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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 27, 1894, 
The title, the American Field Cup, had no national sig- 
nificance, nor was its significance that of sport above that of 
advertisement. It did not appeal to the patriotism and en- 
thusiasm of the coursing men. Indeed, it could not. While 
the club itself was national in its aspirations it was cramped 
in its ideas and it was not national in working out sundry 
details of the stake for aged dogs. It held the stake to arti- 
ficial limits. A cup was given each year and in return the 
stake was in a manner made to do the service of the adver- 
tising bill board. This year no cup was given. The club, 
now controlled by more progressive and independent men, at 
one step removed the stake from its narrow channel of ad- 
vertising to the broader and legitimate one of a national 
coursing event. 
Conducted as an advertising appendage, the club never 
could attain national importance and club independence. 
With men now in power who are fearless and able, and who 
seek to do their duty instead of profoundly studying the art 
of whitewashing, the future of the American Coursing Club 
is brighter, is national in its scope, and is in the realm of 
true sport. Its title is not clouded by any mortgage. The 
prizes are now for the individual benefit of the winners, not 
for the business advancement of a donor. In its infant days 
the club may have needed contributions. With its present 
strength, dignity and prestige, it is able to stand alone. 
B. WATERS. 
• ■ • • 
Brunswick Fur Club Trials. 
Editor Forest and Stream; 
t Tho following gentlemen have accepted invitations to 
judge at the field trials of the Brunswick Fur Club, which 
begin at North Acton, Mass., on Nov. 6: Messrs. H. O. 
Stanley, Bixfield, Me. ; Stephen Decatur, Portsmouth, N. H; 
H. A. P. Smith, Digby iNova Scotia; S. B. Mills, Needham, 
Mass., G-. W. Pierce, Brattleboro, Vt.; A. M. Gerry, South 
Paris, Me.; T. H. Gledhill, Lewiston. Me.; J. N. Goss, New- 
market, N. H.; J. F. Randall, Portland Me., and W. S. 
Clark, Linden, Mass. Bradford S. Turpin, Sec'y- 
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HUNTING AND COURSING NOTES. 
system of racing throughout the season under the auspices of the 
leading New York and Eastern clubs, have as yet hardly been appre- 
ciated by yachtsmen; but the time has come when th6 haphazard and 
desultory racing of the past must give way to something more sys- 
tematic and organized. 
The Genessee Valley Sunt had the run of the season so 
far on Oct. 13. The meet was at Bleak House, which is situ- 
ated ou a hill about two miles from the village of Geneseo. 
The field was a large one, as there were about fifty riders 
out. Among the well known fox hunters were W. A. Wads- 
worth, the M. F. H., who rode Rochester; Captain Martin, 
first horse October; second, H. Hamlin's Gladstone; W. 
Littauer on Headlight, a noted jumper; J. S. Wadsworth on 
Graceful. Trumbull Carp rode a good 'un, and Dr. C. Cary 
on Nicoline was placed well to the front in the first run; H. 
W. Smith, the well know wire fox-terrier owner, was also 
there and rode his new purchase, Tester. A start was made 
at 1 P. M., and passing through the Cushing woods to the 
Sugar Bush, a favorite cover, first whip Maloney viewed the 
stealaway on the river bank. Reynard set the pace at the 
start and carried the pack across the Aiken Farm over 
the Erie tracks, doubled through the Cushing woods, 
through Wheeler Gully and on to the Hogback, where he 
succeeded in going to earth, where he was left for another 
day. Several covers were then drawn blank in the search 
for another fox. It then began to rain, and soon rendered 
the ground very soft, which served to thin out the field, 
leaving the master and a dozen trusty followers to draw the 
Cushing woods and the Wheeler gully, where the hounds 
found again. This one took us across the Hogback, through 
the Gulley, over the Erie tracks and on to the Aiken Farm; 
but here a check came and the hounds unable to pick up 
the. line again, they were drawn off for the day. On Mon- 
day last there was another meet, this time at Murray Hill, 
Mr. Austin's country place. About thirty horsemen and 
women followed the hounds in their ineffectual efforts to 
find. Among the well known riders were the master, W. A 
Wadsworth; J. R. Townsend, Louis Onativia, William Lit 
tauer, J. S. Wadsworth, Capt. J. W. Martin, J. S. Watson, 
Capt. Adams, Miss Fitzhugh, -F. J. Mackay, William Smith, 
Harry Cole, George Austin and George Servis. A lot of 
good riding was enjoyed, five hours of it, and so the day 
must not be counted altogether lost. L. 
• • • • 
-The Brunswick Fur Club headquarters will be at the 
Nagog House, which is one mile from the North Acton 
station of the Framingham & Lowell division of the N. Y., 
N. H. & H. Railway. Entries for the Derby will close at 10 
P. M., Nov. 5, and for the All-Age Stake at 10 P. M. Nov. 6. 
The Derby will be run Nov. 6, and the All-Age on Nov. 7, 8 
and 9. A business meeting will be held before the entries 
for the Derby close, and the following motion will be made: 
That beginning with the field trials of 1894 the Derby shall 
be open to all foxhounds whelped on or after Jan. 1 of the 
preceding year. These trials are open to the world, and all 
fox hunters will be heartily welcomed, and are invited to 
enter their hounds. 
• • • • 
The Worcester Fur Company will hold their annual meet 
on Oct. 26, at the Heyward Farm on Burncoat. The head 
quarters of the club will be at the Lincoln House, Worcester, 
Oct. 25. At the conclusion of the day's hunt the annual 
dinner will take place at the Lincoln House, at 6 15 P. M. 
The hounds will be cast off at 7 A. M. on Bond's Hill, 
Sewell's' Hill and East Ridge. 
• • • • 
Up to press time we have had no word from Goodlands, 
Kans. A full report will be in next week. 
The city of New London, which is becoming more and more a 
yachting center, is now discussing a proposal for a series of yacht 
races, following the college rowing races, The attendance of yachts 
at New London about the end of June has been increasing for some 
years, and it should be possible to arrange some good races. Various 
suggestions have been made for organized racing off Newport, in con- 
nection with or in addition to the New York Y. C. cruise. The 
constant growth of yacht racing throughout the whole length of Long 
Island Sound suggests the pressing need of some general body to 
arrange details and dates, and of some such circuit as was recently 
proposed by one of our correspondents. Many details of the plan 
require further study and discussing, but two of the main features 
would be the opening of the racing season by a series of club regattas 
on New York Bay, the circuit of the Sound, which would follow in 
June and July, being completed by a week or more of racing at New. 
port, for all classes, large and small. In accordance with this plan, 
the fleet would rendezvous at Newport, and the yachts would strip, in 
preparation for a series of races, instead of sailing in cruising trim, as 
many now do. The smaller craft could be easily shipped by rail or 
boat from New York and Boston. Each of the large club3, the New 
York, Eastern, Atlantic, Larchmont and Seawanhaka, would give a 
day's racing, or more, if desirable; while prizes would be offered by 
the city, and by summer residents or citizens. 
Between the June races at New York and the August races at New- 
port, there is plenty of time for the run to New London, and several 
days 1 racing there. 
The possibilities of Lpng Island Sound as the home of an organized. 
Though nothing has been heard from Lord Dunraven in the nature 
of a challenge, there is now little doubt that work has been begun on a 
new challenger, or that she will be fully up to the limit of 90ft. l.w.l 
The Field says; "Lord Dunraven has now practically decided that 
the new challenger for the America Oup shall be a cutter of about the 
Britannia size, and may be a bit longer. This perhaps, under the cir- 
cumstances, was the best decision to arrive at. as we have no yachts 
that a 70-footer could be fairly tried against, "We understand that no 
communication has been sent by Lord Dunraven to the New York Y. 
C. yet; but the conditions which ruled the matches for the Cup last 
year will probably prevail." 
This brings up the very important question of what these conditions 
were; it will be remembered that when the New YorkY. C. finally 
voted to accept the challenge of Lord Dunraven, there was a very 
wide difference of opinion between the club on the one hand and the 
Royal Yacht Squadron and Lord Dunraven on the other, as to the 
exact term3 of the so-called ''mutual agreement" in that part relating 
to the conditions under which the Cup, if won by the challenger, 
should be held. This point was never definitely settled, though, as 
Valkyrie was not successful, no dispute arose over it. When talking 
of the "conditions which ruled the last match," it is first necessary to 
consider what these conditions really were. 
The question of size has to all appearances been practically settled 
by the action of the challengers in taking the maximum length 
allowed by the new deed, 90ft. l.w.l. In addition to this, it is more 
than likely that Mr. Watson will build a relatively large and powerful 
boat oh this length, so large as to prevent the possibility of being 
overpowered by the defending boat. One of the arguments used 
against a reduction of size to 70ft. is that this would throw out the 
four existing 87 -footers; but it now appears that the same result must 
follow from the selection of the larger length. In these days a two- 
year old yacht may be considered outbuilt, even in the classes with a 
maximum limit, and this is much more the case when the length has 
been increased by a full three feet, with even more power in propor- 
tion. The existing 87-f ooters* Colonia, Navahoe and Jubilee, with steel 
bottoms and their present sail plans, are likely to make no better 
showing against the new boats, assuming that several will be built, 
than Puritan could with Volunteer; and the Cup defenders of 1893 may 
be considered as out of the racing to all practical purposes. What- 
ever changes, including lengthening, might be made in them, they 
wouH still be far from what may fairly be expected from designers 
to-day. 
Thus far nothing has been done toward a new fleet of defenders, 
and probably nothing will be done until some formal notification is 
received from the challengers, although valuable time is being wasted 
which can never be made up by hurry and bustle in the spring. 
Yacht Racing in Great Britain. 
One result of Yigilant's racing this year has been that the attention 
of American yachtsmen has been for the first time closely directed to 
the racing in" British waters, the greatest and most perfect system of 
yacht racing that has ever existed; and which, in many respects, 
might well serve as a model in the much-needed work of regulating 
and systematizing yacht racing in America Thus far the criticisms 
of Americans on the various features which have become prominent 
in the Vigilant-Britannia races have been mainly hostile; but a good • 
many hasty verdicts of this kind will be reconsidered when, as we be- 
lieve" many will, yachtsmen take the trouble to study more closely the 
methods and results abroad. The number and quality o' the yachts 
composing the racing fleet, the vast number of races sailed, the gen- 
eral support which yacht racing, together with designing and building 
receives from yachtsmen; the great distances sailed, and the work 
done to win a creditable record for the season, stand out strongly in 
contrast with the limited building, the comparatively few and incon- 
clusive races, and the small entry lists on this side of the ocean. 
We are indebted to a correspondent for the following table, which 
includes the records of the principal yachts which have raced in Brit- 
ish waters this season In the classes of 5 rating and under the racing 
is local, mainly about the Solent; and the 10-raters do not as a rule go 
far from home, though the old 10-tonners often made the complete 
racing circuit. In the classes above 10-rating, however, the yachts 
start in the Thames about the third week in May, many having already 
made the passage from the Clyde or the Solent: and the racing con- 
tinues, down th« Channel, around Land's End and through the Irish 
Channel to the Mersey and the Clyde, across and alotg the Irish 
coast, and back Cowes, finally ending about Sept, 1 in the Solent 
again. 
The table deals only with the larger yachts and a few of the leaders 
in the smaller classes, and thus gives no idea of the full extent of Brit- 
ish yacht racing, which includes hundreds of other small boats about 
the Solent and its immediate vicinity, to say nothing of such localities 
as the Thames, the Norfolk Broads, the Clyde and the Irish ports, 
each with a large racing fleet of small craft. The table is interesting 
In showing not only the relative performances of the principal yachts, 
but the great number of races sailed and the considerable sums given 
by clubs and individuals in the form of prizes for the encouragement 
of yacht racing. The figures are not quite exact in some of the 
smaller classes, but they show the amount of racing done and the re-, 
ward winning: 
Britannia. 
Designer. Ratinj 
..Watson 153 
Vigilant Herreshoff 169 
Satanita Soper 162 
Natnara Watson 63 
Carina 1 .' Watson 40 
Creole . 
.Watson 40 
Luna* ...V. ......... Fife 20 
Dierdre 3 Watson 20 
Zinita* Fife 20 
Thelma Fife 20 
Dragon Fife 20 
Asphodel Watson 20 
Inyoni 5 ....Nicholson.,....,. 20 
Doreen Fife. 14 
Dakotah Herreshoff 10 
(also 5 cups and Nos. 1 and 5 challenge 
Lilith Fife 10 
Delanagh Watson 5 
Flatfish* , Boper 5 
Red Lancer Fire 5 
Gareth? Nicholson 2V£ 
Meneen Herreshoff 2}£ 
Fay* Soper 1 
Morwena Herreshoff 1 
Scud Bourgoyne 1 
Wee Winn 9 Herreshoff M 
Coquette Sibbick % 
Pique 10 Smith 
Ragamuffin IH 
Prizes. 
Value 
Starts. 1st 
2d 
3d 
£ 
42 
32 
2 
0 
2070 
,e Mediterranean.) 
18 6 3 
0 
560 
18 
6 
0 
0 
455 
21 
4 
4 
2 
197 
35 
19 
4 
1 
740 
25 
9 
7 
1 
425 
49 
18 
8 
1 
412 
47 
12 
7 
B 
287 
37 
13 
9 
2 
214 
42 
8 
7 
2 
220 
34 
9 
8 
2 
200 
40 
5 
6 
6 
130 
46 
12 
6 
0 
206 
16 
6 
0 
0 
70 
29 
25 
1 
0 
185 
cups.) 
28 
5 
7 
0 
24 
10 
8 
1 
85 
81 
11 
5 
1 
68 
27 
2 
12 
2 
42 
57 
31 
13 
3 
152 
54 
24 
16 
4 
131 
58 
16 
13 
7 
64 
36 
7 
7 
7 
32 
28 
14 
3 
o 
iw 
50 
23 
12 
4 
1 
32 
39 
10 
8 
6 
34 
23 
18 
3 
0 
34 
25 
11 
6 
2 
30 
i, Also 3 cups; a , 3 cups; 3 , 2 cups; *, 2 cups; 5 . 2 cups; 6 , 1 cup; T , 2 
cups; 8 , 1 cup; 8 , 2 cups; «, 2 cups. 
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Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. 
The present season in the St. Lawreuce Y. C. of Montreal has been 
a prosperous one, though with less racing than usual. The improve 
ments to the club property at Dorval, including a new pier and alter 
ations to the club house will add greatly to the comfort and 
convenience of the members in the future. The club has now suitable 
facilities for hauling up and wintering its fleet, and has secured a 
builder who will establish a shop and attend to the repairs and storage 
as well as new building. The important event of the year was 
the receipt by the club, through the kindly offices of Sir Charles Hib- 
bard Tupper, Minister of Marine and Fisheries for Canada, of an 
admiralty warrant, granting the use of the prefix. Royal, and the' 
privilege of flying the blue ensign on the yachts of the club fleet. The 
warrant reads as follows: 
[copy] 
By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admi- 
ral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, etc. 
Whereas. We deem it expedient that the members of the Roynl St. Law-- 
rence Yacht Club, heing natural born or naturalized British subjects,, 
should be permitted to wear on board their respective vessels the blue 1 
ensign of Her Majesty's Fleet on the following conditions: 
We do therefore by virtue of the power and authority vested! in us : 
under the provision of the 105th section of the Merchants Shipping 
Act, 1854, hereby warrant and authorize the blue ensign of Her 
Majesty's Fleet to be worn on board the respective vessels belonging 
to the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club and to the members of mcn> 
yacht club being natural born or naturalized British subjects, accord- 
ingly subject to t*ie following conditions: 
1. Every vessel belonging to the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club 
in order to be eligible to wear the ensign authorized by this warrant 
shall have been registered as a British vessel in accordance with the 
Merchants Shipping Act. 1854. 
2. The ensign shall not without our authority in writing be worn 
on board any vessel belonging to the Royal St. Lawrence Vactit Club 
while such vessel is lent, on hire, or otherwise, to any person not 
being a member of the club, or who being a member of the club is not 
a natural born or naturalized British subject. 
Given under our hands and the Seal of the Office of Admiralty this 
25th day of June, 1894. (Sd.) Walter T. Kerr. 
(Sd.) G. H. Noel. 
By command of their Lordships. 
(Sd.) Evan MacGregor. 
In Class A Messrs. Clouston's Chaperone has again been victorious,, 
though the competition has been less keen than usual. Xania, Mr.. 
Duggan's new flyer, designed hv himself, has proved a credit to him,, 
having won all races in which she started, bea ing all her competitors 
in the rac« for the Sir Donald A. Smith challenge cup and easily win- 
ning the 30ft. class series. The once successful Burgess boat Molly/ 
Bawn had to succumb to the more modern form of the newer craft. 
The 25ft. class, a very convenient size, has six good boats, but none' 
started this year; and the 21ft. and 18ft. classes have really been the' 
life of the racing in 1894. The latter class includes two Clapham. 
boats, Lassie and Tombola, each new this spring, and intended to con- 
test the claim for the championship of the famous Bug, owned by Mr. 
Duggan, a boat of verv similar form, but with a square stern. An- 
other new 18ft. boat, Jubilant, is a centerboard bulb-fin; while of the 
heavier type is Pirate, Lassie failed to hold Bug, but Tombola gave 
her some close racing. The nature of the waters which constitute the 
club's anchorage and sailing ground is a serious bar to the introduc- 
tion of a deeper class of boat; but the club has made very great 
progress in the past few years in the production of faster, safer, and 
in every way superior yachts on the same draft of water, less than 3ft., 
which characterized the old fleet. The club has now a good station, 
excellent sailing rules and a good racing fleet in the several classes ; 
and in starting afresh under its new name, it has every prospect of a 
continuance of the success which has attended it in the past. 
Changes of Rating Rule. 
In all of the English yachting journals a warm controversy is now 
waging over the merits and demerits of the existing Y. R. A. rule and 
of various new ones. While the controversy is interesting, it has thus 
far been void of any result, the only point settled being that nothing 
will be done for the coming year. We learn from the Field that a 
meeting of the council of the Yacht Racing Association was held on 
Oct. 10 at the Royal London Y. C, London. There were present Mr. 
G. B. Thompson (in the chair), Mr. Philip Percival, Jr., Mr. G. C. Col- 
ville, Mr. A. Manning, Mr. W. Baden Powell, Mr. Herbert Crossley, 
Baron Von Knoop, Major P. H. Hewitt, Mr. C. Newton-Robinson, Capt. 
C. Nottage and Col. Fitzroy Clayton. The following report of the rat- 
ing rule committee was presented to the council: 
To the Council of the Yacht Racing Association: 
Gentlemen— In accordance with your resolution of Aug. 18, 1894, 
appointing a committee to consider and obtain the opinions of the 
leading yacht designers on the working of the rating rule, the mem- 
bers of the committee who signed this report met on Sept. 8, and they 
have now to report as follows: 
1. That in the smaller classes the rating rule is producing a type of 
vessel undesirably shallow and useless except for racing; your com- 
mittee, however, do not consider it would be wise to attempt an altera- 
tion of the rule this year. They are of opinion that the time which 
would necessarily be consumed in discussing, drafting and passing a 
new rule would render all designing and building for next season prac- 
tically impossible. 
2. In view of the fact of the more frequent occurrence of inter- 
national contests, and of the fact that at present the English and 
American rating rules are practically identical, the committee 
recommend that the council should take steps to ascertain if a com- 
mon rating could not be adopted by the countries interested in yacht 
racing. Should the council be unwilling to or fail to bring about the; 
international rating rule, the committee recommend that a revision of: 
the existing rule be made next spring, to come into operation in 1896. 
3. The committee have not attempted to formulate any proposal' 
for altering the rule; but they are of opinion that immersed depth at 
the quarter beam might be introduced into the formula in such a 
manner as to insure a greater bulk of under -water body, but your 
committee do not put this forward with a view of prejudging the case 
in any proposal which the council may decide to make to bring about 
an international rating rule. 
4. The committee further report that at their meeting they bad to 
confer with them the following naval architects: Mr G. L. Watson, 
Mr. W. Fife, Jr., Mr. A. E. Payne, and Mr. Dixon Kemp, and the views 
of these geDtiemen are embodied in our report. 
5. Your committee, as well as the naval architects, were of opinion 
that it was most important that the recommendations of the commit- 
tee should be made public at once, before it was possible to present 
their report to the council; the committee therefore decided that the 
sanction of the senior vice-president, the Marquis of Exeter, should 
be obtained for immediate publication; this was accordingly done, 
and the recommendations made known to the public. 
(Signed) Augustus Manning, 
Peter Donaldson, 
Sept. 24, 1894. G. F. Flemmich, 
A lengthy discussion ensued, but no decision was arrived at. Ulti- 
mately the consideration of the subject was adjourned to Wednesday, 
Oct. 24, when the council will meet at the Langham Hotel at 12 
o'clock noon. 
A sub committee was appointed to report upon the term "recog- 
nized yacht club," in ihe rule, and also to define, if the committee 
considered it expedient, an amateur in connection with the term 
"member of a recognized yacht club" in the rules. 
A Fast Skimming 1 Dish. 
One of the remarkable boats of the year in English waters has been 
the saucer-shaped Sorceress, a 1-rater designed and built by Mr. Linton 
Hope, her dimensions being: Over all, 29ft.; l.w.l., 18ft. 10in.: beam, 
8ft. ; draft, 6>&in.; displacement, l,4701bs.; sail area, 319sq. ft. She has 
a steel centerplate but 2ft. wide and 6tt. deep, of J^in, thickness, thus 
permitting a certain amount of flexibility. She has not only proved a 
winner, but has done some very fast sailing in rough water, and has 
raced at times in a very heavy sea for so small a boat and such 
extreme proportions. We. were aware that a similar boat had been 
sent out by Mr. Hope to British Columbia, but no particulars have 
reached us beyond the fact of her filling entirely in a race, as Sorceress 
once did. A correspondent sends us the following clipping from the 
Daily Colonist, of Victoria, B. C, and also some particulars of the 
: boat: 
"The last race of the season under the auspices of the Victoria 
Y. C. was sailed yesterday afternoon, the starting yachts being Daisy 
Bell, Victoria and Star. The start was made at 2:39 P. M. in a breeze 
just stiff enough to make everything draw well. The Daisy Bell took 
the lead and held it throughout, finishing at 4:25. The time, 1:46, is the 
fastest ever made over the 11-mile course by any Victoria yacht, and 
furnishes a record which will be found difficult to lower. The Victoria 
finished at 5:05 P. M., giving the Daisy Bell a winning of 35 minutes of 
actual time. The Star did not finish. By the victory yesterday, the 
Daisy Bell wins the club pennant for the season. This was offered for 
the yacht winning the greatest number of races during the season. 
Five races have been run by the club and the Daisy has made five win- 
nings, a record of which her owners feel justly proud." 
Daisy Bell was designed by Mr. Hope to sail against yachts of the 
usual American type of shoal craft, her dimensions being: Over all, 
28ft,; l.w.l., 21ft.; beam, 8ft. 9in.; draft, 6in. ; with board, 5ft.; sail 
area, 450sq. ft., rigged much like Scarecrow. Her first race was on 
May 26, at Victoria, in a S.E. gale; in the first three miles, dead to 
windward, she had gained 27 minutes, but in turning, to go free, she 
ran into the crest of a wave and filled Hush with the deck, In this 
condition she was sailed four miles into Esquimault Harbor before 
being bailed out. On July 4 she sailed at Whatcom., Wash., in a good 
stiff blow, and led her class at least a mile up to the last turn, where 
she could not find the buoy, which had been set adrift by a larger 
yacht in another class. Garland, of Bellingham Bay, managed to find 
the buoy and started for home with a very long lead, but Daisy Bell 
finished within 2}^m. of her. Daisy Bell was built by the Thomas 
Y acht Building Co., of which Mr. Hope is manager. 
