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minutes' improvement in both Columbia and Defender, 
measured from their first performances under sail this 
year. With the same skill and good judgment on the part 
of the defense that has brought victory in previous years, 
in spite of the high-colored reports of Shamrock's mar- 
velous speed, there seems but one probable result to the 
races in October. 
The Quincy Cup* 
The second annual series of races for the Quincy chal- 
lenge cup began on Monday, July 34, the conditions being 
as follows : 
Columbia and Defender. 
The first of the series of races oft Newport between 
Columbia and Defender was set for July 24, and prior to 
that date both yachts were at Bristol for various changes. 
Defender's bent boom was repaired, new plates being 
built in, and her mainsail was in the hands of the sail- 
makers. Columbia had some changes made in her sails, 
but the new steel mast was not ready. Defender ran down 
from Bristol to Newport on July 18, and Columbia fol- 
lowed on July 20. The conditions of the races were as 
follows: Dates of races, July 21, 24 and 29. 
Warning Signal, 11 o'clock. — A blast of the whistle of 
five seconds duration will be blown, and a flag bearing the 
letter indicating the course will be hoisted. 
Preparatory Signal. — At 11:10 o'clock a blast of the 
whistle will be blown and the blue peter hoisted. 
Starting Signal. — At 11:15 o'clock a blast of the whistle 
w^ill be blown and a red flag hoisted. 
In case a postponement is necessary the warning signal 
will be hoisted only on the even quarter hours. * 
In ca.se it is deemed advisable to finish the race in one 
round the signal code letter B will be hoisted and a blast 
of the whistle of ten seconds' duration blown as the yachts 
approach the finish line. 
Course A. — Start from an imaginary line between the 
committee boat and Brenton's Reef Lightship, to and 
around the whisthng buoy off Point Judith; thence to 
and around a mark boat anchored two miles southwest 
by west from West Island light, flying a red and white 
flag, and thence to and around Brenton's Reef Lightship, 
twice around, and finish over the starting line from east 
to west. All marks to be left to port. 
Course B. — Reverse of Course A. 
Course C— Start as in Course A, to and around the 
Sow and Pigs Lightship; thence to and around Hen and 
Chickens Lightship, and finishing across the starting line 
from east to west. All marks to be left to port. 
Course D. — Reverse of Course C. 
On Friday morning a dense sea fog hung over New- 
port Harbor, but it cleared before 9 o'clock, the sun 
breaking through with the aid of a fresh S.W. wind. The 
two jrachts went out iinder mainsails and jibs to the start 
off Brenton's Reef Lightship, accompanied by a large fleet 
of steam and sailing yachts. The race committee, Messrs. 
H. B. Dur3rea and Ralph N. Ellis, were on board the 
steam yacht Sultana, J. R. Drexel. When the signal was 
set for Course A, to Point Judith and the West Island 
marks, two rounds making forty-eight nautical miles, 
there was a strong S.W. wind and a lively heave to the 
sea, the first leg to windward. Before the start the 
two yachts sent up working topsails, but they were not 
sheeted home. 
The start was given at 11 :i5, and within four seconds 
Capt. Barr put Columbia across the line on starboard 
tack, under lower sails. Defender, to leeward, with Capt. 
Rhodes at the wheel, following within twenty-six seconds. 
They made a long tack out to sea, standing on for twenty- 
five minutes before Columbia came about, Defender at 
once following. The sailing had been very even; so much 
so that it was a question between the partisans of the 
two yachts as to which had gained. After tacking De- 
fender sheeted home her working topsail and a couple of 
minutes after she luffed up and took in her staysail. The 
steel link by which the main sheet block is hung from 
the span on the boom had broken, the block also being 
damaged, so that further sailing was impossible. De- 
fender started for the harbor under sail, while Columbia 
continued on the course as far as the first mark and 
then started home. The accident was very unfortunate, as 
every condition was favorable for a thorough test of the 
boats. 
It was proposed to postpone the race until July 29, but 
on telegraphing to Bristol a new link was promised for 
the next day, and both yachts were ready again on 
Saturday morning. They went outside together, Columbia 
with w^orking topsail and a dinghy towing astern, while 
Defender had her clubtopsail set, the wind being light. 
No attempt was made at a race, and the two sailed about 
in company for some time, with no results worth noting. 
The first race has been again postponed to July 29, by 
which time Columbia will have her new steel mast. 
The statement is current that it is the intention of Com. 
Morgan to send Columbia abroad next season, whether 
she is successful or otherwise in defending the Cup ; and 
that to this end she has been built specially strong. 
When Defender was built in 1895 the greater part of 
the cost was born by W. K. Vanderbilt, Messrs. C. Oliver 
Iselin and E. D. Morgan each having a small interest in 
her, believed to be $5, 000 each. Some time since it was 
stated that Mr. Vanderbilt had become the sole owner of 
the yacht. This report is now revived as a novelty, it 
being stated that he has recently purchased the interests of 
Messrs. Iselin and Morgan, and that he will present the 
yacht to his son, W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., owner of the 
cutter Carmita, after the present races are over. 
The Seawanhaka Cup* 
The first race of the series for the Seawanhaka inter- 
national challenge cup will be sailed on Thursday, July 
27, in the afternoon , the steamer Duchess of York leaving 
the Lachine wharf on the arrival of the train which leaves 
Montreal just after noon. Messrs. R. H. and Edwin 
Post arrived in Montreal on July 21, and on the following 
morning the challengmg yacht Constance reached Do- 
mmion, the station of the Dommion Bridge, Works at La- 
chine, on a flat car. She was launched into the canal by 
means of the Bridge Company's crane, and towed to Dor- 
val. She will be sailed by Messrs, C. H- and H. M. Crane, 
Sherm.an Hoyt and J. B. Thomas, Jr. The new Duggan 
boat is also ready. The races will be sailed under the 
usual conditions and over the old courses. 
The races shall be sailed during the week beginning 
Monday, July 24, 1899. 
Barring postponements, the first race shall be started 
at 10:15 A. M. on Monday, July 24; the second, Tuesday, 
at II :i5 A. M.; Wednesday, at 12:15 P- M. ; Thursday, at 
i:iS P. M. ; Friday, at 2:15 P. M., and Saturday, at 2:15 
P. M. 
There will be three guns fired, the first a warning gun, 
ten minutes later the preparatory gun, at which time all 
contestants become amenable to the rules, and five min- 
utes later the starting gun. 
The time limit shall be three and one-half hours. 
In case of accident to any of the competitors the judges 
shall have power to postpone the succeeding race; but no 
postponement shall be made for more than one race day. 
There shall be three judges, one each from the Lynn, 
Beverly and Quincy yacht clubs. 
The courses shall be the same as those of the cup races 
of 1898. 
At all races the warniiig signal will be gWcn by the 
lowering of the blue peter fifteen minutes before the start- 
ing signal, the preparatory signal five minutes before the • 
start, and the starting signal will be the lowering of the 
blue peter at fifteen minutes past the hour. In noting 
these periods of time, the lowering of the blue peter will be 
the official notification, the gun being used simply as an 
auxiliary to call attention to the signals. 
All Q. Y. C. barrel buoyS are painted cream color with 
one brown stripe. 
Skippers are cautioned against sailing between the red 
and black nun buoys which mark Spear's stand. 
A yacht crossing the line before the starting signal is 
made will be recalled by the megaphone announcing her 
association number. 
In case the start should be postponed, a preliminary 
signal will be made by lowering the blue peter three times, 
and firing the gun three times rapidly in succession for the 
assembling of the competing yachts at the judges' stand. 
Owing to the limited capacity of the floats, and the 
danger from accident by overcrowding, the committee 
deems it best to limit admission to the floats to only those 
persons who wear badges. This rule is intended to apply 
only to people who desire to stand on the floats, and not 
to those who desire to land from or board a yacht. All 
ofiicers and members of committees of the club, judges 
and their assistants, crews of the competing yachts, and 
press representathives can procure badges upon applica- 
thion to the committee on the challenge cup. 
Six courses have been laid out, to suit varying winds. 
The defender of the cup. Hostess, owned by H. M. 
Faxon, is of the scow type. The challengers are four, 
Heiress, Thelma. Oogrook and Pompano. Heiress was 
designed by C. D. Mower, her owner, and is of the up-to- 
date i-acing type without being quite a scow. Thelma, F. 
L. Pigeon, is somewhat similar in model. Oogrook, 
Walter Abbott, is of the peak order, with flat floor and 
side rounded in to meet the deck. Pompano, designed by 
her owner. W. E. C. Eustis, is a fin-keel, carrying a lead 
bulb of i,ooolbs.'^_ 
Cutter and Sloop. 
It is the fashion now to apply the term sloop to all 
single-stick j'achts, regardless of the fact that such craft 
as Columbia, Defender, Queen Mab, Liris and a host of 
keel boats are most indubitably cutters, both in hull and 
rig, while others like Vigilant are technically cutters in 
spite of a centerboard. The New York Times discusses 
the question of the name and origin of the modern yacht 
in the following editorial : 
We have ceased to talk politics with the Evening Post, 
for reasons that we suppose are obvious to readers of this 
journal who are also readers of that. But as Avas ably 
observed by the gentleman who introduced Martin 
Chuzzlewit to Elijah Pogram, "Ginerous enemies may 
meet upon the neutral sile of private life, I rather think." 
Respecting expansion and kindred questions we must 
allow the Post to be joined to its idols, if it can find any 
with which it can itself get on without quarreling with 
them, and applying opprobrious epithets to them, as certain 
Polynesian tribes are said to do to theirs when things do 
not go to suit them. But when it comes to 3^achting the 
Post shall not instill heretical opinions into the public 
without our earnest protest. 
The Post had an article on modern yacht racing the 
other day in which there was a good deal of good sense 
but one persistent heresy, and that was that the two 
contestants for the America's Cup were equally examples 
of American invention. That is perhaps as true as that 
they are examples of exclusively British invention and 
development, but certainly it is no truer. Shamrock is much 
broader in proportion to length than Genesta and Galatea, 
says the Post, Now the American model has always been 
distinguished by greater beam than the British. There- 
fore the American model has prevailed. Q. E, D. Very 
pretty. But, on the other hand, Columbia is very much 
deeper comparatively than Puritan or Mayflower, and 
much more than Gracie or Fannie. Now the British 
model has always been distinguished from the American 
by greater comparative draft of water. Therefore t^e 
British model has prevailed. Q. E. D. 
One of these demonstrations is as good as the other and 
neither is good for much. In fact, when we are able to 
compare the lines of the two and to compare them with 
the lines of a British and an American racing yacht of 
1875, we shall doubtless find that the two models have been 
gradually approaching each other, but that it has been by a 
process of give and take on either side. The distinguish- 
ing feature of our own old model, the centerboard, is re- 
tained, where it is retained, rather as a "gonfalon" than 
for its utility. The differences between the origmal models 
were as the differences between the shallows of the North 
River and Long Island Sound to the deep water that is 
carried in close to the chalky cliffs of Albion. If we go 
from hull to spars we must admit that the borrowing has 
been done on our side. Columbia carries almost as strictly 
a British cutter rig as Shamrock. It is very much the rig 
that a British cutter carried twenty-five years ago, when 
the American sloop rig was merely a huge jib and main- 
sail. 
There is, however, much force in the Post's lament that 
a boat which is built and rigged to hunt or to hold the ugly 
mug which the America- brought back almost half a 
century ago should be good for nothing else, should be a 
mere racing machine. But there does not seem to be any 
present help for that in view. 
Larchmont Y. C. Race Week. 
FIRST DAY, SATURDAY, JULY I5. 
Open Regatta. 
The account of this race appeared in the Forest and 
Stream of July 22. The official times as first given out 
contained two errors in the knockabout class. Midge, re- 
ported as not finishing, really won second prize, while 
Kitty Wink did not finish. 
SECOND DAY, MONDAY, JULY I7. 
Special Races. 
The special race on Monday was started in alm.ost a 
calm and sailed in a very light and variable wind that 
shifted between S.W. and N.W. The times were : 
Schooners in One Class— Start, 11:35—3214 Miles. 
Racing Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 
Colonia C. A. Postley 93.13 4 31 53 4 31 53 
Araorita. W. G. Brokaw 74.86 4 51 07 4 37 17 
Ouissetta. H. F. Lippitt ..71.10 4 58 21 4 40 59 
Eatona. Dr. H. C. Eno 74.42 5 23 39 5 09 22 
Atlaiitic, Wilson Marshall 86.31 5 32 00 5 27 21 
Schooners— Handicap Race— Start, 11:35—321/4 Miles. 
Latona, Dr, H. C. Eno 74.42 5 22 29 5 22 29 
Atlantic, Wilson Marshall 86.31 5 27 12 5 17 12 
Schooners— Class D— Start. 11:35—321/4 Miles. 
Amorita, W. G. BrokaAv 74.86 4 51 07 4 51 07 
Quis;.setta, H. P. Lippitt .71.10 4 58 21 4 54 49 
Schooners— Class F— Start, 11:40—321/4 Miles. 
Clorita, Philip T. Dodge 51.46 4 15 55 4 15 55 
Uncas, C. P. Buchanan 51.46 4 17 47 4 17 07 
Cutters— Class K— Start, 11:45—21^ Miles. 
Svce, F. M. Hoyt 50.86 8 49 11 3 49 11 
Kestrel. J. B. Mills.... 48.37 3 53 39 3 53 39 
Acushia II., H. W. Hanan 50.15 3 55 53 3 5S 53 
21ft. Knockabouts— Start, 11:50—101/2 Miles. 
Mongoose, Simeon Ford 21.00 2 31 13 2 31 13 ■ 
Spindrift. S. C. Pirie 21.00 2 26 00 2 26 00 
S. C. Y. C. Knockabouts— Start, 11:58—101/2 Miles. 
Midge, F. W. Boyer 21.00 2 28 00 2 28 00 
Theiga, A. P. Thayer 21.00 2 34 51 2 34 51 
Acushia had been refitted after her long series of acci- 
dents, and led for the first round, but was finally beaten by 
both Syce and Kestrel. 
THIRD DAY, TUESDAY, JULY 18. 
Water Sports and Ball. 
Tuesday was devoted to miscellaneous water sports of 
a hilarious nature, with an illumination and ball in the 
evening. The races were as follows: 
Naphtha Launches — 21ft. and Over. 
Length. Start. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 
Trochilus .....22.06 1 55 28 2 33 03 0 37 55 0 36 04 
Levanter 30.00 1 55 19 2 29 35 0 34 16 0 34 16 
Sister 28.00 1 55 14 2 30 01 0 34 47 0 34 29 
Sagamore 21.18 1 55 31 2 32 10 0 36 24 0 36 24 
Winners — Levanter, first prize, $12; Sister, second 
prize, $10, and Trochilus, third prize, $8. 
Levanter won from Sister by 0:13, from Trochilus by 
I ;48, and from Sagamore by 2 :o8. 
Naphtha Launches — -Sift, and Under. 
02 17 
03 19 
02 57 
02 44 
02 11 
41 18 
46 21 
43 11 
45 08 
45 32 
0 39 01 
0 43 02 
0 40 04 
0 42 24 
0 42 21 
0 39 01 
0 42 05 
0 39 07 
0 41 27 
0 41 24 
prize ; Latona, second prize ; 
0 37 31 
0 44 40 
0 52 25 
Allen 21.00 2 
Atlantic 18.00 2 
Latona 17.50 2 
Crusader 2 
Amorita 2 
Winners — ^AUen, first 
Amorita, third prize. 
21ft. Alco.-Vapor Launches. 
Colonia 21.00 2 02 29 2 40 00 
Katrina 18.50 2 03 27 2 4S 07 
Nydia 18.00 2 03 00 2 55 25 
Winners — Colonia, first prize; Katrina, second prize. 
Four-Oared Gigs— Start, 2:59:30. 
Finish. 
Colonia 3 23 27 
Amorita ..3 22 47 
Lady Evelyn 3 22 04 
Katrina 3 22 33 
Lady Evelyn won. 
Pair-Oared Gigs— Start, 3:26:20. 
Sagainore .3 43 58 
Alsacienne 3 45 50 
Crusader 3 42 51 
Svce 3 43 36 
c- -o.ern C ross 3 43 43 
1 he Crusader won. 
Dinghies— Start, 3:45:20. 
Lady Evelyn 3 58 23 
Alsacienne 3 58 29 
Trochilus 3 58 34 
Amorita 3 57 50 
Nymph 3 58 50 
Amorita won. 
The swimming race for boys under sixteen, 75yds. 
scratch, was won by Butler Whiting, with W. J. Swan 
second and Louis Hall third. Time, im. 6 2-55. 
The race for boys under twenty, with the same condi- 
tions, was won by Alfred Lockwood, with K. Whiting 
second and Frank Wood third. Time, im. 2-55. 
The third race, against the American record for the 
same distance, 58s., was made by F. _F. Proctor in sSs. 
The next race was a handicap swim of 220}'ds., won by 
Butler Whiting, scratch, in 3m. 25s., with K. Whiting 
second and W. J. Swan third. 
Messrs. E. C. Shaeffer and F. A. Wenck then swam 
220yds. in 3m. 4s., beating the record by 4s. The tub 
race was won by K. Whiting, with Butler Whiting sec- 
ond and A. Riley third. 
After some exhibition diving the water baseball game 
between the Rubber Neck team and the Kissing Bug team 
was called , ending in the summary ducking of the um- 
pire, Alfred Lockwood. In the evening the house and 
grounds Avere beautifully illuminated, and the Seveijtl) 
Regiment Band "was present. 1 
FOURTH DAY, WEDNESDAY, JULY IQ. 
Open Regatta. 
On Wednesday the racing was resumed with a fleet of 
thirty-eight yachts in a fresh N.W. breeze. The event 
0 37 31 
0 43 33 
0 51 13 
Elapsed. 
0 23 57 
0 23 17 
0 22 34 
0 23 03 
0 17 38 
0 19 30 
0 16 31 
0 17 16 
0 17 23 
0 13 03 
0 13 09 
0 13 14 
0 12 30 
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