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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Aug. I, 1903. 
that time was blowing about seven knots from the 
southeast. At 1:30 P. M. it had fallen to a dead calm. 
The first of the fleet were sent away at 11:55 and the 
90-footers were started at 12:30. Reliance slipped over 
to weather of Constitution, while Columbia had a good 
•nosition unbothered by the others. Constitution, find- 
ing herself to leeward of Reliance, bore off and took 
the two minutes' handicap before getting away. 
When the breeze first left the boats, Reliance was 
lialf a mile ahead and to windward of Constitution. 
Columbia was abreast of Reliance, but nearly a mile to 
leeward. 
The breeze, which was south-southeast at the start, 
returned after a long wait from the eastward, bringing 
with it a thick fog, which made navigating hazardous. 
Cohnnbia got a favorable slant of wind, which went by 
TR.eliance and Constitution, and was able to turn Vine- 
yard Sound Lightship at 5:01:30, some twentj' minutes 
before Reliance. The yawl Vigilant was next to Colum- 
bia in roundhig the lightship. Reliance and Constitu- 
tion were headed by the breeze before they made the 
mark and came down on it close hauled. 
For a short time after turning the 90-footers had a 
chance to carry spinnakers to port, as the Avind hauled 
into the west\Vard for a brief spell. It finally went into 
the east, however, making a beat up the Sound between 
the islands to the finish. 
WEDNESDAY^ JULY 23 — SQUADRON RUN, 
Vineyard Haven to Newport — 37 Miles. 
When the steam yacht Riviera made the line on 
Wednesday morning for the start of the run back to 
NcAvport from the eastern terminus, fifteen boats of all 
classes were ready for the gun. This was a greater 
number than many thought would report, considering 
the conditions of the night before. 
The hoodoo encountered on Tuesday was again 
hovering over the cup boats. Shortly after the start 
Reliance was forced down on Middle Ground shoal by 
the strong tide running to the westward. The Iselin 
boat stuck her fin in the soft sand and hung there for 
at least two minutes. Headsails were slackened and 
her boom gybed over. She finally came <jff and pro- 
ceeded westward. 
Constitution, which was directly astern of ReHance, 
by 'quick maneuvering, avoided the shoal. Columbia 
however, was not so fortunate. The twice successful 
cup defender grounded hard and fast. The tender Park 
City came to her assistance and also got stuck. The 
launch Vanish, of the Columbia licet, could make no 
headway in getting the j^acht ofT. Finally the tug 
Storm King ran out a hawser, and by dint of much 
tugging Columbia was once more set free. Park City 
was not clear for an hour. 
Constitution was not to go absolutely free from mis- 
haps. At noon time, just as she passed out from under 
the lee of the clay cliffs of Gay Head, a vicious puft' 
struck her. The topmast spreader gave way and crack 
went the topmast to leeward. It was the second top- 
mast the Belmont boat had lost this season. As on 
the fir.st occasion, after the wreckage was cleared away. 
Constitution proceeded under her own canvas. She 
eventually crossed the finish line. 
The preparatory signal for the run was made at 9:45, 
and ten minutes later the first of cruising fleet was 
sent away. The start for the cup boats was at 10:30. 
Reliance crossed at 10:31:24 and Constitution at 
10:31:46. Columbia was handicapped 15 seconds, cross- 
ing at 10:32:15. The wind was from the cast and light. 
Constitution took the lead from Reliance six minutes 
after the start, when the new boat ran on the shoal. 
In the light wind the Iselin boat went to the fore again. 
At Lucan Shoal buoy, nine miles from the start, Re- 
liance was timed at 11:29:25 and Constitution at 
11:30:55. Reliance passed Gay Plead at 11:55. She 
was then about a quarter of a mile ahead of Consti- 
tution. Five minutes later the latter lost her topmast. 
The latest He.rreshoft' boat continued on alone. 
A good breeze was stirring after 12 o'clock and it 
sent the racers toward Newport at a merry clip. Reli- 
y.nce was the first of the squadron to cross the finish 
line oft" Brenton's Reef. She finished at 2:03:06. The 
former cup defender, Vigilant, was second boat to end 
the race. The summary of the 90-footers: 
Start. Finisli. Elapsed. 
Reliance 10 31 24 
Constitution 10 'il 415 
Columbia 10 32 00 
Weetauloe went up into Class G for boats in cruising 
trim, tried conclusions with Vigilant on time allowance 
and was victorious. Ingomar finished some distance 
ahead- of Emerald and Ariel in Schooner class B and 
' won. In Class C for schooners Katrina beat Elmina 
on corrected time. Aspirant beat Effort and Chal- 
lenge. Valmore scored a sailover. The summary: 
Schooners — Class IS. 
Elmir 
Katrii 
2 0:^ 0(5 :3 31 42 
2 4G 2U 4 14 40 
Did not finish. 
Valmore 
Start. 
Finish. 
Elapsed. 
10 10 31 
2 23 25 
4 n 54 
10 11 18 
2 40 17 
4 28 50 
10 10 44 
2 43 C6 
4 32 32 
3 — Class C. 
10 05 23 
2 36 51) 
4 31 33 
..10 05 26 
2 3S 24 
4 31 58 
10 05 31 
2 43 47 
4 38 IG 
^— Class D. 
..10 06 11 
2 57 19 
4 51 OS 
1 — Cruising Trim. 
10 01 21 
2 14 41 
4 13 20 
10 00 29 
2 38 28 
4 37 59 
-Class I. 
9 56 29 
3 05 26 
5 08 57 
9 57 00 
3 14 05 
5 17 05 
9 56 37 
3 01 42 
5 05 05 
Astof Cttp Races. 
NEWPORT, R. I., 
Thursday, July 23. 
All Newport was out to see the annual struggle on 
Thursday for the cups given by Col. John Jacob Astor. 
A trophy valued at $1,000 was offered for the winnmg 
schooner, all sailing in one class on time allowance. 
A cup going to sloops and yawls under like conditions 
was valued at $500. The day was an ideal one. There 
was a fresh wind blowing from the southwest and some 
sea running. Newport harbor was astir early. Many 
parties were entertained on the steani and sailing 
yachts of the squadron, and the scene at the start was 
an animated one. 
The rule of measurement of the New York Y.C. 
places a draft limit on boats of all types. The cup 
craft excee"ded the limit allowed and were not eligible 
to compete for the Astor Cups. The club, however, 
offered a special trophy for the 90-footers. 
Constitution did not get her new topmast in place in 
time for the start. She arrived in the harbor later in 
the day. Reliance had no difficulty in defeating Co- 
lumbia by i8m. 45s. over the 38-mile course and won 
the special trophy. F. F. Brewster's schooner Elmina 
repeated her performance of 1902 and won the Astor 
cup for schooners, while Fred M. Hciyt's Isolde prob- 
ably got the trophy for sloops. It will not be defin- 
itely known until Vigilant is measured. It is figured, 
however, that Isolde won the cup by a fair margin. 
The committee boat Riviera was at the line off 
Brenton's Reef Lightship in good season for the start 
at II o'clock. The Block Island course was signalled, 
which was 13^/2 miles S,W. 1-8 W.,then 18 miles N.E. 
by E. 3-4 E. and 6^ miles W. by N. 1-8 N., thirty-eight 
miles in all. 
At II o'clock the preparatory was sounded, and at 
11:10 the sloops were sent away. Neola was first over, 
followed by the yawl Vigilant. The boats had a beat 
to windward for the first i3>^-mile leg. The schooners 
were sent away at 11:15. Elmina was first over the 
line, closely followed by Ingomar. Captain Hank Haff 
sailed Ariel. 
The signal for the 90-footers was sounded at 11:45. 
Both Reliance and Columbia crossed after the handi- 
cap gun, which was fired at 11:47.- Reliance went over 
at 11:49:10 and Columbia at 11:49:49. For the first 
quarter of an hour Columbia held Reliance well, but 
after that the new boat slowly drew away. Although 
there was quite a sea bothering the racers, good times 
to the first mark were made. Times at the turn fol- 
low : 
Vigilant 1 31 26 Columbia 1 35 55 
■Reliance 1 31 34 Senta 1 35 55 
Weetamoe 1 32 36 Elmina 1 45 05 
Isolde 1 33 25 Ariel 1 48 55 
Ingomar 1 34 06 
In the 13^4 miles Reliance had gained 5m. on Colum- 
bia. Vigilant beat Isolde 9m. 20s., Neola iim. 56$., 
and Weetamoe 13m. 56s. Ingomar had beaten Elmina 
II m. 20s. and Ariel 13m. 30s. 
The next leg was a run of 18 miles. Spinnakers 
were set to starboard. Reliance, with her big bellying 
sail drawing well and boom at times dipping the water, 
gradually drew up on Vigilant. Just before reachiiig 
the second mark Reliance took the lead. This was at 
3 o'clock, 
As the first of the fleet was rounding the second 
mark a fog came in with a change of wind to the west- 
ward. Reliance rounded at 3:08, followed closely by 
Vigilant. The other boats could not be distinguished. 
It was a close reach home. The tide set the boats to 
the leeward and a short hitch was necessary to make 
the line off the lightship. Reliance finished at 4:03:49, 
Vigilant at 4:06:20, and Columbia at 4:22:38. Neola 
headed her sister ship Weetamoe. The little sloop 
Isolde did remarkably well, finisiiing before many of 
the larger boats. The summary: 
*Columbia 
Senta 
Sloops- 
—Class G. 
Start. 
Finish. 
Elapsed. 
Corrected. 
11 47 00 
3 50 49 
4 03 49 
11 47 00 
4 09 38 
4 22 38 
Schooners 
—Astor Cup. 
4 24 07 
11 16 56 
5 07 11 
5 07 11 
11 IS 14 
4 51 07 
5 32 53 
5 16 29 
11 16 35 
4 37 42 
5 21 07 
4 51 32 
Sloops — 
Astor Cup. 
4 55 34 
11 10 26 
4 06 20 
11 10 16 
4 28 10 
0 17 54 
11 10 24 
4 28 35 
5 18 11 
.11 10 ?.S 
Did not finish. 
11 14 51 
4 ::',7 59 
5 23 18 
11 14 36 
5 15 21 
6 00 45 
.11 10 24 
5 16 48 
6 06 24 
Eftcrt 
* Ilandicaijped. 
Lysistfata Cop Race. 
NEWPORT, R. I., 
Friday, July 24. 
The initial event for the Lysistrata Cup for steam 
yachts, offered by James Gordon Bennett, was held on 
Friday afternoon. Two starters came to the line. The 
race was v.-ou by H. PI. Rogers' Kanawha, whicb de- 
feated W, B. Leed's Noma over a course of 60 nautical 
miles by 4m. S6s. As a special incentive for the first 
race $2,500 were added. The trophy is subject to chal- 
lenge at six months' notice. 
Although there were but two yachts in the race it 
was interesting from the start because of its novel 
nature am! the data afforded. The speed of Kanawha 
was exceiie:K. She averaged 19.65 knots over^ the 
whole coulee. Noma averaged 19.14. At the jinish 
Kanawh'^ was about a mile and a half ahead of Knnia. 
When the two came to the line off Brenton's Reef 
Lightship shortly before 2 o'clock P. M. they were in 
the fine.':^ condition for the contest. Engines had been 
overhauled, special coal procured, and everything done 
to insure the greatest possible speed. The regatta 
committf^e of the New York Y.C. was on board the 
torpedo boat destroyer Barry, offered tor the occasion 
by the Uvr'ted States Govenmicrt. 
Tl'.e staning line was two and one-half miles ea.st- 
southcast from the Hghtship. The course led 15 miles 
east-southeast to Vineyard Sound Lightship, thence 
twenty mi'es south-southwest to a chib niarjc. The 
last leg was twentj^-five miles north by west one-half 
west to '.he finish off the lightship. 
The i,'akting gun was sounded at 2 o'clock P. M. 
Kan.awha crossed at 2:02:36 and Noma .it 2:02:46. 
Kanawha 'slowly drew ahead. The lightship marking 
the end of the first 15-mile leg was passed by Kanawha 
at 2:48:27. Noma was timed at 2:50:23, im. 55s. astern 
of her r:\al. Kanawha had covered Hie fifteen miles 
in 45 minutes and 51 seconds. Her average speed was 
19.90 knots. 
Kanawha continued to gam on the next twenty-mile 
leg. She trrned, the mark at 3:46:37. Noma rounded 
at" 3:50.41. Kanawha had beaten her 2m. 8s. on the 
leg and steamed at the rate of 20.62 knots in hour, 
coyering the twenty miles in s8m. los. 
The last leg to the finish Avas twenty-five miles in 
length. Kanawha ha\ing the race well in h.and, re- 
duced her speed, part of the tiine sailing under natural 
draught. Just before the finish, however, the winning 
boat was given a burst of speed which made her 1 airly 
tear across the line. She was timed at 5:05:45. Norna 
finished at 5:10:51. On the last leg Kanawha averaged 
19.39 knots and gained ini. 2s. The summary: 
Start. Finish. Elapsed. 
Kanawha 2 02 30 S 06 45 3 03 09 
Noma 2 02 46 5 10 51 3 07 OS 
Gig: and Lattnch Races. 
In the morning the annual gig and launch races for 
the Owl and Gamecock colors and money prizes were 
held under the management of Fleet Captain C. L. F. 
Robinson. Charles D. Mower, measurer, was timer. 
Two entries came to the line for the Gamecock colors, 
a four-oared gig from the schooner Katrina and one 
from Crusader II. Katrina won by six lengths. The 
start was 11:15. 
A lack of entries prevented a race for the Owl col- 
ors. Whaleboats from the cup craft raced for an 
cight-oared boat prize. Reliance won from Columbia 
by two lengths. The coxswain of the Constitution 
crew was knocked overboard and the boat withdrew. 
Columbia won the dinghy race from representatives of 
the schooners Katrina, Corona, the steam yacht Hau- 
oli and the sloop Mira. 
The launches raced over a mile and a half course. 
The boat from ex-Commodore Lewis Cass Ledyard's 
steam yacht Rambler (ex-Dreamer) won both events. 
The summary: 
Launches — Class A. 
Start. Finish. Elapsed. 
Rambler 11 55 15 12 06 40 0 11 25 
Intrepid U 55 34 12 07 05 0 11 31 
Coronto 11 55 31 12 08 06 0 12 35 
Delaware 11 55 30 12 08 0 12 37 
Surf 11 .55 22 12 08 20 0 l:i 58 
Launches— Class B. 
Rambler 12 07 00 12 22 15 0 15 15 
Duquesne 12 07 00 12 23 10 0 16 10 
Narada 12 07 00 12 24 12 0 17 12 
IKttmination. 
In the evenmg the annual illumination of the fleet 
occurred. The boats in the harbor and various places 
along the water front joined in making the spectacle 
one like fairyland. This was the last official ceremony 
before the disbandment of the crews on Saturday, 
The Canada's Cup Defender. 
Toronto, July 25.— Just to make it interesting the Royal 
Canadian Y. C. has arranged a series of five races for a 
valuable trophy. While these are not trial races^ for the 
selection of a defender, they will be for the benefit of the 
boat that is to defend the Canada's cup. They will put 
more interest into practice Sailing and give the crew of 
the defender plenty of training. 
Some very good" work has been put in aboard Str uh- 
cona this week in races around Toronto Island, starting 
from the R. C. Y. C. town club. This course possesses 
so many angles that it offers great opportunities for sea- 
manship. Roughly speaking, yon steer southeast to the 
Eastern Gap, then south and by east for half a mile 
tiirough the piers, then southwest along the island shore, 
north up the sandbar to the Western Gap, then east again 
down the bay to the finish. 
On Monday Strathcona had an adventure which would 
have given the space killers of New York yards of nw- 
terial had one of the Shamrocks been in the place of the 
Canada's cup defender. Commodore Jarvis was in charge 
cf Strathcona, and had started for the usual race around 
Toronto Island with the slippery Merrythought. The lat- 
ter was being sailed by the crew of professioiials iii the 
Commodore's pay. The two crossed the starting line a 
length apart, Merrythought leading. They were swinc;- 
ing everything except their largest chip topsails, with bTl- 
loon canvas forward. No. 2 club topsails were carried be- 
cause the weather looked dirty. 
It was a beam breeze to the Eastern Gap, and under the 
southwest puffs the yachts staggered along at a fast clip. 
In the middle of the bay Merrythought had a lead of two 
lengths ; but every puff" helped Strathcona, and she w;ia 
up in her old place, just a length astern and a trjfle to 
windward? when the racers fetched the pier head. 
Merrythought was kept away a trifle to clear the corner, 
when suddenly her stern rose and she pitched violently 
forward, stopping dead. "Aground 1" shouted her skipper. 
Commodore Jarvis shoved Strathcona's tiller hard up and 
she swung across Merrythought's stern into the deep 
water of the channel. She missed Merrythought by a 
plentiful margin, but it is not pleasant to contemplate the 
possible results if. her skipper had not been quick enough. 
There would have been some kindling wood had Strath- 
cona, sailing eight or ten miles an hour, fetched up on the 
stationary Merrythought. 
The grounding prevented any further racing that day. 
It was some time before Merrythought was floated. 
Strathcona sailed out into the lake, but returned to the 
harbor to dodge a squall. Skipper Jarvis gave his crew 
plenty of practice in sail handling, taking off the club top- 
sail and setting it again twice. Everything was done 
completely, even to looping up the sail cover. The spin- 
naker was also set twice, once in stops and once flying, 
and practice was given in changing from balloon to work- 
ing headsails. 
An attempt was, made at a race the following day, but 
with no more success. After a fierce squall with hail, 
rain and lightning, a bit of a gale that blew boats over at 
their moorings, Strathcona and Merrythought started off 
in a faint trickle of air from the southeast. It was a beat 
all the way to the Gap, and Strathcona, starting fifty 
seconds ahead, had a lead of three minutes or more when 
she reached the lake. Then it was Merrythought's turn 
to do things. Inch by inch she crept up on Strathcona, 
passing her with a little burst of speed and stretching 
ahead rapidly. Soon she was a quarter of a mile ahead, 
but the yachts were not traveling nearly fast enough to 
cover a cup course within the time limit. Although 
Merrythought's lead did not exceed a quarter of a mile, 
Strathcona was nine minutes behind her in thrie. The 
