Oct. 13, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
CABIN AND CONSTRUCTION PLANS OF MULTNOMAH-DESIGNED BY MR. B. B. CRO\YNINSHIELD FOR MR. FRANK DRAKE. 
still feel, that if I was to write anything about 
the Quincy cup races, I owed it to myself, to 
Forest and Stream, and to the reading public 
that supposedly was to derive its information 
concerning those races from my account of 
them, to describe that contest, and the incidents 
connected therewith, as they appeared to me, to 
review them fully and freely with such candor 
as my individual mental shortcomings would 
permit, and to draw such conclusions as to me 
seemed fair, reasonable and just. 
The criticism to which I gave utterance and 
to which Mr. Small objects was, and remains, 
my sober judgment. It was not a hurried, ill- 
considered expression of my thoughts. It had 
been written, amended, amplified, constricted and 
rewritten. As I reread it, I see no cause to 
make any changes. Such of it as, inferentially, 
applied to Mr. John F. Small was not, and to 
my mind cannot fairly be construed to be, a 
criticism of him personally, but of a certain 
phase of our interpretation of the word amateur. 
I purposely refrained from naming Mr. Small as 
I did not wish to stigmatize him but only the 
system of which I complained. And I pur¬ 
posely added words to free him from any ac¬ 
cusation of deliberate, or even conscious, mis¬ 
representation. For Mr. John F. Small is all 
that his brother says of him—-“there is no fairer 
racing man. in the game, none who better knows 
the rules or whose word is more respected.” The 
paragraph of which Mr. S. N. Small complains 
was summed up in the words—“the builder, sail- 
maker and designer are as dependent upon re¬ 
sults for success in business as is the paid hand 
himself. The best of us become unconsciously 
blind under such circumstances.” I do not con¬ 
sider those words irreconcilable with the fore¬ 
going praise of Mr. Small. I admit that, had 
I been in Mr. Small’s place, I, too, should have 
taken his attitude—I believe that every one of 
us, deep down in his own heart, realizes that if 
his boat is in a foul that involves a close inter¬ 
pretation of the rules he finds it almost, if 
not quite, impossible to be absolutely fair in 
describing the events that led up to and included 
that foul. (Not that Mr. Small or any true 
sportsman would necessarily protest such a foul 
if it in no way affected the result of the race). 
If Mr. S. N. Small believes his brother exempt 
from such human frailties, or if he still sees 
cause for offense despite this woefully long 
analysis of my state of mind in writing as I did, 
I am very, very sorry to have wounded his 
feelings or those of his brother, and I regret 
that self-respect will not permit me to make any 
other apology. 
As for Mr. Small’s complacent statement that' 
“there is no faster boat in the sonderklasse than 
Windrim Kid,” my idea of impartial, fair, un¬ 
biased criticism obliges me to stick to statistics; 
all I dare to say is that Lorelei was not ttie 
fastest, and that Vim, Bonidrei, Windrim Kid 
and Auk made a better showing than the others 
under the disappointing conditions that pre¬ 
vailed last summer. In fourteen times that 
Bonidrei and Windrim Kid met, each defeated 
the other seven times. Bonidrei took four firsts 
to the Kid’s two. The average percentages for 
those fourteen races give Bonidrei 77.6 per 
cent., Windrim Kid 72.3 per cent. 
William Lambert Barnard. 
