May 17, 1913 
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Forest and Stream will give a weekly digest of Yachting and Motor Boating events from all over the country. 
Perry Centennial Regatta. 
The one hundredth anniversary of the battle 
of Lake Erie and of the beginning of peace be¬ 
tween Canada and the United States will be 
commemorated on Lake Erie this summer by a 
ten weeks’ celebration and the erection of a me¬ 
morial in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard 
Perry, the hero of 1813. The United States 
Government and nine of the States whose 
soldiers and sailors took part in the naval and 
land engagements in the famous campaign in 
the Northwest, have backed this big undertaking 
with appropriations of nearly $1,000,000. 
The Inter-Lake Yachting Association, com¬ 
posed of many active clubs, having nearly 5,000 
individual members, and with a history of 
twenty-five years of annual regattas on Lake 
Erie, will have charge of the Perry Centennial 
Regatta, which includes all the aquatic sports in 
connection with the Perry Celebration of 1913. 
The regatta will consist of sail yacht, power 
boat, aviation and other sports programs cover¬ 
ing four periods of a week each, as below. 
The regatta will be held at Put-in-Bay, on Lake 
Erie. Numerous steamer lines from Detroit, 
Toledo, Sandusky, Port Clinton and Cleveland 
make daily trips to and from Put-in-Bay. Yachts 
can cruise to the Bay in a few hours from either 
of the ports named. 
Put-in-Bay is an ideal location for this great 
regatta, with protected anchorages, good clean 
water, freedom from commercial shipping, good 
clear regatta courses, and fine viewpoints for 
thousands of spectators. All courses will be 
patrolled by U. S. Revenue Cutters, assisted by 
yachtsmen and naval militiamen during other 
sports week. 
Sail yachts, July 20-27; $5,000 prizes. Power 
boats, July 27-Aug. 2; $5,000 prizes. 
Aviation, week of Aug. 17-24: Hydroaero¬ 
plane and flying boat exhibitions and contests. 
Other sports, week of Aug. 24-31: Canoe 
regatta for stock and racing canoes and sailing 
dinghies. Under rules of American Canoe Asso¬ 
ciation. 
Clubs and individuals may write for infor¬ 
mation regarding entries, rules, list of officials, 
reservations at hotels and full details to Other 
Sports Committee, Chas. D. Lynch, Chairman, 
860 Lemcke Anne.x, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency has sold 
the 53-foot motor boat Octalee VL, owned by 
E. H. Tarbell, of Boston, to Ingersoll Amory, 
of Boston, a member of the Eastern Y. C. 
Octalee VL is one of the handsomest motor 
boats in Boston waters and was built last year 
by Britt Brothers, of Lynn, Mass., from designs 
of John Small. She is equipped with a 50 horse¬ 
power motor. Also the 41-foot motor boat 
Cynthia, formerly Doris B IL, owned by Philip 
D. Campbell, of Kansas City. Jilo., to G. K. 
Benson, of New York; the 25-foot waterline 
Class A interclub sloop yacht Novice, owned by 
Cyrus K. Small, ex-Commodore of the Mos¬ 
quito Fleet Y. C., to Dennison Lyon, of Brook¬ 
line, Mass., who will use her on Buzzard’s Bay; 
the 21-foot knockabout Clarita, owned by Arthur 
Willis, of Brookline, j\Iass., to J. Francis Rich, 
of the Savin Hill Y. C.; the sonder boat Wag, 
owned by R. L. Agassiz, of Hamilton, Mass., to 
W. Wilton Wood, Jr., of Huntington, L. 1 .; and 
the 31-foot motor boat Belterre, owned by 
Charles E. Phelan, of Charlestown, Mass., to 
Barton B. Hill, of Lowell, IMass. 
Atlantic Y. C. 
The schedule of races of the Atlantic Y. C. 
for the season of 1913 follows: 
May 30.—Opening regatta; Classes M and 
below ; start, 3 p. m. 
*June 7.—Open regatta; Classes M and be¬ 
low ; start, 3 p. M. 
*June 28.—Open regatta; Classes M and be¬ 
low; start, 3 p. M. 
*July 5.—Open regatta; Classes M and be¬ 
low; start, 3 p. M. 
*July 12.—Open regatta; Classes M and be¬ 
low; start, 3 p. M. 
*Aug. 15.—Open regatta; Classes IM and be¬ 
low; start, 3 p. M. 
Aug. 19.—Race week, all classes, special cir¬ 
cular. 
• Aug. 20.—Race week, all classes, special cir¬ 
cular. 
Aug. 21.—Race week, all classes, special cir¬ 
cular. 
Aug. 22.—Race week, all classes, special cir¬ 
cular. 
Sept. I. —Annual regatta, all classes, special 
circular; starting at ii .\. M. 
*Sept. 13.—Open regatta; Classes M and be¬ 
low; start, 3 p. M. 
SPECIAL RACES—CRESCENT A. C. 
During the race week there will be a series 
of races of Class S boats for a cup offered, 
through the Crescent A. C., by Sir Thomas Lip- 
ton, under conditions similar to those govern¬ 
ing the Thompson cup series for the Q class. 
Carlos de Zafra, Chairman. 
Frank P. Currier, 
Rudolph H. Weber, 
Office of the Chairman, Atlantic Y. C., Sea 
Gate, or 322 V’est Fifty-seventh street. New 
York. Telephone, Tremont 2800. 
^■'I'o count on championship of Gravesend Bay. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Central Division.—Harry W. Barker, 28 
Manchester Place, Buffalo, N. Y., by Lyman T. 
Coppins. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—6646, S. Trailer Buck, 29 
North Thirteenth street, Philadelphia, Pa.; 6647, 
Milton A. Shopp, 53 Brinkerhoff street, Jersey 
City, N. J. 
Central Division.—6648, William E. Bishop, 
104 Dudley street, Syracuse, N. Y.; 6649, Karl 
J. Viola, Jr., 2004 Midland avenue, Syracuse, 
N. T.; 6650, Lloyd E. Leland, 335 Hudson street, 
Buffalo, N. Y.; 6651, Norman B. Campbell, 39 
St. James Place, Buffalo. N. Y.; 6652, Carleton 
Kelsey, 503 Forest avenue, Buffalo, N. Y.; 6653, 
Harry P. Kerr, 85 Seneca street, Buffalo, N. Y.; 
6654, Leroy M. Wheeler, 121 Claremont avenue, 
Buffalo, N. Y.; 6655, Harry T. Ramsdell, Jr., 
126 Chapin Parkway, Buffalo, N. Y.; 6656, 
Charles Haibt, 207 Warham street, Syracuse ( 
N. Y. 
The Irviernational Challenge Cup. 
BY C. BOWYER VAUX. 
Warrington Baden-Powell was the first 
canoeist who designed a canoe that would sail 
to windward. E. B. Tredwen was his closest 
rival for sailing honors in the canoe sailing re¬ 
gattas of the Roj’al C. C. at Hendon Lake, near 
London. The first sailing canoes in this country 
were built from designs sent over by Baden- 
Powell from England about 1877. 
Sailing races in canoes was put on a firm 
basis as a sport at the August, 1884, meet of the 
A. C. A., Grindstone Island. The racing there 
was reported in the daily papers and fully de¬ 
scribed in Forest and Stream, The American 
Canoeist and in the English papers devoted to 
sport. 
Early in the summer of 1885, both Tredwen 
and Baden-Powell notified their canoeing friends 
in New York that they would attend the 1886 
A. C. A. meet. Kirk Munroe was then commo¬ 
dore of the New York C. C. (organized in 1871). 
He at once proposed that the New York C. C. 
offer an international challenge cup, to be raced 
for on similar lines to the America's cup. The 
club endorsed the suggestion and ordered the 
cup. The first published announcement was 
made in August, 1885. The conditions to gov¬ 
ern the challenges and the races were adopted 
at a club meeting, Oct. 27, 1885, and a letter 
giving all the particulars about the New York 
C. C. international challenge cup was then sent 
to the secretary of the Royal C. C., London, 
England. 
The A. C. A. trophy was first proposed at 
the meeting of the executive committee, Oswego, 
N. Y., Nov. 12, 1885. 
Tredwen did not come to America in 1886, 
but Baden-Powell and his friend, Walter 
Stewart, did. They attended the A. C. A. meet 
in August. The cup races were sailed on New 
York Bay, Sept. 4, 6 and 8. 
