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Then Capt. Evans demanded of the man in no un- 
certain language why he dared to change the vessel's 
course, which would have run her on the low shores o£ 
Virginia within a short time. The man was surprised that 
the master should ask such a question, which did not im- 
prove Capt. Tom's humor after his recovery from a scare. 
The man said the captain changed the course himself. 
Then came the revelation. 
When Capt. Evans shouted "West!" to the man m 
the forecastle the man at the wheel took it as an order 
from the master to change the course, and he did so by 
bringing her up three points, which put the bow directly 
inshore, and steaming at a good speed for the dangerous 
shoals off the coast it would not have been' long before 
bottom would have been found. 
Capt. Evans says he will never have another man in 
his crew who is known as either North, South, East or 
West. If he finds one that man must respond to the 
name of Smith, Jones or Brown. 
Mr. South is chief officer of the steamer Ohio, of the 
same fleet as Runo, but his position requires others to 
place a handle before his name, which precludes the dan- 
ger of the man at the wheel changing the course to 
"Mr. South." — Baltimore Sun, Dec. 2. 
The Yachting Outlook, 
No pre-natal influences of a parental prophet are 
necessary for the prediction that 1901 is going to be the 
biggest yachting year that America ever knew. And New 
York will have no monopoly. It will also be big for 
Boston, with its interest in its representative craft; big 
for Newport, with its occasional races between the rival 
defenders, its 70-footers, its Astor Cup races and its small 
fry thirties, which go on, like the brook, forever. It 
will be an interesting year for the Great Lakes, _ the trial 
boats for the defense of the Canada Cup, coming from 
Toledo, and Cleveland to meet at Chicago, and the Cana- 
dian trial races collecting racers at Toronto, the final 
international contests taking place at Chicago. It will 
be an important year at Montreal, with the English chal- 
lenger coming over for the races for the Seawanhaka 
Cup. For many years no boat has crossed the ocean for 
this trophy, and challengers, like meteorites, are partly 
interesting because of the distances they have traveled. 
The only yachting centers which promise to be rather 
dull are the English. In spite of many rumors, there 
seems to be no proof that the German Emperor intends 
to improve the English racing field by building again. 
The new Sybarita and the as yet unused Distant Shore 
promise little. With the best intentions in the world to 
assist the sport of his own country, Sir Thomas Lipton 
cannot possibly leave his challenger long in English 
waters. In order to fill her as perfectly as possible for 
racing in America, he will be forced to have her here 
as early in the year as may be convenient, so that although 
there may be two or three weeks of preliminary contesting 
in the home waters during the month of April, or even in 
May, the challenger may be looked for off Sandy Hook 
at an early date. In fact the Tribune has had this in- 
formation from Sir Thomas himself. 
There can be no doubt that 1901 is to be almost ex- 
clusively America's year, and it might be well for the large 
English yachts which are offered so little at home to 
come over and join the hurly burly here. The Sybarita 
and the Distant Shore have already been mentioned as 
possible visitors, and among the cruisers Mr. Coats'. 
Gleniffer, the largest sailing schooner yacht in the world, 
is another of the chances. If two or three of the princi- 
pal racers were known in England to be coming over, 
it is tolerably certain that this addition to the Liptoii 
fleet of three would cause a number of steam yacht 
owners to join in the fashionable pilgrimage to the yacht 
racing Mecca of 1901. The larger American yacht clubs 
could be relied upon to offer the visitors good prizes to 
be competed for, and the Astor cups provide momentoes 
well worth carrying home. For these Colonel Astor has 
the right reserved to invite foreign yachts to compete, and 
if English owners could be placed in a position to an- 
nounce their intentions now, instead of later on, there 
would be plenty of time for the idea to be discussed and 
to find favor before the besfinning of the cruising sea- 
son. Owing to the early date of the first Cup race, Au- 
gust 20, the New York Yacht Club cruise, with the Astor 
Cup races at its finish, will come close to the interna- 
tional contests, so that visitors could take in the chief 
events without delays. Sir Thomas has been asked for 
the Tribune whether he would, as a member of the New 
York Yacht Club, enter his Shamrock II. for the Astor 
Cutter Cup, and hij; answer has been that that would de- 
pend on what Mr. Jameson and Mr. Watson thought. 
But - even if the boat selected by him as the challenger 
should not compete, his trial boat probably would, and as 
the American trial yachts, together with the four seven- 
ties and other fast cutters, will doubtless be in the same 
contest, it may be looked forward to as one of the finest 
races ever seen. 
Viewed from any point, the coming year seems about 
to be one that will be peculiarly favorable to an exchange 
of friendly feeling in the world of sport. For us, its 
promises are bright. May it not be a commendable ^ 
thing to make an earnest effort to share that brightness 
with those whose pastimes have for a long time been 
shrouded in the gloom of the war cloud?— New York 
Tribune. 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The following list of officers has been nominated by 
the Winthrop Y. C. for 1901; Com., J. R. Hodder- Vice 
Com., W. D. Allen; Sec, C. G. Bird; Treas., C. H. 
Nutting; Meas., C. H. Kelley; Board of Directors, 
A. W. Chesterton, L. T. Harrington, E. A. Cooke and 
C. H. AVhitney; Regatta Com., E. P. Morse, A. S. 
Richards, C. W. Gray, C. A. Sawyer and W. N. Jenkins • 
Membership Com., H. E. Blanchard, Eph Smith, C. a' 
Rouillard, F. H. Beckler, Albert Partridge, C. B. Free- 
man, C. L. Ridgeway, F. PI. Richardson and ' F. A, 
Hooper. 
J? i| r 
Mr. Oswald Sanderson, who is going to England 
ghortly to m^na^e a, lin? of §t?fi!n§hips, ent^minf^ 
