cup,"' 

 not holders and challengers, but only the New York Y. C, whose 

 tenure of the Cup is practically made perpetual bv the provisions 

 and exactions of the last deed of gift. The true history of the- 

 adoption of outside courses is briefly this: For fifteen years, from, 

 the first, Cup race in 1870, the inside course of the New York Y. C. 

 has been objected to by challengers as unfit for an international 

 race because of its shoal and tortuous nature and strong audi 

 complicated tides, giving advantage to the shoal boat and to. 

 the superior knowledge of the home pilots compared with 

 foreign skippers. The concourse of attending steamers hind- 

 ers the. racers and brings a great risk of collision, the light 

 and flaky winds make a fair test impossible, the odds homy 

 strongly in favor of home craft, built especially for this course 

 as against sea-going yachts, such as all challengers must be. 

 Every challenger from the first has objected to the course, aud" 

 many American yachtsmen have condemned it as unfit for anv 

 important thatch, bilt still the New York Y. C. has clung to it, 

 and every contestant for the Cup has been obliged to sail at least 

 one race over it. The advent of Puritan, Mayflower and Volun- 

 teer materially allered the hitherto existiug conditions, instead 

 of beiig shoaler than the British yachts these new craft, actually 

 required 8 to 9ft. more water; instead of being conspicuously best 

 at reaching they proved to be superior to the British craft to 

 windward, and in the ease of the Volunteer and Thistle many 

 conceded the inside race, to Thistle, but, expected Volunteer to 

 defeat- her outside, the Hook. The Volunteer- 1'histle race brought 

 out very prominently two facts, first, that the strong point of the 

 American type was to windward and its worst, off the wind; sec- 

 ond, the ill-timed grumbling of some of Thistle's adherents called 

 attention to the crooked, shoal and complicated course over 

 which many British races are sailed, a fact also emphasized by 

 the Mayflower-Arrow controversy. Volunteer's gain to windward 

 and comparatively pooi'er performance to leeward in the last 

 race, together with the howl about four-sided courses which went 

 up that same night, settled the matter, aud within three days the 

 work of changing the deed of gift, so as to shut out, all inland 

 courses, was well under way. There is no quest'on of the pro- 

 priety of the selection of three outside courses with the windward 

 legs to bo sailed first, or of the abandonment of the old inside 

 course; the change should have been made ten years since; but it. 

 is entirely untrue to claim that the New York Y. C. was aoima I Bd 

 by any generous motive or any regard for the right of future 

 challengers in making the change. It was purely a matter of self- 

 interest, and the fact that at the same time it is a good thing'fdr 

 all parties who wish a fair race is merely accidental. 



TIME ALLOWANCE IN THE CUP RACES. 



AVERY good instance of the mixture of truth and falsehood 

 tnat is brought forward to obscure the real issue in the dis- 

 cussion of the new deed of gift is shown in the reference which, 

 the daily papers have of late been making to the matter of time 

 allowance. The two bare facts that America sailed without, time 

 allowance when she won the Cup, and Valkyrie will receive time 

 allowance in racing against Volunteer for it, are brought into 

 prominence to show that America was treated unfairly, while 

 Valkyrie will be received in a very different manner. It' is true 

 that America sailed her great race without, time allowance, but 

 the reason was not because time allowance was denied her by the 

 Royal Yacht Squadion, but because she being larger than nearly 

 all her competitors, her owners refused to start unless the race 

 was without time allowance. Of the 14 competitors the only ones 

 she had to fear were the small cutters of less than half her ton- 

 nage, like Freak, Aurora, Volante and Arrow; the yachts of her 

 own size or larger were such clumsy craft as the big bark Brill- 

 iant and the schooner Wyvern, inferior in everyway to her. 

 The only yacht which really covered the course and made any 

 semblance of a race was the little cutter Aurora, 47 tons, which 

 finished 18m. after the America and would have received about 

 7m, allowance from her by the time scale then used. So much 

 for that end of the story; now for the other. The New York Y.O. 

 proposes to meet a yacht 70ft. long, and in one class, by one 8.6ft. 

 long and in a totally different class, giving an allowance which it 

 has itself condemned as insufficient where the disparity of size is 

 so great, and with the full knowledge that what it will dignify 

 with the name of match is but a farce that can only have one 

 ending. Within the past ten<lavs American yachtsmen have 

 seen some very fast sailing by home boats of Valkyrie's cla-.s- 

 both Katrina and Shamrock are fast yachts, and Tltania thus far' 

 has given every evidence of being a good deal faster, in fact- 

 Valkyrie has but a small chance of winning from the best pair of 

 the present seventies. At the same time no one supposes that In 

 such races as the three between Titania and Katrina either boat 

 could have won from Volunteer by the present allow anees. of the 

 New Y T ork Y. C. It has not yet been done, nor is it likely to be. 

 This same allowance, however, is all that Valkyrie will receive 

 should she meet Volunteer in a race for the Cup. In a cup race 

 the great, point is that a boat shall win, if she is beaten it matters 

 little whether it is by 5m. or 30m., she does not take the Cup or 

 retain it as the case may bee. The allowance which Valkyrie 

 would receive from Volunteer would not give her even a fair 

 fighting show to win the Cup, and while it might mitigate the. 

 extent of her defeat it would practically amount to no allowance 

 at all, a fact very well known to those who have the matter in 

 hand. 



CEDAR POINT Y. C.-This prosperous little club, whose sta- 

 tion is at Saugatuck, Conn., has now a membership of 40 and a 

 fleet of 32 yachts. A good deal of racing is done iu open boats, 

 aud the club has a number of fast craft from 20 to 24ft, 



