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Seawanhaka Corinthian "Y. C. 
INTKnNATIONAl. cnp — TRIAL RACES. 
June SS-Si^-SU-?(J. 
Sdmmbb racing on the Sound is by no means the most thrilliDg and 
exciting form of sjjort; on the conirary, It is liliely to try the patience 
of all concerned in it: sailors, committee and spectators. The past 
week has been about as bad as was in -any way possible in June, calm 
and more or less cold and rainy. Not once in the week have the 
yachts been seen in a hard breeze and sea, and only onca in a fresh 
breeze, the test of the series of four trial races bPing purely a light- 
weather one. The task of the committee has been by no means an easy 
one, to pick the best defender from a fleet of nearly thirty competitors, 
but they have made a wise choice and one that gives general satisfac- 
tion to all who are familiar with the boats and those concerned with 
them. In judging the merits of tbe yachts it must be borne in mind 
that few if any save those which have been raring since May 30 were 
in racing form or at all known to their owners. Most of them were 
hurried at the last moment, and the fleet as a whole may be summed 
up as in many ways a crude and experimental one. No doubt the 
class racing will continue through the season, to the material im- 
provement of some of the boats. While allowance must be made for 
her as well as the others, El Heirie is in as good shape now as any, 
and her crew is in a position to work her up much further within the 
next three weeks. 
At a comparatively early period in the racing, which began last 
Monday, it became easy to run through the list of starters and pick 
those which had no chance whatever of being selected, those which 
promised more or less, but were evidently capable of improvement, 
and those practically available for the defense of the cup. As the rac- 
ing progressed this latter division narrowed down to three boats. 
Riverside first. El Heirie a close second, and Ideal third, but decidedly 
inferior to the other two. This inferiority was most apparent in the 
one point where Ethelwynn was at her best compared witb last year's 
fleet, to windward, and the reasons for it were easily discernible. It 
is not likely that with her moderate form Ideal, or in fact Ethelwynn 
or Two Step, all nearly alike, can be made as fast in a broad reach as 
the majority of the class in which features verging closely on the 
"freak" order are employed to give a very long list line in reaching; 
but all of these boats are fast down wind, and the experience of Ethel- 
wynn shows that they may be made to go to windward with anything 
In the class. 
The general features and form of these boats, with the peculiar 
"Scarucrow'" rig, has been fully described by us in the past. The 
two leading boats were of distinctly opposite types; Riverside is a 
fln-keel of 5ft. 6in. beam, moderate proportions and good form, entirely 
free from all freak features. She is of the general type of Wee Winn, 
Trust Me and Scarecrow; in reality an improved Trilby. She 
was designed by Cnas. Olmstead, designer of Qovilan, Eidolon and 
Vorant U., as well as Trilby, and was built for a syndicate of Riverside 
Y. C. members by some of Mumm's old workmen at Bay Ridge, under 
Mr. Olmstead's personal supervision. The hull is very hght, the 
planking a "shiplap" single skin of cedar, with a deck of thin pine 
covered with varnished muslin. There are no bulkheads, and the ob- 
long cockpit is just large enough for two men, Mr. Olmstead steering 
her, with a proressional for "crew." In very bad weather a flat hatch 
may be screwed down on gaskets inside the coaming, making a com- 
plete flush deck. The fin is narrow and deep, of '32in. Tobin bronze, 
with about 2501bs. of lead, or Sasibs. in all. The riK is a boom and a 
gaff mainsail of Union silk with a criss-cross jib. The hull Is painted 
white with a dark bottom, and a broad gold band above the bootleg. 
The spars are hollow. 
El Heirie was designed by her owner, C. H Crane, of New York, a 
graduate of Harvard, and now employed at Cramp's shipyard, in Phil- 
adelphia. With him IR associated iiis brother, D. M. Crane, a graduate 
of the Jlassachuaetts Institute of Technology. The two have raced a 
good deal in small craft about Boston when at college, and now have tbe 
15-fnoter Elsa, designed by C. H. Crane, in the length class at Boston. 
The design of El Heirie was begun last fall and completed by degrees, 
the boat being launched about two weeks since. The motif of the 
design was taken from Question, being suggested by the reports of the 
speed of that craft, hue ihis crude idea has been refined and elabor- 
ated. The yacht has a flat floor about 24in. wide, turning up athwart- 
sbips to a round, hard bilge, while fore and aft It carries a fair sweep 
from the stern to the transom. The bow is a regular shovel nose, the 
flat floor running well forward. The fore overhang is longer than the 
after, much like the Dyer boats, Qrilae and Owana. There is practi- 
cally no sheer and quite a crown to the deck, the name El Heirie (camel) 
being hardly justified, however. The comparison to Ethelwynn, as 
made by us last week, was based only on the first view of the yacht as 
under sail at Larchmont; when out of water a very different form ap- 
pears. The cockpit is long and narrow, and the floor is high enougli to 
drain into the well, but there is no forward bulkhead, only an after one. 
The centerboard is of the knife pattern, },giS3. thick, of Tobin bronze, 
similar to that of Ethelwynn; but it is so pivoted that when raised it 
projects Gin. below the keel. The rudder is nearly square, of the 
HerreshofE spade type, and hung abaft the waterline. The planking is 
double skin, the outer mahogany, with crude turpentine between the 
two. The deck is of white pine. The mast is solid, with a hollow gaff 
and boom. The rig is a boom and gaff mainsail, with a low-cut jio 
with boom laced to the foot. The mainsail Is of light cotton. 
Ideal is practically the same as Ethelwynn, with ain. more beam and 
sparred for a larger rig of SoOaq. ft. Owing to the lack of stretch in 
her new sails they measured, as it proved, but 208rq. ft. They are of 
cotton, and with those of the other two were made oy Wilson & Grif- 
fin. 
It is more than likely that some of the more heavily rigged of the 
boats were favored in the light airs by more sail than their length 
would allow, but as they did not win they were not measured. 
The story of the first race was given last week, but the table was 
not complete, The following gives the work in detail and makes com- 
plete the whole record of the series. 
FIRST TRIAL RACE. 
Monday, June SS. 
iBt 
Mark. 
Ideal ..1 04 38 
Riverside...! 04 5S 
El Heirie...! OG 18 
Two Step...! 04 45 
Hope.......! 06 50 
Trilby ! 06 57 
I'aprika....l 06 80 
Vesper 1 06 45 
Gnome 1 04 35 
Kittle V....1 05 54 
Die Hexe...l 05 24 
Yola 
Columbia . .1 05 45 
In It ! 06 14 
Saghaya.,.1 07 54 
Oycljne....! 05 50 
Willada....! 07 47 
Tornado 
3d 
Mark. 
1 31 03 
1 29 55 
1 S9 85 
1 31 ai 
1 30 35 
1 31 47 
! 34 32 
1 34 14 
1 29 5i 
31 !5 
3<! 10 
1 
1 
! 39 55 
1 m 00 
1 39 47 
1 35 07 
1 33 33 
1 
1 
End. 
S 12 03 
2 11 05 
2 12 48 
2 16 28 
3 20 40 
2 14 30 
3 17 30 
3 22 03 
2 18 33- 
1st 
Mark. 
2 50 43 
3 49 14 
2 5! 53 
2 54 05 
3 05 50 
3 54 45 
3 01 53 
3 04 20 
3 05 50 
3 01 17 
Sd 
Mark. 
3 30 36 
3 3! 23 
3 37 10 
3 41 80 
Finish. 
35 16 
36 03 
05 00 
07 06 
11 21 
23 19 
25 41 
39 48 
30 13 
80 43 
34 43 
36 32 
37 3G 
38 03 
38 14 
38 41 
40 ■^^ 
40 50 
43 13 
46 50 
Blaps'd 
3 35 00 
8 37 06 
3 41 21 
3 53 19 
3 55 41 
3 59 48 
4 00 13 
4 00 43 
4 04 43 
4 06 32 
4 07 30 
4 08 03 
4 08 14 
4 08 41 
4 10 33 
4 10 .50 
4 13 13 
4 16 00 
Nit 1 40 45 
Nike 1 07 30 
Defender H.l 07 30 
Terrapin ,.1 07 54 
Question...! 07 B4 
Xdabel 1 07 18 
Mtudeen...! 09 30 
Glance 1 06 40 
38 28 
33 56 
86 19 
1 39 38 
1 37 51 
U 38 39 
1 83 85 
Manontaaquot withdrew. 
Withdrew. 
Withdrew. 
3 20 40 3 05 
Withdrew. 
Withdrew, 
Withdrew. 
Withdrew, 
Withdrew. 
SECOND DAV. 
47 Withdrew, 
Tueeday, Juve S3. 
Tuesday morning broke with a strong N.E. breeze on the Sound 
and a sea as well; from the roof of the club house the whitecaps were 
visible, and the hearts of many were gladdened at the sight. Not 
only the various "one-design" boats, but many others as well, after 
Monday, claimed to be "hard-weather" boats, and prayed for wind in 
proportion to their assumed degree of hardness. During the morn- 
mg, however, the wind fell and went to the westward, the Bound 
smoothed out all its wrinkles, and the prospect of a rattling race dis- 
appaared. It is greatly to the credit of the owners of these small 
craft that after the discouragement met by many on Monday all but 
five were at the line a little after noon. Some were doubtless enticed 
into another trial by the prospect of a breeze, but 23 boats started 
after it was evident that the race would be almost a drifting match. 
The tide was running strong ebb, and In order to keep their places 
until the signal was given the racing boats tied up in a long string to 
Center Island Buoy, some remaining in tow of their launches. Astern 
of the club steamer Dunderberg, the committee boat, was another 
long string of naphtha launches. 
At 1 o'clock there was a light S.W. wind blowing, and at 1:30 the 
committee gave the prehminary signal and set the course flags 
N.N.E,, 3 miles to leeward and return, to be sailed twice. There was 
no wind for maneuvering, and the ebb tide was rushing over the line, 
so most of the yachts took a safe course by getting as far to wind- 
ward as possible, risking a late start rather than to be carried over the 
line with little chance ot working back. Ideal, again sailed by Duryea 
and Zerega, took the lee end of the line near the bo w of the Dunderberg 
and with but 30 seconds to go was in a good position to shoot across 
with way on and drop her spiuaker. Just before the gun, at 1:40, tha 
wind dropped and left her; she drifted down on the wrong side of tha 
Steamer and was soon helpless in tbe tideway, unable to stem lo. 
Terrapin had followed her closely and was similarly caught. Maudeen 
brought up squarely across the bows ot the steamer, but escaped 
without injury; another boat drifted down on the steamer, nnd 
Trilby was all tangled up with the Center Island Buoy at the other 
end ot the line. The best start, just after tbe gun, was made by Two 
Step near the steamer. Riverside going over promptly near the other 
end of the line. Hope and Oolunabia also made good starts, with sev- 
eral others indistinguishable in the pack. More than half tbe fleet 
was scattered at a distance above the line, making late starts. Vesper 
being one of this division. Ideal and Terrapin could not have sailed 
up to the line, with no wind and the foul tidf», but took a tow from 
the press launch and crossed the line at 1:46:15, their time being taken 
by the committee. Die Hexe, to leeward of the buoy, was also ordered 
to start where she was, short of the line, but in reply held up a tiller 
broken at the rudderhead, and started to reach home across the tide. 
A naphtha launch hailed her, passed her a monkey wrench and left her 
with a friendly intimation that she might sail to a warmer climate. 
She started after the distant fleet and very pluckily sailed the race 
out, using the wrench as a tiller, 
The fleet was not so closely bunched as on the first day, and there 
was less crowding and blanketing, though all had spinakers out. 
From the start Two Step ran away from the pack, and with no wind 
save what had passed them was soon clear ahaad. The starters 
were; Two Step, Riverside, Hope, Columbia, Paprika, Question, 
Klttie, Trilby, El Heirie, Yola, Ideal, Terrapin, Die Hexe, Maudeen, 
Isabelle, In It, Vesper, Cyclone, Tornado, Gnome, Saghaya and Will- 
ada. 
They were doing little better than the speed of the tide, less than 
three rriiles per hour. At the end of a mile Two Step was over a 
quarter of a mile ahead of the fleet, the next boats being In It and 
Riverside. Vesper came throueh the fleet, and with Kittie, Yola and 
Gnome ran up even with this pair. Ideal, after her bad start, was 
picking up the stragglers, passing Maudeen, Question, Willada, Isa- 
belle, Hope and Paprika. Two Step jibed her boom to port about ten 
minutes before I'eaching the mark, which she turned at 3:51 :!0. Just 
as she did so a nice little breeze came in and she hardened sheets for 
a beat home. Kittie gained on the fleet toward the end of Ihs run, 
and with her nose down in the water and a big sail plan all in the 
mainsail she was sliding down hill very fast. The times were: 
Two Step ,,...3 51 10 
Kittie ..2 54 06 
Gnome.. , , 2 54 35 
Riverside..*,...... 2 C4 50 
Saghaya.....,,,,,,....,., ......4 3 55 10 
El Heirie. 3 55 55 
Vesper ; 2 55 24 
Columbia 3 55 41 
Yola 3 55 41 
In It 3 55 44 
Ideal i 2 58 07 
Tornado 2 56 25 
Hope , 3 56 28 
Cyclone ....2 56 58 
Trilby ,., , ....2 57 00 
Paprika ..i..... .3 57 Oi 
Isabelle. ....... , ,.i . ^.t .....««. t.»i ..2 57 34 
Willada it.,^.,.., 3 58 56 
Question.....,...".. .l.n..* 3 59 23 
Maudeen 3 00 15 
Terrapin 3 03 12 
Die Hexe 3 04 27 
Elapsed. 
1 II 10 
1 14 06 
1 14 25 
1 14 50 
1 35 10 
1 15 55 
1 15 24 
1 15 41 
1 15 41 
1 15 54 
J 1 16 07 
1 1 09 53 
1 16 25 
1 16 28 
1 16 58 
1 17 00 
1 17 04 
1 17 34 
18 56 
19 33 
20 15 
22 12 
15 57 
24 27 
Ideal had worked up to the middle of the fleet in spite of her heavy 
handicap, and her actual time is even better than that of Two Step by 
over a minute. There was some very even running, as the elapsed 
times show. 
The wind was atill very light a'od tbe ebb tide running strong in 
places, with the flood forcing itself between. Nearly all the yachts 
stood inshore at once after luffing around the mark on starboard tack. 
Two, Vef per and Trilby, went fluke hunting for a breeze that was just 
visible under the Greenwich shore, but with a broad stretch of ebb 
tide to cross. 
Two Step did neither one thing nor the other. She stood on starboard 
tack for a time after rounding, then went about and stood offshore, 
but never as far as the middle of the Sound; she thus kept in the 
strength of the ebb tide and out of the shore breezes. Riverside very 
soon took the lead, Kittie following off to leeward, while Gnome slid 
off like a crab until she was to leeward of halt the fleet. She carried 
to-day the original Herreshoff canoe mainsail, but did no better than 
with the boom and gaff sail used on Monday. The work over this leg 
was fluky in the extreme, what little wind there was came in spots and 
patches from different quarters, and the ebb and flood tides split the 
water into contending currents and eddies Ohe boat after another 
was favored by luck from time to time. Riverside steered a good 
course and sailed very fast, and both Kittie and El Heirie following 
her did very well. Two Step, by her poor course, threw away all of 
her long lead and made the poorest time but one on this leg. Ideal 
was still at a distance from the leaders and under different conditions, 
but she was not doing good work on the wind. Vesper was well sailed 
to windward by Mr. Butler, and she found the breeze she was looking 
for under the north shore, Trilby also sharing her luck. Saghaya did 
quite good work on the wind. 
Riverside stood on up the harbor nearly to the lighthouse and then 
came for the mark on port tack. El Heirie and Kittie were astern of 
her, Yola, Ideal, Paprika and Hope, with others astern, were under the 
shore of Lloyd's Neck, and Two S ep was just off shore and now well 
astern. Vesper came across the Sound on a long starboard reach and 
fell In seconu to Riverside as they neared the Center Island Buoy at 
the end of the round. Trilby followed her and fell into fourth place. 
The flrst round was timed: 
Riverside 4 50 36 
Vesper 4 57 5! 
El Heirie. 
.4 68 26 
Trilby 4 59 38 
Kittie i......... ....5 01 48 
Saghaya, ., u>. ■..•••■.•••••••••;>•>■>>>>. ....•5 03 07 
Hope .....I. 
Paprika 
Ideal 
Yola 
Two Step 
Columbia. ,i 
In It 
Terrapin. . . . 
Die Hexe.... 
, 1 ■ » • » ■ 
. 'all. aft'. ....I,'. ..,*. 
• »ai»ra»'aa»'a'aa..aa'a 
5 04 08 
5 04 46 
5 05 07 
5 09 34 
....5 09 28 
5 12 25 
,...,5 14 20 
5 14 55 
5 15 20 
Elapsed. 
1 55 46 
2 02 27 
2 02 3! 
2 03 33 
2 07 42 
2 07 57 
2 07 38 
2 07 43 
2 09 00 
2 18 43 
18 18 
16 44 
18 26 
13 43 
10 53 
Riverside had done excellent work to windward in a light air, and 
the other fln-keel, her older sister Trilby, was one of the three boats 
that shared the second place together. 
Riverside set her spinaker to port on rounding, but soon took it in, 
ran out her spinaker boom as a bowsprit and set her balloon jib on it, 
a trick worked last year in the trial races and tacitly recognized then 
by the committee as permissible. 
Vesper did not set a spinaker, but all the others did. The end of 
the leg was timed: 
Elapsed. 
Riverside 5 44 16 0 53 40 
El Heirie,, 5 50 16 0 51 50 
Vesper,.,. 5 5? 55 0 55 04 
Kittle , 5 54 15 0 53 27 
Trilby .5 56 13 0 S6 34 
Ideal. 6 05 17 1 00 10 
SaEhaya 6 06 29 1 03 22 
Yola 6 08 55 0 57 31 
Paprika .....6 07 00 1 03 14 
Hope 6 OS 14 1 04 08 
Two Step 6 08 45 1 00 43 
Columbia 0 15 40 1 08 15 
Die Hexe 6 17 00 1 01 40 
The only incident of the run was the excellent showing ot El Heirie 
off the wind. She outran everything, even Riverside. Riverside, how- 
ever, had a lead of an even 6 minutes when she started for the beat 
home, the breeze being moderate and with a promise of freshening as 
the day declined. Far from this, it dropped again when the leaders 
had turned the lee mark. The tide was now on the flood and most of 
the boats worked the middle course, well out in the Sound. The wind 
was in patches and from all points. Riverside was hung up for a time 
In a calm spot, and when two-thirds of the leg had been covered El 
Heirie was well out in the Sound on starboard tack heading 
for the finish, with both Riverside and Kittie to the leeward and 
broken off by a different wind, until it seemed that El Heirie must 
finish first. Another shift soon upset all these calculations, and left 
Riverside in flrst place. , ^ . ^ ^ 
Riverside flniabed flrst after a tedious beat of an hour and a half for 
three miles with the tide. Vesper came for the line on starboard tack 
and El Heirie on pDrt, the latter thus being enabled to cross flrst 
through having right of way. Kittie and Trilby made a close finish 
well to the front. Two Step, Yola and one or two more had stood into 
the harbor and picked up a good start, which brought them up on 
the leaders and made Two Step's time for the leg considerably better 
than any others. The final times were; 
Riverside 7 08 08 
Vesper 7 09 57 
El Heirie. i,,. . i ,. i . . , . i . . ni.. . . ..... , .7 10 06 
Kittie 7 13 05 
Trilby ...7 13 41 
Two Step 7 18 28 
Yola 7 19 19 
Saghaya .....,„.,....., 7 20 50 
Hope 7 23 08 
Paprika .....7 24 48 
Elapsed. 
23 52 
17 02 
19 50 
17 50 
16 29 
09 43 
12 24 
14 21 
14 54 
17 48 
Die Hexe, steered with a 6in. monkey wrench, finished, but was not 
timed. Gnome, Ideal, Question, Willada and a number of others 
withdrew, and the committee did not wait to time any after Paprika. 
As a test the race was but a waste of time; all that it showed was 
that the bulb-fin Riverside is very fast in light weather, both on and 
off the wind, and that Ei Heirie and Vesper are both fast. Kittie had 
conditions nearly to her liking, smooth water and light winds for her 
big eat rig, and she made a very good showing both to windward and 
free. In It went into the harbor and her crew tied a knot in a bit of 
line and tacked it ahead of her name on the upper transom. 
The race was a trying one, both in the uncertainties and flukes of 
the weather and the severe exertion of some eight hours in a small 
boat, or worse yet, on the flat deck of such craft as Trilby, Question 
and Willada. Many went out with little or no store of food and water, 
and suffered thereby, and aU complained of the tedious and anxious 
work so greatly prolonged. 
THIRD RACK. 
Wednesday, June Zh. 
Wednesday morning brought a change of weather, "a southerly 
wind and a cloudy sky" at sunrise, with a sprinkle of rain about 11 
A. M. that had increased to a fine steady downpour by noon, wetting 
the crews before the start. The course was the triangular, sailed the 
usual way, to the eastward flrst, making the third l^g dead to wind- 
ward if the wind held. The day was much more like what the scow 
boats had been wishing for, a fresh breeze and sll.ghtly troubled 
water, though with nothing that could be called a sea. The wind 
proved variable, both in force and direction, piping up at times and 
sometimes falling very light in spots, while it swung around toward 
the South and back, its direction at the start being 8 S.W. With all 
its variations, it was true enough to give a perfectly fair test of the 
boats, and there was no fluking on the part of any of the leaders. 
Before the race the competitors were requested by the committee to 
keep as close together as practicable on ihe windward work, in order 
that the inequalities of tide and wind might be eliminated as far as 
possible 
In spite of the discouraging results of the preceding days, no less 
than 16 yachts out of the original 27 started. Kittie left for home on 
Tuesday evening, having had her chance in light weather; Maudeen 
went out in tow of her tender, a sloop yacht, on Wednesday morning; 
Norota started across for Stamford under staysail set as a trysail and a 
large jlbtopsafl, with Gnome in tow; the two Nyack boats had already 
left in tow of a launch; Memory started for the long run to Newport 
with Nit in tow; Two Step did not apppar at all. 
The committee and all but two of the starters were at the line by 
noon. A long wait was made for the two laggards up the harbor, and 
it was 33:35 before the starting whistle was blown. It was a start to 
leeward, with a strong ebb tide over the line, as on the previous day. 
While working about the fine some of the yachts had decks well awash 
under the strong puffs, but, as it chanced, just before the gun the 
wind fell much lighter. Ideal worked close along the line from the 
buoy toward the committee boat during the last two minutes, but 
shaved two close and drifted on the line before gunfire, being over too 
soon. Riverside made a fine start, and Hope, Trilby, El Heirie and 
Paprika were among tha leaders. They started with spinakers to star- 
board, but soon shifted to balloon jibs. Meal and Riverside led the 
fleet for a time, but the boats closest inshore caught a stronger breeze, 
and Yols, Paprika, Hope and some others came to the front about ou 
a line witn Riverside further out in the-Sound. As the wind shifted at 
intervals some of the boats set spinakers again and made them draw, 
while others did better with balloon jibs; in some cases the spinaker 
boom was run out as a bowsprit and the balloon jib set on it. a prac- 
tice that calls for some action, though not specifically prohibited by 
the present rules. They jibed at the mark as follows: 
Elapsed. 
Riverside 1 01 02 0 26 02 
El Heh-ie 1 01 52 0 26 53 
Trilby -1 03 03 0 27 03 
Die Hexe 1 02 04 0 27 04 
Vesper 1 02 15 0 27 1 5 
Paprika 1 02 30 0 37 30 
Cyclone , 1 03 48 0 27 48 
Yola ...aaaa. .....1 03. 48 0 87 48 
Ideal 1 02 58 0 37 58 
In It .,, 1 03 58 0 27 58 
Willada............ 1 03 00 0 28 00 
Saghaya , 1 04 28 0 3y 28 
Question 1 04 35 0 29 35 
Tornado 1 04 40 0 29 40 
Terrapin , 1 05 16 0 30 16 
Hope 1 03 35 0 27 35 
Once trimmed for a broad reach El Heirie made short work of River- 
side, passing her at once and setting a fine pace for the second mark. 
There was some very pretty luffing and fighting among the various 
groups, and positions changed materially. Trilby and Die Hexe, the 
latter steered with a ramshackle jury tiller hastily made in the morn- 
ing, were fighting for thh-d place. Ideal caught TrUby, and fought hard 
to get by, but failed; Willada, well out to windward, picked up very 
much and Vesper dropped asfern. The times at the mark were: 
Elapsed. 
El Heirie 1 32 39 
Riverside 1 23 27 
Die Hex©,. 1 25 03 
Trilby....,.., 1 25 58 
Paprika ,<...! 26 21 
Willada , . . . ,'. . . ,'. , 1 26 27 
Yola 
Hope , 
Vesper , 
Cyclone ,. 
It It 
Saghaya 
Tornado 
Terrapin..,,,,,, 
Question,...,, i 
. .... 1. 
.1 26 39 
26 50 
27 09 
....1 27 87 
....1 39 39 
....1 29 44 
....1 33 00 
....1 32 48 
....1 33 19 
0 20 47 
0 22 25 
0 22 59 
0 33 55 
0 33 16 
0 28 51 
0 23 27 
0 23 51 
0 24 46 
0 24 54 
0 24 49 
0 26 41 
0 25 16 
0 27 20 
0 27 32 
0 28 44 
El Heirie made a poor turn, going wide of the mark with sheets off 
and failing to lay her course for a long time after rounding. River- 
side made a very neat turn and hardened sheets at once, her criss- 
cross Wilson jib, tbe same as that carried by Ethelwynn last year, do- 
ing good work, Trilby dropped her balloon jib over the side and 
towed it for a while, to her manifest detriment. For some time, both 
holding the port tack. Riverside gained on El Heirie and was decidedly 
ahead. Trilby was doing excellent work in third place, but Die Hexe 
was falling to leeward. Ideal had passed the mark barely ahead of 
Paprika, the latter made a short board inshore and stood on again on 
starboard tack, the pair were apart for a time, but when they came 
together Paprika easily crossed Ideal's bows. Hope worked out until 
she had a clear wind and forged ahead very fast, she and Ideal faUing 
in together. They had it hammer and tongs for a short time, Ideal to 
leeward running ahead and then dropping astern, leaving Hope to 
chase her yellow sister. Paprika. When half over the leg Paprika was 
in third place. El Heirie a good distance ahead of Riverside, with Pap- 
rika dangerously close on the latter's weather quarter and Hope to 
windward of Trilby. At 1:65 Paprika tacked for the Lloyd's Neck 
Shore, and Riverside and El Heirie immediately came about to wind- 
ward of her, each having stood on the one long port tack from the 
last mark. El Heirie had a long lead now, and the interest was trans- 
ferred to the fight between Riverside and Paprika^ with the odds, in 
the strong breeze then blowing, in favor of the latter. They all stood 
on for some 15 minutes until well inshore. Paprika finally passing 
her rival. The end of the flrst round was timed! 
Elapsed, 
El Heirie 3 21 43 0 69 04 
Paprika 2 33 21 0 57 00 
Riverside...... 2 28 52 3 00 25 
Hope ^M.. 2 25 23 0 58 33 
Trilby. 2 28 23 1 02 24 
Ideal 2 33 00 1 06 46 
Vesper 2 35 00 1 07 51 
With the beginning of the second round the wind dropped percep- 
tibly and hauled more to the south, making a reach across to the first 
mark, in fact a reach all around the triangle, to the great advantage 
of El Heirie. While she increased her lead. Riverside repassed Pap- 
rika and took second place. Ideal had done very poorly on the wind- 
ward work, for some reason not apparent, and withdrew at the end of 
the round. Vesper was still further astern, but Mr. Butler has long 
been noted in canoeing for always finishing a race, whatever the con- 
ditions, and though he had little to gain by a hopeless stern chase in 
the rain, he very pluckily held on. All of the later boats ' withdrew 
either at or before the end of the round. The flrst mark was timed: 
