April 26, 1913 
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Ticks From the Ship’s Clock. 
The Cape Catboat Association has an¬ 
nounced that they will not hold races this sea¬ 
son north of Marblehead or south of Hull Bay. 
Someone has described the New York 
Yacht Club as Lipton’s tease. That seems to 
us as a bit strong, in matter wherein water 
plays so important a part. 
Unless the arrangements are changed again, 
the New York Y. C. fleet will rendezvous at 
New London on Tuesday, Aug. 5, late in the 
afternoon. There will be the usual formalities 
of holding a meeting of captains on board the 
flagship Sea Fox. 
Official entry of the motor boat Tocsam 
II., W. D. Mulford, owner, has been filed with 
the regatta committee of the Philadelphia 
Yachtsmen’s Club for the Bermuda race, which 
starts on June 7 off Race street pier, Philadel¬ 
phia. She will be in direct command of her 
owner, Mr. Mulford, and will be entered as a 
representative of the Ocean City Y. C., whose 
pennant she will fly. 
Thirty new members were admitted to the 
Kennebec Y. C. at the regular monthly meeting. 
New Rochelle Y. C. 
The New Rochelle Y. C. has at the com¬ 
mencement of the season taken in fifty-five new 
members, making the present roll number 283. 
Before the return of the initiation fee on May 7, 
it is confidently expected that the membership 
will be increased to over 300. 
The club will go in commission on May 4, 
on which date there will be held the regular 
quarterly meeting of the members, and there will 
be a shad dinner at the club house on Harrison 
Island. 
Ground will be broken for a new club house 
immediately at the close of the yachting season 
this fall. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The Holliss Burgess yacht agency has sold 
the knockabout Virya, owned by J. M. O’Brien, 
of South Norwalk, Conn., to Elmer F. Smith, of 
Marion, Mass.; the Massachusetts Bay 18-foot 
racing sloop La Chica, built for C. H. W. 
Foster, of Boston, under the name of Picca¬ 
dilly, to a Boston yachtsman ; the Buzzards Bay 
Herreshoff one-design class 15-foot knockabout 
Cat’s Paw, owned by Henry W. Harris, of Chest¬ 
nut Hill, Mass., to Morris Gray, Jr., of Chestnut 
Hill, Mass., and the Hull one-design class knock¬ 
about Kid, owned by Lowell A. Mayberry, of 
Boston, to Edward J. Wynde, of Boston. 
Atlantic Y. C. 
The following appointments for the season 
of 1913 are: Fleet Captain, Alvah Nickerson; 
Fleet Surgeon, Charles E. Gilbert, M.D.; Chap¬ 
lain, Nehemiah Boynton, D.D.; Regatta Commit¬ 
tee, Carlos de Zafra, Chairman, Frank P. Cur¬ 
rier, Rudolph H. Weber. 
J. Stuart Blackton, Com. 
Forest and Stream is the official organ of the American Canoe Association. 
N. Y. C. C. Accepts Canadian Challenge. 
The New York C. C. has accepted the chal¬ 
lenge of the Gananoque and Motor Boat Club of 
Canada to race for the international cup known 
as the New York Canoe Club international 
trophy. 
This cup has been defended successfully by 
the American canoes in every contest sailed 
since it was offered first in 1886, but there has 
not been a race since 1895. The Gananoque Canoe 
and Motor Boat Club of Canada has challenged 
and named Ralph B. Britton as its representa¬ 
tive, and the New York C. C. has accepted the 
challenge. This trophy is for sailing canoes, and 
must be raced for always under the rules of the 
New York C. C., no matter where held. 
According to the international cup rules the 
defender must be selected after a series of trial 
races open to members of all canoe clubs in the 
United States. The New York C. C., after ac¬ 
cepting the challenge, appointed a committee to 
take charge of the trial races, select the defender 
and conduct the challenge races. This commit¬ 
tee is Louis S. Tiemann, 80 Maiden lane. Chair¬ 
man ; Paul Butler, Robert J. Wilkin, C. Bowyer 
Vaux, Austin M. Poole, H. Lansing Quick, 
George P. Douglass and H. Dudley Murphy. 
The Atlantic Division of the American 
Canoe Association is to hold its annual division 
meet at Pard’s Point, Tottenville, Staten Island, 
June 28 to July 5, and the officers of that divis¬ 
ion have extended to the New York C. C. an in¬ 
vitation to hold the trial races at this meet, 
which has been accepted. The trial races will 
be probably on July 3, 4 and 5. All canoeists 
have been invited to enter. 
The officers of the Marine and Field Club, 
off whose grounds several international races 
have been sailed, have placed their grounds at 
RALPH B. BRITTON. 
the disposal of the New York C. C. for the big 
races, and these will be sailed July ii, 12 and 
14. The series is two out of three races of not 
less than eight or more than ten miles, and there 
is a time limit of three hours for each race. 
The first canoe to cross the finish line is the 
winner. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Atlantic Division.—J. Durbin S. Wood, 47- 
49 Liberty street. New York city, by F. C. Buch- 
enberger. 
Eastern Division.—Henry George Butler, 
278 Cranston street. Providence, R. L, by Wil¬ 
liam A. Heath. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—6641, Paul Schwenn, 248 
Lawrence avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Western Division.—6642, Gordon A. Van 
Riper, 227 East Park avenue. Highland Park, Ill. 
California Cork Trees. 
The supervisor of the Angeles National 
Forest, Mr. Charlton, has begun an experiment 
on a large scale with a view of determining 
whether the cork trees that flourish in Spain 
can be raised in Southern California. He has 
just reset i.ooo cork trees, each about two feet 
high, and has planted thousands of cork tree 
seeds back of San Bernardino. 
Mr. Charlton believes that with proper at¬ 
tention and care trees furnishing the cork of 
commerce can be profitably and successfully 
raised in this part of the country. Outside of 
the experiment station at Chico there appears 
to have been no efforts to raise cork in Cali¬ 
fornia. 
