t 
soon had the match safe and the remainder of 
the interest lay in the struggle for second place 
between the greatly improved Brynhild and 
last year’s champion of the class. In this the 
Nicholson boat held her rival pretty safe all 
through. In the end Shamrock won by 5m. 40s., 
Brynhild beating White Heather by im. 45s. fox- 
second prize. Nyria was out of the hunt all 
day, and it was obvious from the start that the 
breeze was not strong enough to give her a 
chance of saving her time. 
On the second day of the Royal Clyde carni¬ 
val there was a fairly true light weather test of 
sading. It was a perfect trial on just such con¬ 
ditions as it has all along been expected that 
Shamrock would show to the greatest advant¬ 
age, and the expectation was justified in the re¬ 
sult. If the finishing times were taken as a 
guidance, the tendency would be to call Sham¬ 
rock’s victory rather a narrow one, the actual 
advantage she held over White Heather being 
only represented by the matter of im. 6s. This 
margin, however, did not represent the differ¬ 
ence there was in the sailing. Bevis made a 
long and stubborn fight, but it was apparent to 
all that his boat was beaten from the start of 
the _ first long turn to windward. Reaching, 
White Heather seemed able to hold her rival, 
and on the run she gathered her in a bit. It 
was the work on the wind, however, that told 
and her superiority on this point gave Shamrock 
the victory. 
A very serious disappointment here befel the 
Clyde clubs. With five days’ racing still to 
come, Brynhild and White Heather withdrew 
from the racing, leaving the remainder of the 
1 egattas to Shamrock and Nyria—a very one- 
horse sort of affair. All the boats in the class 
have important engagements at Dover and 
Ostend next week, and Sir James Pardee and 
Mr. Myles B. Kennedy both were of opinion 
that their craft would benefit by a scrub and 
overhaul in the Solent before entering upon 
this part of the season’s programme. They 
were accordingly towed south at the end of the 
Royal Clyde fixture. 
The first of the duels between Shamrock and 
Nyria was under the auspices of the Mudhook 
Y. C. One of the conditions of the racing 
provided by this very exclusive organization— 
the club is limited to forty members and a 
chaplain—is that all helmsmen shall be ama¬ 
teurs, but ever since the old Satanita sank 
Valkyrie II., this stipulation, so far as tire first 
