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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Sept. 8, 1906. 
TILLY VI.—GERMAN SONDER CLASS. 
Photo by G. Jackson. 
Boston Letter. 
Quincy Cup R&ces End in Row. 
With Auk, eliminated by her failure to score 
a win in the first four races, there came, to the 
line for the fifth race the Bonidrei, Manchester 
and Windrim Kid. The last named, although 
announced by her owner to have been rechrist¬ 
ened Chewink VII., still hears the original letter¬ 
ing on her sternboard and is still officially known 
by her baptismal name. 
The course for this race was 2)4 miles to wind¬ 
ward and leeward and repeat once. I here was 
a smashing S.W. breeze, and quite a sea running, 
promising a real contest such as the Sonder class 
boats have not had for over three weeks. When 
the boats were off, each with a single-reefed 
mainsail, the Manchester and Bonidrei slowly 
pulled away into the lead with the Bonidrei hold¬ 
ing the pride of place, and reaching the weather 
turn 19s. ahead of Manchester and im. 12s. before 
Kid. On the run Manchester gained, but the 
order at the end of the first round was not 
changed. In the meantime a nasty squall made 
up in the N.W., but when it broke it proved 
quite mild and, by converting the beat to a broad 
reach, let the stern boats up. Manchester cleverly 
passed Bonidrei and started the home stretch 
with a lead of 26s. The wind now dropped fast 
and became fluky, furnishing a hair raising finish 
right on the line. Within a length of the judges’ 
boat, Manchester stopped dead in a calm spot 
with the ebb tide holding her back. Bonidrei 
slid alongside and also stopped. Then came Kid 
with a little puff and she too stopped. The situa¬ 
tion was tense until a little, private and highly 
partial puff struck Kid's sails with just enough 
force to shoot her across the line. The times: 
Windrim Kid.2 25 23 Bonidrei .2 2ti CO 
Manchester .2 25 47 
On Tuesday, the 28th, came the sixth, final and 
most-highly-to-be-deplored race of the whole 
series. The course was twice around a triangle, 
each leg being approximately miles, the first 
being to windward. The breeze was light and 
so a bit streaky. The boats kept well bunched 
going uphill. Near the first turn Bonidrei and 
Windrim Kid had a slight lead on Manchester, 
and when the first named took the starboard 
tack for the mark, she met and forced Windrim 
Kid about, the latter tacking under Bonidrei’s lee 
and slightly ahead. As they reached the mark 
Bonidrei had an overlap and Kid was unable to 
fetch by the mark without luffing out around it. 
In this situation Windrim Kid called for room. 
Mr. Sumner H. Foster, on Bonidrei, and one of 
our best informed as well as fairest racing men 
was opposed to giving an inch, but her owner 
George W. Wightman had the stick and luffed 
her hard to avoid all possibility of trouble. He 
luffed so far that he was nearly in irons and 
Foster had to go forward and back the jib to get 
her again on her course. But before this was 
done Kid, in luffing, barely grazed Bonidrei. It 
is claimed that she also grazed the buoy. One 
member of Windrim Kid’s crew, with zeal worthy 
of a professional, jumped aboard Bonidrei and 
endeavored to push Kid ahead. The whole affair 
happened so quickly, however, that many of the 
spectators hardly took it in. 
On the reach Manchester jumped into the lead 
which she maintained to the end of the round, 
although hard pushed by both her rivals. On the 
second time up the wind, however, Bonidrei 
opened up a splendid gap and Windrim Kid also 
passed Manchester. The three maintained this 
order on the last two legs with the distances 
widening, and Bonidrei came home for her third 
win with the cup apparently destined for a trip 
to the Boston Y. C. 
The times: 
Bonidrei, George W. Wightman.2 47 00 
Windrim Kid, F. G. Macomber, Jr.2 50 50 
Manchester, John L. Bremer.2 54 30 
Soon after the race was finished Mr. Macomber 
filed this protest with the judges: “The Windrim 
Kid protests Bonidrei for not giving sea room 
at the windward mark.” The protest was heard 
on Thursday by the three Manchester Y. C. mem¬ 
bers of the committee, the remaining member, 
representing the Quincy Y. C., being unavoid¬ 
ably absent. Evidence was heard from the crews 
of all three boats, and from members of the press 
whose boat was close at hand at the time of the 
alleged foul. After three hours spent in taking 
testimony, and a short deliberation, the protest 
was sustained, the race awarded to Windrim Kid 
and the Quincy cup therefore passes into the 
custody of the Corinthian Y. C. 
We of this region have been accustomed to 
regard our methods of conducting this sport, 
to view our own status as sportsmen with a 
certain bland egotism, a semi-provincial self-con¬ 
sciousness of our own merit (varying in intensity 
in certain localities) which, while it may have 
irritated outsiders, served but the more to in¬ 
crease our self esteem. When, in the past, we 
read of squabbles over the America’s cup, of 
heart burnings engendered in the “Canada’s cup” 
races, and of rows over Chicago’s Lipton cup, 
we smiled complacently, feeling assured that such 
things could never happen in Boston waters. We 
were pleased, but not surprised, when the mere 
appearances of our representatives at Montreal 
provoked a sigh of relief at the Seawanhaka cup 
dinner. We have a few bounders in our racing- 
ranks but good example has given them the 
veneer, if not the actual substance of gentlemen 
sportsmen. 
In the heat of a contest there often have been 
hot looks and malodorous language exchanged 
which at the finish line, however, cleared up in 
good natured jolly and banter. Many a congested 
start has seen the boats in a wild jumble of 
bumping matches, or even witnessed boats on 
the port tack forcing others on the starboard. 
Yet protests have seldom resulted unless the foul¬ 
ing clearly had a material effect upon the re¬ 
sults. Ill considered protests have been diplo¬ 
matically pigeon-holed by regatta committees and 
the spirit of “sport for its own sake” has flour¬ 
ished like the traditional green bay tree. “If I 
cannot win on the water, I will not take victory 
from the hands of any committee” has uncon¬ 
sciously become our creed. 
And now, the very men who by birth and 
training should be the last to indulge in un¬ 
seemly bickering, or to foster strife, are the 
ones who are responsible for the lamentable 
wind-up of this year’s races for the Quincy cup. 
Manchester had scored one win by good judg¬ 
ment and a little luck; Bonidrei one by careful 
handling, and one on a fluke; and Windrim Kid 
won a race on merit and another on an arrant 
fluke. The last race resulted in a clean cut 
victory for Bonidrei, and the result was in no 
way whatever affected by the alleged foul. In a 
previous race where a stupid committee had issued 
circulars nartiing different turning points, Mr. 
Adams would have been perfectly justified had 
he asked to have the race resailed, but he dis¬ 
missed the suggestion with the statement that 
"Bonideri would have beaten Auk anyway. Why 
could not have Mr. Macomber given the same 
answer? Is it true that the crew of Manchester 
egged him on in the hope that with the protest 
once made both boats would be disqualified, the 
