FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 15, 1899. 
Good Enough — Geo. E. Gray (deput}') b. and w. dog, 
April, 1898 (Rip Rap— Pearl's Dot). 
Dot's Rap — Geo. E. Gray (deputy) 1. and w. dog, April, 
1898 (Rip Rap— Pearl's Dot). 
Miss Williams— E. C. & T. R. Hoyt's 1. and w. bitch, 
March, 1898 (Baldy Williams— Belle of Archdale). 
Rip — Geo. ^. Nesbitt's 1. and w. dog, 
Fairview Tom — ^W. Gould Brokaw's 1. and w. dog, 
March, 1898 (Sir Walter—Van's Pride). 
Fairview Tibby — W. Gould Brokaw's .1. and w. bitch, 
March, 1898 (Sir Walter— Van's Pride). 
Fairview Patty — W. Gould Brokaw's 1. and w. bitch, 
April, 1898 (Prince Boy — Fanny Davenport). 
Bootsie S. — Arthus Stern's lem. and w. bitch, June, 
1898 (Young Rip Rap— Dolly Jingo). 
Dervish— Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' L and w. dog, 
May, 1898 (Tippoo — Queen Kent). 
Mahdi— Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' 1. and w. dog, 
May, 1898 (Tippoo — Queen Kent). 
Khartum— Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' I. and w. dog, 
July, 1898 (Rip Rap— Toxic). 
Soudan— Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' b. and w. bitch, 
July, 1898 (Rip Rap — Toxic). 
Bedouin— Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' b. and w. bitch, 
June, 1898 (Rip Rap — Queen III.). 
Theo. Sturges^ Sec'y And Treas. 
Points and Flushes. 
From Benson county, N. D., we have a query concern- 
ing breeders of Chesapeake Bay dogs. No one advertises 
the dogs, hence we conclude that there arc none for 
sale. 
Fixttires. 
JTJLY. 
15-17-18-19-20-21-22. Larchniont, race week. 
15 Penataquit Cor., snipe class, Bayshore, Great bouth JJay. 
15. American, handicap, Newburyport, Mass. 
15 Beverly, club Cor., Monument Beach, Buzzard s Hay. 
15. East Gloucester, cruise, Gloucester, Mass. 
15. Wollaston, ladies' day, Wollaston, Mass. 
15. Quincy, open. Quincy, Boston Harbor. 
15. Winthrop, hand sweeps, Winthrop, Boston Haroor. 
15 Corinthian, Marblehead, 3d chara., Marblehead, Mass. Bay. 
15. Taunton, club, Taunton, Mass. 
15. Jamaica Bay, club special, Jamaica Bay. 
15. Royal Nova Scotia, all classes, Halifax, N. h. 
15. Corinthian, Phila., knockabouts, Essington, Delaware River. 
15. Wood's Holl, sprit and cat classe^ Wood s HoU. 
15. Savin Hill, club handicap, Savm Hill, Boston Harbor. 
15. Burgess, 16ft. class, Marblehead, Massachusetts Bay. 
15. Seawanllaka Cor feoosevelt cup, Oyster Bay, L. i. Sound. 
15. Quannapowitt, club. 
16. East Gloucester, cruise to Marblehead. 
16. Williamsburgh, club, cats, Long Island bound. 
16. Old Mill, open. ^ _^ 
16. Squantum, Burkhardt cup, Squantum, Mass. 
16 Penataquit, annual, club. Bayshore, Great South Bay. 
17. Manchester, 1st cham., West Manchester. 
17. Quincy, ladies' day, Quincy, Boston Harbor 
18. Newport, ladies' day, Newport, Narragansett Bay. 
18. East Gloucester, cup, Gloucester, Mass. 
21. Wollaston, moonlight sail, Wollaston, Mass. 
21. Taunton, club run, Taunton, Mass. 
A GREAT deal is being published concerning Shamrock 
in the American papers, but a mere fraction of the alleged 
information is plausible and still less is reliable, ihus 
far though, half a dozen different sets of dimensions are 
given It is not known which, if any, is correct, the 
beam ranging from 22 to 24ft. and over, and the draft 
from 19ft. to as high as 26ft. On July 8 the yacht was out 
under sail in the Solent for her first trial, sailing from 
Southampton down to Yarmouth, east as far as Osborne 
and back home. She is described by some correspondents 
as a great success, and by others as a failure, on the 
strength of her alleged observed performances on this 
occasion. , , 1 -1 mi 
It is not a little surprising that the daily papers will 
pay for cables and special correspondents and publish 
stuff whose quality is apparent even to the inexpert. As 
a sample of the special news of this sort is the informa- 
tion that Shamrock's boom is as long as her taffrail, what- 
ever that may mean; that the sound of her chain cable in- 
dicates that she is of metal and hollow mside, and that 
her mainsail makes a noise when it slats m the wind. 
From the work of the foreign correspondents thus far it 
would appear either that they know nothing of yachting 
and are making an honest display of their ignorance, or 
that they are giving away nothing that can be of use to 
American yachtsmen. The wonder is that live newspapers 
continue to be fooled themselves or to fool their patrons 
with such, trash. 
Considering the small size of the attendant fleet at the 
first meeting of Columbia and Defender, the conduct of 
some of the boats gives small promise of a clear course for 
the Cup races in October. Over the whole of the first leg 
the two yachts were followed by the press boats, four or 
five tugs hanging closely to Columbia's starboard quarter. 
Most of these burned soft coal, so that to the spectators on 
such yachts and steamers as kept at a proper distance 
nothing of the race was visible, merely a dense cloud of 
black smoke, blowing aside at times and disclosing a big 
• blue flag with the name of a daily paper on it. One big 
tug with two stacks was specially conspicuous. The police 
boat Patrol was present, and whistled constantly with no 
effect whatever. It might be well in the future to arm her 
force with putty blowers for bombarding offending boats 
that disregard her noisy but pacific protests. The city 
fireboat, Robert A. Van Wyck, followed the race, prepared 
to extinguish fires in any tall buildings that might be 
floating about the course, or even to look after old Ocean 
himself, if the speed of the yachts should set him on 
fire. 
Now that Shamrock is under sail, new rumors are afloat 
as to trials with other yachts, but none of them are re- 
liable. It is said that she will sail several races with 
Britannia, and also that the Emperor William has offered 
Meteor as a trial boat. The latter yacht arrived at Cowes 
last week, but this fact may be either the origin or the 
confirmation of the rumor. There seems little use in again 
bringing to this country an untried and undeveloped boat 
to meet a yacht chosen after such a series of trial races 
as are now on between Columbia and Defender. A few 
sails against Britannia, a smaller boat, and one whose 
present form is an unknown quantity, can do no good 
whatever in working up Shamrock to racing form. It 
would have been worth minutes to the new boat if Sir 
Thomas Lipton had at the outset purchased or chartered 
Valkyrie III., put his skippers and crew on her early in 
the season and worked her up to racing form, now making 
up a second crew and racing Shamrock and Valkyrie 
together for a month. Such a course of experiment, which 
is practically what the American boats get and what 
Valkyrie III. missed in 1895, and Shamrock will miss 
now, is absolutely necessary to the perfectitig of the yacht. 
Short of this, the next best thing is a series of races with 
Meteor, a boat of about the same size, and now in racing 
condition. 
According to the latest reports, the trials between 
Shamrock, and Britannia will begin this week, but will be 
so cleverly and adroitly conducted as to disclose nothing 
which may be of value on this side of the water. The 
only result of this cost of over-smartness in yachting, as 
has been repeatedly proved, is to fool and mislead the 
perpetrators themselves. 
In this matter of trial races a very wise policy has 
been followed in this country from the time of Puritan 
and Priscilla down to the present year in sailing the 
trials as honestly and earnestly as though the Cup itself 
were the direst stake. Whatever their personal opinions 
of their adversary have been, Gen, Paine, Mr. Iselin and 
others in similar positions have invariably assumed that 
they had to meet something far superior to any yacht yet 
floated ; and they have left nothing undone to projluce a 
still faster yacht. As the chief means to this end, they 
have sailed the trial races just as though they were the 
end instead of the means. 
No one who saw the races between Puritan and Priscilla 
in 1885 will doubt that Boston was out to beat New York, 
cost what it might, and in the years immediately follow- 
ing these were local and other rivalries which made the 
trials most thorough as tests of all the boats. In 1893 
and again in 1895 there were keen personal feelings be- 
tween the partisans of different boats, which lent addi- 
tional interest in the races. 
There have been times before the trial races when the 
"foxy" idea has prevailed and owners have sought to 
hide the true merits of their boats, but the result has 
been almost miserably the same; they have fooled them- 
selves. An example of this course was seen in 1893 when 
the two Boston boats, each sailing marvelously fast by 
herself in the first trial. trips, deliberately neglected an 
admirable opportunity for a real test against each other. 
As it afterward transpired, each boat was a failure 
through defects which might certainly have begn detected 
and possibly remedied had they sailed a series of private 
races together before coming to New York to meet the 
others of the class. 
As for the races now on between Defender and Cohmi- 
bia, tlie friends of Shamrock can make up their minds 
confidently that Mr. Iselin is not towing a haw.ser for 
the purpose of giving Defender a string of cups; that Mr. 
Butler Duncan is not wasting his time on Defender merely 
to make added glory for those connected with Columbia; 
nor arc the rival skippers each holding back his own boat 
to help the other. As for the crews, the fight of Yankee 
and Scandinavian is as fierce and bitter as though it were 
waged with Mauser rifles and six-pounders, instead of 
halyards and spinaker booms. 
The results of this racing, in the material improvement 
of both boats, may be confidently foretold from similar 
experience in past races; and on the other hand there is 
ample dividence of the folly of such sham racing as is pro- 
posed between Shamrock and Britannia. 
It will make no difference on this side whether Sham- 
rock beats Britannia by five minutes or fifty; the latter 
possibility has been discounted long ago, and the effort 
made to meet it by leaving nothing undone that might in- 
crease the speed of either of the American boats. If any 
further chance of improvement is discovered in the next 
two months, it will be utilized whether Shamrock 
promises to be a great sucqess or a virtual failure. 
According to a report cabled from London on Tuesday 
morning. Shamrock was compelled to go into dock instead 
of racing with Britannia. It is said that she is leaking, as 
the result of the grounding on her first visit to the Solent. 
Cofinthian Y, C. Cf«ise. 
Flagship May, Corinthian Y. C, July 5. — General 
Orders No. 3 : 
1. The fleet of the Corinthian Y. C. will rendezvous for 
the annual cruise at Glen Cove, Long Island, N. Y., on 
the afternoon of Friday, July 28, 1899. 
2. A meeting of captains will be held on board the flag- 
ship at 8 P. M. 
3. The routine and rules contained in the Club Manual 
will be observed during the cruise. 
4. Yachts, when in squadron, will take their ship's time 
in striking bells from that of the flagship, and in no case 
to anticipate it. 
5. Squadron runs and races: Prizes have been offered 
for port to port runs for yachts in cruising trim, and when 
four or more start, a second prize to be awarded. 
Saturday, July 29.^ — Race from Glen Cove to Oyster 
Bay for cups presented by Capt. R. J. W. Koons. 
Sunday, July 30. — Fleet to remain at anchor at Oyster 
Bay. 
Monday, July 31. — Race from Oyster Bay to Morris 
Cove for the Commodore's cups. 
Tuesday, Aug. i. — Race from Morris Cove to Shelter 
Island for cups presented by Capt. William R. Ellison. 
Wednesday, Aug. 2. — Race from Shelter Island to New 
London for cups presented by Capt. J. G. N. Whitaker. 
Thursday, Aug. 3. — Fleet to remain at anchor. Gig and 
dinghy races for yachts' crews will be held in the after- 
noon, 
Friday, Aug. 4. — Race from New London to Newport 
for cups presented by Capt. A. N. Chandler. 
Saturday, Aug. 5. — Disband. Capt. Richard P. White 
offers a cup to be awarded to the schooner, and a cup to 
the sloop, cutter or yawl winning the greatest number of 
runs. 
6. Glen Cove may be reached by the Long Island Rail- 
road from Thirty-fourth street ferry, East River, New 
York. A boat will convey members and their guests to 
Glen Cove on Friday, July 28, leaving Adams Express 
Company's wharf, Pennsylvania Railroad, Jersey City, 
after the arrival of the train leaving Philadelphia at i 
o'clock, via Pennsylvania Railroad. 
7. Captains intending to join the cruise will kindly 
notify the fleet captain. No. 511 Bullitt Building, Phila- 
delphia, at as early a date as p'ossible. 
By order of the Commodore. 
Charles H. Brock, Fleet Capt. 
Bufgess Y. G 
marblehead — MASSACHUSETTS BAY. 
Tuesday, July 4. 
The Burgess Y. C. sailed a race on July 4 in a fresh 
S.W. breeze, the times being: 
Raceabouts. 
Elapsed. Corrected, 
Jilt, W. O. Gay.... 2 00 04 
Tunipoo, J, L. Brenner 2 01 .31 
Sintram, W. P. Fowle 2 01 54 
Colleen H. M. Sears 2 02 37 - 
Peep, W. B. Stearns .2 03 02 
Lirana, E. V. R. Thayer 2 03 30 
Typhoon, R. Boardman 2 04 02 
Persimmon, C. H. W. Foster 2 04 17 
Pu-ate, B. B. Crowninshield 2 05 44 
Handicap Knockabouts. 
Aspenet, H. A. Morss 1 24 15 1 20 55 
Carina, J. P. Clark 1 26 10 1 22 48 
Opitsah. S. H. Foster 1 23 38 1 23 .38 
Opeechee, T. C. Grew 1 24 36 1 24 36 
Agnes D. C. Holden, Jr 1 .31 29 1 28 07 
Didi, J. A. Jennings 1 34 20 1 30 58 
Class in. 
Cyclone. F. G. Macomber ..108 16 
Polly, E. Wadsworth ...1 09 22 ..... 
Gunning Boats. 
Ha Ha, A, F. Whitmore ; 0 39 00 ..... 
Woodcock, F. J. Hupar 0 39 15 
Polly is a new boat of the scow type. 
marblehead — MASSACHUSETTS BAY. 
Saturday, July 8. 
The race of the Burgess Y. C. on July 8 was partly 
spoiled by the weather, the N.E. wind dying to a calm, 
while it rained through the early afternoon. The times 
were : 
Raceabouts. 
Pyrate, B- B. Crowninshield 1 38 22 
Colleen H. M. Sears , 1 38 44 
Peep, W. B. Stearns I 44 13 
Persimmon, C. H. W. Foster Withdrew. 
Handicap — Knockabottls, 
Spry, W. L. and E. I. Cropley 1 50 49 
Opitsah, S. H. Foster 1 59 58 
Class III. 
Polly, E. Wadsworth 0 47 19 
Cyclone, F. G. Macomber, Jr 0 53 50 
Stamford Y* C. Annual Regatta* 
STAMFORDj CONN. — LONG ISLAND SOUND. 
Monday, July 3. 
The Stamford Y. C. sailed its annual regatta on July 
3 over the regular club courses. The day was clear, with 
a good S.W. wind. The times were : 
Windora 2 51 20 
Spindrift 3 01 44 
Oui Vive 3 07 12 
ftynah 3 08 04 
Kittie 3 08 25 
Kazaza 3 15 30 
Vera 3 21 30 
Captain 3 22 55 
Indianola 3 26 19 
Skylark 3 42 36 
Spray 3 43 01 
Maine, Jr ....3 43 50 
Lovaltv 3 45 24 
Gosbird 3 47 30 
Hornet 3 53 57 
Svce 4 03 53 
Kestrel 4 77 01 
Acushla 1 4 36 ,57 
Eurybia 4 43 55 
Cutters— 51ft. Class— Start, 11:40. 
Length. Elapsed. 
Syce, F. M. Hoyt 50.86 4 23 53 
Kestrel, J. B. Mills 48.37 4 47 01 
Cutters— 43ft. Class— Start, 11:45. 
Eurybia, Charles Pryer 42.00 4 58 55 
Sultan (yawl), C. S. Somcrville 37.93 Disqualified. 
Sloops— 36ft. Class— Start, 11:45. 
Acushla I., C. T. Wills 34.00 4 51 57 
21ft. Knockabouts- Start, 11:55. 
Indianola, L. R. Alberger 21.00 3 31 19 
Kittie, Hazen Morse 21.00 3 13 25 
Spindrift, S. C. Pirie 21.00 3 06 44 
Cabin Catboats— 30ft. Class— Start, 11:50. 
Windora, W. L. Ward 30.00 3 01 20 : 
Loyalty, 28.50 3 45 44 ; 
Cabin Catboats, 25ft. Class— Start, 11:50. 
Qui Vive, Geo. A, Freeth 24.50 3 17 12 
Open Catboats— 20ft. Oass— Start, 11:55. 
Vera, A. M. Bradley 20.07 
Kazaza, T. J. McCahill, Jr 17.02 
Maine, Jr., A. G. Gourley 
Captain, A. Gattinger 16.58 
Mynah, 20.00 
Plornet. ..16.80 
Corrected. 
01 20 
44 02 
Gosbird, R. H. Nevins 19.00 
Spray, G. R. Holly 22.92 
Skylark, F. Bishop 14.80 
3 26 SO 
3 20 30 
3 48 50 
3 27 55 
3 13 04 
3 58 57 
3 52 30 
3 48 01 
3 47 36 
The winners were: 51ft. class, Syce; 43ft. class, Eu- 
rybia; 36ft. class, Acushla I.; knockabouts. Spindrift; 
cabin catboats, 30ft. class, Windora; 25ft. class. Qui Vive; 
open catboats, Mynah. Kestrel lost her topmast on the 
first round. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES* 
Fra Diavola, steam yacht, E. S. Stokes, was run into 
and sunk almost instantly on the evening of July 7 by the 
steam lighter Hustler. The yacht had on board Mr. 
Howard McNutt, a brother-in-law of Mr. Stokes, with 
his wife and a party of friends, including five ladies. 
They had been down the Bay, and were just coming up 
the North River to land at Pier 6, when the lighter came 
across the river. Signals were exchanged, but in spite of 
them the lighter crashed into the port quarter of the 
yacht, cutting clear through her. The lighter stood by 
and took off the passengers and crew, the last persons 
leaving the yacht just as she sank, about 200yds. from 
the New York shore. 
Sprite, sloop, owned by Perry Waite, of Toledo, struck 
on a sunken obstruction in Lake Erie while bound on a 
cruise to Lake St. Clair, and sank in a short time. All 
on board were savedw 
