Yachting Fixtures for 1908. 
AUGUST. 
29. American Y. C., summer regatta. 
29. New Haven Y. C., open regatta. 
29. Bridgeport Y. C., annual regatta. 
29. Bensonhurst Y. C., open regatta. 
29. Rhode Island Y. C., fall regatta. 
29. Canarsie Y. C., interclub ocean race. 
29. Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C., open regatta. 
29. New Rochelle Y. C. cruise. 
29. Annisquam Y. C., club races. 
29. Beverly Y. C., sixth Corinthian race. 
29. Duxbury Y. C., club regatta. 
29. Hingham Y. C., one-design races. 
29. Quincy Y. C., cape cats and power boat races. 
29. Moriches Y. C., association race. 
29. Shinnecock Y. C., women’s race. 
SEPTEMBER. 
1. Seawanhaka, long distance, Class Q boats to Marble¬ 
head. 
1. Atlantic Y. C., motor boats, around Fire Island. 
1-5. Atlantic Y. C. 
2. Atlantic Y. C., Thompson challenge trophy. 
2. D. Y. C., annual free-for-all and all class race. 
3. Atlantic Y. C., motor boats, around Fire Island. 
4. Atlantic Y. C., Thompson challenge trophy. 
4 . Seawanhaka Y. C., special. 
6. Seawanhaka Y. C. 
5. R. C. Y. C. cruising race, first, second and third 
divisions and 14ft. dinghy class. 
5. New Haven Y. C. 
6. Hartford Y. C. 
5. New York Athletic Club. 
6. Brooklyn Y. C. 
5. Seawanhaka Y. C., annual. 
5. Atlantic Y. C. 
7. Bayside-Port Washington race, neutral waters. 
7. Larchmont Y. C. 
7. Norwalk Y. C. 
7. Sachem’s Head Y. C. 
7. Atlantic Y. C. 
10. Indian Harbor Y. C., sweepstakes championship. 
12. Belle Harbor Y. C., around lightship. 
12. Indian Harbor Y. C., fall. 
12. Crescent Athletic Club. 
12th. Prince of Wales cup, all classes. 
12. Detroit Y. C., Detroit B. C. and Solway Club cat- 
boat race and free-for-all. 
15. Harlem Y. C., to Stratford Shoal. 
17. N. Y. Y. C., Glen Cove. 
19. Larchmont Y. C. 
19. Manhasset Bay Y. C. 
19. Atlantic Y. C. 
26. Handicap Class, annual. 
26. Bensonhurst Y. C. 
Corinthianism Among Yachtsmen. 
Yachtsmen are each year becoming more 
efficient. Each season men learn more how to 
handle their own boats, and as they learn, they 
become more interested in the sport and ap¬ 
preciate the pleasure that is derived by winning 
prizes through their own skill. 
In the cruise of the New York Y. C. Cor¬ 
inthianism was more marked this year than 
ever before. There were very few of the racing 
yachts that were handled by professional helms¬ 
men, and what is still more pleasing is the fact 
that these professionals were not very success¬ 
ful. Capt. Dennis sailed Elmina, and there were 
professionals on Vigilant. Sybarita, Eclipse and 
Corona. Elmina did not win a race. Eclipse 
won two runs, Vigilant won a class prize and 
twice from Weetamoe, and S}ffiarita was beaten 
the only time she started. 
Just what pleasure a rich man can find in 
buying a yacht, engaging the best professional 
talent and then watching his yacht sail while he 
is on the deck of some steamer is hard to 
understand. Then when having, won prizes 
through employing the best talent, what do the 
trophies stand for? If they merely want a col¬ 
lection of cups, they might easily purchase them 
at much less cost than is incurred through plac¬ 
ing a racing yacht in commission. The owner 
who has a collection of trophies won through 
his own skill at the wheel of his own yacht has 
something that he can look at with pride, and 
each trophy will recall to him the pleasure he 
obtained and the excitement of the race. . 
What would men think of one who engaged 
hunters in the Rocky Mountains to secure for 
him a collection of fine heads? His collection 
would only be admired for the intrinsic value 
of the heads. Then why should not those 
trophies that have been won through the help 
of professional talent be valued in the same 
way? 
In the cruise just ended, J. Rogers Maxwell, 
W. Butler Duncan, Jr., Robert W. Emmons, 2d, 
G. Mallory Pynchon, George W. Scott, the 
Hanan Brothers, Stuyvesant Wainwright, and 
many others who were successful, did much for 
the sport through their work, and they earned 
prizes that will be valued by them because they 
were won through their individual efforts, 
through their skill in handling their yachts and 
through the good judgment they showed while 
sailing the races. 
English Yachting. 
The announcement that ex-Commodore 
Morton F. Plant, who recently had the steam 
yacht Iolande built on this side, has determined 
to again try his luck racing in British waters 
has been received with general satisfaction. Mr. 
Plant is much pleased with the racing in the 
23-metre class, in which Shamrock, Brynhilde, 
White Heather and Nyria have raced so suc¬ 
cessfully. The new yacht will be Herreshoff 
build and design, and it is expected that unless 
there is a race for the America’s Cup, Capt. 
Barr will have charge, as he sailed Ingomar 
when that schooner carried Mr. Plant’s colors 
in these waters. 
British yachtsmen are waiting to see what 
will be the result of Sir Thomas Tipton's 
challenge for a race for the America’s Cup. Sir 
Thomas will have his challenge sent through 
some club, probably the Royal Irish, very soon 
now, and it will ask for a contest between yachts 
90ft. on the waterline, and under the mutual 
agreement clause of the deed of gift, Sir 
Thomas will ask.that the present rules of meas¬ 
urement of the New York Y. C. apply to the 
challenger and defender, urging that he wishes 
to race with a boat of wholesome type and not 
with a mere racing machine. 
The feeling on this side is that further racing 
under the old rules is out of the question, and 
should the New York Y. C. decline to accept 
the challenge, then there is little chance of there 
ever being a race for the America’s Cup, for 
designers and builders realize that to meet the 
defender with a yacht lightly constructed and 
built, as have the latest racers for that trophy 
been, is simply courting disaster, and the de¬ 
fender has such an advantage before the chal¬ 
lenger is started that the attempt to win is 
useless. 
If the New York Y. C. declines the challenge, 
some other scheme for continuing international 
contests will be devised, and Mr. Plant’s racing 
in the 23-metre class will give that new scheme 
the desired impetus. 
The Cowes week opened on Aug. 3 with a 
race of the Royal London Y. C. for 23-metre 
yachts, over a course 52 miles long. The wind 
was light and fluky, and in the first round 
Brynhilde obtained a lead, and although Sham¬ 
rock reduced this later, Brynhilde won by 3m. 
its. White Heather was third and Nyria fourth. 
The new German schooner Germania raced 
in the handicap class against Cicely and Adela. 
Germania is 368 tons, Cicely 263 tons and Adela 
224 tons. Germania allowed Cicely 14m. 24s., 
and Adela 29m. 36s. Germania finished first, 
Cicely second and Adela third. Adela won the 
race. 
The 15-metre yachts sailed for the commo¬ 
dore’s international cup. and Britomarte won, 
with Shimna second and Ma’oona third. 
The Royal Yacht Squadron’s regatta on Aug. 
4 was sailed in light weather, and the race was 
for yachts of the squadron for the King’s cup. 
Shamrock was not eligible. Two handicaps had 
been arranged, one for heavy weather and one 
for light weather. Ten yachts started, among 
them being the German Emperor’s Meteor, 
which had to allow all the others. Brynhilde 
won again, and this time Cicely was second. 
Only four yachts were timed at the finish. 
Shamrock sailed on Aug. 5 in the race for 
Lord Wandsworth’s international cup, and she 
won, beating Brynhilde nearly 3m. Germania 
won the schooner race for the German Em¬ 
peror’s cup. The race was sailed in a good 
breeze, and Shamrock sailed over the 46-mile 
course in 4I1. 52s. 
San Francisco Yachting. 
San Francisco, Aug. 22.— J. M. MacDonough, 
who has perhaps done more for yachting on 
San Francisco Bay than any other man, and 
who for the past fourteen years , has provided 
each September $250 worth of silver trophies, 
is visiting in San Francisco. The question of a 
change in the racing rules, which has been dis¬ 
cussed this season by the members of the Pa¬ 
cific Inter-Club Yacht Asociation, was presented 
to him recently for an opinion. He said that 
the old Seawanhaka rule now used in San Fran¬ 
cisco Bay had been so thoroughly outbuilt in 
the East that it had produced the worst types 
of racing machines. Yachtsmen on Long 
Island Sound had adopted what they termed 
the New York Y. C. rules, and the races for 
the past two seasons have been held under these 
rules. The idea of the rule is to place a 
premium on head room aboard a yacht, bring¬ 
ing out a vessel that is servicable both for 
cruising and racing. The factors of the new 
rule is the length multiplied by the square root 
of the sail area, divided by 5.5 times the cubic 
root of the displacement. 
Mr. MacDonough did not believe that it 
would be advisable to make any changes in the 
rules here for the present season, but that it 
would be better to have the matter thoroughly 
threshed out during the winter months before 
the sport begins next spring. On returning to 
New York, he will forward to the officers of 
the Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association all the 
data that is possible for him to collect for their 
information. 
L. T. Ward’s Iola won the Hauser trophy cup 
in the race held by the Aeolian Y. C. Aug. 2. 
Nautilus, owned by Commodore Strom, the 
former holder of the cup was second by 4m. 5s. 
actual sailing time, and Emma, owned by L. 
Knight, was a close third. 
Commodore Curtis M. Barker, of the South 
Bay Y. C., was drowned in Halfmoon Bay on 
the afternoon of Aug. 4. Barker had spent the 
past two weeks at Santa Cruz with his family, 
and at the time of his death was on his way to 
San Francisco in his little schooner Muriel, ac¬ 
companied by a single companion. 
With the excitement attendant with the trans¬ 
pacific race now over, yachting in Southern 
California has resumed the usual summer 
activity and some very interesting meetings are 
now being held. The race for the “Times” cup. 
held Julv 25, was one of the most important 
races of the year, and yachtsmen who witnessed 
it agree that it was the prettiest sailed, hardest 
fought and most satisfactory contest of the 
present season. Mischief TI., superbly handled 
by her owner and skipper, Walter Folsom, 
proved herself to be the queen of Southern 
California waters by defeating all comers and 
for the second time won the Times cup. Aeolus, 
the challenger from San Diego, was plainly out¬ 
classed in the long leg of the race to windward, 
and also lost on the run for the finish line, being 
the last of the four boats in the race to com¬ 
plete the course. Not long after the start was 
