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[Oct. 31, 1908. 
organization trying to run things without their 
being consulted in the matter. 
S. M. Butler, the secretary of the Automobile 
Club of America, has announced the following: 
A cable has just been received from the In¬ 
ternational Motor Boat Asociation, specifically 
known as “The International Association of 
Yachting-Automobiles,” which comprises in its 
membership the principal national motor boat 
clubs, yacht clubs and automobile clubs of 
France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and 
Monaco, notifying the Automobile Club of 
America that it has been selected by the associ¬ 
ation as its sole representative in America, 
which selection carries with it the sole govern¬ 
ing authority in all International motor boat 
races or competitions held in the United States. 
In response to the suggestion from many of 
the prominent yachtsmen and owners of racing 
motor boats who are members of the club, the 
Automobile Club of America recently organized 
a motor boat division. The organization of this 
division is in charge of Dave Hennen Morris, 
who represented the club at the International 
Congress at Dieppe, France. The club will as¬ 
sume charge of the sport in this country in 
order to place it on a sound and broad basis by 
the framing of uniform rules under which motor 
boat races can be run in all parts of the United 
States, and an adequate enforcement secured of 
the decrees and rules of the International Motor 
Boat Association in all International events held 
in America. This division will be in charge of 
a committee of prominent motor boat owners 
and will be strictly a yachting adjunct to the 
club. 
More than 400 prominent yachtsmen are on 
the rolls of the Automobile Club of America 
and their support and interest will, by the form¬ 
ation of this division, be an important factor in 
future motor boat competitions, both National 
and International. Among them are: Right 
Honorable Lord Northcliffe, donor of the In¬ 
ternational trophy; Commodore Cornelius 
Vanderbilt, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., George 
F. Baker, Jr., Commodore Frederick G. Bourne, 
Arthur C. Bostwick, W. Gould Brokaw, James 
Stillman, Harry Payne Whitney, Lewis Nixon, 
Edwin D. Morgan, Commodore J. Adolph 
Mollenhauer, Clinton H. Crane, C. K. G. 
Billings Dr. W. Seward Webb, George C. 
Boldt, Clarence H. Mackay, Robert J. Collier, 
Edwin Gould, George J. Gould, E. H. Harri- 
man, James Speyer, Max C. Fleischmann, 
Harold J. Pratt, R. Lincoln Lippitt, James A. 
Blair, Jr., Elbridge T. Gerry, Walther Luttgen, 
J. H. Flagler, Morton F. Plant, Nicholas F. 
Palmer, E. E. Lorillard, J. E. Roosevelt, 
Lemuel E. Quigg, Percey Chubb, Walton 
Ferguson, Jr., Commodore Wilson Marshall, 
Colgate Hoyt, A. J. Drexel-Biddle, C. Oliver 
Iselin, William E. Iselin, Jefferson Seligman, 
R. A. C. Smith, Timothy L. Woodruff, Alfred 
H. Morris Henry R. Sutphen, Charles G. Gates, 
Frederick L. Ames, Harry A. Lozier. 
Yachting Fever in Hawaii. 
Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 19.—There is much 
interest in local yachting circles in a proposition 
to inaugurate a series of races with one-design 
yachts of small size. The design most discussed, 
and which in all probability will be adopted, is 
known as the “Sea Wren” pattern and is de¬ 
scribed as a remarkable little 14ft. craft, of 
marvelous sailing and sea-going qualities. 
One of these boats has already been ordered 
shipped in knock-down, and it is likely that not 
less than ten others will be built by local en¬ 
thusiasts. The little boats are estimated to cost 
not over $125 each. 
Will J. Cooler. 
History of the St. Marys. 
Capt. B. S. Osbon is now at work on a his¬ 
tory of the sloop of war St. Marys, which for 
a period of thirty-four years was used as a 
school ship in connection with the New York 
Board of Education. Since she was first com¬ 
missioned, 942 young men have graduated from 
“boys” to “able seamen,” and many of them 
are now holding responsible positions on vessels 
trading all over the world. Capt. Osbon has 
collected lots of interesting data about the old 
ship, going back as far as 1843, when the St. 
Marys was first commissioned. The book will 
be handsomely illustrated and will soon be 
published. 
CLOSE WORK AT THE STARTING LINE. 
SONDER CLASS GETTING AWAY. 
purchased by W. Ross Proctor and Virginia 
was kept by Mr. Vanderbilt until recently, but 
has been raced only during the first season, ex¬ 
cept for a race with Mmeola, when both yachts 
were manned altogether by amateurs. Addison 
G. Hanan sailed Mineola, and Virginia was 
sailed by her owner, assisted by J. Fred Tams 
and several members of the Seawanhaka Cor¬ 
inthian Y. C.. Mineola had a crew made up of 
members of the Indian Harbor Y. C., and she 
won the race. 
Motor Boat Troubles. 
Things are getting pretty well mixed in motor 
boat circles. The Automobile Club of America 
has just announced that it intends to put the 
sport on a good basis, and for that purpose is 
going to take charge of things. This will be 
the fourth organization that is going to run 
motor boating, and just how it is going to 
succeed will be something that will cause some 
trouble. 
There are now in the field in addition to the 
Automobile Club the Motor Boat Club of 
America, the American Power Boat Associa¬ 
tion and the Engine and Boat Builders’ As¬ 
sociation. The latter is a trade organization 
and has never been very strong, but it recently 
announced that it intended to try and straighten 
things out and had called a meeting of those in¬ 
terested in the sport to meet during the week 
of the Motor Boat Show next February. This 
call has not yet been taken very seriously by the 
amateurs who are hopeful that something will 
happen to put the sport on a proper plane. 
The Motor Boat Club of America holds the 
Harmsworth or British International trophy, 
and that trophy is all that keeps it alive. It is 
not a popular organization with yachtsmen be¬ 
cause it has been dominated largely by the trade 
element. It won the International trophy last 
year when Dixie went abroad, and it defended 
it successfully this year against Wolseley-Sid- 
deley and Daimler II. When that trophy was 
first offered, it was arranged that the Automo¬ 
bile Club of America should be the representa¬ 
tive body in this country, and that if any 
American wished to compete for the prize his 
entry would have to receive the sanction of that 
club, but the Automobile Club of America, after 
one year of motor boating, dropped the sport 
and transferred to the Motor Boat Club its in¬ 
terest in International affairs, making that club 
the representative one in this country. There 
is no denying the fact that the Motor Boat 
Club has failed in making itself representative, 
but just how the Automobile Club is to control 
that club or any other organization is rather 
difficult to understand. The Motor Boat Club 
holds the International trophy, and if any club 
wants to win it away, it will have to arrange a 
race with that club. 
The American Power Boat Asociation is com¬ 
posed of about 40 clubs devoted to yachting, 
and those clubs will certainly resent any new 
