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A special chart of the course for races for 
the British international trophy at Huntington 
Harbor is to be published, and the committee 
will assign anchorages for yachtsmen who wish 
to watch the races from their own yachts. 
Positions will be assigned in order pf applica¬ 
tion, and as a very large fleet will be at Hunt¬ 
ington, yacht owners will do well to apply 
early. 
G. E. Roosevelt, chairman of the race com¬ 
mittee of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C., has 
sent the following notice to the members of the 
club: 
“The attention of this committee has been 
called to the fact that carelessness on the part 
of yacht owners, in allowing their vessels to be 
placed in position where they have interfered 
with racing yachts, has recently caused con¬ 
siderable inconvenience to racing men. 
“Sailing masters of all yachts should be cau¬ 
tioned by their owners against allowing their 
vessels to approach a racing boat in such a way 
that any claim of interference could possibly be 
made. 
“It is hoped that all members of this club 
will instruct their sailing masters in this regard 
and do everything in their power to give rac¬ 
ing boats a fair chance in the interest of the 
sport.” 
It would be a mighty good scheme if mem¬ 
bers of other clubs would take Chairman Roose¬ 
velt’s suggestion unto themselves. 
Patricia, the Canadian yacht, which will 
meet the syndicate boat Michicago for inter¬ 
national honors, arrived in Chicago on sched¬ 
ule Aug. 1, flying the British flag and the 
burgee of the Royal Canadian Y. C. Commo¬ 
dore Norman Gooderham, owner and skipper, 
accompanied by his crew, also reached the 
scene of action. Those who will assist in hand¬ 
ling Patricia are Roger Clarkson, Harry J. Mc- 
Adie, F. S. Hobbs and J. L. Bartlett. 
The Motor Boat Club of America has sent 
out invitations to 150 yacht clubs in the United 
States and Canada to co-operate in the defense 
of the British international trophy for power 
boats on Huntington Bay, L. I., Aug. 31 and 
Labor Day. The speediest boats of the world 
will be on hand. Elimination races to select 
the three American defenders will be held on 
Aug. 26, 27 and 28. 
The racing machine Massachusetts, of the 
Manchester Y. C., which successfully defended 
the Seawanhaka cup in 1910 against the Cana¬ 
dian challenger St. Lawrence, has been sold to 
J. M. Kinnabrew, of New Orleans, represent¬ 
ing a syndicate. Massachusetts will be used in 
an effort to down Seawanhaka, formerly Man¬ 
chester, which was brought South and cleaned 
things up pretty well in those waters. Massa¬ 
chusetts was designed by E. A. Boardman and 
built at Manchester. She is a racing machine 
pure and simple, measures 25 feet on the line, 
42 feet over all, 8 feet 6 inches beam and draws 
officially 6 inches. 
The annual election of the Unqua Corinthian 
Y. C. of Amityville, L. I., held on July 27, brought 
success to the following: Commodore, Fred B. 
Dalzell; Vice-Commodore, Edgar P. Foster; 
Rear-Commodore, William T. Louden; Treas¬ 
urer, Marshall A. Woodman; Secretary, Clark 
B. Davis; Governors, Rufus j. Ireland, Francis 
A. Williams, George S. Thompson, George 
Schard, Jr., Charles R. Duryea, Erastus E. Hoff. 
In the re-election of Commodore Dalzell he 
breaks a precedent of long standing. It is an 
almost inviolable rule that officers shall serve not 
more, than two years. The members could not 
resist the desire for continued prosperity, so Mr. 
Dalzell was ordered back to the chair. 
New King’s Cup. 
The new trophy to take the place of the 
King’s cup, raced for the past several seasons, 
is to be given by King George V., and prob¬ 
ably will be competed for next year if not this 
season. The original King’s cup was presented 
to the New York Y. C. by the late King Ed¬ 
ward VII. in 1905, and has been raced for each 
season. 
The names of six yachts inscribed on the 
outer surface of the trophy, together with the 
names of the respective yacht owners, takes up 
so much space that no room remained for the 
next winner. The change to a new cup adjusts 
matters in that respect so nicely that pleasure 
is expressed generally in yacht racing circles. 
The conditions embodied in the deed of 
gift of the King’s cup are that it shall be raced 
for each year at the end of the annual squadron 
run of the New York Y. C. off Newport. The 
winners of the event cannot retain the trophy, 
according to the deed of gift, and the club is 
responsible for its safety. 
As the old cup will be now held as a me¬ 
morial by the New York Y. C., the King 
George cup is to take its place under much 
the same conditions. Interest will be as great 
for years to come as it has been since the 
trophy first came into existence. 
Not all yachts can race for the big piece 
of silver and gold, for it is specially stipulated 
that a sloop or single-masted yacht must meas¬ 
ure 50 feet on the waterline and a schooner at 
least 60 feet on the waterline before they can 
enter for such a race. Otherwise, any yacht 
belonging to any yacht club in good standing 
in the United States may race for the trophy. 
There may be changes from these conditions, 
whenever the flag officers of the New York 
Y. C. determine upon such a course taken ten 
months prior to the race to which such altera¬ 
tion is applicable. 
The rules stipulate also that the races for 
the cup shall be sailed without time limit. 
There is never any lack of interest in these 
races off Newport and in fact they are among 
the most noted events of the New York Y. C. 
Yachts have been built specially of the 
highest speed and power to capture the right 
to have the yacht’s and the owner’s name in¬ 
scribed on the cup. It is well remembered by 
most men interested in large yachts that the' 
famous schooner Queen, now the Irolita, was 
built at Herreshoff’s, in Bristol, for J. Rogers 
Maxwell to capture the inscription on the 
trophy. 
It proved otherwise though when the first 
race was sailed for the cup off the Brenton 
Reef course in 1905. A smaller racer than 
Queen, and a sloop at that, won the right to 
have her name engraved that year. It was the 
Gielow designed sloop Effort, owned by F. M. 
Smith, of New York, that craft winning the 
race in a high easterly wind on time allowance 
on the small margin of nine seconds. 
It was depressing to Mr. Maxwell to bring 
his new schooner Queen to the finish far in 
the lead of the whole fleet that day and then 
stand by back of the line counting the minutes 
and seconds it took Effort to complete the 
course and smash the feat of Queen, which 
was nearly twenty minutes in the lead. 
Queen won the cup the next year, how¬ 
ever, and then it went to the sloop Istalena of 
the 6o-foot class of sloops; to Avenger, a smaller 
boat of that class of flyers in turn, and then 
to the big racing schooner Enchantress, owned 
by William Iselin, in 1911. 
Red Bank Y. C. 
Red Bank, N. J., Aug. 3.— The week-end 
regatta to-day brought out five yachts of the 
Red Bank Y. C. Maywin took the lead across 
the line, but Papoose soon passed her to wind¬ 
ward. Maywin again took the lead after a 
short sprint and held it until the finish. Pa¬ 
poose won the race on time allowance. The 
summary: 
Corrected. Corrected. 
Papoose . 1 21 56 Emily . 1 31 42 
Maywin . 1 31 05 Florence .Withdrew 
Widow . 1 31 53 
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. 
Oyster Bay, L. I., Aug. 3.— Six one-de- 
sign boats of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 
sailed the fourth race of the second series to¬ 
day, and it was the best race of the season. 
The winner was Clinton Mackenzie’s Thelema 
by 2m. 30s. The summary: 
Sloops, Class S—Start, 3:10—Inside Course. 
Elapsed. Elapsed. 
Thelema . 1 25 50 Sabrina . 1 31 10 
Bat . 1 30 00 Hen . 1 31 50 
Iris . 1 30 15 Imp . 1 32 30 
EMBRYO YACHTSMEN. 
