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— I}cll'x Life in London is reprinting its original descrip 
lions of interesting sporting events, many of which possess 
unusual interest from the fact that they were reported for 
that paper alone, it being the only one which at the 
time paid special attention to sporting matters. The last 
number which comes to us contains the uccount of the fa 
mous America’s victory over the yachts of the Iioynl squad 
rou in the race for the Queen’s cup, and the subsequent 
match with the Titania, and it is not without a thrill that 
even at this late day we read the account of this signal vic- 
tory, which not only gave renewed impetus to yacht ing on 
both sides the water, but in England wrought an entire rev- 
olution in model and rig. Of her first appearance the above 
named journal says: 
“ Until the America came over, the few who wore aware 
of the fact that there was a flourishing club at New York 
diil not regard it of the slightest consequence, or as at all 
likely to interfere with their monopoly of the glory of the 
manliest and most useful of all sports. The few trial runs 
the America mude after her arrival proved she was pos- 
sessed of great speed, and that the owners were not so little 
justified as at first they hud been thought in offering to 
back an untried vessel against any yacht in our waters for 
the large sum of € 10 , 0 ( 10 . or for a cup or piece of plate. 
As the day of the Royal Yacht Squadron’s grand match 
drew near the entries become numerous, nud 1851 will be 
Celebrated for the largest number of starters for the Derby 
and for the €100 cup respectively that were perhaps ever 
known, The conduct of the Americans since their arrival 
in the Solent had been bold, manly, and straightforward— 
qualities which Englishmen respect wherever they arc 
found, and love to see even in an opponent. The windows 
of the houses which commanded the harbor were filled 
from the parloi' to the attic, and the old “salts” on the 
beach gazed moodily on the low black hull of “the 
Yankee," and spoke doubtfully of the chances of her com- 
petitors, Some thought “the Volante" might prove a 
teazer if the wind was light ; others speculated on the Alurm 
doing mischief if there was wind enough to bring out the 
qualities of the large cutter in beating up to windward and 
in tucking: while more were of opiuion that the America 
would carry off the cup, “blow high, blow low.” It was 
with the greatest difficulty the little town gave space 
enough to the multitudes t hat came from all quarters to 
witness an event so novel and so interesting, and the hotels 
were quite inadequate to meet tho demands of their guests. 
Among the visitors were many strangers— Frenchmen en 
route for Havre, Germans in quite wonderment at the ex- 
citement around them, and Americans already triumphing 
in anticipated success of their countrymen. 
Fifteen yachts started, of which seven were schooners 
and eight cutlers. The America was the last to get under- 
way hut as soon as her canvas was set she went to wind- 
ward and ahead of the licet. Whenever the breeze took 
the line of her hull all her sails set os flut as u drumhead, 
and without any careering, or staggering she “walked 
along" in admirable style, and at 28 minntes past 11 she 
contrived, without any seeming difficulty, to slip by the 
Volante, ns she had done with the rest, and away she went, 
keeping close iu to the island; her jib was then hauled 
down and stowed away. The weather, as before observed, 
showed symptoms of improvement, so far as yachting was 
concerned; a few seahorses waved their crests over the 
water, the high lands on shore put on their fleecy “night- 
caps" of cloud, and the horizen looked delightfully threat- 
ening; and now “the Yankee" flew like the wind, leaping 
over, not, against the water, and increasing her distance 
from the Gipsy Queen, Volante, and Alarm every instant 
The way her sails were set evinced a superiority in the cut- 
ting which cur makers would barely allow; but, certain it 
is that while the jibs and mainsails of her antagonists were 
‘ bellied out,” her canvas was as flat as a sheet of paper, 
No foam, but rather a water jet, rose from her bows; ami 
the greatest point of resistance— for resistance there must 
be somewhere— seemed about the beam, or just forward 
of her maiuraost, for these seas flashed from her side? at 
that point every time she met them. While the cutters 
were thrashing through the water, sending the spray over 
their bows, and the schooners were wet up to the foot of 
the foremast, the America was as dry as a bouc. She had 
twenty-oue persons on her deck, consisting of the owners 
the crew, cook, and steward, a Cowes pilot named Under- 
wood, and some seamen who had been lent her by the Sur- 
prise, a London built schooner yacht, then at Cowes Roads. 
They nearly all sal aft, and when the vessel did not require 
any handlinj: crouched down on the deck by the weather 
bulwarks. I'lie Gipsy Queen, when n little past Brading, 
seemed to have carried a wav her foresail sheets; but, even 
bad it not been so, she bad lost all chance of success. The 
Americans the wind increased— and it was now a six knot 
breeze at leas! -‘hauled down her wee gaff topsail, and 
went away under mainsail, foresail, anil foresatysail, so that 
it. required the utmost t lie steamer could do to keep along- 
side of her. This was her quickest bit of sailing, for on 
rounding the east point of the island it was necessary to 
beat to the westward, in order to get along the hack of the 
Wiirhi. On the return, after passing the Needles and the 
other yacht* were almost out of sight astern, the royal 
yacht Fairy, with the Queen on board, was passed. 
Although it is not usual to recognise the presence of ller 
Majesty on such occasions as a racing match, no more, in- 
deed, than a jockey would pull up bis horse to salute the 
Queen when in the middle of bis stride, the America in- 
"tautly lowered her ensign— blue with white stars— the 
Commodore took off liis lmt, and all bis crew, following 
his order and example, remained with uncovered heads for 
some miuutcs until they had passed the yacht— a mark of 
respect io the Queen not the less becoming because it was 
bestowed by Republicans. The steamers, as sire-passed on7 
renewed their cheering..’’ 
Although a protest was entered claiming that the Amer- 
ica had not sailed the proper course, it was promptly over- 
ruled, and the well won cup awarded to Mr. Stevens. Sub- 
sequently a match was sailed with the Titania, -and won by 
nearly an hour. The later history of this remarkable 
vessel is still fresh in our minds— her sale to the British, 
and subsequent, capture as a blockade runuer during the 
war— her appearance in the race for the same Queen’s cup 
when .Mr. Ashbury tried so hard to carry it back to Eng- 
land. She is now the properly of Mr. B. F. Butler, and 
will probably be seen next summer at Nantucket, the 
Isle of Shoals, and more pretentious Newport. 
— Ynchtmen have taken advantage of the Ice in Dorches- 
ter Bay, Boston Harbor, to re measure their different re- 
gatta courses, which have hitherto been the subjects of 
contention os to actual length. 
—The Lynn yachtsmen uro induging in ice boat cruis- 
ing. 
—The Schuylkill Navy Regatta is set down for June 
10th and 17th. 
(phosphate) mills. Following the Cnp.ow up into Broad RIvnr I gin , 
tl.c right bank to (he end or the Marshy island* 'on miles trfihout JL, 
a house cn that side of Broad River, then crossed the head of t| l(! Z,,' 
to Skull Creek in a tierce gust of wind which nearly swamped . 
canoe. 1 "a 1 
Mr, McIntyre, of New York, has the SeHhrook Plantation on Uitt 
Head Island, where I passed the night. Continuing on through Sk.m 
Creek to Callbogne Sound, the wind and driving seas pushed me so | ll|r 
that I saved myself and canoe by running into Bird Island Creek I) 
heavy waves following mo far into my port of refuge. Throe 
colonies of negroes loose the abandoned sea island cotton plantations J 
Bird Islund. Not a white man could be found. So I went Into ihu |,. te 
lug business by renting a cook house 9x10 feel of one Cuffy, an ohi 
colored man. Time— until the gale was over. Term*— “any ting d(1 
white Yankee man pleases to gib an old nigger.” Down by the creek 
grew rushes In abundance. I cut enough of these to moke a bed in tl', P 
cook house, and spent the afternoon aud evening in house keeping , 1Iu j 
cooking. 
The gale expended Itself during the night, so I was able to leave m the 
morning In a dense fog for Savannah, Cooper River, “Pull and be d ( i 
Creek,” Walls Cut, Wright's River and the wide Savannah were followed 
to St. Augustine Creek, where yonr correspondent is enjoying the hoppi 
tallly of a German gentleman, and from which he sends you this lj,t 0 ( 
Interior wutcr passages on the route to Florida. N. II, u, 
^ — The yacht Annie, Thomas, master, of the New York 
Yacht Club, is now cruising on the Indian River, Florida. 
— The yacht Eva of the New York Yacht Squadron, with 
her owner, Mr. E. Burd Grubb, and party of friends on 
board, arrived at St. Augustine on Monday last. She ex- 
perienced heavy weather between Cape Ilattoras and Savan- 
nah. The party purpose remaining on the coast hunting 
and Ashing all Winter. 
— Centennial Aquatics — The following is the pro 
gramme of the International Regatta referred to in our co! 
limns last week, intended to be held on the Schuylkill 
River at the Philadelphia Centicnnial, in 1870; — 
Pint . — Grand International race for four-oared shells, 
for the championship of the world, to be followed by races 
in pair-oared and single shells, under the same conditions. 
Strand. — Grand contest of the American College Clubs, 
for the intercollegiate championship of the United States. 
Third . — Graud International collegiate contest between 
American and foreign universities, for the amateur collo 
giate championship of the world. 
Fourth . — Grand national contest bv the members of the 
National Amateur Association of the United Slates. 
Fifth.— Contests in boats of every character, to be par- 
ticipated in by the professional oarsmen of America. 
Sixth —Contests iu boats of every character, to be par- 
ticipated in by the professional oarsmen of the world. 
Eight London, Eng., clubs are to send crews; a Liver- 
pool club is to be represented; Mr. Gesling, the champion 
of the Seine, is to bring over a crew, and all the prominent 
American oarsmen will participate. It will certainly be 
the great aquatic event of 1876. 
"Fred. Espy, of Pittsburg, Pa., who built the best boat 
ever rowed by Scharffe, lias just finished a boat for George 
Brown, which was ordered by the Halifax (N. S.) Rowing- 
Club. s 
Rational ffagtimes. 
Centennial Regatta.— The Naval Board of the Schuyl- 
kill Navy, accompanied by a number of invited guests 
have been to Flat Rock Dam, Schuylkill River, and sur- 
veyed the rowing course, to show boating men, and espe- 
cially collegiate organizations, that it is the best course in 
the world, and every way suited for the international con- 
tests to take place in the centennial year. Upon measuring 
the course it was found to be 700 feet wide and three and 
a half miles long. The result is considered extremely. sat- 
isfactory by boating men in this city. 
BISHOP’S CANOE VOYAGE. 
Greenwich Shooting Park, near Savannah. Ga 
Editor Forest and Stream:- Fubruury I9 ' ,875 ' 
I reached this place, on St. Augustine Creek, five miles below Savan- 
nah, at two o'clock, I*. M. to-day. The welrd-Iooklng Bonaventnre 
cemetery adjoins the Park. St. Augustine. Creek flows from the Suvau- 
nah River ubout flvo miles below the city, aud forms an Important con- 
nection of the interior water courses, or inside passages, to Brunswick 
Ga., aud to Fernnndlna, Fin. 
Leaving the Waccumuw nnd Peedee River system, the paper canoe. 
“Marla Theresa," proceeded on her voyage southward bv way of Winyuli 
Bay. Mosquito Crock, rice plantation ditches; the North and the South 
Santee rivers, Alligator Creek, aud other creeks to Bull's Buy, where the 
canoe rested three Sundays since on the deck of the U. S. Coast Survey 
Schooner "Caswell.” 1 
The Monday following was spent in working through Bull's Bay and 
Bull's Narrows to Little Bull Inlet, where I slept on the floor of n de- 
serted house through Monday night. The next day the canoe followed 
creeks, along the inside of the beach, crossing Price's, Dewce'sand 
Breach inlets. At dusk 1 emerged from the marshes of Sullivan's Island 
and beheld in the deepening gloom across the smooth w aters of the 
harbor, the walls of Fort Sumter rising from Its foundation of granite 
chip-. An hour rater my canoe was safely quartered at the Mount 
Plcnrnnt Hotel, about live miles below Charleston. 1 was about to Dm 
cecd on mv journey when many kind Imitations from citizens of Charles' 
ton Induced me to send the canoe np to the city. I regret that I cannot 
express all tbo gratitude I feel for the generous treatment I received 
from members of the Chamber of Commerce, the Carolina Club and 
Ashley Grange. To those who know what Charleston hospitality is. It is 
sufficient to say I received Charleston ho»pUaHhj 
Crossing the broad Ashley River one line morning, the canoe entered 
W appoo C reek nnd followed It to the Stone River, and thence to the 
vr.w ZmnTFn 1 ""fS 1 J ? haMW Wmd - ‘he rice plantation of 
Lx-Gov. William Aiken, of South Carolina. It was ray privilege to 
enjoy the society of the proprietor of Johassee, and to examine its flvo 
thousand acres— a plantation that yielded o rice crop from sixteen him- 
dred acres with a net profit of fifty thousand dollars a year before the 
wot . 
, F, r OI, ‘ J 1 oh,L 't oe 1 f 1 0llmvcd creck * nnd rivers past Hutchinson's Island 
to 8t. Helena Sound, turned up Bull River by mistake, in the darkness 
of night, Instead of crossing its wide month to the wider Coosnw I 
was in a region of marshes where no camping place could bo fonnd As 
the canoe ascended the wide river, dose to the grassy marshes, tho musts 
of a bark loomed out of the misty night. A kind voice Invited me aboard 
mid I became the guest of Captain Jobs. Bergcluna. of Finland who 
was loading his vessel with phosphate from the Pacific Co.'s mine be- 
tween the Coosaw nnd Bull River ' 
The day following was passed tn experimental Geography, hunting a 
passage from Bull River Into the Coosaw, Ha two creeks, which were 
connected by n si, on canal I waited three hours at the end ol the canal 
for a depth Of eight inches of water to beaupplied by the tide- then 
passed through to the Coosnw, and spent the night at the Coosaw mines 
— The Philadelphia Mercury says: — 
The Atlantics, of Brooklyn, were the unluckiest nine in 
the arena last season, weakness in two important positions 
(catcher and second base) leadin'? to a succession of defeat* 
which more than offset their brilliant victories. They coin 
menced the season of 1874 with Pearce, Ferguson ' Dolil 
n.an, Chapman and Booth of their old team, and new plav 
ers in Bond, Fartow, Hodcsand Hull. Captain and Man- 
ager Ferguson played no less than twenty different men on 
the nine, trying as catchers, Farrow, 'l lodes, ICnowdell 
Kessler and Fleet, the latter being most successful • while 
at sccoud base was played Hall, West, Farrow’ Clin- 
ton, Fleet, Martin, aud, lastly, Sweasy, the latter best fill 
iug the position. Among the most noteworthy victories of 
the Atlantic's, last season, may be mentioned the 9-2 and 5 - 
0 games with the Mutuals, the 9-3 and 6-2 games with the 
Bostons, and the 4-2 game with the Athletics. They also 
defeated the Maple Leafs — the Canadian champions by a * 
score of 15 to 1 . The Atlantics were at times terribly de- 
moralized, as witness the three defeats administered to them 
by the Bostons, by scores of 15 to 4, 14 to 0 anti 29 to 0 the 
17-3 and 9-1 games with the Athletics, the 17-4 and’13 2 
games with the Chieagos, and the 23-1, 14 2 and and Ki t) 
games with the Philadelphias. The Atlantics played a tie 
game of ten innings with the Bostons, each scoring 3 and 
also played ten innings with the Mutuals. 
The Professional Base Ball Association will hold their 
annual convention on Monday March 1 st in Philadelphia 
on which day, too, the Judiciary Committee of the Asso- 
ciation will meet so as to report the result of their pm- 
ceedings at the convention. The Committee uf Rules will 
meet the morning of the same day to prepare the new 
code The clubs sending delegates will include the Boston 
Hartford Mutual, Atlantic, Athletic, Philadelphia St’ 
Louis, aDd Chicago. 1 ’ 
—The Prospect Park ball fields are to be governed by a 
new code of rules this season, giving Brooklyn organiza- 
tions precedence. 
—Washington’s birthday was enjoyed to a great extent 
in Brooklyn. Besides skating on the inner lakes, there 
was curling and ice boat sailing on the large lake, and in 
the afternoon a hall match took place on the ice between 
elevens of the Park and Capitoline Lake. Park, 3 ; Lake, 13 . 
—The Washington club has been reorganized for Un- 
professional campaign of 1875 under the management of 
Mr. A Y. Childs. The team will include Reader, from 
the Hetmes, of Reading; Park, Allison, and Banker i»f 
Easton; Hally and Terry, of Philadelphia; and Ne’vins 
and Jay, of Washington. 
—Pike’s brother, the line centre fielder of the Concords 
wilt play in a Boston amateur club this season. 
—The annual meeting of the Professional Association 
wifi be held on the morning of Monday, March 1 st, at the 
Athletic club rooms in Philadelphia. It is advisable that 
every professional club should send a delegate. 
—The Athletic club have engaged Richmond, tho cap- 
tain of the Sbibc nine, to fill up their team. 1 
—The Reds have added Latham to their champion team 
He is said to be an excellent first baseman. 
—Charlie Gould has been engaged by the New Havens 
to play first base and captain the nine. He is a good player 
maEmg his reputation as first base for the celebrated R,-,i 
Stockings of Cincinnati, in the season of 1869-70 The 
club has appointed os directors Carlos Smith \V W Ward 
Alfred Thomas George W. M. Reed, W S. Arnold Clias’ 
Webster, and Eli Hills. Mr. Arnold, of Middletown has 
8 '£ned a contract as manager with the club at a salurv of 
* 1,200 The nine will probably be as follows -BanL r 
e , Nichols, p.; Gould, 1st b.; Doesohcr, 2d b. ; Jackson’ 
3d b « ?t’ 1 er ' ®' S ' ; lip P er ' 1 f -i R y an . c. f. ; and Britt r f! 
-Middletown, Conn., is to have a first class nine this 
season. Their players are as follows ;-S. Daniels c 
Craig, p. ; Inglis, 1st b. ; Ilulihan, 2d b. ; A. Daniels 3d b ’ 
scorer,’ J. d! 1 ! F “* Cr ' * f < '■ 
Montreal Thistle Curling Club.— The final comne- 
[ 1 J *®. 11 f “ r lhe Mu,r lanfoird" took place last week at Moti- 
t ' a '' Ourcom-spondem’ Mr. James Esdaile, won it with 
a score of 38 points in the three days play; Mr Rom beini 
second with 37, McIntyre 36, N. W. Thomas ’ ! „ < 
Green shields 30, and J. L. Cram o« Tt . James 
the property of any one winning it. twice in three suedw- 
sive years. It cost in the neighborhood of $;j. r ,o Mr 
Esduile was fortunate enough to win it both this year and 
won utii'shotT U ’ iS “ Sp,emlid P rize ’ “well 
f 0 V- he CaI,endar C "P «t Tammany 
was ’ t Vignaux and Rudolphe, the former 
was the winner. Score— Vignaux, 600; Rudolphe 550 
lime of game-four hours and fifty-five minutes 
wq7 T fiS w"Sn h Sv o’ m - ' Ch f ° r , ,llC ; CalkH(, e'r Cup, which 
878 Tl» fnn«5sn?ffi er ! U ,he . I, vin s Hall Tourney of 
-Dec “ ffame f rl !lV0 s,nce been played for it: 
. ATiiZ,' 187d ,’ Q. ar ' ner nn{1 Dion; Jun. no, 1^74 (j, im j er 
SiroVer^on Dec ® ( ? aruit,r rt,,d D,ll - V - ld * of which 
nSTpVr^asSc win^,’’ G,,rmCF “' ld KudolpUe. of rtidr 
