Aug. 9, 1913. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Forest and Stream will give a weekly digest of Yachting and Motor Boating events from all over the country. 
Yachting and Motor Boating 
Review of the Week. 
Uncertain winds and little of what there 
was made very unsatisfactory races during the 
past week. 
The big event, the annual cruise, the first 
in eighteen years, of the Larchmont Y. C., got 
away with thirty-one starters and only six fin¬ 
ished at New Haven, the first leg of the cruise, 
within the time limit. Muriel, the flagship of 
the club, owned and sailed by Commodore 
Charles F. Smithers, sailed a remarkable race, 
not only winning in her class, but on time allow¬ 
ance, beating Elena by 31m. 51s. Elena won 
in her class over Irolita handily. Stranger won 
in the Class P and handicap class by more than 
ijdh. However, Josephine was absent. 
The Marblehead regatta brought out very 
excellent racing during which Ellen, owned by 
C. P. Curtis, won the Quincy cup. Mr. Curtis 
sailed his own boat, winning three races; Tern 
and Cima each won one. 
The annual race of the Bensonhurst Y. C., 
known as the lightship event, was won by H. A. 
Robbins’ Wahkan II. 
At the regatta of the Brooklyn Y. C. in 
Gravesend Bay, the winners were: Class Q, 
Arvia; handicap class, Triton; bird class, Woof; 
sloop Class S, Cyric; Gravesend Bay knock¬ 
abouts, Poke Along. 
At the Watch Hill Y. C., the baby organiza¬ 
tion started a week or two ago, a fairly good 
entry list was shown. The dory race was won 
by Pard, handicap race by Eugenia. 
Fifty-one boats started in the Stamford 
Y. C. regatta out of eighty entries. The win¬ 
ners were Acushla in the New York Y. C. 50’s, 
Nepsi in the New York C. C. 30’s, Alert in the 
handicap class, Wild Thyme in the Larchmont 
interclub class, Hopewell in the Stamford 
schooner class, Dutchess in the special class. 
Joyant in Class P beat Stranger by more than 
11m. Osprey was an easy winner in the Stam¬ 
ford one-design class, while Black Bird finished 
first in the red-wing division. Drena, which was 
almost unbeatable when sailed last year by Sam 
Shethar, was outclassed by Ace. 
Down at Red Bank, Dolphin, owned and 
sailed by A. G. Hupfel, won the James cup in 
a very pretty race. While further down the 
beach at Sear Girt, Geisha Girl beat everything 
in sight and was made champion of the Manas- 
quan River Y. C. 
In the eighth club race of the Beverly Y. C. 
with the largest entry list of the season some 
mighty close races were sailed. A great deal 
of interest centered in the Herreshoff one-design 
15-footers, sailed by women, and was won by 
Miss Esther Hosmer, in the Pronto, beating ten 
other sisters. In the 21-footer class, Kacoona 
won by 3m. Among the sonders, A. F. Good¬ 
win’s Seacoon won by 17s. from Peg. And 
speaking of sonders, the three German sonder 
class boats, which are to sail against the Ameri¬ 
can boats in the Marblehead regatta in Septem¬ 
ber, are on their way over. They are Angela, 
belonging to the Crown Prince; Serum, owned 
by Waldermar Tietgens, and Wittelsbach, owned 
by Cristof Alt. The Crown Prince’s yacht will 
be sailed by Herr Weitzmann. 
At the Quincy Y. C. in Class C Wanderer, 
in Class F Yarita, in Class B Harold were win¬ 
ners. 
At the Duxbury Y. C. the winners were Kit 
in the 15-footers, Midget among the catboats, 
Answer in the 18-footers. 
At Bayside the usual excitement was found 
in the Saturday regatta. Among the birds Sky¬ 
lark was first in the sloop one-designs. W. E. 
Banks’ Mary Jane, after sailing all week at 
Larchmont without a competitor, came home and 
trimmed Betty by more than 3m. Among the 
bugs, Wasp had it all to herself. While in the 
butterfly division, Cabbage won by a bit over 
a minute. 
In the motor boat events at Put-in-Bay, 
Ankle Deep won three successive victories, win¬ 
ning the gold challenge cup, taking it for the 
first time since 1904 from the St. Lawrence 
River. It is announced that Count Mankowski 
will take Ankle Deep to England to race for 
the British international trophy, and in this con¬ 
nection it is also announced that that good 
sportsman, James Pugh, of Chicago, will send 
Disturber III. across the pond for the interna¬ 
tional cup race. 
In the annual race of the Chicago Motor 
Boat Club at Michigan City, Blanche C. won by 
6m. from Ninawa. 
Biloxi Holds Biggest Regatta of Season. 
BY OUR STAFF CORRESPONDENT. 
More than 5,000 persons, drawn from prac¬ 
tically all the ports of the South, saw the Biloxi 
Y. C.’s regatta, July 16-17. It was the most 
largely attended boating event in the South so 
far this season, and probably only will be ex¬ 
celled by the Southern Y. C.’s regatta, to be 
held early in August. Weather conditions were 
delightful, and a twelve to fifteen knot breeze 
blew both days, enabling every sailboat contest 
to be a real race, and not hampering the motor 
boats on the second day to any noticeable extent. 
In the schooner races, American Girl was the 
star, but on time allowance it was found that 
Elbert D. had won the $75 prize by just 2s., the 
closest race ever run on the Gulf coast. Kathryn 
defeated Seawanhaka in the machine sloop con¬ 
test. 
The power boat races were run on July 17. 
Interest centered in the contest for auto speed 
boats between Julius Lopez’ Bella L., and Ed¬ 
ward Morris’ Casey Jones. Bella L. won with 
ease, making the fifteen miles in 37m. 16s. 
In the cabin cruisers William Watson’s Iona 
and Peter Cooke’s Carmita were the only en¬ 
tries. Iona won handily. Indeed, Cooke realized 
that he could not beat Iona before the race 
started, but his desire to promote the interests 
of the regatta and to aid the sport of motor 
boating in Southern waters was so great that 
he put Carmita into the contest and she made 
one bully race at that. Iona’s time for six miles- 
was 34m. 41s. 
Kamas won the canopy and cabin launches 
event, six miles, in 40m. 38s. This little boat 
belongs to J. D. Gautier, and won against four 
other starters. Venus won the open launches 
under six horsepower race, three miles, in 22m. 
30s. Zip was second and Florence M. broke 
down fifty yards from the finish after she had 
the race in her pocket and did not finish. 
Vallie and No Name, both owned by C. 
Schmidt, entered in the six to ten horsepower 
launch class. No Name broke down and Vallie 
got the money. Her time for the four and a 
half miles was 25m. 45s. Ladyfish and Frances, 
open launches of twenty to thirty-five horse¬ 
power, entered in what promised to be one of 
the most spectacular races of the day, but 
Frances’ rudder broke in the first lap and Lady- 
fish won, going the nine miles in 37m. 17s. 
As a climax to the two days of excellent 
sail and power boat racing, the annual ball was 
held in the Hotel De Montross, at which the 
prizes were distributed. 
Recent Transactions in Yacht Brokerage 
Messrs. Cox & Stevens report that not¬ 
withstanding the prevailing cry of hard times, 
they have effected quite as many charters of 
yachts during the present season as usual. 
Among recent transactions completed by 
their office are the following charters of steam 
yachts: 
Steam yacht Alvina, chartered for Thomas 
F. Cole, New York Y. C., to Senator Nelson W. 
Aldrich. Alvina is one of the largest of the 
American built steam yachts, being 214 feet in 
length, 27 feet beam, 14 feet draft and most 
luxuriously equipped. Senator Aldrich has just 
returned on this vessel from a trip to Canada,, 
and will use the boat for coastwise cruising dur¬ 
ing the summer. 
Steam yacht Isis has been chartered for 
Messrs. J. T. and W. S. Spaulding, of Boston, 
to Dr. Preston P. Satterwhite. Isis is also an 
American built steam yacht of large size, being 
200 feet in length, 25 feet beam, 12 feet draft, 
and is one of the speediest of the large steam 
yachts. Dr. Satterwhite will use this vessel for 
coastwise cruising during the summer, going as 
far east as Nova Scotia, and probably will make 
a trip to Panama in the fall. 
Steam yacht Naushon has been chartered 
for J. W. Hubbard, of Pittsburg, to Colonel 
