Nov. ii, 1911] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Gray, towering among the snow-clad summit 
mystic and impeding under the golden light. All 
about through the silent desolate wood the hoots 
of the great horned owls sounded; white phan¬ 
tom forms of rabbits continually flitted about as 
I slowly advanced.” 
We have here a volume of the highest in¬ 
terest, valuable alike to sportsman, naturalist and 
general reader. All these will rejoice to know 
that Mr. Sheldon has a vast store of other 
Alaska experiences which it may be hoped he 
will before long present to an interested public. 
CHANGES IN MOTOR BOAT RULES. 
Continued from page 719. 
James Simpson, owner of the Peter Pans, 
has been quite prominent in racing and he has 
raced his boats consistently, but he is one who 
thinks that the time has come to change the 
rules. In a letter published in the Motor Boat, 
Mr. Simpson goes very thoroughly into the 
matter and shows just what the tiny hydro¬ 
planes have done. He says: 
“In view of the talk that is going the rounds 
in motor boat racing circles concerning the ap¬ 
parent need of changing the handicap rule it is 
a great misfortune that the new 14-footer, 
shown by J. Stuart Blackton, rear-commodore 
of the Motor Boat Club of America, met with 
hard racing luck in the final race of the season 
at the Columbia Y. C. on Oct. 14. 
“This wonderful little craft is probably the 
smallest real racer in this country and certainly 
we have heard of no boat of this size of horse¬ 
power even approaching the speed reported to 
have been made by Mosquito in her trials. 
She is said to have made twenty-seven miles 
an hour over the surveyed mile at Riverside-on- 
the-Hudson. This little peanut of a boat is 14 
feet long, 4 feet beam and is powered with a 
Pierce-Budd three-cylinder motor; bore 4 inches, 
stroke 4 inches, rating under the A. P. B. A. 
rules at only 14.78 horsepower. She is a hydro¬ 
plane designed by S. S. Breese and built in little 
more than a week’s time by the Reliance Motor 
Boat Company.” 
Rear-Commodore Blackton’s object was pri¬ 
marily to show the utter unfitness of the present 
handicapping rule. The official rating of this 
boat is 49.85, and it becomes apparent to any 
one with knowledge of past performances that 
if this little thing can make anything like the 
speed reported, no boat yet shown would have 
a ghost of a chance with her on time allowance. 
Fancy a boat like Peter Pan IV. or Edith II., 
both noted performers and both with 40 horse¬ 
power motors, having broken the record to 
Poughkeepsie and return, being obliged under 
the present rule to give Mosquito over forty-one 
minutes in a thirty mile race. Peter Pan IV. 
won the championship of the Hudson River 
Yacht Racing Association, Dixie IV. is cham¬ 
pion of the world, and yet if Dixie IV. had only 
the rating of Peter Pan IV. she would be beaten 
on time allowance by Mosquito. How absurd! 
Vita won the Southern championship and the 
championship of Long Island Sound. She beat 
Peter Pan IV. twice on time allowance. Just 
fancy Vita giving Mosquito forty minutes in 
thirty miles! 
Bug was built to get every advantage of the 
rule, and she did it. She won the interstate 
trophy on time allowance. She won the Pough¬ 
keepsie race on time allowance. She never fin¬ 
ished first in any of these races, but it would be 
possible for her to have mishaps and troubles 
of all sorts and still come on and get the prize. 
The rule was made to look foolish. Now Rear- 
Commodore Blackton proposes to go the Bug one 
better and show the rule to be crazy. Bug is 
equipped with a 60 horsepower A. & B. motor. 
Her rating is 59. She would have to give Mos¬ 
quito 23m. 46s. in thirty miles. 
Mosquito was seen at the Columbia Y. C. races 
in company with Gunfire, Jr., and Peter Pan IV., 
both known to be twenty-seven-mile boats, and 
it was evident that she could do better than 
twenty-six miles. She did easily better than that, 
and not running right at that. 
The introduction of the hydroplane gives ab¬ 
surd advantage to the small boat under the pres¬ 
ent rating rule. Mosquito could just as well be 
only ten feet long, her rating would be still 
lower and the absurdity of the rule would be 
more pronounced. 
Rear - Commodore Blackton is doing motor 
boat racing a real service. The introduction of 
Mosquito is an object lesson, and if racing 
among our clubs is to go on (and of course it 
is) we must make our rules sensible and really 
applicable. We must give a fair chance to boats 
of utility, to boats that serve as runabouts and 
yacht tenders and boats that afford pleasure apart 
from winning cups by a process of figuring under 
a rule that does not fill the bill. In a word, re¬ 
vision of rules is necessary. 
Club Elections. 
AMERICAN POWER BOAT ASSOCIATION. 
At a recent meeting of all the motor boat 
clubs of Buffalo, a local section of the American 
Power Boat Association was formed. The fol¬ 
lowing officers were elected: Commodore, Ed¬ 
ward Michael, of the Buffalo Y. C.; Vice-Chair¬ 
man, Albert F. Dohn, of the Buffalo Launch 
Club; Secretary, Robert H. Mason, of the Buf¬ 
falo Y. C.; Treasurer, John F. Elisworth, of the 
Motor Boat Club of Buffalo. 
CLIFF MOTOR BOAT CLUB. 
At the end of its fourth year, the most suc¬ 
cessful in its short life, the Cliff Motor Boat 
Club of Sea Cliff, L. I., elected the following 
officers: Commodore, H. O. Grieshaber; Vice- 
Commodore, L. J. Harvey; Rear-Commodore, J. 
F. Thibaut; Fleet Captain, Arthur Tilley; Sec¬ 
retary, William Murshon; Treasurer, C. W. 
Sniffen. 
SHEBOYGAN MOTOR BOAT CLUB. 
At the first meeting of the Sheboygan (Mich.) 
Motor Boat Club were elected: Commodore, 
Burton Fairweather; Vice - Commodore, Ivar 
Lohman; Secretary-Treasurer, C. J. Ewer; Di¬ 
rectors, George Kempf and Samuel Fairweather. 
BAY SHORE MOTOR BOAT CLUB. 
At the first annual election these officers were 
elected: Commodore, W. H. Moffat; Secretary, 
W. H. Schwab; Treasurer, J. J. Gibson; Vice- 
Commodore, Dr. W. A. Hulse. The following 
board of governors was elected for one year: 
W. H. Moffatt, W. A. Tucker, E. M. Rockworth, 
Dr. W. A. Hulse, H. Van Wyckoff, W. Schwab, 
Dr. I. W. Furman, J. J. Gibson, C. C. Brewster, 
G. E. Raynor and J. W. Ennis 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from any 
newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to supply you 
regularly. 
Lowell M. B. C. 
The old Vesper boat house was the scene of 
an enthusiastic meeting of thirty-four motor 
boat owners with the result that a club was 
formed with the following officers: Commo¬ 
dore, J. Harvey Gamble; Vice-Commodore, Dr. 
Walter E. Knapp; Secretary-Treasurer, George 
E. Lull; Directors, J. H. Gamble, Dr. W. E. 
Knapp, George E. Lull, Charles E. Goulding. 
James Walker, H. C. Taft and W. E. Morse. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED; 
Atlantic Division.—Fred Bloempot, P. O. Box 
73, Flushing, L. I., N. Y., by Jule F. Marshall; 
R. P. Stout, 404 Market street, Bethlehem, Pa., 
by S. B. Burnham. 
Western Division.—Robert Mount, La Grange, 
Ky., by A. W. Friese and J. W. McConnell. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—6316, Cornelius Zabriskie, 
1201 Broad street, Newark, N. J. 
Western Division.—6315, John Neal Deneau, 
388 New York street, Aurora, Ill. 
RESIGNATION. 
Central Division.—5838, Carl J. Braun, Jr., 435 
Sixth avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Fixtures. 
DOG SHOWS. 
Nov - 12-—National Beagle Club of America, Shadwell, 
Va. C. R. Stevenson, Sec’y. 
Dec 1-2.—Toy Spaniel Club of America, New York 
City. Mrs. H. S. Morris, Sec’y. 
Dec. 12-13.—French Bulldog Club of New England Bos¬ 
ton, Mass.. Walter Burgess, Sec’y. 
1912. 
Jan. 26-27.—Lynn (Mass.) Kennel Club. W. Rolfe, Sec’y. 
Feb. 6-9.—Fanciers’ Association of Indiana, Indianapo¬ 
lis, Ind. C. R. Milhous, Sec'y. 
Feb. 12-15.—Westminster Kennel Club, New York City. 
W’illiam Rauch, Chairman. 
Feb. 20-23.—New England Kennel Club, Boston, Mass 
R. C. Storey, Sec’y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Nov. 20.—Pointer Club of America, Barber, N. C. W. 
C. Root, Sec’y. 
Second week in November.—Orange County Field Trial 
Club, Middletown, N. Y. C. C. Haines, Sec’y. 
Nov. 21.—International Field Trial Club, Ruthven, Ont. 
W. B. Wells, Sec’y. 
Nov. 23.—Delaware Setter and Pointer Club. H. B. 
Lyman, Sec’y. 
Nov. 27.—Continental Field Trial Club, Waynesboro, Ga. 
John White, Sec’y. 
Dec. 4—Georgia Field Trial Association, Waynesboro, 
Ga. Entries to Derby and All-Age stakes close 
Oct. 15. Tracy Mackenzie, Sec’y, Waynesboro, Ga. 
Dec. 11.—Southern Field Trial Club, Letohatchie, Ala. 
J. H. Wallace, Jr., Sec’y. 
Dec. 18.—Kentucky Field Trial Club, Letohatchie, Ala. 
All-Age entries close Oct. 15. S. W. Linebaugh. 
Sec’y, Russellville, Ky. 
1912. 
First week in January.—Eastern Field Trial Club, Cotton 
Plant, Miss. S. C. Bradley, Sec’y. 
Jan. 7.—United States Field Trial Club. W. B. Staf¬ 
ford, Sec’y. 
Jan. 14.—National Field Trial Championship Associa¬ 
tion. W. B. Stafford, Sec’y. 
