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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[July 31, 1890. 



SIPPICAN Y. C., TENTH OPEN REGATTA, JULY 19.-Courses: 

 First Class, from judges' yacht around S. E. Ledge Black Buoy, 

 around Nye's Ledge Buoy aud back to judges' yacht. Third Class, 

 from judges' yacht around S. E. Ledge Buoy, around Bow Bells 

 Buoy and Back to judges' yacht. Fourth Class, from judges' 

 yacht around stakeboat off Plantin Island, around Sear Rock 

 Buoy and back to judges' yacht; repeat course once. Weather 

 squally. Wind light N.W., with squalls from N. to N.E. Tide 

 low. 



CLASS I.— COURSE 15 MILES. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Climax, E. C. Stetson 26.02^ 2 18 00 2 02 04 



Anonyma, F. Dabney 25.08 2 58 31 2 41 44 



Mist, G. H. Lyman, jr 23.0C% 2 44 01 2 23 46 



CLASS IH. — COURSE 9 MILES. 



Parole.. W. H. Davis 19.05 1 36 19 1 19 06 



Etta, J. L. Stackpole .19.09 1 46 20 1 29 44 



Hermione, R. C. Barston 20.00 1 50 20 1 33 54 



Laura, J. DeKay 19.02 1 53 05 1 35 32 



CLASS IT . — COURSE 7 MILES. 



Wide Awake, J. C. Pegram, jr 14.09^ 1 35 05 1 15 45 



Island Belle, C.A.Clark 17.02 132 00 1 15 59 



May, G . Van Rensselaer 16 .03 1 44 50 1 27 37 



CLASS V. — COURSE i% MILES. 



Worry, H. W. Bellows .. .13.0914 0 48 38J4 0 36 16J£ 



Fairy, - CaulfiehL 11.11 0 55 04 0 40 04 



McGinty, J. H. Clark. 13.08 Did not finish. 



(Course for Class V., from judges' yacht around stakeboat 

 E.S.E. from judges' yacht, around Black Buoy No. 5, back to 

 judges' yacht; repeat the course twice.) 



Winners: Class I., Climax first, Mist second; Class III., Parole 

 first, Etta second; Class IV., Wide Awake first, Island Belle sec- 

 ond: Class V., kYorry first. Fairy second. Mist was the only starter 

 in the second class, and at her request was allowed to sail in the 

 first. Puzzle did not race, but went over ihe course with the third 

 class. Her time was 1.53.50. After the race Puzzle was struck by 

 a squall and capsized. She was towed ashore and rigbted. Re- 

 gatta Committee— J. Gorham Palfrey, chairman; W- H. Davis, J. 

 C. Pegram, jr. Judges— Com. R. S. Ryder, Dr. J. S. Whiting, J.E. 

 DeKay. 



Some details in the account of the above race published last 

 week were incorrect, the above official report not having been 

 received. 



HULL Y. C- Eighty-fourth Cash Prize Regatta, July 26. Reg. 

 ular club course. No. L, for second class, 15 miles; No. 7, for third 

 class, 9 miles; No. 12, fifth and sixth classes, 6 miles. Weather 

 rainy and wind southwest, squally and very strong, keeping away 

 many entries; tide flood: 



SECOND CLASS. 



Yachts 25ft. and under 30ft. water line. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Harbinger, J. R. Harper 28.01 2 56 10 2 12 44 



Erin, J. Cavanagh Not meas. 3 15 35 



THIRD CLASS. 



C. B. yachts under 25ft. water line and over 21ft. sailing length. 



Moondyne, W. H. Shaw 24.08 1 39 10 1 09 59 



Secret, E. F. Linton Not officially measured. 



Posy, R. G. Hunt. 22.02 



THIRD CLASS KEELS. 



Echo, Burwell & Johnson 24.06 1 37 06 1 07 44 



Swordfisb, H. L. Johnson Not officially measured. 



FIFTH CLASS C. B. 



C. B. yachts 19 and under 21ft. sailing length. 



Madge, W. D. Lovell 19. U 1 09 06 0 44 55 



Tartar, .1. F. Brown 19.11 1 13 40 0 50 33 



FIFTH CLASS KEELS. 



All keels under 21ft. sailing length. 



Composite, J. Mclntyre 16.00 1 20 43 0 53 33 



Vaga, H. W. Friend 18.05 1 19 59 0 55 27 



SIXTH CLASS. 



All C. B. under 19ft. sailing length. 

 Cricket, E. B. Lambert, 16.08 1 25 19 0 58 57 



Winners first prize, class two. Harbinger; class three, e. b. Moon- 

 dyne; class three, keel. Echo; class five, c. b. Madge, keel Compos- 

 ite. iNo second prize awarded, winnners not defeating a competitor. 

 No starters in first and fourth classes. Secret and Posy started at 

 second class gun and were ruled out. Tne race between Vaga aud 

 Composite was very close and interesting, first one and then the 

 other being ahead. Swordfisb. carried away her mast off Pig 

 Rocks Beacon. Regatta committee, E. L. Burwell, W. A. Cary, 

 C. S. Waldo, C. S. Whitten. J. J. Henry. Judges, J. J. Souther, 

 W. A. Cary, J. A. Stetson, J. B. Eorsyth. 



CORINTHIAN Y. C— On July 26 first championship regatta of 

 the Corinthian Y. C. was sailed off Marblehead, the weather being 

 foggy and with fluky winds and a rain squall. The times were: 



FOURTH CLASS. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Hornet, J. B. Paine 25.04 1 35 25 1 28 05 



Lassie, W. A. Eaton, Jr 24.06 1 36 52 1 28 31 



Kraken, Percy Chase 25.06 1 36 56 1 29 33 



Nixie, C. L. Cochrane Not measured. 



FIFTH CLASS. 



Sapphire, C. S. Street Walkover. 



SPECIAL CLASS— CRUISERS. 



Handicap. 



Atalanta 5 00 2 54 57 2 49 56 



Wave Crest 7 00 2 58 07 2 51 07 



Gretchen 10 00 3 05 33 2 55 33 



Cly tie Walkover. 



The 40-footers Ventura and Tomahawk started to sail a match 

 race. On the beat to windward to Pig Rock Ventura sailed 

 fastest and spun out a good lead. Both boats withdrew when the 

 fog shut in. 



MERLE AND CITY OF THE STRAITS.-Oleveland has been 

 selected as neutral water for a race between the yachts Merle, of 

 Toronto, and the City of the Straits, of Detroir, each the crack 

 craft of the kind of the side it represents. The contest will be on 

 Aug. 4, 5 and 6, the winner to be the ODe taking the best two out of 

 three. The distance will be 10 miles to windward and return. 

 The Canadian boat wants a six hours' limit, while the other will 

 be satisfied with four hours. There will be a purse of $500 put up 

 by Cleveland parties and §400 by the visitors. A week's racing 

 will be the result. Mayor Gardner will he the referee, and Capt. 

 Joe Nicholson, of Detroit, will be the judge for the City of the 

 Straits. The Captain has written to Mayor Gardner saying if this 

 race comes off satisfactorily, at a later date he will be able to 

 arrange a schooner race bet ween the Oriole, of Toronto, and the 

 Idler, of Chicago, to come off here.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. 



OHIO Y. C— The club book of the Ohio Y. C, lately received, is 

 a neat canvas bound volume. The club, whose station is at Toledo, 

 and whose cruising ground is on Lake Erie, now numbers 132 mem- 

 bers and 20 yachts. The racing rule is a peculiar one, the "gross 

 measurement" as it is called, is found by adding the waterline, 

 beam and the depth from ceiling to under side of deck at fore- 

 mast; the allowance being 2sec. per foot, per mile. As the yachts 

 are all shoal draft centreboard sloops, this measurement answers 

 fairly well, but it would be hard on any of the modern keel or 

 even compromise craft, and a change will be necessary if such 

 boats are to be added to the fleet. There is a fine field for yacht- 

 ing on Lake Erie, and the Ohio Y. C. is doing much to advance the 

 sport on the western end of the Lake. 



A LONG CLUISE IN A STEAM LAUNCH.— The small steam 

 launch Vida, owned by Mr. F. B. Clarke, Knickerbocker Y. C, 

 lately left. New York for a cruise by river, lake and canal, going 

 up the Hudson, by canal to Oswego, thence along the lake and 

 down the St. Lawrence, returning by Lake Champlain and the 

 Hudson lliver. The yacht, which was built by C. L. Seabury & 

 Co.. of.Nyack, N. ST., is 35ft. long and 7ft. beam, with a single direct 

 acting engine. She is very comfortably fitted up for such a cruise. 

 The party includes Mr. Clarke and his son, Mr. Edwin C. Hill and 

 Mr. George Brandreth. Mr. Hill will act as engineer and Mr. 

 Clarke will be in command. 



THE OCEAN RACE OF NAPHTHA LAUNCHES.-On July 

 22 the two 25ft. naphtha launches started from Staten Island at 

 11:20 A.M. The same evening they ran into Fire Island Inlet, 

 where they were detained bv bad weather for several days. On 

 July 28, at 10 A.M., the two passed Quogue, being very close 

 together. 



NEW YACHTS.— The Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., of Bristol, 

 R. I., has just closed a contract for a steam yacht for Mr. Wm. R. 

 Hearst. The contract calls for a speed of 25 miles per hour, the 

 builders to be paid for every fraction of a mile by which this speed 

 is exceeded. 



TAPPAN ZEE S, AND I. Y. C— The Tappan Zee Sail and Ice 

 Y. C.'s annual open regatta will be sailed on Aug. 9 under the 

 rules of the New York Y. R. A. The steamer Wave will be at the 

 Columbia Y. C. house, North River, at daylight the day of the 

 races to tow the racers up to Grand View, where the regatta will 

 be held. 



PLYMOUTH Y. C.-The Plymouth Y. C, of Plymouth, Mass., 

 an organization which includes a number of canoes and small 

 craft, will make a cruise of two weeks, starting from Province- 

 town on August 33. The fleet will be made up of canoes and small 

 cruisers. 



NEW STEAM YACHTS.— In addition to the large yacht men- 

 tioned last week, Mr. J. Beavor-Webb has on order for a dupli- 

 cate of Sultana. The latter yacht has been at anchor off Bay 

 Ridge for the past two weeks, and will take part in the New York 

 Y. C. cruise. 



GOLDEN FLEECE, steam yacht, lately chartered by Mr. Os- 

 borne, has made a vovage around the world, being owned at the 

 time by Mr. Paul A. Ralli, present owner of Yarana. 



OHIO Y. C— This active club has lately taken in 24 members. 

 The club is pushing the scheme for new quarters at Presque Isle, 

 and the result will be a handsome and commodious club house. 



JESSICA— Mr. McDonough's 20-rater sailed from Fairlie, Scot- 

 land, on July 3, and is now due at New York. Mr. Fife was to sail 

 for New York last week. 



YONKERS CORINTHIAN Y. C.-We have received a neat little 

 book containing the constitution and by-laws of this flourishing 

 club. 



AMERICAN Y. C— The regatta of steam yachts set for July 26 

 has been postponed to some date not yet decided on. 



YORKVILLE Y. C.-This club will sail its fall regatta off Oak 

 Point on Sept, 1. 



The list of officers and directions for joining the A. C. A. and 

 W. C. A. will be found in the first issue of each month. 



Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forest and 

 Stream their addresses, with name, membership, signal, etc., of 

 their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 

 report of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 

 requested to forward to Forest and Stream their addresses, with 

 logs of cruises, maps, aud information concerning their local 

 waters, drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all 

 items relating to the sport. 



FIXTURES. 



AUGUST. 



1 1-2. New York, Trial Races, S.L 23. Plymouth, Cruise, Cape Cod 



2. South Boston, Open. Bay. 



2. Lake St. Louis, Annual, La- 30. Orange, Annual. 



chine. 30, 31, Sept. 1, South Boston, Har- 



8-22. A.C.A.Meet, Jessup's Neck bor Meet. 



S3. South Boston, Open. 



SEPTEMBER. 



1. Iantbe, Annual. 20. New Jersey Athletic, Bergen 



1. Arlington, Ann., Arlington. Point, Fall. 



A BIT OF AUSTRALIAN CANOEING. 



Ed'dor Forest and Stream: 



Having just returned from Australia, where I spent the last 

 eighteen months most en joyably. I take the liberty of writing this 

 letter, thinking that a short sketch of sport, even if it is foreign 

 to our shores, would interest the readers of the Forest and 

 Stream: 



The great island of Australia, situated south of the equator, 

 has the seasons reversed, of course, so during the coldest, of New 

 England's weather, when the eaves of the houses were decorated 

 with icicles and the wind penetrated the thickest overcoat, I 

 launched a canvas canoe— of my own manufacture (from neces- 

 sity)— upon the waters of the Murray River and, hoisting my little 

 American flag to the hottest breeze that ever fanned my cheek, 

 started upon a two-months' cruise. 



To follow me through all the delightful, painful, curious and 

 annoying experiences that trip produced would be too much of a 

 task to ask of any one, and by the time I have told you of the 

 insects you will have your shirts half off; so. not wishing to make 

 you appear too ridiculous, the lizard, the centipede and the prolific 

 spider families will be omitted, January 10 saw me fairly at it; 

 the town of Morgan, South Australia, had faded from view and 

 before me was a stretch of river, unbroken by a bend, something 

 like two miles. The sun came down closer to the earth than I 

 ever knew him to do before, and the little tyrant — known as a 

 thermometer — nestled close up to 115 deg. in the shade, while the 

 perspiration dropped off my nose with a painful regularity that 

 can be more comfortably imagined than experienced. 



To say that two miles was twenty would be geographically in- 

 correct, but by physical computation it would be equally inade- 

 quate, and I must confess, though I paddled it myself, I never 

 knew a canoe to move so slowly. That I afterwards learned was 

 a moment, or rather hour, of the day when no living thing, that 

 possessed ordinary common sense or instinct, was fool enough to 

 move a muscle. 



When I at last reached the bend and beheld a large eucalyptus 

 on the bank it needed no second thought to induce the canoe in 

 that direction. The stillness of nature was something awful; 

 the parrot, usually so noisy, had buried himself in the thickest 

 clump of leaves the nearest tree possessed, while the chattering 

 magpie put one leg and one eye to sleep, keeping the other as 

 still as nature would permit. The kangaroo had found some 

 friendly shelter, and the emu (big clumsy bird-beast that he is) 

 was satisfied to shelter his head in a clump of salt-bush. I 

 grounded on the sandy landing without in the least disturbing an 

 affectionate family of snakes, while on the side of the bank a 

 guana had ceased his exertions, head downward with one lazy leg 

 still outstretched, 1 oo much overcome even to crawl down hill. 

 The attitude was contagious and I too was soon in the land of 

 oblivion, little heeding the rest of my fellow sleepers until a uoise 

 aroused me. 



There around me, almost within reach, stood a congress of par- 

 rots, magpies and carrion crows, carrying on a most wordy debate 

 and giving me a creeping idea that I was the cause of it. I felt 

 like the drunkard who had been so ill and upon awakening found 

 a buzzard sitting on the fence near him, rubbed his eyes, worked 

 his fingers and toes, and remarked: Excuse me, sir (hie), I'm not 

 dead yet." I adjourned congress and got up, much to the disgust 

 of the crows, and pushing off into the" stream again was about to 

 continue my journey when I discovered that ! had visitors aboard. 



Handed. Ants! as long as your knuckle joint and equipped 

 with implements of war patented in the first century. The wis- 

 dom of this insect ie too great, for she crawls up on the inside of 

 the innermost garment aud begins her probing operation too low 

 down to be reached from the top and too high up to be clutched 

 from below, and when one demon is sinking an artesian well be- 

 tween one's shoulder blades and another boring for oil under 

 the kneecap, the body thus attacked hesitates not a moment but 

 after a contortion or two executes a ballet in costume. Then, as 

 if to make matters worse, a disciplined army take possession of 

 the divested garments, gnats struggle with each other for the cor- 

 ner of an eye, to the music of the blow fly, who circles around the 

 head of the victim, carefully selecting a soft spot for his own lit- 

 tle operations, and with the lengthening shadows the mosquito 

 bi^ngs his family for the evening performance; while the owl 

 hoots out from the tree above and the frog joins in the chorus. 

 Ba-ra-dum! Curtain. I have gone through it, not once but many 

 times, until now I am so full of poison I really believe if a rattler 

 bit me he would crawl off and die. 



The two months mentioned were spent shooting and fishing on 

 the banks of this river and Lake Alexandrena, which forms its 

 mouth; visiting stations (ranches) and in listening to stories of 

 early Australia. Some of these stories are full of wild sport, and 

 when told by a genuine old bushman seem to strike the chord 

 harmoniously and make the listener long to experience them 

 The shotting, it being summer and close season, was confined 

 principally to kangaroo, wallaby and emu; while the fishing was 

 so good, and the fish so numerous and easily caught, that the sport, 

 ceased to be sport at all. A kangaroo chase and an emu hunt are 

 well worth ten thousand miles of travel; duck (teal) shooting, in 

 season, is excellent, owing to the scarcity of water courses and 

 consequent bunching of the game. But, aside from these, sport 

 in Australia is limited, and when the modern sportsman falls so 

 low as to drag a red herring in order to ride to hounds, then I'm 

 off to the good old Southern swamps again. I am happy to think 

 that, as well as the rest of the artificial sporting, is foreign to most 

 of our countrymen; so, wishing that the Forest and Stream may 

 always give its away-f ram-home readers as well as home readers 

 the same pleasure it has your humble servant, I beg to remain, 

 yours respectfully, Roland Ross. 



San Francisco, Cal. 



FOLLOW MY MOVEMENTS -AM BOUND FOR-PLUM 

 GUT.— This message, spelled out in the signal flags of the yacht- 

 ing code, served as the introduction for a lengthy and interesting 

 article on the coming meet by Mr. R. B. Burchard in the New 

 York World of Sunday last. By permission of the World we pub- 

 lish the accompanying sketch of the camp ground. 



THE CENTRAL DIVISION MEET. 



THE Central Division had as fine a camp site as could be de- 

 sired. Located between Point Chautauqua and Dewittville 

 on the north shore of Chautauqua Lake, it was far enough re- 

 moved to enjoy the seclusion so much sought for and yet near by 

 the hotel, where meals were served to all the canoeists at a very 

 reasonable rate. 



The camping ground was a meadow, with a straight white sand 

 beach, running out under the water for over 200ft., so that canoes 

 could be dra wn up on shore very nicely. It also proved to be a 

 famous bathing spot, with its clean beach like a velvet carpet. 

 This alone was sufficient inducement to indulge in two swims a 

 day, which were taken with clocklike regularity. 



Arrangements had previously been made so that when Messrs. 

 Crane and Gaddis, of Dayton, arrived in camp (being the first ar- 

 rivals) everything was in readiness for a large camp, lumber, 

 poles, men to build docks, tent floors, etc. 



The Fourth of July was celebrated in a rather quiet way, con- 

 sidering the material in camp. 



The second week brought with it the races, which were much 

 enjoyed and keenly contested. The winner of the novice race, 

 Mr. J. F. S. Crane, of Dayton, made it rather warm for such old- 

 timers as Shiras, Gaddis and French. It is said that he will be at 

 the salt water meet to try conclusions with others. 



Not over eighteen canoes were in camp, for manv canoeists came 

 for a few days only, and some were staying at different points on 

 the lake with their friends. At Lakewood alone I counted eight 

 canoes the day we broke camp. However, the canoeists indulged 

 in sailing to their heart's content, it being a usual thing to sail 

 about seven hours a day. 



So charmed were four of the A. C. A. men with the camp that 

 they remained another week on the lake, swimminff, sailing, 

 sleeping and the like, and so sunburned are they now that their 

 Iriends hardly recognize the tender-looking chaps who left home 

 for a month's outing. 



The enforced abseuce from camp of Vice-Corn. Geo. A. Warder 

 and Purser James K. Bakewell was a most unfortunate thing for 

 the first meet of the Central Division. The former had entered 

 into business with W. W. Blow, of Oakland, Cal., and Mr. Bake- 

 well was taken ill very suddenly as he was about leaving home 

 for camp, so that the only officer in camp was the Kear-Commo- 

 dore, E. L. French. 



No. 1. Sailing, free for all, 3 miles: 

 Winners. Flags Presented by 



1. T. P. Gaddis George A. Warder. 



2. J. F. S. Crane. American flag. 



No. 2. Sailing, 3 miles: 



1. G. Hart Singer W. W. Blow. 



3. W. W. Lawrence A. C. A., O. D. 



No. 3. Sailing, Novice: 



1. J. F. S. Crane , Deowainsta C. C. 



No. 4. Sailing, all claases, 75ft. limit: 



1. J. O. Shiras Oakland C. C. 



2. E. L. French A. C. A. flag. 



No. 5. Sailing, Jabberwock trophy: The number of entries was 

 not suflicient to warrant calling the race. 

 No. 6. Sailing and paddling: 



1. J. O. Shiras A. C. A., C. D. 



2. T. P. Gaddis A. C. A., C. D. 



No. 7. Sa'ling; capsize, etc.: 



T. P. Gaddis andC. D. Mead tie for first Miss French. 



No. 8. Sailing, consolation: No consolation prizes needed at 

 this meet. 



No. 9. Paddling, Class II,: No entries In this narrow class. 

 No. 10. Paddling, tandem: 



1. Mr. French and Mrs. Baskin A. C. A. 



2. Mr. Crane and Mrs. Weber A. C. A. 



No. 11. Paddling upset: Water was too cold. 



No. 12. Parade and fireworks: Postponed on account of raitl. 

 No. 13. Hurry scurry: 



1. E. L. French Mrs. J. K. Bakewdl. 



2. J. F. S. Crane 



On the day on which the Jabberwock trophy race was to be 

 started, it blew, thundered, etc. , so that, it could not be sailed 

 then. On the two following days a dead calm rested on the lake, 

 and finally when the weather was such that the race could be 

 sailed there were only four of the original entries that were in 

 camp on that day, the last day of the meet. Therefore it was 

 decided to sail for the trophy at the general A. C. A. meet. 



LAKE ST. LOUIS C. C.'S REGATTA. 



THE only thing that interfered with the success of the Lake St. 

 Louis C.'C.'s regatta at Lachine on the afternoon of July 19 

 was the weather, and it was not so bad after all, for there was 

 clear sunshine a good part of the afternoon, and the water was 

 smooth all the time. The first race started was the decked canoe 

 sailing race, for which there were two starters, Mab, O. Arch- 

 ibald, and Isis, D. A. Poe. Mab got a good lead at the start, 

 and increased it on the run up to Dixie, and won the race with 

 ease. In jibing around the island Isis upset, but her captain 

 climbed into her aud finished the race under sail with a full cock- 

 pit, coming in along way behind, however. The open canoe race 

 for the beautiful Commodore's cup came next with five starters. 

 The course, around a paddling buoy, was altogether too short for 

 such an important race, and made it more or less of a dash. Wal- 

 lace secured a lead, but on the reach back to the finish line his 

 lee boards broke down, and H. Routh came in first, Adams was 

 third, McCallum fourth and P. Levine, who swung a tremendous 

 lateen mainsail, with 18ft. spars, broke his ruddert 



Then came the paddling races, the first being a tandem race for 

 boys under 18. Five crews started, and after a pretty race the 

 Davidson brothers won, T. Rawlings and N. Dawes second. A 

 punt race for boys under 14 folio wed, and after a prodigious lot of 

 splashing H. Baby won, G. Boyer second. The green tandem had 

 five starters, and the Rouths drew away trom the field at the 

 start, and increased their lead straight through the race; Don- 

 nelly and Cooper were second, Barlow and Walker third. A 

 band paddling race came next by way of an interlude before the 

 event of the day, the struggle for the tandem challenge cups. 

 The'-e were three starters, and A. E.Nash splashed his way to 

 glory with G. Auldjo second. 



There were but tnree entries for the challenge cup tandem mile 

 race, the great event of the year in the world of Canadian canoe- 

 ing. The starting crews were C. II. Duggan and F. Sherwood, A. 

 Irving and J. Morris, F, Fairbanks and F. Stewart. The start 

 was a fine one, the St. Lambert's crew having the inside water, 

 the Duggan crew the middle, and the two Freds the outside. 

 A hundred yards from the start Duggan and Sherwood were lead- 

 ing, and although St. Lambert's paddled a plucky, they paddled 

 a losing race straight through. Duggan and Sherwood won 

 handily, with five or six lengths to the good. Irving and Morris 

 were second, and Fairbanks and Stewart, who broke a paddle, a 

 long way behind. All the crews in this race used Herald canoes. 

 Tne four-in-a-canoe race was won by the Routh crew, composed 

 of F. Fairbanks, H. Routh, C. Routh and F. Stewart. The single 

 race which followed was a most exciting one. There was three 

 starters, Taylor, Gird wood and Irving, but the race was between 

 Taylor and Gird wood, and better handling of the single blade was, 

 perhaps, never seen. A hundred yards from the start, although 

 Taylor had a short lead, Gird wood was not far behind, and he made 

 a spurt that brought him up to the leader. Taylor was not 

 "pumped," however, he had a wonderful rally, at every stroke he 

 lifted his boat further to the front and won by a length. The 

 event of the day, from a xiicturcsque standpoint, was the next 

 race — the war canoe race. Valois was steered by Tom Paton, 

 Lachine by Auldjo, and at the pistol shot thirty paddles struck 

 the water together, and forward went the two great canoes with 

 a rush like that of a steamer. Vulois paddled a good race aud 

 steered agood course, but Lachine won the leather medals. 



An obstacle race, which consisted of jumping a boom twice aud 

 paddling across the finish line in the bow, which was won by 

 Duggan, and a greasy pole, which was won by P. Levin, finished 

 the regatta programme, and the prizes were presented at a "hop"' 

 at Hanna's afterwards. 



RACES ON THE PASSAIC— The canoe clubs in the vicinity 

 of Woodside are preparing for a series of open races on Aug. 30 

 and Sept. 1 on the Passaic River. On Saturday the Orange C. C, 

 will hold its regatta, and on Monday morning the Arlington C. C, 

 followed by the Ianthe C. C. in the afternoon. Canoeists can shir 

 their canoes direct to the Ianthe house in returning from the 

 A- C. A. meet. 



RED DRAGON C. C— A test race between the new boats of 

 the Red Dragon C. C. which resulted in a meaningless drift, was 

 sailed on July 16. Course, around Petty's Island, distance 5 miles. 

 Only two boats finished. 



Kie-loe, F. W. Noyes. . .2 45 00 May Fly, H. E. McCormiek.2 45 05 

 Another attempt will be made, which we hope will he more 

 satisfactory.— Max. 



ARLINGTON C. C.— This club will hold its annual regatta on 

 Sept. 11, starting the first race at 9:30 A. M., the courses being off 

 the club house at Arlington, N. J. 



