FOREST AND STREAM 
July 19, 1913 
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Forest and Stream will give a weekly digest of Yachting and Motor Boating events from all over the country. 
Ticks From the Ship’s Clock. 
The Port Washington Y. C. has been 
elected to membership in the Yacht Racing As¬ 
sociation of Long Island Sound. Looks as 
though Commodore Gould had waked things up 
somewhat. 
The sailormen who couldn't tell that clouds 
contained something besides a silver lining got 
some shock last Sunday when the squall struck. 
It’s easier to rehoist a mainsail than to tow a 
capsized yacht ashore—and doesn’t take quite so 
long. 
The consensus of opinion at the elimination 
at Huntington was that Hold Hingland could 
plant geraniums in the motor boat cup for an¬ 
other winter, and some said a century plant 
would grow undisturbed in it. 
Harold W. Webb has been elected to suc¬ 
ceed the late Prof. Hallock as measurer of the 
Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound. 
G. W. Wilson, chairman of the regatta com¬ 
mittee of the Manhasset Bay Y. C., wants to 
buy a Bayside Bird for use on Lake Sunapee. 
All those who can’t beat George Cory, please 
write. 
Boating enthusiasts at Watch Hill, R. I., 
have organized a yacht club. The officers are: 
Commodore, W. J. Battey; Vice-Commodore, F. 
S. Kingsbury, Jr.; Rear-Commodore, Miss 
Frances Dunham; Secretary, Frank A. Turn- 
bull; Treasurer, Chalfant Robinson; Committee 
on Admission, Messrs. F. J. Kingsbury, George 
X. McLanahan and L. H. English; Committee 
on Racing, Messrs. George Barrie, W. H. An¬ 
drews and W. J. Battey. 
“The sail yacht regatta at Put-in-Bay, July 
20 to 27, will mark the greatest gathering of 
modern racing yachts ever seen on fresh water,” 
said George H. Worthington, commodore of the 
Interlake Yachting Association. Twenty Ameri¬ 
can and Canadian yacht clubs are members of 
the association. More than 250 yachts from the 
United States and Canadian cities on the Great 
Lakes and from the Atlantic seaboard are ex¬ 
pected. A long distance race from Rocky River, 
Cleveland, to Put-in-Bay, a distance of about 
fifty-five miles, will be the opening event of the 
meeting. 
Four boats started in the weekly regatta of 
the Diamond Y. C. over a ten-mile course in 
Jamaica Bay. Winner was J. Sauer’s Valiant. 
One wouldn’t think too much wind would 
delay a yacht race in the Windy City, but it did. 
The annual classic of the lakes, the long distance 
race and cruise of the Chicago Y. C., was post¬ 
poned last Saturday, because old Boreas was 
getting even with those Heyworth chaps, sched¬ 
uled to win in Polaris. 
Harmsworth Trials. 
The elimination trials at Huntington to se¬ 
lect three challengers for the Harmsworth Motor 
Boat Challenge Cup taken to England last year 
by Maple Leaf IV. were most unsatisfactory. 
With the exception of Ankle Deep, owned by 
Count Casimir Mankowski, not one of the en¬ 
trants showed sufficient speed and reliability to 
satisfy the International Selection Committee of 
the Motor Boat Club of America. 
Count Mankowski has made arrangements 
to race his boat in the Thousand Islands re¬ 
gatta for the international gold cup, so that there 
is hardly a chance that she will go abroad. 
In the trials at Huntington Bay, Ankle Deep 
went twice over the five-mile course and aver¬ 
aged 38.33 knots, or 44.097 statute miles an hour. 
This performance was made on the first day at 
the trials. On the closing day Ankle Deep cov¬ 
ered the regulation course three times, but was 
not put to full speed, as there was really no 
competition. The performance, however, satis¬ 
fied the Selection Committee. 
Speed Demon Reliance, Commodore J. 
Stuart Blackton’s 38-foot hydroplane, won the 
first of the official races. Her average speed 
for the international course at Huntington Bay 
was 35.491 knots, or 40.813 statute miles, no 
record being broken, her gasoline pipe breaking 
on the last five-mile round. The same owner’s 
America did not complete three rounds, a cog 
slipping out of her magneto. In the second 
trial of the latter, she came to grief with engine 
trouble. The showing made by the America was 
more convincing to the committee than Speed 
Demon Reliance, and the committee notified the 
owner that when his boat was ready to go over 
a full course again, he could have another trial. 
Commodore Blackton has a force of engineers 
working on the engines, and expects to remedy 
the defects early this week. 
The showing made by Peter Pan V., owned 
by James Simpson, before cracking one of her 
cylinders, was not very satisfactory to the com¬ 
mittee. 
The failure of Neptune IV. to put in an 
appearance was a great disappointment to the 
committee. This speed boat was built by A. E. 
Appel, at Atlantic City, N. J., for Lawrence D. 
Buhl, of Detroit. A speed of sixty miles an 
hour is said to have been made by Neptune IV. 
in a recent trial on the Jersey coast. Her owner 
has made all the necessary arrangements to have 
the boat compete in the coming trials. The 
new wonder from Atlantic City is 32 feet long 
and has an 8-foot beam. It contains one 6- 
cylinder 400 horsepower engine, and is built on 
altogether original lines. 
During the winter there were reports of 
boats by the score which were under construc¬ 
tion, and all of which were reported to be capa¬ 
ble of speeding a mile a minute. None of these 
appeared at the trials, and the only hope of 
America sending a challenging trio is for the 
owner- of Ankle Deep to give his consent and 
the prospect of Peter Pan V. and America im¬ 
proving on their previous performances. 
Camden M. B. C. 
Jennie S., owned by George Stock, of the 
Camden Motor Boat Club, won the annual race 
for the Coleman duPont trophy, given under the 
auspices of the Wilmington Yacht and Automo¬ 
bile Club, going over the sixty-four nautical mile 
course to Ship John Light and return in 7I1. 2m. 
50s. According to the finish, the Camden Motor 
Boat Club carried off second honors, for H. J. 
Dudley’s Haji crossed the line just one minute 
after Jennie S., although the winner had a con¬ 
siderable handicap over Haji, which covered the 
course in the best time of the race in 6h. 23m. 9s. 
Some of the contestants contended, however, 
that Haji did not round Ship John Light and 
filed a protest with the committee about putting 
the boat in second place. The committee will 
make an investigation. 
Jackson Park Y. C. 
The forty-knot gale didn’t scare the Jack- 
son Park bunch a bit. They held their weekly 
regatta with eight starters, with six finishing. 
The summary: 
Twenty-five Foot Class. 
Corrected. Corrected. 
Bandit . 2 22 2(5 Seminole . d. n. f. 
Cyma . 2 20 59 
Thirty-Foot Class. 
Mildred II.2 14 20 Susan I. d. n. f. 
Twenty-One Foot Cabin Class. 
Edith II. 1 57 20 Chloris . 2 02 44 
Cherry .. 2 02 38 
Gravesend Bay Y. R. A. 
The Atlantic Y. C. managed the regatta here 
last Saturday, while old Boreas did the rest. 
W. A. Barstow’s Soya won from Irvia in Class 
Q, Virginia being put out of the race in saving 
her captain, who fell overboard. In the handi¬ 
cap class, Triton scored a sailover. Careless did 
the same in the second division. Dr. C. L. 
Atkinson won in Class S. Zeb Mayhew’s Woof 
won in the bird class. In the dory division, 
Skylark won. 
Bayside Y. C. 
On Saturday and Sunday last special races 
in the butterfly class sailed by the ladies were 
held. The winner of both days was Mrs. J. P. 
Paret,- who sailed Flutterby. Teaser won in the 
bird class. 
