July 12, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
49 
Target Wins Legier Cup and Sloop Cham¬ 
pionship of Southern Waters. 
BY H. H. DUNN, STAFF CORRESPONDENT. 
Pounded almost to pieces and then rebuilt, 
her owner and skipper so seriously injured that 
he had to go to a hospital, both as results of 
a squall on Lake Pontchartrain some six weeks 
ago, the little machine sloop Target, sailed by 
Eddie Keep, captured the John Legier, Jr., cup, 
and the title of Southern waters champion, 
which goes with it on the twelve-mile course at 
West End, New Orleans, June 28. 
Target, sailed so perfectly that even the 
rocking chair fleet could not criticize, defeated 
Massachusetts (Heaslip Syndicate) international 
champion; Kathryn I. (Captain “Peter” Cooke), 
champion of the Great Lakes, and Seawanhaka, 
whose title of international champion was 
wrested from her two years ago by Massachu¬ 
setts. The victory places her in the very front 
rank of American machine sloops, and makes 
her a formidable contender for the international 
champion at the next contest for that honor. 
Last to get off at the start, Target led the 
field all the way with the exception of a short 
distance on the first round. Her skipper’s work, 
both to windward and against the breeze, was 
far superior to that of any and all the other 
pilots. She picked up Seawanhaka, Kathryn 
and Massachusetts in the order named in the 
first round, and had a comfortable lead when 
she turned the eastward stake. After that it 
was a procession to the home stake, except for 
a few minutes in the last leg, when Target was 
blown a short distance into the lake and had 
to do some clever tacking to keep in the lead 
and on the course. She shot by the home stake 
with barely a foot to spare, and the Southern 
Y. C. house fairly rocked with cheers as the 
little cannon in the cupola proclaimed Target 
the winner. 
At the start there was hardly enough wind 
for the boats to get out of the canal and on to 
the course, but a few minutes after the start¬ 
ing gun, the boats fell into a fair breeze, and 
all got across the line with Massachusetts in the 
lead. Seawanhaka, Kathryn I. and Target fol¬ 
lowed, Stranger and Senorita being scratched as 
hopelessly out of the big contest owing to their 
decisive defeats on the two previous contests of 
the three necessary to decide the championship. 
The wind was from the east and the course 
to the westward stake was sailed, and on the 
first round the slim little scows made the home 
stake in the following order and time: 
Target . 4 28 49 Massachusetts 4 30 26 
Kathryn I . 4 29 32 Seawanhaka . 4 35 20 
Target, picking up a steady wind, so far 
outstripped both Massachusetts and Kathryn I. 
that the latter two gave up hope of catching 
the Keep craft, and settled down to fight it out 
for second place. It was a pretty battle, with 
Seawanhaka too far astern to be more than an 
occasional menace. The sloops had difficulty in 
rounding the west stake, owing to falling wind, 
but Target, once round the mark, was so far 
ahead that she loafed until she picked up a 
strong breeze, and rounded the eastern stake be¬ 
fore Seawanhaka had turned the westward mark. 
Target came down the home stretch of this 
round with every inch of sail set and drawing 
beautifully. Barring accidents, she had won her 
race before it was two-thirds finished. 
CAPT. EDDIE KEEP’S TARGET, 
Winner of the machine sloop championship of the South for 1913, and one-third owner of the Legier 
cup. This snapshot was made by our staff photographer as Target rounded the eastward stakeboat and 
reached away for home. 
The John Legier cup is two feet high, solid silver, lined with gold, which goes to the winner of 
three successive annual contests for the cup. 
Meantime, Massachusetts forced herself, by 
a piece of clever sailing, ahead of Kathryn I., 
and held second place throughout the remainder 
of the contest. They made the second finish 
stake like this: 
Target . 4 52 55 Kathryn I . 5 16 45 
Massachusetts 5 12 46 Seawanhaka . 5 23 22 
Taking in her spinnaker, Target picked up 
a full breeze from the east and rounded the 
westward stake before the last of the four had 
rounded the home mark. Massachusetts trailed 
along a bad second, with Kathryn I. and Sea¬ 
wanhaka way behind. The eastward stake was 
made in the same order, with Kathryn nearly 
half a mile behind Massachusetts. 
Keep was forced to tack widely to the east 
on the home stretch to avoid being blown out 
into the lake, and lost some of his lead thereby. 
They finished in the following order and time: 
Target . 5 59 55 Kathryn I . 6 05 27 
Massachusetts 6 01 02 Seawanhaka . 6 12 26 
It is worthy of note that Seawanhaka, 
sailed by the same Eddie Keep who this year 
piloted Target to victory, won the Southern 
championship last year. She was a poor fourth 
in Saturday’s race, after making a good showing 
at the start. Elapsed and corrected time for 
the first two boats was as follows: 
Elapsed. Corrected, 
Target . 2 22 55 2 22 18 
Massachusetts . 2 23 59 2 23 59 
Total distance sailed, thirty-six miles. 
Friday, July 4, the machine sloops met at 
West End for the Hugh McCloskey cup, one 
race deciding the winner. On the same date the 
dories began a series of three races for the 
Harry Holmes cup. 
Elena Wins Puritan Cup. 
Marblehead, Mass., July 1.—Elena, owned 
by Morton F. Plant, won the annual race for 
the Puritan cup by 4m. 52s. As a result Elena’s 
name goes with a score of others on the base 
of the famous trophy, which the old Boston cup 
defender Puritan captured at Newport twenty- 
eight years ago. In the special sloop class 
Dorello beat Shimna by 32s. corrected time. 
The summary: 
Elapsed. Corrected, 
Elena, M. F Plant . 2 31 02 2 31 02 
Trolita, E. W. Clark. 2 38 00 2 36 54 
Dorello II., G L. Batchelder. 3 20 32 2 45 49 
Shimna, R. T. Paine, 2d. 3 10 49 2 46 30 
Trondiquoit, T. II. Shepard. 3 31 49 2 50 59 
Vagrant II., II. S. Vanderbilt. 3 12 49 2 5S 00 
