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"WHO WCN."— Since it was first issued in 1887, this useful book 

 has grown from a compact record of races sailed into the most 

 complete list and reference book that has yet heen prepared for 

 yachtsmen. The care and labor expended in order to BPCnre 

 accurac y in the first volume have been hf artily appreciated by 

 ■yacht-men, and a demand was made for a more extended work. 

 This has oeen very successfully met in the edition of 1889, as the 

 book contains a.l that could he asked for within the compass of 

 one convenient volume. The book is nowiti three parts— the first 

 historical, a record of vachling history at home and .flu oad; ibe 

 second includes t he racing record of 1888; while the third includes 

 the inost complete list of American owners, yachts and Hags yet 

 published. Ttie list of owners and yachts include, :M0O names, 

 while there are 1,200 private flags, it. addition tocluband national 

 colors. The flags are, arranged according to the latest met hod, 

 the grouping being By colors, while a reference uumher tells 

 where to lino the yacht in the register. Tne latter is very com- 

 pact, hut gives the leading points, such as dimensions, desiguer, 

 etc. A groat deal of information on suc h subjects as pilotage, 

 navigation, measurement rules and allowance tabh-s, tides, etc., 

 is scattered through the book. This year tne Lflrchraont Y. C. 

 received special attention, there being a concise history of the 

 club races, with a tine portrait of Com. Lowrey. Two special 

 features, devised by the author. Mr. James C. Hummers, are a 

 compact tide table for the Allan tic coast, and a silicate slate 

 record for timing anv race. Though containing over 100 pages, 

 the book is small enough to b c carried in the pocket. It is very- 

 well printed and handsomely bound in celluloid covers. 



SCULLINO WITH THE RUDDER.— The Monat'quot Y. 0. t at 

 meeting lately held, passed the following resolutions, repudiating 

 the recent decision oi the rtgatta committee: " Revolved, That we, 

 the members of the Mouatiquol Y. C, declare that we do not 

 countenance so-called ' sculling 1 with the rudder in any race 

 under the auspices of this club. ftr.sn/iv:</, That the decision in 

 the Erin pimost against sculling ou Moondyne in a recent race is 

 against our rules as printed in our club book and contrary to 

 Sportsmanlike racing, and is not approved by the c lub." By this 

 action the club eff< dually c lears itself in the matter, and leaves 

 the. blame where it. belongs, on the committee. 



ATLANTIC Y. C— At the meeting on Sept. 9 the winners of 

 the average record for runs on the annual cruise were announced 

 as follows: Fearless, Fanny. Athlon, Anaconda, Concord, Chispa 

 and A rah. The wiun< r in Class 7 is not yet decided. Azalea has 

 challenged for the pennant in her class, and Arab iu hers. 



WEST INDIA HTJiilUCANE.-The great storm which has 

 raged for over a week aloug the Atlantic coast calls attention to 

 Mr. Hapten's interesting work on ''West India Hurricanes and 

 the March Blizzard," lately published by the Forest and Si i earn 

 Publishing Company. The present storm is very similar to the 

 famous blzzard in its origin and progress, and the laws winch 

 govern its movements are clearly laid down m Mr. Hayden's val- 

 uable book. 



NEW YORK Y. C. NEWPORT RACES.— In consequence of the 

 severe storm none of the yachts are ready for the races at New- 

 port, and the first race was postponed from Tuesday until to-day. 



NAHLI AND TATTLER.— A race was sailed on Sept. 7 off 

 Sand's Point, Nahli winning by lm. 24s., the elapsed time being 

 3h. 31m. 



AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Officers, 1887-88. 



Commodore: H. C. Rogers ) P( , t .. h n.„, lA P „„ 



Secretary-Treasurer; Geo. W. Hatton J Peterborough, Can. 

 I'ice-C'owt. Rear-Corn. Purser. 



Central Dlv.AV. R. Huntington. E. W. Hasten T. H. Sin ker, 



Kiiue. N. Y. 



Atlantic Div.W. P. Stephens L. B. Palmer F. L. Dunnell, 



186 Jerolemon St., Brooklyn. 



N'thern Div. .Robert Tyson S. S. Robinson Colin Eraser, Toronto. 



■Eastern Di v.. H. E. Rice. M. D Jtaxton Holmes H. D Marsh. 



Springfield, Mass. 



Applications tor nienioerslilp must be made to division pursers, accom- 

 panied by the recommendation Of aD active member and the stun of $2.00 

 for entrance fee and dues for current year. Every member attending 

 the general A. C. A. earhjp shall pay $1.00 for camp expenses. Application 

 seat to the See'y-Treas. wilt lie Cone arded by him to the proper Division. 



Persons residing in any Division and wishing to become members of 

 the A. C. A., will be furnished with printed forms of applicatl on by address- 

 ing the Purser. 



WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 



Commodore— C. J. Stedman. Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 Vice-Commodore— T. J. Klrkparriek. Steiimtleld, O. 

 Rear-Commodore- Thos. S. Gates, Columbus O. 

 Secretary-Treasurer— J. B. Ktogh, CLL-ago, HI 



SNIPS FROM SNAPS AT THE '89 MEET. 



"Stave Island is a splendid spot 



To fry the ham or boil the pot, 



To break your b( nes or bark your shins 



A tumbling about it outs aad ins." 



SO went the Ubiques' chorus, and excepting in one particular 

 they fall far snort of the truth. I never, since I nrst began 

 to boil a b lly, had so much trouble in getting water inlo the 

 proper state to make tea with as I had at Stave island, and of all 

 camps 1 ever camped at, the Stave Island camp was provided with 

 the smalle t supply of natural firewood. With all due deference 

 to Grindstone, whieh I know nothing of, I think that the head of 

 Stave Island was a moat charming camp ground. It was so 

 broken and diversified with rocky ridges, hollow knolls and 

 thickets, the shores fell away into so many charming bays, and 

 the Norway pines, oaks and maples gave such relief to the white 

 tents and bright flags that the little canvas city was beautiful be- 

 yond compare. The lit tle islands in front of the camp gave a 

 well-sheltered caaoe harbor. The courses were all that could be 

 desired, both from the racers' and spectators' point of view, and 

 heaaq.uart.ers was both the natural, social and official headquar- 

 ters of the camp. The dock was certainly much too faraway 

 from the main camp, and t he arrival of the boat was not half 

 the even' it. should have beeu, but this seems to be a chronic com- 

 plaint at an A. C. A camp, and must be borne with. The mess was 

 a fairly gio.1 one, it was tar better thau that at Lake George, and 

 not quite what it should have been. The truth is that for the past 

 two years the A. C. A. caterers have mistaken their functions. 

 "What we want when we go to camp is uot an imitation of a third- 

 rate railway hotel bill of fare, we want good wholesome camp 

 food, plenty of it, and good attendance. So much for the camp 

 sue and the camp arrangements, with one exception, and, that 

 exception deserves more attention thau all the others. 



A two weeks' camp is somewhat of a permanent affair, and tent 

 floors are in t be cases of seventy- five per cent, of the campers 

 and fifty per cent, of the camp sites, a necessity. Floats or docks, 

 or skids, to beach the canoes upon, are also a prime necessity, 

 and the trouble about both floors and docks is that they are all 

 wanted at once. At Long island last year the chairman of the 

 camp s'to committee nearly killed himself trying to be at two 

 places at once, and although the docks were all that could be de- 

 Bircd, it was at the expense of an A. C. A. man's holiday. This 

 year an experienced carpenter with a good staff of assistants had 

 charge of the whole affair, lumber was plentiful and very cheap, 

 and the result was that never before was the A, C. A. as well pro- 

 vided with floors and docks, and never before did these conveni- 

 ences cost so little. Jackman was not only the carpenter, he was 

 the flagpole raise", fire builder and general utility man of the 

 camp. He was an institution, and if he could be made an annual 

 institution it would be a good thing. 



I spent the first night alter I left the meet in a lonely camp on 

 the banks of the St. Lawrence, and as I lay at full length in the 

 cockpit of ike Inez— provuig mvself a crank of the worst order by 

 preferring to make my bed in my boat, in fifteen minutes, rather 

 thau to spend hours m trying to find a level spot of soft ground on 

 which to pitch a tent — with the roar of a gieat rapid in my ears 

 and my favorite constellation, the Great Bear, glittering in a 

 clear sky above me, I tried to generalize aud analyze both an 

 A. C. A. meet and the pleasure that it gave me. It was then, aud 

 only then, that I realized to the fullest extent, that hehind the 

 mere material things that make up an A. C. A. camp, the tree life 

 in the open air, the ueep bleep, tbi camp-fitesand tueir jolliness, 

 tne racing and ins excitement, the never ending interest iu the 

 talk about rigs, kits and cmucs— there lay a subtiler, deeper, 

 more potent influence, something al most intangible iuits essence, 

 and yet all-poweifai, which tor want of a better name maybe 

 called the A. U. A. spirit ; and that it is this spirit that gives 'life 

 and being to the dry boues, and very old jokes of the camp. It is 

 this spirit, whieh is more than the mere spirit of comradeship, 

 that makes every inau in camp your friend, it is more than the 

 spirit of fair play, more even than that divine essence ihat 

 descends from nature upon those that love her, that lifts us up 



out of ourselves in camp, that hangs between us and the worry, 

 the striving, the self-consciousness of our every day life, a great 

 veil, and make.-, us all desire to give and to sret pleasure, that 

 gives individuality to the camp, and makes It unique. 

 As long as this spirit exists aud makes itself felt iu the A. 

 C. A., so long will it go on and prosper, iu spite of the racing 

 mania, the cup hunter, the hippotlromist and the squaw man, 

 for it is the spirit of canoeing, made manifest uot in the 

 lonely cruise, but. in the crowded meet. It is because of this in- 

 tangible influence that certain features of this year's meet, which 

 under any other conditions but those which prevail at an A. C. A. 

 camp would be entirely pleasant, have uot added, but have rather 

 detracted from its success as a remiuscence. What an A. C. A. 

 meet would be without a Squaw Point— awn v with your Paradise 

 Places, I'll have none of them— I do not know, nor do I care to 

 think of such a contingency: out I am sure that there were far 

 too many squaws over the ridge at Stave Island. With the excep- 

 tion of the regatta programme, nothing could be done in camp 

 without more attention being paid to the necessit ies of the squaws 

 than the wishes of the oanoeiots. The cruises had to be converted 

 into picnics for their benefit, and although thoy were very pleas- 

 ant a If airs, I am afraid the meet lost by the change. Then, too, 

 the attractions of Squaw Point broke, up the homogeheOUaness of 

 the camp. If a man was wanted for anything or everything, from 

 the description of a canoe fitting to the singing of a song, bo was, 

 unless the ladies were all in the main camp, moderately certain 

 to be "over at Squaw Point," that is, unless he was a "canoe's 

 husband." The squaws aid not, however, spoil the racing. Al- 

 though if one or t wo eager racing men had sailud more and spent 

 less time in squiring l air dames it would have been hotter for 

 them, from a racing point of view. The Jabber says that the 

 Western men have sworn an oath toget her "to keep it with an 

 equal mind" to leave their squaws at home next year, and have a 

 canoe meet. The A. C. A. does uot need to proceed to this ungal- 

 lant extreme; but theTe is a danger in the increased popularity of 

 the camp's annex, and it is all the greater because there are Dot 

 many who arc as boorish as I am, and, therefore, the number wno 

 mane bold to speak out is but small. 



One of the most interesting and most important features of the 

 meet was the strength ot the cruising conuugent, and the flavor 

 which it gave to the camp, its doings and sayings. There were at 

 least four big club messes, the Toronto, Unique, Brockville and 

 Lindsay messes, and quite a number of men either wholly or 

 partially grubbed themselves. Besides the Brooklyn cruising 

 six. and the Toronto cruising four, half a dozen parties cruised 

 to the camp, at least as many cruised from it, and there was 

 plenty of cruising talk, and a good deal of interest manifested in 

 the cruising events. The official cruises were picnics rather than 

 cruises, and Die unsettled weather interfered sadly with the 

 efforts and intentions of the cruising committee, but. the first 

 week would have been a somewhat monotonous one had it not 

 heen for these picnics, aud 1 think tuat the value of a cruising 

 committee as a permanent part of the machinery of the associa- 

 tion has been proved. The cruising race brought out quite a 

 number of entries, and but four starters, but it was a good race, 

 from start to finish, and it was won by a fine specimen of a 

 cruising boat. Of the three canoes which finished in the cruising 

 r..cc, one was the winner of the record, another tne winner of tne 

 combined, the third was second in the Orillia cup lace, not a bad 

 snowing for the "disgruntled cruisers." 



The kit competition, which, although advertised as such, was 

 not down on the official programme, and was pur. through because 

 ot the demand for it on the pare of the cruising contingent, 

 brought out ten or a dozen entries, and if it was not a success, it 

 was because the regatta committee muffed the whole affair, not 

 bt cause ot a scarcity of material for a contest, or of a lack of in- 

 terest therein. I do not wish to say anything that will iu any way 

 hurt the feelings of the individual members of a regatta, com' 

 mittee which carried through the regatta programme in a manner 

 Which", taking into tne account tne rather difficult conditions 

 uiuer which they had to work, was admirable, but thi«I must say, 

 if the kit competition is to be as successful a nature of the A.C.A.! 

 meet as it should be, and as it has been of tne Northern Oi . iaiuii 

 n etts, it must be conducted in a very different manner from that 

 in which it was in '89. In the Brat place, the two mcmoers of the 

 tt gatta coininutee who acted as judges d-d not. examine the kits 

 until the last moment, after some of the competitors had left 

 Camp, and their decision was not officia.ly given until they were 

 on tnell way to the boat that was to carry them away from the. 

 camp. There was, therefore, no opportunity given to the camp 

 to examine the successful kit, and disgruntled competitors hai no 

 opportunity to protest against tboir judges' decision. As a natural 

 consequence not a few competitors left the camp, feeling tnat 

 they had been unfairly treated, and the camp iiself received no 

 benefit whatever ti'um the event. Of course the committee can 

 hardly be blamed for not doing four things at one time, but if 

 they had not time, either as individuals or as a committee, to 

 examine the kits, at least a day before the annual meeting, they 

 certainly had the power to appoint a j ury to do the work for them. 



In itself the dilatory action of the committee was enough to 

 ruin the competition, but in my opinion the grounds upon which 

 they elected to try kit against kit, were of such a nature as to 

 make the whole affair a farce. They decided to give the prize to 

 the man' having the most compact nest of cooking tools, and it 

 cannot be denied that they gave the pdze to the man with the 

 most complete box of tricks, but in what measure does a "box of 

 tricks" constitute a camping kit'/ Wuat they practically did was 

 to give the prize to the tinsmith, not the canoeist, and I have yet 

 to learn that it is possible for a man to cruise successfully with 

 the assistance of never so clever a tinsmith. As far as my lim- 

 ited experience goes, a man has to do several other things', such 

 as Sleep and rest, as well as cook, ou a cruise, and in particular he 

 has io cany a sufficient quantity of suitable food to cook, and of 

 clothing to sleep and work in. Some men— I know several of 

 them— can do all their cooking with a tin plate and a granite ware 

 cup, and others— I myself am one of this class— can, with the 

 kind assistance of a tryiug-pan and a couple of tin pails, satisfy 

 the hunger of from one to a dozen, but the man who c<iii cook 

 without carrying food, and sleep without tent and blankets, I 

 have no knowledge of. The great difficulty of the cruising 

 canoeist is not the carrying of cooking uttu-ils but of clothing 

 and food, and the problem he has to work out is how to do this 

 in such a way as to preserve his outfit from damage in case of an 

 upset, and to combine handiness with due efficiency. As a matter 

 of fact the prize winuer of the kit competition of '89 had no 

 facilities for storing food at all, and to give him the prize the 

 committee passed over such complete and practical cruising out- 

 fits as those of ex-Commodore Wilkin, Scott, of Ottawa, and the 

 Toronto cruisers' kit s ,wni eh included everj thing, cooking utensils, 

 tent, bedding and its storage, food and its storage. 



This is not the way to encourage cruisers to give the meet the 

 benefit of their experience or to indace them to bring their kits 

 to camp for the enlightenment thereof. I was myself a competi- 

 tor in this event, anu 1 have been sufficiently disgruntled to spsak 

 with feeling on this subject; not because I was not given tne flag, 

 of course not, but m the interest of the right. I did not want the 

 prize— who over heard of a disgruntled competitor that did?— but 

 I ciio and do want to see tne prize giveu to the man who has 

 worked on his kit, not to the man who has the best tinsmith. 



It t he kit competition is to become an annual feature of the 

 meet, and the number of entries this year proves that it. could be 

 made as interesting as it is desirable, it should, I think, be con- 

 ducted not by the overworked regatta eommitte, but by the cruis- 

 ing committee, who at present nave nothing to do during the 

 second week ot a meet; and it should be carried on under axed 

 rules as carefully framed and as rigidly adhered to as those which 

 govern sailing races. The exam' nation of the kits should take 

 place at such a time as wilt permit of the exhibition of the win- 

 ning kit at headquarters for at least a couple of days, and the 

 prize should be a suitable one. It might not be a bad idea to put 

 the cruising race iuto the hands of the cruising committee also, 

 and to make it a part of one of the meet cruises. The experience 

 of this year goes far toward proving that a steam launch is 

 almost a necessity to a large A. O. A. cruise, and with the aid of 

 such an auxiliary there would be no dillieul ty in making the race 

 a success. 



The Toronto cruising four, who put in ten days on the Trent 

 Chain, the Bay ot Qumte, and the river. Winding up a good piece 

 of work by running from Kingston to Stave Island in one day, 

 had a very complete and interesting outfit. Tneir canoes were 

 big doublr-skin. open Heralds, with large bow and stem compart- 

 ments, brass drop rudders, brass leeuoards, and a good spread of 

 canvas. The power of their boats was fully tested by more tnan 

 one gale in open water, and by some difficult; pieces of' rapid work, 

 and by lashing thorn together, making a catamaran, i ney rode 

 out seas that would have drowned a naphtha launch. Tbey used 

 the Toronto pyramid tent, a simple square affair, with one pole 

 and eight iron pins, and the Toionio pail kit, a combination grub 

 box and box of tricks, with utensils enough in it for a party of 

 six and room for a week's groceries. The only fault to be found 

 with this kit is that it is bulky, the tent being quite large and the 

 pail fully twelve inches high, and it is doubtful whether the grub 

 storage, is water thiht. Taken as a whole, howey r er, the Torunoo 

 cruising four have the best open canoe cruising outfit that was 

 ever seen at a meet, and the interesting thing about it is that they 

 are following closely in the footsteps of the first Canadian canoe 

 users. The Toronto cruising four are simply adapting the canoe of | 



ne fisherman and gunner to the necessities of the modern canoe- 

 ist, and their success mav encourage other Northern Division men 

 to take the same course, instead of following foreign lights. 

 There seems, however, to he something approaching, a general 

 awakening among canoeists, to the advantages of the open Can- 

 adian canoe, and proof is not wanting that the development of 

 this interesting type of canoe has not ceased. There was an 

 English of Peterboro open 16 80 on the Ubiqne dock with beauti- 

 ful lines, a long bow, clean run and an easy bilge, built with a 

 smooth lap between t he ribs, a straight stern to take a rudder, 

 and with a decided improvement on the old Indian sheer. She 

 was quite the prettiest specimen of an open canoe I have ever 

 seen, and w as very fast either under sail or paddle. 



The two most interesting features of this . ear's racing— apart 

 from the "who won" element— were uudouhtahly the almost uni- 

 versal use of the hoisting rig and of the Lowell deck seat. While 

 last year there were only two canoes in the trophy race with 

 hoisting rigs, this year there were only two with standing, the. 

 Canuck and the Cyrus, and it is very doubtful wnether the 

 winner of the trophy had a second's advantage because her rig 

 was a standing oue. The standing- rig evil has apparently cured 

 itself— perhaps the threat of legislation has had something to do 

 with it— and canoeing has weathered out on that nasty shoal in 

 magnificent form. Whether the sudden awakening ol the racing 

 men to the advantnnges of the sliding hiker is going to prove a 

 worse evil than standing rigs, the futu-e will make clear. If I 

 remember right lv. in a sere, d ou racing abominations, which I 

 scut to the Foil est and Stream last w inter, I said that the stand- 

 ing rig was a prestmt ovu, the hiking seat an evil tendency, and 

 the midship cent erboard au unmitigate d abomination, and 1 see 

 no reason for altering this series of definitions. A hiking seat 

 can be carried during a race on such canoes as the Fly, Owl, Mac, 

 Evangeline and Ellida. without iu any way injuring them as 

 canoes, and there can be no question that a caooe can be kept up 

 with a hiker with great ease, that is if the user thereof is a fit and 

 proper person to secure an engagement with Mr. Seavey. If, 

 however, the result of the use of the sliding seat is to be the use 

 of a plank athwart, a knife blade, canoeing is doomed to yet 

 another rough traverse.' Judging by the talk about deadrise that 

 went on "under the flies" aftei ihe tiophy race, there is some 

 prospect that the hiking seat and not the canoe's bottom will fur- 

 nish the stability of next year's fleet. The Lowell men know more 

 about the hiker than all the rest of the Association, however, and 

 their argument, that it gives no stability on the run, and that it 

 is the run, not the reach, that determines a canoe's sail-carrying 

 power, and also that speed cannot be attained without stability, 

 is a strong one. 



Leaving aside the hiker and its evil tendencies, aud taking the 

 racing fleet as if is, I think that there can be no question that 

 there has been substantial pro. ress made during the past year. 

 Unless a cruiser is, as the ultra racing men say, a craft that can- 

 not sail, there was no hard and fast line drawn between the racer 

 and the cruiser at this meet, and the canoe, not the racing 

 machine, is again in the ascendant. The 'midship centerboard, 

 and all too light construction, were the only grave tanks of the 

 trophy fleet of '89, the latter evil cures itself, for there are not 

 many men who can afford a boat too light to beach, and the 

 former must some day be cured by legislation, but when? By the 

 way. there is one feature of the "piazza" which the Vesper men 

 discovered some time a*o, that the racing gang now know some- 

 thing about, and that is tne tendency of tne blessed double back 

 action, narrow gauge railway, to up and bust, just at the most 

 opportuae moment for making things ntereslmg. The velocity 

 with wuieh a racing canoeist makes a hole in the water when his 

 railway shunts turn, is something that even an electric shock can- 

 not rival. There will be a good deal of valuable hard wood wasted 

 by energetic hikers this winter, aud if some strange aud wonder- 

 ful contrivances of the nature of the before-mentioned railway- 

 do not decorate the field of '90. I am greatly mistaken 



It is very interesting as a proof of the A. O. A.'s strength to 

 know that in a day or two several hundred dollars can be raised 

 lor a paddling trophy, and that without anything approaching a 

 fuss being made about it, but is uot this trophy business becom- 

 ing too pronounced a mature of the regatta? The A. C. a. trophy 

 is a fine prize, it makes a fine race, and it creates plenty of in- 

 terest, but has it helped canoeing? One thing I am sure it has 

 done that is not beneficial; it has hurt the Record, and that 

 seriously. By the A. C. A.'s own laws, and by the natural laws, 

 that canoeing creates for itself, the R* cord is the event of the 

 Association's meet, and the man who wins it is supposed to be 

 the honor man of the year. The old guard of A. C. A. men may 

 still put the Record lirst, but the outside world hardly knows 

 what it means, and the Association members pay no attention to 

 it whatever, How this is to be cured and the Record made again 

 the big scalp of the meet, is a matter which I think canoeists 

 should cousider. 1 suppose if a big silver pot could be got aud 

 alia, heel to the regulation scalp, the pot-hunters would alter their 

 opinion as to the relative importance of the Record and the sail- 

 ing trophy, but that would be extending a present evil. The 

 "scalp" idea has, I think, done something toward rehabilitating 

 the Record, and if the Record flag instead of being of the same 

 style as the two trophy flags had been a somewhat more elaborate 

 and costly affair than they, it would have doue more. 



I. was not at toe general meeting at Long Island last year, and 

 do not know how the " scalp " system was worked for the first 

 time, but I am satisfied that the way it was managed at Stave 

 Island tnis year discriminated against and was unjust to the 

 Record winners of these days. In the days of old the Record win- 

 ner used to get the best flag at the meet, and when the "scalp" 

 system was introduced he got a scalp as usual. Each Record win- 

 ner, up to '88 or '89, got a meet flag, as useless as pr. tty, and a 

 scalp, as useful as plain. In 'o9, the Record winner got his scalp, 

 simply that and notniug more, anu however well the scalp may 

 satisfy his Sense of honor, 1 submit that the esthetic side of his 

 nature is as much entitled to Sa tisf action as was tnat of his prede- 

 cessor's. It is a sincdl matter this, 1 know, but the Record is such 

 an important feature of the A. C. A. and exercises so cow erf ul a 

 controlling influence over the development o f the canoe, that when 

 it relates to it, nothing, I think, is tjo small to deserve attention. 

 Dr. Gage's proposition, that in future me,u should bo required to 

 enter for the Record, and to start in all the races to enable them 

 to get a place in it, is, I think, a wise and advisable retorm. I 

 should like to go much further and see the tropuv contestants 

 picked only from those who have taken a place in the Record. 

 This would prevent a non-paddling sailing canoe trom winning 

 the sailing trophy, a non-s.-ulable paddling canoe from winning 

 the sailing trophy-, and a specialist from winning either. 



Ret aw. 



N. Y. ATHLETIC CLUB'S CANOE REGATTA. 



WHAT promises to be the most noteworthy canoeing contest 

 after the great international races which nave occurred in 

 these waters, will take place at the New York Athletic Club's 

 summer quarters at Travers Island on the Sound near New 

 Rochelle, on Sept. 28. at 2 P. M. This season the club in the en- 

 deavor to widen the interest in aquatic sports has endeavored to 

 collect a fleet of small yachts, and now it has attempted to en- 

 courage the canoeing interest. 



Prizes were offered and invitations sent to the leading canoe 

 clubs in hopes that the best canoeists would enter and show the 

 athletes what canoe sailiog really is. 



Tne invitation was cordially received by the canoeists aud 

 entries have oeen already received from Messrs Butler. Goddard 

 and Gage of the Vesper Canoe Club of Lowell: Knappe, of Spring- 

 field; Forrest, of Hartford; Blake, Whitlock and W ard, ot Brook- 

 lyn; Yaux ann Stevens, of New York; Palmer, of the lanthes, of 

 Newark, and several other prominent canoeists of the A. C. A. 

 The interest to the canoeists will be centered mainly in the fact 

 that Bfake, who won most of the races on New York Bay last 

 summer, and whose boat, the Eclipse, ablv handled by Mr' Bro- 

 kaw, won the A. C. A. trophy cup last year", will for the first time 

 meet Butler, who was a close second to Biokaw. 



Interest will be added by the fact that Dr. Gage, who won the 

 unlimited sailing race at this year's meet, and who there defeated 

 Butler, will also be in the contest. Old hands like VVhitlcck and 

 Vaux, who were generally the winners a few vears ago, will also 

 join issue again with the later victors. It is pleasant to record 

 that Mr. Wnitlock's splendid success with his new yacht Kath- 

 leen this summer has not dampeued his ardor lor the graceful 

 sport of the smaller craft. 



It is union unate that ex-Com. Gibson's name does not appear 

 among this list of caooe notables, but there is still a week's time 

 and plenty of good boats at nts disposal. Mr. Brokaw, too, would 

 lend interest to so notable a contest. 



It is hoped that Mr. Bailey will bring the Notns up from 

 Pittsburgh, but no word has yet been received from him. 



Members of canoe clubs recognized in the A. C. A. will be 

 admitted to the club grounas upon presentation of proper cre- 

 dentials. 



Travers Island is situated on the Sound a few mile3 below 

 New Kochelle, and but a few hundred yards from Glen Island. 

 It is best reached by New York and New Haven Railroad to 

 Pelham Manor, where trains are met by the club's stages. 



A. C. A. MEMBERSHIP.— Atlantic Division: Chas. P. Tuttle, 

 Camden, N. J. ' 



