5. 
5. 
5 . 
5. 
5 . 
6 . 
5 . 
5. 
7 . 
7 . 
7 . 
7 . 
7 . 
30 . 
12 . 
12 . 
32 . 
12th, 
12 . 
35 . 
17. 
19 . 
39 . 
19 . 
26. 
26. 
Yachting Fixtures for 1908. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Seawanhaka Y. C. 
R- C. Y. C. cruising race, first, second and third 
divisions and 14ft. dingily class. 
New Haven Y. C. 
Hartford Y. C. 
New York Athletic Club. 
Brooklyn Y. C. 
Seawanhaka Y. C., annual. 
Atlantic Y. C. 
Bayside-Port Washington race, neutral waters. 
Larchmont Y. C. 
Norwalk Y. C. 
Sachem’s Head Y. C. 
Atlantic Y. C. 
Indian Harbor Y. C., sweepstakes championship. 
Belle Harbor Y. C., around lightship. 
Indian Harbor Y. C., fall. 
Crescent Athletic Club. 
Prince of Wales cup, all classes. 
Detroit Y. C., Detroit B. C. and Solway Club cat- 
boat race and free-for-all. 
Harlem Y. C., to Stratford Shoal. 
N. Y. Y. C.. Glen Cove. 
Larchmont Y. C. 
Manhasset Bay Y. C. 
Atlantic Y. C. 
Handicap Class, annual. 
Bensonhurst Y. C. 
WAITING FOR UPTON. 
J tie yacht racing season is waning. In three 
weeks more the racing craft will be seeking 
quarters for the winter and yachtsmen will be 
making plans for another year. They will be 
talking'of this season’s racing, taking its lessons 
to heart and trying to profit by them in arrang¬ 
ing their plans for another year, but first of all 
they will wait to find out what Sir Thomas 
Lipton intends to do. 
He has talked again, and a friend of his who 
arrived in this city last week talked for him 
and said that Sir '1 homas wants a race for the 
cup. He is willing to race under almost any 
conditions, but as bis designers are not dis¬ 
posed to build for him a yacht that is a mere 
racing machine, he cannot arrange a race unless 
he succeeds to get the New York Y. C. to 
consent to meet his boat with a yacht built to 
conform to certain restrictions that will make 
each side build a vessel of wholesome type. 
T his matter has been thrashed out before, and 
the club has said that the America’s Cup stands 
for speed on a given waterline length, so that 
Sir I homas knows that he cannot expect a 
'■hallenge to be accepted if he takes it for 
granted that the new rules of the club will 
govern the America’s Cup racing, and that lie 
c'm dictate to the club terms that will suit him. 
Now he will try another way, and it will be a 
way that will be more pleasing to the members 
of the New York Y. C. Tic. it is said, intends 
to challenge in the regular way through some 
yacht club on the other side. Tie will name a 
y :, cht under 90ft. on the waterline, as be Inis 
done before, and then he will throw himself on 
the New York Y. C. and tell them that in the 
interest of good yachting he thinks, as others 
do. that it wo’dd be better if the challenger and 
defending yachts were built under a rule that 
would produce a more wholesome type of yacht, 
and he will ask that the mutual agreement 
clause be taken advantage of and a race 
arranged under terms to suit both sides. 
If this is what he does, it is thought by many 
in the club that his challenge will be accepted, 
and that he will have little difficulty in getting 
a race and under conditions that will suit him. 
'1 his, however, will not be done without a fight 
in the club. There are many members who 
still think that it would belittle the cup to have 
anything but a first-class yacht race for it and 
who think that it should go to the fastest yacht 
that can be turned out without restrictions of 
any kind except the limitation of waterline 
length. 
The New York Y. C. will have to consider 
many things when this challenge is received. If 
it still maintains that the cup is only for the 
speediest craft that can be built, and that there 
must be no restrictions, then it is very doubtful 
if there will ever be another race for the famous 
trophy. At first this cup was sailed for by 
yachts of wholesome type, but in their craze for 
speed, designers and builders made the yachts 
that took part in cup races larger and larger 
until Reliance was built with 16,000 sq. ft. of 
canvas carried on 90ft. of waterline. Should 
this rule be insisted on, then Sir Thomas might 
bring over a Reliance, but he wilk be met here 
with a vessel that will make Reliance look small; 
and so it might go on year after year with every 
adventure being with the defending craft,'because 
of the disadvantage of having to cross the ocean. 
British yachtsmen have announced that they 
will not race under rules that produce such 
freaks, and their designers and builders have 
said they will not build such craft, so unless 
the holders of the cup will agree to change, the 
famous old trophy will stand only for what has 
been. It will recall many a glorious contest, 
but its glories will end with the Reliance- 
Shamrock series of races of 1903. 
If, on the other hand, the club will agree to 
a compromise and will meet the challenger 
with a boat that is not an unwieldly machine, 
the races will be resumed; and, building under 
rules that call for a vessel of wholesome tj'pe, 
designers will have opportunities to turn out 
safe, seaworthy and speedy craft. 
It is said sometimes that the races would not 
be as interesting or as spectacular as those in 
which Reliance and Columbia took part. They 
may not be as spectacular, because there will 
not be the great smother of canvas towering 
in the air and there will not be the fear all the 
time that some part of the rigging may part 
and the whole sail plans fall in a wreck, but 
the boats will be speedy. Queen, built under 
the rule, is a speedy boat, and what does it 
matter if the racers are a few seconds slower, as 
long as they have relatively the same speed. 
The interest is just the same and the excite¬ 
ment of the race just as keen. 
Another thing that the club will have to con¬ 
sider, is that the sport now needs a boom. This 
year was a good one, as far as the racing went, 
but there were few new boats out and older 
ones furnished all the contests. Now things 
want stirring up and nothing could do it bet¬ 
ter than a race for the America’s Cup. Should 
a challenge be accepted with a 90-footer built 
to conform with the present rules, several de¬ 
fenders would be turned out. Designers and 
builders would be busy. Yachtsmen would take 
a keen and lively interest in the sport. There 
would in all probability be two Herreshoff 
boats, one perhaps for a syndicate and one for 
a member of the New York Y. C. F. M. 
Smith would have a boat built from designs by 
Henry J. Gielow, who designed Effort. The 
Hanan Brothers would have a boat built by 
William Gardner, who has turned out Weeta- 
moe, Aspirant, Gardenia and other cracks, and 
it is probable that some eastern yachtsmen 
might get a craft from B. B. Crowninshield. 
This would mean perhaps six or more de¬ 
fenders and the sport would be the finest ever 
witnessed in these waters, ending with the con¬ 
test with the challenger for the cup for the 
championship of the world. 
Those who are in the confidence of Sir 
Thomas expect that the New York Y. C. will 
hear from him about the end of this month. 
Tautog Wins in Dutch Waters. 
It must be a little more thair good luck that 
enables American yachtsmen to be so successful 
when taking part in international contests. This 
year the Massachusetts yachtsmen defeated the 
Nova Scotia men in the series for dories, win¬ 
ning two out of the three races. Dixie II. de¬ 
feated Wolseley-Seddeley, England’s fastest 
motor boat, and kept what is better known as 
the Harmsworth trophy in this- country. The 
Canada cup still rests with the Rochester Y. C., 
and the America’s Cup is still on this side, 
Now a cablegram from Amsterdam reports that 
George Gardiner Fry, who took his dory, 
Tautog, across the Atlantic, “looking for other 
worlds to conquer,” has been successful. 
Tautog went to race against the Dutch dories 
011 the Zuyder Zee, and Tautog being the only 
American entered, had to meet a fleet of boats— 
just as America did when she, in 1851, won 
the prize named after her. Three races were 
sailed, and in each there was what the Dutch 
yachtsmen called “heavy weather.” The first 
race over,a 5-mile course, sailed on Aug. 27, 
was won by Tautog in 52m. 10s. 
On the next day she won the race over the 
2^-mile course, sailing the distance in 23m. 50s., 
and later won the iJ/2-mile race, her time being 
14m. 20s. These victories mean that Mr. Fry 
has captured the international prize, and his 
clubmates in.the American Y. C. may have more 
respect for the dories. 
Tautog has been sailed by Mr. Fry, with the 
aid of his two small sons known as the 
“Twins,” for three 3'ears, and has been very 
successful. Tautog will sail in any kind of 
weather, and although a dory requires careful 
and delicate handling at times, she has always 
finished the race. 
The victory of this little boat has brought 
another laurel to the American yachtsmen, and 
these continued successes are becoming such a 
habit that one might almost claim that it is 
hard luck that beats them. 
The dory in the last few years has become a 
very popular craft. It is to be seen on all small 
harbors. Many clubs have regular races for 
dories, and some ardent yachtsmen have made 
long cruises in these craft. A dory can be 
bought for $65. 
A boy with a boat can have more real fun, 
more healthful enjoyment and learn to love the 
outdoors, and he cannot do better than begin 
with a dory, if he wishes to become an expert 
sailor. 
