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positive. The attitude of the clubs has been 
that “what the committee says goes,” and that 
no interference, or even criticism, of its acts 
will be tolerated. This is really part and parcel 
of the policy of every yacht club, which is that 
the club is an absolutely independent body, 
subject to no control on the part of any govern¬ 
ing body or higher authority; in other words, 
that it will do whatever it pleases, without let 
or hindrance. In recent years this policy has 
been modified to the extent that all the prin¬ 
cipal clubs have accepted identical racing rules, 
and have submitted to such an arrangement of 
racing dates that the races of one club will not 
interfere with those of another. 
This attitude of independence has been so 
strongly maintained in the Larchmont Y. C. 
that it required sixteen years of courtship on 
the part of the Yacht Racing Association of 
Long Island Sound to secure the Larchmont 
organization as a member, notwithstanding, that 
for half that period the chairman of the regatta 
committee of Larchmont was at the same time 
one of the principal officers of the association. 
It is readily to be seen, therefore, that a change 
in the scheme of management of races that will 
permit an appeal from the decision of a regatta 
committee will be a radical departure from the 
established order of things, and one that will 
require a good deal of diplomacy to carry 
through. 
And yet some such change is, in the opinion 
of many racing men, necessary to protect them 
from unjust or ill considered action on the part 
of inefficient or vicious regatta committees. 
Fortunately there has been very little vicious 
action on the part of such committees; practi¬ 
cally none, in fact. But unfortunately there are 
comparatively few committees that are expert 
in the management of races, or thoroughly fa¬ 
miliar with the racing rules, or the methods of 
procedure. It can hardly be otherwise, inas¬ 
much as it is impossible for the regatta commit¬ 
tee of a small club having only one or two races 
a year, to gain anything like an adequate ex¬ 
perience in less that a dozen years, while those 
who serve in a large club, with many races 
in a season, usually find the work too heavy to 
be carried on for a period longer than two or 
three years. To properly fill the place a man 
must first be more or less expert as a sailor; 
second, he must be something of a lawyer, in 
order to fully comprehend the rules, and third, 
he must have the judicial temperament to en¬ 
able him to apply the rules without fear or 
favor. And then he must have considerable ex¬ 
perience, in association with others who have 
already gained it, before he is really “good.” 
All of which brings to him in the end a little 
applause, a good many curses, and absolutely 
nothing else. 
There is, at the Stamford Y. C., a small fleet 
of little one-design racing boats, one of which, 
called Scamp, is owned by R. W. James Kingan. 
There was a race for these boats on Decoration 
Day, and at the end the owner of another boat 
protested Scamp, alleging that her helmsman 
had sculled her with the rudder. The regatta 
committee promptly held a meeting, sustained 
the_ protest, and disqualified Scamp, without 
notifying Mr. Kingan or giving him an oppor¬ 
tunity to be heard. Sculling is contrary to the 
rules, and, moreover, in so far as the Stamford 
one-design class is concerned, sculling is defined 
as “unnecessary and continued working of the 
tiller.” Whether Mr. Kingan was guilty of 
sculling or not is not material to the case as 
made out by him, although it is interesting to 
know that the regatta committee of the Sea- 
wanhaka-Corinthian Y. C., in considering a 
similar protest made against Scamp in a race 
of June 24, found that there was so much lost 
motion in the tiller that the helmsman could not 
avoid constant motion and dismissed the pro¬ 
test. The material fact is that the case at 
Stamford was decided against Scamp without 
notice to the owner. 
Two days before the October meeting of the 
Yacht Racing Association of Long Island 
Sound, held on Friday last, each officer of the 
organization and each delegate to it received 
from Mr. Kingan a printed circular in which 
the story of his trouble was related, and the 
rules of the Yacht Racing Association of Eng¬ 
land, providing for appeals in certain cases, 
were recited. The circular was, in part, in form 
of a petition to the association to so amend its 
rules as to provide for an appeal of its execu¬ 
tive copnmittee from the decision of the regatta 
committee; and, generally speaking, to provide 
means for compelling the clubs affiliated with 
the association to “behave themselves.” Ac¬ 
companying the circular was a printed copy of 
the decisions of the Stamford committee and the 
Seawanhaka committee, placed side by side. 
Of course, the association could not take any 
definite action in the matter on Friday, inas¬ 
much as the subject had not been embodied in 
the call for the meeting, but Mr. Kingan’s 
communication provoked considerable discus¬ 
sion, and it was the opinion of many of the 
veteran helmsmen among the delegates that the 
right of appeal in certain cases, if not in all, 
should be granted. The association therefore 
voted to refer the matter to its executive com¬ 
mittee, with instructions to investigate the case, 
and, further, to consider the advisability of so 
amending the rules as to permit racing men to 
appeal in cases involving the interpretation of 
the rules, and report at the next meeting. 
Incidentally it was made known at the meet¬ 
ing that the New York Y. C. has recently 
clipped the powers of its regatta committee to 
such effect that a racing man may appeal to 
the club in certain cases and under certain cir¬ 
cumstances. This fact may make the work of 
the Long Island association a little easier, if it 
concludes to persuade its constituent clubs to 
submit the acts of their regatta committees to 
review. 
Jamaica Bay Y. R. A. 
The report of the regatta committee in charge 
of the second series Beach Channel races, held 
by the Yacht Racing Association of Jamaica Bay 
during the past season, was read at a meeting 
of the association held on Oct. 28. The decis¬ 
ions of the committee on the several protests filed 
by participants in the last race, held on Oct. 15, 
were also announced. 
All of the races for both sail and power boats 
were held under the handicap system and decided 
on points. Owing to there being two boats tied 
in the catboat class and also in the open launch 
class, it was decided by the delegates to award 
two prizes in these classes. 
The winner in the sloop class is Sassacus, 
owned by William Murray, of the Jamaica Bay 
Y. C., she having 18 points to her credit; the 
second boat in this class being Klyo, of the 
Canarsie Y. C., with 13 points. Cornelia, of the 
Old Mill Y. C., had 12 points to her credit, she 
having lost all points in the last race owing to 
being disqualified, the protest of the owner of 
Sassacus being sustained. 
In the catboat class, which included cabin and 
open catboats, there was a tie, Selfish owned by 
Walter Smith, of the Canarsie Y. C., having 19 
points, and Elvira, owned by J. Anderson, Jr., 
of the Old Mill Y. .C., a like number. Prizes 
will be awarded both these boats. Sinbad, owned 
by George Brown, of the Canarsie Y. C., had 15 
points, and Zepher, of the same club, 13 points. 
In the cabin power boat class, Commodore 
Edgar FI. Watson’s Argo, of the Bergen Beach 
Y. C., led her class with 21 points; Mystic, owned 
by J. H. Patterson, of the Canarsie Y. C., being 
second with 16 points; Brisk, of the Diamond 
Point, third, with 14 points; Agawan, of the 
Jamaica Bay Y. C., fourth, with 13 points; 
Francis, fifth, with 10 points; Helena, sixth, with 
9 points, and Ida May, seventh, with 2 points. 
Two boats were tied in the open power boat 
class, the Bill Morrison, owned by Henry Hamm, 
of the Diamond Point Y. C., and May, owned by 
L. Gaily, of the same club, each having 13 points. 
Prizes will be awarded to each owner. In this 
latter class Smarty had 11 points; Edna A., 8 
points; Ella and Elsie, 4 points, and Elsie May, 
2 points. 
The committee in charge of the series of races 
comprised Dr. L. C. Leimer, Vice-Commodore 
Thomas King and Martin F. Plage, and after 
hearing testimony regarding the several protests 
decided that in the protest of Sassacus against 
Cornelia the latter should have given way in the 
last race on an overlap established by Sassacus 
at the Broad Channel mark, and for failing to do 
so was disqualified. 
The protest of George Brown, owner of Sin- 
bad, which protested the last race, owing to the 
absence of a mark at Broad Channel, was not 
allowed, and the same decision was given on the 
protest of A. H. Humphreys, owner of the open 
power boat, So Long, which was not allowed to 
enter the race of Sept. 10 because the boat was 
classed as a semi-speed boat. 
All of the protests were appealed to the dele¬ 
gates and after a lengthy hearing the action of 
the committee was sustained. The protest of 
G. A. Kreig, of the Old Mill Y. C., whose cat- 
boat Sabelie's entry for the open race of the 
Diamond Point yacht race of July 30, was not 
accepted because of the twenty-four-hour clause, 
was also sustained by the association on an ap¬ 
peal from the decision of the regatta committee 
of the Diamond Point Y. C. 
The prizes, which consist of handsomely 
mounted bronze plaques, will be presented to the 
several winners at a dinner to be given by the 
association to-night at Stahle’s Hotel. Canarsie. 
Corinthian Y. C. 
Addison F. Bancroft's raceabout Eleanor, 
sailed by George Barrie, Jr., with H. L. Street 
tending sheet, defeated P. FI. Barnes’ Tomboy, 
sailed by its owner, with E. W. Crittenden at 
the sheet ropes, in the final race of the Corin- 
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