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sional I mean any man who works in Making and sail- 
ing-boats, not a designer or fitter." 
A long discussion followed Com. Ordway's proposi- 
tion, though it was of a favorable sort. It was explained 
that this should not take ef?ect until the igoi meet. Coni, 
Ordway then attempted to define the term "professional" 
and found this difficult, as have a great many men before 
him. The definition was at last left to the executive corn- 
mittee, which was instructed to report to a special busi- 
ness meeting this coming October in Chicago. It is 
very likely that the committee also will find it difficult 
to make a complete definition of the term professional, 
but there is practical agreement as to the policy of the 
Association, in this regard. 
Change in Measorement Rules. 
This was very proper action and it was followed by 
Com. Ordway with another matter of yet greater im- 
portance — not less than the change of the measurement 
rules now in use by the Association. It is apparent to 
all that the boats now produced are rarely fit for more 
than a single season, and Com. Ordway said he had seen 
Ijoats in the East which were so strained even in their 
trial races as to be ruined and worthless. It seemed to 
him that the proper thing would be to work toward a 
stronger and more enduring type of boat, so that one 
could feel that he had a boat, one which he could sell if 
he wanted to and one which would last more than one 
season if one cared to keep it for further sailing. He 
therefore proposed an amendment to the rules abolish- 
ing the Avaterline measurement, and using the Royal St. 
Lawrence Y. C. scantling rules, cutting down the meas- 
urements solely to sail area. This he said would allow 
a builder to build his boat of any length he liked and any 
water line he chose, and if he cared to make it 30ft. he 
could, if he thought he could drive such craft with 500!:. 
of sail. He thought the result would be a better craft as 
a type, a boat and not a rule-beating machine. Com. 
Ordway was asked to send copies of the Royal St. 
Lawrence Y. C. rules to each member and the matter 
was referred to the October meeting of the Association's 
executive committee. Com. Hertz, of Pistakee, moved 
that this fall meeting be held and that it be given full 
power to pass upon the proposed changes of these rules. 
This was carried. 
A vote of thanks was extended to Com. Norton, of the 
West End Y. C, of Geneva Lake, for the handsome cup 
which he presented to the winner of the 20ft. champion- 
ship. ' This cup must be won two succeeding years to be 
owned by the winner. 
Election of officers resulted as follows: Mr. J. W. 
Taylor, of St. Paul, re-elected President; Mr. Ben Car- 
penter, of Chicago, re-elected Secretary; Messrs. W. L. 
Gilbett, of Neenah Y. C; C. D. Peacock, of Green Lake 
Y. C, and W. H. Lyford, of Fox Lake Y. C, Executive 
Committee. 
Friday — ^Thc Final Race. 
Anita won by ten seconds. Thus say the judges. A 
half-dozen newspaper watches declared it to be only 
six seconds, four seconds, two seconds. It was but a 
ghost of a win. 
Aderyn, the 1899 boat, sailed by her owners, H. O. 
and George Brunder, of Milwaukee, with R. F. Schorse 
and A. C. Riebrock as crew, made a rare fight for the 
honor. She was well sailed except in one instance. On 
the home leg of the first round she was too slow in 
breaking out her spinaker, and allowed Anita to close in 
on her and make the best lead which had been attained 
at any part of the race. 
Henrietta, which was hardly able to look in at the race 
for the first five legs of the course, gained more than 
either boat on the last leg, and made a respectable third. 
Anita was sailed by her owner and designer, W. L. 
Davis, of Neenah, with Will Krueger, Frank Levins and 
Jimmie Jones as crew. It has been said that the two 
best .sailors in Wisconsin are Will Davis and Jimmie 
Jones, and Anita would seem to show this to-day. 
Jimmie Jones, it will be remembered, designed Caroline, 
which has fought Anita so hard all through the week, and 
which in one's personal opinion better belonged in the 
finals than at least one other. Mr. Davis designed Aderyn 
last year himself, and perhaps he was guessing several 
times to-day which was the better boat of the two. 
Aderyn came up close enough plenty of times for them 
all to talk it over in sociable fashion. 
Anita this morning before the races was favbrite for 
winner, with Henrietta as well backed for second as 
Aderyn. 
The Start. 
The start was a pretty thing. The night previous there 
had been rain, but the morning cleared, and a wind of 
steady and fairly fresh quality came in from east. It was 
seen that there would be a whole sail breeze, outside at 
least, and it seemed that the regatta was about to end 
with at least one yachting finish. 
The fifteen-minute gun found the three boats, each 
turned up within an inch of her life, exercising around 
in the bay, as eager and active as race horses. They 
made a beautiful picture as they flitted back and forth 
and made passes at the line and returned to wheel 
agaiiTi with the swallow-like speed and ease peculiar to 
these rule-breakers and record-makers, the 20-footers of 
the inland lakes. 
They got the five-minute gun and came back- behind 
the line, in view of the packed boats and docks. Each 
skipper knew his business, and it was sure to be a close 
thing. Davis timed Anita to the very second. He 
edged her up to the buoy and let her lie motionless for a 
moment. Her boom swung a trifle at the right mo- 
ment, and she crossed at the gun without a lost fathom 
of space to cover. Lapped on her was Henrietta, with 
Aderyn in the lee berth, only five seconds back of Anita. 
It was reach, beat, and free this time, respectively for 
the first, second and third legs of the inner triangle, 
though really it was something of a beat at times on the 
first leg out. The course was twice around the triangle, 
perhans about ten miles. 
Anita whipped over to windward berth at once after 
the start, Aderyn next to her, but not so high into the 
wind, Henrietta further to leeward. Aderyn, after a 
short run, took a notion to cross old Henrietta's bows, 
and did so, and not content, repeated the trick a moment 
later, as both dropped over inshore, hunting for more 
wind, which is a common occupation of a yacht on this 
freakish lake. Then a bit of sailing happened which 
surprised nearly all who witnessed it. The old grand- 
mother drew up on Aderyn on the lee side and lapped 
her, apparently having caught the wind she wanted. A 
moment later she sailed clean past Aderyn to leeward 
and ran ahead of her a couple of hundred yards, laying 
chase to Anita, which was running for dear life out 
further in the open. Henrietta made a pretty try for 
windward berth over Anita. Each boat was now reaching 
with main sheet slightly started, and it was no walkaway 
for any one of the three. They rounded the first buoy 
in following order: 
Anita 11 15 30 Aderyn 11 16 48 
Henrietta 11 16 12 
They now came to the crucial test of the windward 
work, and at this Henrietta did not do so well, and began 
to fall oflf rapidly. Anita was held up stiff, and as the 
wind was fresh here at the time, both Anita and Aderyn 
heeled far over, Anita showing a glimpse of her center- 
board more than once above waterline. All the crews 
were out, legs and all, and it was a really pretty bit of 
yachting here for the spectators. Aderyn outpointed 
both the other boats here tmmistakably. Anita was first 
to tack, going about to port at 11 :20. Aderyn challenged 
her on the opposite tack, but Anita luffed up and declined, 
going to starboard. Aderyn pointed up handsomely, 
and swiftly ran up into the windward berth and passed 
Anita decisively, easily outfooting her at this stage of 
the game. Henrietta stood far down to leeward, a quarter 
of a mile at least, and did not come about on port tack 
till 11:26:04. 
Aderyn's windward work was wonderful, and she 
.sprang to favorite's place at once. She seemed able to 
make the buoy on the one reach. Anita meantime tacked 
four times within a couple of minutes. This looked like 
amateurish sailing, but it was not, and was on the other 
hand very good sailing. Davis was simply feeling around 
for the wind that Aderyn was getting. He could not 
find it, and so saw the Milwaukee boat rapidly slipping 
away from him. Aderyn, how-ever, had to make a port 
tack, which she did at 11 ;3i :o6. She then set out for 
the buoy straight, followed at 11 :3i :34 by Anita, which 
made a close thing of it after all at the turn. Henrietta 
came up on a long tack from far down the bay. Times 
at the second turn : 
Aderyn 11 32 08 Henrietta 11 36 38 
Anita 11 34 23 
They now came to the test of running free, and to 
this the Milwaukee boat took very kindly forthwith, 
though she set no extra canvas. Anita upon the other 
hand was keener to see the advantage she had here, and 
it was right here that she won the race. At once she 
sprung a big cloud forward, and it was seen that she 
was using her big spinaker as a balloon jib. This was at 
11:37. Anita began to overhaul Aderyn hand over hand, 
though the latter had established a good lead before Anita 
was well straightened away on this leg. Aderyn showed a 
very culpable lack of seamanship here, for she must have 
seen what the balloon was doing for Anita. To make it 
still worse, Aderyn, now getting well up into the inner bay, 
where, for some mysterious reason, the home stake has 
been established — the very flukiest part of a fluky lake — • 
lost her wind, and even her working jib fell flapping. 
This was easy for Anita, which bowled on down upon 
her with everj' inch drawing full. Aderyn now fumbled 
about, lying actually in irons, and losing all her beaut ful 
start, while she tried to get up some sort of canvas. She 
broke out spinaker just in time, or Anrta must surely 
have passed her. Meantime, from every throat came the 
cry, "Look at Henrietta!" The latter liked this side 
of the course. She came down with a big kite-like bal- 
loon floating high at her masthead and pulling like a 
team of runaways. Never was a prettier sight seen on a 
yachting course than that offered by this grand old one 
both times she came down the free leg in this race. She 
would have done them both at this sort of thing, and 
as it was, made a distinct gain on both. 
Now Anita ran into Aderyn's calm streak. Everybody 
anathematized such a place for a yacht finish, the air in 
this little bay failing entirely at the very place it was 
w'anted to be regular and calculable. In the luck of the 
wind, Anita had a shade the better of it, and took a bit of 
air from Ader5'n now and again, as she crossed her. It 
was a pass by courtesy of the wind, however, for just 
at the home stake the two were nearly lapped. With one 
of his smooth dodges, Davis jibed his boat square around 
the buoy with his spinaker still up. and was off,- with the 
big sail coming down, for the reach before Aderyn was 
about. Time at the home buoy, first round: 
Anita 11 46 28 Henrietta 11 48 32 
Aderyn 11 46 33 
On the reach, second round, where Anita had stood up 
furthest the first time around, Aderyn again took the 
honors in the pointing, and she was handsomely sailed 
by the Brunder combination. Henrietta, as before, got a 
quarter of a mile to leeward, and Anita drew further 
inshore than before on this leg. They got out into a 
fresh and steady wind here, and all the boats were well 
heeled over. Aderyn once more insisted upon first place, 
and it was exciting at the fourth turn, where the times 
were : 
Aderyn 12 03 08 Henrietta 12 05 00 
Anita 12 03 13 
Henrietta was first about after turning this buoy. Anita 
and Aderyn standing pretty well on. Aderyn went about 
before Anita, and she' held the windward berth. Close 
hauled, she now led Aiiita isoft. The latter, however, 
seemed this time to redeem herself a bit as to windward 
work and apparently pointed as well as Aderyn. She 
gained upon Ader3'n, and it grew a see-saw up to the 
buo3\ all the boats now showing plenty of wind and 
needing seamanlike handling. To the Wonder of every- 
body, both Anita and Aderjm stood up so well that 
neither needed to tack for the full leg, both having judged 
the distance perfectly when they stood on past the last 
turning buoy. They made the second buoy as follows : 
Aderyn 12 14 42 Henrietta 12 16 08 
Anita 12 14 53 
The last boat v(ras thus making a gain over her former 
position. Aderyn was again in the lead at the same 
station as on the last round, but Anita was now only 
eleven seconds astern of her, whereas Anita was two 
minutes and fifteen seconds astern at the same point upon 
the former round. 
The Finish. 
On the run home Aderyn was first out with the 
spinaker, Anita following, winging out. Henrietta broke 
out her big balloon and again made a grand sight as 
she came down before the wind on her gallant, though 
hopeless, chase of the two leading boats, her balloon far 
aloft, seemingly detached from the boat and impelled by 
some invisible hand. 
Anita and Aderyn had but eleven seconds between them 
at the turn, and they had to work through the zone of 
varying and baffling airs. In the luck of it, Anita drew 
alongside, and the two lay snde by side, the two big spin- 
aker s folding and flapping. As they were able they feebly 
zigzagged in tiny tacks, fighting for the better berth of it. 
Aderyn tried to cross Anita's bows, but Davis would not 
permit, and managed to keep his boat on the better side 
of the last fluky chance, luffing across Aderyn's bows. 
Again Aderjm tries for it, but her spinaker falls hope- 
lessly against the stays, and Anita crawls over the line, 
inch by inch, not over four seconds ahead, Aderyn not 
rounding the buoy, and Henrietta sweeping also inside 
the buoy. Titn'e officially taken: 
Anita 2 24 51 Henrietta 2 25 35 
Aderyn 2 25 01 
Review. 
The regatta can be called nothing but successful, and 
it brings forward .some very interesting deiuctions, 
which, however, may go for naught next year. As to 
Lake Geneva as a place for holding this regatta, it is 
hardly likely the village could get a vote from those who 
were visitors there this year. The boats were splendid, 
and they were sailed in a sportsmanlike manner, and the 
local camp and care of the boats were perfect. Socially — 
and there should be a social side to these pleasant meets — 
the week was one of frost and chill, and in regard to this 
there was much quiet comment among the visitors, which 
Green Lake Club would do well to avoid next year. As 
to the village accommodations, they cotild not by any 
possibility have been worse. The hotel which was the 
"official hotel," perhaps by virtue of some contribution, 
though that is not stated, was good enough to raise its 
rates to nearly double its customary charge, and more 
than treble what its accommodations were worth. It 
furnished neither light to work by, table to feed by, nor 
bed to sleep by, and on the whole was all that a hotel 
at such a time should not be. There was also a firm of 
"official photographers," who charged $2, $1 or 50 cents 
apiece, as they could get it, for pictures of indifferent 
sort, by virtue of its appointment, presumably. It would 
be very much more pleasant not to make such comment 
upon an event otherwise exceedingly pleasant, btit it is 
due to the Association that the facts be known to those 
who were not present. Let there be no more club frosts 
or village hold-ups. 
A heavy rain fell this afternoon and put a hard task 
on those who were shipping boats home. As the train 
pulled out for the East, nothing was heard by way of an 
echo of the regatta except the low murmur of the waves 
upon the shore, and the harsh, strident crunch of the jaws 
of the millionaire cottagers eating their evening pie. 
E. Hough. 
Hartford Building. Chicago, 111. 
[Several photos of the yachts are unavoidably left 
over until next week.] 
The Fisher Cup. 
The proposed match for the Fisher cup between the 
Rochester Y. C. and the Royal Canadian Y. C. has been 
arranged, and the races will be sailed on Sept. 8-10 and 
the following .days, until one yacht has won three races^ 
The match was first proposed by the Royal Canadian 
Y. C. in the following letter: 
Toronto, Aug. 2, 1900. — Secretary Rochester Y. C, 
Rochester, N. Y. : Dear Sir— At a meeting of the sailing 
committee of the Royal Canadian Y. C, held last night, it 
was stated, in conversation with some of our friends 
of the Rochester Y. C. on the occasion of the recent meet 
at Cobourg, that your club was anxious to receive a 
challenge for the Fisher cup from one of the 3S-footers 
built by ^xs for last year's Canada cup races, but on re- 
ferring to the printed conditions of the Fisher cup it 
was fotmd that ten months' notice was required. I was 
requested, however, to write to you to ascertain whether 
the proper notice would be waived if the R. C. Y. C, sent 
a challenge to race for the Fisher cup, off Charlotte, be- 
tween Sept. 8 and 15 with a yacht in the 3Sft. class.' 
Our club has not yet official knowledge that the owners 
of our three 35-footers eligible for such a race would be 
willing to put their yachts in the club's hands, but we 
believe that they would. Meanwhile, we are writing 
this letter to ascertain if you would entertain such a 
proposal. I am, dear, sir, yours faithfully, 
F. J. Ricarde-Se.wer, Hon. Set'y. 
^ A, favorable answer being received from the Rochester 
Y. Q., the following was sent : 
Toroiito, Aug. II. 1900.— John F. Griffin, Esq., Cor- 
responding Secretary Rochester Y. C. : Dear Sir — I have 
to inform you that_ the Royal Canadian Y. C. have the 
honor to challenge for the Fisher cup, at present held by 
your club, with a yacht in the 35ft. class. 
If agreeable to you, Mr. Frank M. Gray, chairman 
of our sailing committee, will present a formal challenge 
in Rochester, and arrange all details of races, on Satur- 
day evening the i8th instant, on arrival of steamer 
Toronto at Charlotte. 
An early reply advising us that this date for meeting 
is satisfactory, or arranging another date, will greatly 
oblige. 
I have the honor to remain, yours, etc., 
F. J. -Ricarde-Se.a.ver, Hon. Sec'y. 
On Aug. 18 Mr. Gray went to Charlotte, and after 
a meeting with the officers of the Rochester Y. C, every- 
