Sept. 34, 1891.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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QUIMBY-H ATHAWAY.— Al Heritage had a large Tjumber of 

 sportsmen upon his grounds at Marion, N. J., on Saturday after- 

 noon Isust to witness the match between the above named gentle- 

 men. The attendance was somewhat large, as Al had promised 

 to have plenty of birds for sweepstake shooting. Tne conditions 

 of the match were 25 birds per man, Quimby standing at the SSyds. 

 mark and allowing Hathaway lOyds. the best of the handicap. 

 The birds were a selected lot and the scores are creditable, Quim- 

 by's score under such conditions being particularly so. 



As soon as the match was over sweepstake shooting began and 

 continued imtil dusk. 



C M Hathaway 2213312030000111212020222-18 



W F Quimby 1102123201110121220100332-19 



Sweep No. 1, 6 birds, 85 entrance. 3 moneys: 



Penrose 122212-6 Hedden 22102:2-5 



Q u im by 1111 12- 6 Lin dsl ey 222802—5 



Kling 222112-6 Castles 011210-4 



Stewart 121011—5 Cannon 111001—4 



Ziglio 212012-5 Hoff 100112—4 



Francis 102121-5 Leveridge 220101—4 



Hathaway. 021112-5 Hudson lo2100-3 



Moller 011212-5 Allen 0l0ol0-2 



Ties div. 



Sweep No. 5, $2 entrance, fi birds. 3 moneys: 



Penrose ; 111111- 6 Castles 321111—6 



Stewart 111111-6 Quimby 110212-5 



Hudson 221112-6 Oannon 112211-8 



Doeinck U1121-6 Leveridge 321120-5 



Lindsley 323232-6 Hoflf 011122-5 



Allen 2o2110-5 Hathaway 211111-6 



Mul ler 111011-5 Francis 11101^'- 5 



Ziglio 111122-6 



Hudson and Doeinck withdrew pro rata in tirst money tie; the 

 others shooting oil Lindsley, Penrose aad Ziglio div. with 9 each. 



A second match was made between Quimby and Hathaway, 

 25yds. rise, use of both barrels, Quimbv 25yds., to use one barrel 

 only, to be shot at Marion, Saturday, Oct. 3.— Tee Kat. 



THE ESSEX TRAP LEAGUE.— Newark, N. J., Sept. 19.— The 

 sixth and tinal shoot of the series of the Trap Shooters' League, 

 of Essex county, which took place on the Riverside avenue 

 grounds of the Woodside Gun Club te-day, was attended by a 

 large contingent of shooters from different sections. The day was 

 an ideal one for the sport, the wind being just cool enough to 

 temper the rays of the sun so that every bon y kept comfortable. 

 The sport was announced to begin at 9 A. M., but it was after 

 dinner time when the first gun was fired. Ernest A. Geoffrey was 

 general manager of the shoot. The team race, which railed for 

 teams of six men each, each m.an to shoot at 3a bluerack targets, 

 was started at 3 P. M., W. R. Hohart acting as referee and C. H. 

 Townsend as official scorer. This resulted in another victory for 

 the team of the Maplewood Gun Club, the scores being as follows: 



Maplewood G. C. Woodside G. O. Roseville G. C. 



LDean 33 PVanDvko 20 Alfred What ton.. 17 



TSigffins... 33 M Fuerth 13 Albert Whatton. . 18 



R Drake 20 R Walters 20 G HufiE 13 



CDean 22 A Osterhont 18 P Gantz 19 



J W Smith 24 R Sickles 25 WHutf 7 



ASickley 31 E A GeoflEroy 23 PCockefair 20 



133 110 94 



This victory gives the Maplewood team Ave out of the six con- 

 tests, the South Side team having won one, and gives them the 

 league trophy. The score of to-day was the highest made during 

 the series. The score of 35 straight, made by Sickles, of the 

 Woodside team, was the first of the kind ever made on the 

 grounds. The Maplewoods are jastly proud of their victory, which 

 proves conclusively that they have the strongest leaiu in Essex 

 county. The regular programme of events, nine in all, were shot 

 off in oi-der. The finest work of the day was done by Sickles, who 

 missed but 3 out of 95 targets. 



FIRST TEXAS FIELD TOURNAMENT will take place at San 

 Antonio, Texas. Oct. 9, 10 and 11, managed by Oscar 0. Guessaz. 

 American AssociatioQ rules, excepting in the live bat matches. 

 All target matches will be shot according to the rapid-firing sys- 

 tem. Plenty of live pigeons and bats guaranteed. 



KNOXVILLE TOURNAMENT SCORES have come to hand too 

 late for insertion this week. 



Model FachU anci, Boats. Their design, maMng and swiltng, with 

 designs and worKing draioings. Postpaid, $2. 



CENTERBOARDS AS SHIFTING BALLAST. 



TT is a curious and amusing fact that while with almost un- 

 limited experience with the centerboard in America, tbe 

 board has never been used as ballast, the first successful experi- 

 ment with centerboards in Great Britain has been made in such 

 a way as to bring up a very complicated question. Heavy metal 

 boards are quite common here in canoes and open skiffs, and not 

 entirely unknown in larger open sailboats, but in decked yachts 

 of any size the weight of the board, though often considerable, 

 has been merely incidental, and hardly estimated as an element 

 of stability. The boards of Volunteer and Mayflower, for instance, 

 of 4in. oak with steel bolts and shoes and sufficient lead as well to 

 sink them, are by no means light, but still bear a very small ratio 

 to the total hall.ist. Very heavy boards have been tried at times, 

 as in the old Maria, but not in recent years, and the question of 

 tlieir standing as shifting ballast has never been raised. 



This year for the first time have centerboard yachts competed 

 with success in British waters, the lO-rater Dora topping her 

 class, while the honors in the 3J^-rating class are divided by her 

 Bisters Elfin and Oronsay, all being Watson boats. The success of 

 these three craft, pitied against good fields of keel cracks would 

 be enough in any case to excite very strong feeling among the 

 conservative Scotch, and it is no wonder that there is just now 

 a terrible hubbub over them when we learn that Dora, for in- 

 stance, has a centerboard of jellow metal weighing over a ton. 

 while the other two are generously weighted in proportion, 

 While the limit of the Y. R. A. rule, that the boards shall be 

 handled only by manual labor, has not been exceeded, in one club 

 the prizes have been withheld from the smaller boats on the 

 ground that their centerboards are shifting ballast, which is 

 specially prohibited. 



Absurd as this may seem to Americans, some allowance must 

 be made for men who have grown old in the belief that the hated 

 and prohibite"d "shifting keel" was the invention of the Evil One, 

 and who ai-e now called on to face a ton weight raised and lowered 

 at will in a yacht only 86ft. long and 10ft. wide. What the out- 

 come of the present agitation may he we cannot say, but it is a 

 little unfortunate that the centerboard experiment has been tried 

 under conditions which must call out an extra amount of preju- 

 dice against the new craft. 



The claim that the centerboard is really shifting ballast, though 

 in a measure favored by the fact that a heavy weight, almost 

 equivalent to a lead keel, is lowered at will, is easily disposed of 

 when we look closely into the origin and intention of the most ex- 

 cellent rule which is now almost as generally respected in Amer- 

 ica as in Great Britain, by which all shifting of ballast is prohib- 

 ited. Although there is no more flagrant offense which a yachts- 

 man can be guilty of than the violation of this rule, there is at 

 the same time nothing morally wrong about the mere moving of 

 weight up or down, or from one part of the boat to another. The 

 sole reason for the rule lies in the fact that the great sail-carrjang 

 power which may be had by piling sandbags on the weather rail, 

 or as was once the fashion in England, of heaping up shot bags on 

 the windward transom, is obtained only at the risk of capsizing. 

 While tlie form of vessel whick is developed by the use of such 

 ballast is a very bad on© for every purpose. In order to prevent 



CENTER BOARD CUTTER "DORA," lO-RATING. DESIGNED BY G. WATSON. 



the use of craft which are unsafe from the nature of their sta- 

 bility at all times, and still more dangerous when caught with 

 ballast to leeward, the shifting of all ballast or heavy articles 

 from one side of a yacht to the other is pow most strictly prohib- 

 ited save in a few AmericanL olubs in which the sandbagger is sliU. 

 recognized. 



The principle on which this rule is founded, however, does not 

 apply in the case of a weight such as the centerboard, which is 

 always kept in the middle line of the vessel and never shifted to 

 the weather side. In the case of American yachtfi, the stability 

 is not materially increased by the lowering of the board, or at 

 least the yacht is now designed to have a perfectly safe range of 

 stability with the board housed. In the case of the Scotch yachts, 

 while the stability is greatly increased by the lowering of the 

 heavy board, on the other hand it is not diminished to a danger- 

 ous degree by raising it. A yacht like Dora, with considerable 

 displacement and a beam of 10ft. on 36ft. water line, with a heavy 

 fixed lead keel, should be perfectly safe from all danger of cap- 

 size even with the board housed. 



Apart from the question of shifting weights and stability, there 

 is an objection to very heavy boards and yachts of any size 

 which may prove serious, and that is tlie danger of carrying a 

 heavy movable weight hung from the keel. The strain of such a 

 weight in a seaway must be very severe, far worse than if bolted 

 firmly under the wood keel. This, liowever, is a structural diffi- 

 culty that may be overcome, and is no worse than the danger 

 from some fixed keels in the hands of ignorant builders. We 

 judge from our exchanges that one strong ground of complaint 

 against the centerboard boats is that by housing the board they 

 cut off corners, besides being able to take risks in shoal water 

 where the keel craft would certainly ground. In America the 

 courses are in nearly all cases so located as to prevent any great 

 advantage to the centerboard in this way, and if some remedy 

 should prove necessary abroad it must take another form than 

 the prohibition of the centerboard or even the compulsory use of 

 it in one fixed position during the race under the plea that it is 

 shifting ballast in the sense intended in Y. R. A. rule No. 15. 



Western synonym of the Arabic "Imshi"; while a large and 

 handsome steam yiicht lately built on the Lakes bears the name 

 of her owner, a fashion which is peculiar to Western yachtsmen 

 and canoeists. 



THE CLYDE CENTERBOARD DORA. 



WE are indebted to Le Yacht for the accompanying sketch of 

 the first centerboard cutter built on the Clyde, the Dora, 

 designed by G. L. Watson for Allan Bros., former owners of the 

 famous 5-tODner Doris. Dora is a "compromise," with moder- 

 ately deep hull and a lead keel, in addition to which she carries 

 a centerboard of Delta metal weighing tons. Her success 

 with the keel boats has been the remarkable feature of the season 

 in British waters. 



ONE GUN STARTS-MEASUREMENT.— Two proposals have 

 lately been made in the Field for very important changes of the 

 racing rules. One, made editorially, we quote elsewhere, relating 

 to one-gun starts. The plan of starting with an interval of from 

 3 to 15m., in which a yacht may cross was once universal in Amer- 

 ica, the interval gradually being reduced to 5 and recently to Sra., 

 while in many cases the one-guu start has been tried with suc- 

 cess. The objections to the plan of timing at the line are much 

 greater than indicated in the Field, where fleets of any size are 

 concerned. It looks very pretty in print to see thirty or fifty 

 yachts timed to a second in starting, but those who have had ex- 

 perience ©n regatta committees know how little is accurate and 

 how much mere guess work. Even in experienced hands it is 

 diflicult or impossible to take the times of twenty yachts crossing 

 together, many of them covered by larger craft. The other pi'opo- 

 sition is for the abolition of the length and sail area rule and the 

 substitution of a measurement of ''size." The "pound of putty" 

 theory has played a very important part in all measurement dis- 

 cussions in the past, but stlU survives, in spite of the plain fact 

 that it would produce a saucer-shaped craft with a deep lead 

 fin and enormous rig. 



STEAM YACHT RACING.-The promised race between the 

 Vamoose and the Norwood is apparently as far distant as ever. 

 The latest development is the breaking down of the Norwood's 

 engine while on her way to the Harlem River on Saturday last, 

 where she proposed to do some very fast steaming. This incident 

 has proved a fruitful topic of discussion during the week. It is 

 a fact, however, that the arrangements for a real race have 

 actually gone so far that a letter has been written to the secretary 

 of the American Y. C. requesting the olub to take charge of a race 

 to which J ayelin, Now Then and the torpedo boat Gushing shall be 

 invited. 



NOVELTIES IN YACHT NAMES.— The great West has lately 

 contributed two striking names to the yacht list; Mr. Hearst's 

 new steam launch rejoices in. the STiggestlve aama of Yamooa e, & 



NEW HAVEN Y. C. FALL REGATTA, SEPT. 17. 



THE annual fall regatta of the New Haven Y. C. was sailed on 

 Sept. 17 in a moderate S.W. wind, the course being from Par- 

 dee's Bar Buoy around buoy in mouth of Housatonic River and 

 return. There was no wind at 10 A.M., and the start was post' 

 poned until 11;15. The start was timed: 



Flora .....11 16 86 Stranger 11 16 40 



Ripple... in 5 36 Vidette .11 17 00 



Clara 11 15 56 Edna 11 17 10 



Pioneer 11 15 58 Phantom 11 17 40 



Dare Devil 11 16 12 Fleetwing 11 18 05 



Phyllis 11 16 16 Seabelle 11 18 47 



Carrie W 11 15 00 Libbie 11 19 09 



Eurybia 11 16 33 Mariota 11 17 30 



Zephyr 11 16 27 Ariel 11 16 23 



Egeria 11 16 35 



Phyllis broke down and Ripple sprung a leak, both withdraw- 

 ing early in the race. Phantom fouled the outer mark and Flora 

 turned from the wrong side, both being disqualified. The order 

 at the mark was Phantom, Stranger. Eurybia, Zephyr, Carrie, 

 Flora, Dare Devil, Libbie. On the run home under spinakers 

 Eurybia passed Stranger and won in her class. The times were: 

 CLASS 3. 



Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Phantom 11 17 40 Disqualified. 



Carrie W H 16 23 5 02 23 5 46 00 5 46 00 



Mariota 11 19 30 5 43 06 6 23 36 6 21 18 



Flora 11 15 36 Disqualified. 



Eurybia 11 16 27 4 55 47 5 39 20 5 38 13 



CLASS 3. 



Seabelle 11 IS 47 5 .54 14 6 85 27 6 35 37 



Stranger 11 16 40 4 56 25 5 39 45 5 33 51 



Phyllis ...11 16 16 Withdrew. 



Vidette 11 17 00 5 59 16 6 43 16 6 36 23 



CLASS 6. 



Dare Devil 11 16 13 5 05 55 5 49 43 5 49 13 



CLASS 7. 



Ripple .11 15 43 Withdrew, 



Egeria ,..,11 16 a5 Withdrew. 



CLASS 8. 



Libbie 11 19 09 5 19 15 6 00 06 6 00 06 



Fleetwing 11 18 05 5 29 53 6 11 48 6 06 37 



Pioneer 11 15 -58 6 22 16 7 06 18 6 59 17 



CLASS 9. 



Zephyr 11 16 27 5 03 33 5 46 06 5 46 03 



Clara .11 15 53 Withdrew. 



Edna ..11 17 10 6 14 06 6 56 58 6 54 08 



Ariel 11 16 23 Withdrew. 



A race fornaphtha launches was won by Isabel, Plover break- 

 ing down while in the lead. The prizes were as follows: Class 2, 

 Eurybia first prize, S30; Carrie W. second prize, glO. Class 3, 

 Stranger first prize, $20; Seabelle second prize, §10. Class 8, Lib- 

 bie first prize, 520; Fleetwing second prize, glO, Class 9, Zephyr 

 first prize, S15; Edna second prize, $10. Class 10, Isabel first prize, 

 S15. The judges were W. W. Price, R. B. Farren and J. O. 

 Gallagher. 



ONE GUN VS. TIME STARTS.— "When the Americans adopted 

 OUT plan of underway starts, they also took over Che timing busi- 

 ness in crossing the line; they have found it to work satisfactorily, 

 and 80 have the French. The plan was abandoned here mainly 

 because of the trouble, and because one or two committees got 

 befogged in attempting to time the starters. There is no fear of 

 the latter occurrence in these days, and so far as the trouble is 

 concerned, we are sure no committee would mind that. Another 

 objection to the timing is, that the pitblic and competitors would 

 be worse off than ever in ascertaining which yacht is winning; 

 but so far as the competitors go, they would form a preity near 

 estimate if no more than three minutes were allowed. There is 

 also the objection to taking time at the start that it would tend to 

 check the keenness and smartness at present exhibited at a start: 

 this in some measure is true, but the deterioration would be small 

 if no more than five minutes were allowed. One great advantage 

 of reviving the plan, and one which, we are sure, sailing commit- 

 tees would much appreciate. Is that it would practically do away 

 with the necessity for recalls. The trouble, bother, and vexation, 

 caused by the 'recall' are indefinitely greater than that of clock- 

 ing the yachts over the Ime; and we feel svure that, if the plaa is 

 made penaistsihle, most salting committees wiU. act apou it, and 

 moat Tacht ownere appreciata it."— FidcL 



