Aug. io, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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THE E.C.CUP 
Representing the Inanimate Target 
CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD 
Has never been won by a shooter who did not use a OfiTPONT) Powder 
THIS IS THE RECORD TO DATE 
Fred Gilbert, May 5-8, 1896, Weehawken, N.J. 
R. O. Heikes, Aug. 20, 1896, Chicago, Ill. 
Fred Gilbert, July 31, 1897, Dayton, Ohio. 
R. O. Heikes, Aug. 13, 1898, Chicago, Ill. 
R. O. Heikes, Oct. 11-13, 1898, Dayton, Ohio. 
R. O. Heikes, Jan. 21, 1899, Philadelphia, Pa. 
W. R. Crosby, May 16-22, 1899, St. Louis, Mo. 
W. R. Crosby, June 25, 1899, Batavia, N. Y. 
J. A. R. Elliott, July 24, 1899, Batavia, N. Y. 
W. R. Crosby, Aug. 23, 1899, Atlantic City, N. J. 
W. R. Crosby, Oct. 13, 1899, Batavia, N. Y. 
Fred Gilbert, Nov. 4, 1899, Batavia, N. Y. 
Fred Gilbert, Feb. 19, 1900, Iiot Springs, Ark. 
Fred Gilbert, Sept. 8, 1900, Arnold Park, la. 
W. R. Crosby, Oct. 13, 1900, Chicago, Ill. 
W. R. Crosby, Jan. 14, 1911, Chicago, Ill. 
George Lyon, Sept. 23, 1911, Atlantic City, N. J. 
George Lyon, May 4, 1912, Wilmington, Del. 
C. A. Young, May 14, 1912, Fairmont, W. Va. 
H. D. Freeman, July 4, 1912, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
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Next match for the E. C. Cup:—H. D. Freeman, holder, versus J. S. Day, challenger, Cincinnati, O., Aug. 24th next 
There is 
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YACHTING NOTES. 
Gold Challenge Cup. 
Alexandria Bay, N. Y., Aug. 2.—Commo¬ 
dore Blackton’s Baby Reliance, representing 
the Motor Boat Club of America, took the 
second race for the Gold Challenge cup to-day. 
A. Graham Miles’ P. D. Q. 2d, winner of 
yesterday’s race, finished second. P. D. Q. 2d 
represents the Thousand Islands Y. C. and is 
the defender of the trophy. John J. Ryan was 
at the wheel of Baby Reliance, and at the end 
of the first round was in the lead, P. D. Q. 2d 
being second. 
At end of the second round, Baby Reliance 
and P. D. Q. 2d held the same positions, with 
Guess Not third. On the last lap P. D. Q. 2d 
gained 7s. on Baby Reliance, losing by only 
20s. Baby Reliance’s time for the 32 miles was 
53m. is., almost one minute slower than the 
time of P. D. Q. 2d in the first race. Guess 
Not, owned by Harry Denny, of Watertown, 
was third and William Toucey’s Wasp was 
fourth. 
P. D. Q. 2d led in points with 15; Guess Not 
and Baby Reliance tied for second with 13 
points each. 
The final race to decide ownership of the 
gold challenge cup was won by Baby Reliance, 
wth P. D. Q. II. second. On points this gives 
the cup to P. D. Q. II. by a margin of one. 
The handsome cup will remain the property of 
the Thousand Island Y. C. for whom P. D. Q. 
II. defended it. The summary: 
Finish. Points. 
Baby Reliance . 51 55 21 
P. D. Q. II. 53 34 22 
Wasp .■. 54 20 17 
Guess Not . 57 12 18 
Mit II. 62 25 12 
Philadelphia-Bermuda Race. 
That the race is not always to the swift 
once more is exemplified, this time the setting 
being motor boats instead of turtles et al. 
Navigation was responsible for the less speedy 
finishing first in this race. Dream, smaller by 
ten feet, in round numbers, and receiving a time 
allowance of 14.14.21, finished more than 21 
hours ahead of Kathemma, the bigger boat. 
Undoubtedly, as each boat encountered 
identical weather, superior navigating was re¬ 
sponsible for the winning of Dream. The story 
of the race reads like a trip around the horn. 
The weather was fine on the first day out, 
but the next morning a southwesterly gale 
blew up and Dream was hove to, with sea 
anchor and oil bag, driving into the storm all 
Sunday night. Three times the course was 
altered, Dream finally running before the storm 
when it let up sufficiently. 
Cooking on board was impossible on Mon¬ 
day. No sights were taken during the day on 
Tuesday, but that night lunar and summer ob¬ 
servations were obtained. On the following 
morning one of the logs broke and the other 
was lost overboard. Everything in the cabin 
was awash. 
On Tuesday night a hurricane kept the wind 
to the starboard quarter and the little cruiser 
kept clear. The crew came near throwing the 
lifeboats over and two men were lashed to the 
wheel for sixty hours, the hatches being closed 
down. 
Walter Bieling, one of the crew, who has 
been in all the previous Bermuda races, said 
he had never seen a crew like that of Dream. 
For forty-eight hours they had no food and the 
bilge was full of water. 
Wednesday the navigators were able to 
find their position and headed again on the 
course for St. David’s Head. Dream anchored 
outside during the night and came into habor 
Thursday morning, Aug. 1. The members of 
the crew were tired out, but they were de¬ 
lighted that they had won. 
Kathemma crossed the finishing line at 6:20 
o’clock Aug. 1. Dr. Street says the yacht had 
the worst weather he ever experienced and it 
was impossible to get observations until Wed¬ 
nesday, when they were seventy miles to the 
west of the islands. No one was able to re¬ 
main in the cabin. The seas washed through 
the engine room and broke the gasolene con¬ 
nections. For nineteen hours the yacht was 
hove to with a sea anchor and oil bag out. 
The race was 719 miles for Bermuda challenge 
trophy, which has to be won three times by the 
same owner to become his individual property. 
This is the fourth race, others having started 
from New York. The first race was in 1903, 
won by Ailsa Craig, of the Motor Boat Club 
of America. In 1909, Heather, of the Shelter 
Island Y. C., was winner, and in 1910, Eronel, 
of Bensonhurst Y. C., won it. There was no 
race in 1911. 
On Kathemma were her owner, Commo¬ 
dore William C. Smith, of the Ocean Gate Y. 
C.; Dr. C. S. Street, Dr. Eugene Swayne, R. L. 
Young, A .T. Rowland, Jac.ob Smythe, Harold 
Renner, Dr. B. Christine, Frank Frankenfield, 
George Trembley and C. Kullum. The crew of 
Dream consisted of C. L. Lagen, owner; 
Walter M. Bieling, George E. Goldbeck, Fred 
D. Biddle, John J. Sproul and Thomas Larsen. 
Trophies for Chicago Carnival. 
A total of $50,000 for cups and prizes 
alone is a single item of expense in the prepa¬ 
rations for the great water carnival and naval 
display which will be held outside the port of 
Chicago from Aug. 10 to 17. This event, the 
most wonderful of its kind in the history of the 
Great Lakes, is being arranged under the au¬ 
spices of the Associated Yacht and Power Boat 
Clubs of America, with the aid of the national. 
State and city governments. The William 
Wrigley, Jr., trophy, to be contested for by 
