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For 18ft. Championship. 
A. W. Finley, of Boston, owner of the crack 
18-footer Dorchen II., has extended an invita¬ 
tion to the Narragansett Bay Yacht Racing 
Association to send its best 18-foot craft to 
Marblehead next season to race against his 
craft. 
In all probability the local yachtsmen will ac¬ 
cept the invitation and select a craft to race 
Dorchen II. for the championship of the two 
sections. 
The Bay State yachtsmen have agreed to send 
a boat here the following year whether the 
Narragansett craft is successful in 1910 or not. 
This invitation will, it is thought, finally de¬ 
velop into a regular championship series be¬ 
tween the two sections, and will add zest to the 
meetings between the small boats which raced 
so successfully here last season. 
Hugi, owned by Porter Feary, captured the 
season’s championship here last year, but be¬ 
fore a boat is sent to race the Massachusetts 
craft a series of elimination trials will un¬ 
doubtedly be held. These trials would probably 
be' conducted the same as the Barnegat trials 
last year. 
In connection with these elimination trials, 
whether for the catboats or 18-footers, many 
yachtsmen are dissatisfied with the present sys¬ 
tem. They think when the trials are going on 
the other boats in their class should not be al¬ 
lowed to have races which count in the sea¬ 
son’s championship percentage. 
Last year while the catboats were racing in 
the elimination trials some of their rivals were 
sailing in races which counted in the final 
figures. Of course, the boats sailing for the 
honor of representing Narragansett bay at 
Barnegat were not competing and their per¬ 
centages suffered accordingly. The committee 
will probably take some steps to obviate this 
difficulty this year. 
Dorchen II., the Massachusetts Bay cham¬ 
pion 18-footer, is a fine craft and will make the 
local boats go very fast to beat her. Last year 
she went West and sailed against the Western 
champion, Boni Two. and defeated her, bring¬ 
ing back the Sumner H. Foster memorial 
trophy to Marblehead. 
Oliver E. Cromwell Dead. 
Oliver Eaton Cromwell, who was well 
known in yachting circles, not only on the At¬ 
lantic Coast, but on the Great Lakes and in 
Canadian waters, died last week at his home 
in Washington. He was in his 67th year, hav¬ 
ing been born in New York city on Oct. 6, 
1843. As a boy Mr. Cromwell was much in¬ 
terested in boat sailing, but his business in¬ 
terest often kept him away from his favorite 
,-sport. He spent several years at Albuquerque, 
N. M., where he had large business interests. 
His father, Charles Thorne Cromwell, was a 
■well known lawyer half a century ago, and was 
-a member of the New York Y. C. Mr. Crom¬ 
well joined that club in 1895, and for two years, 
1905-06, he was chairman of the regatta com¬ 
mittee. Just before that time he was presi¬ 
dent of the Yacht Racing Association of Long 
Island Sound, and he was largely instrumental 
in getting the New York Y. C. to take action 
that finally resulted in the adoption of the uni¬ 
form rule of measurement. He was known on 
the lake because he acted as umpire in some of 
the more important races sailed, particularly 
those for the Canada cup, and he officiated in 
a like capacity in some of the races for the 
Seawanhaka cup. He was vice-commodore and 
afterward commodore of the Seawanhaka Cor¬ 
inthian Y. C. Mr. Cromwell was a man who 
made many friends. He acted with rare judg¬ 
ment and carefully weighed everything before 
making his decisions on matters that came to 
him for judgment. 
Mr. Cromwell was a graduate of Columbia 
University. The Metropolitan, Union, St. 
Nicholas and other New York clubs, and the 
Metropolitan Club, of Washington, numbered 
Ihim among their members. 
Besides his widow, who was Miss Lucretia 
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Roberts, of Chicago, Mr. Cromwell is survived 
by three children—Miss Louise Cromwell and 
two sons, Mr. Oliver Eaton Cromwell and Mr. 
James Henry Cromwell. 
Boat for Havana Race. 
E. P. Charlton, of Fall River, Mass., has 
placed an order for a cruising power boat with 
the Greenwich Yacht Yard. This yacht is to 
take part in the power boat race from Phila¬ 
delphia to Havana next May. It has been 
designed by Whittlesey & Whittlesey, and the 
principal dimensions are 75 feet long, 14 feet 
beam, 11 feet depth and 5 feet draft. The new 
craft will be named Edamana. She will be 
equipped with two 50-horsepower Standard 
motors. 
Being intended for off-shore cruising the 
yacht will be very staunchly constructed. She 
will have outside ballast. The hatches, sky¬ 
lights, spars and rigging will be heavy enough 
to withstand any kind of weather the yacht is 
likely to meet. The deck fittings and the in¬ 
terior furnishings will be of African mahogany. 
She will be yawl rigged. 
The saloon will be amidships. Aft there is 
to be a guest’s stateroom fitted with two berths, 
and aft again will be the owner’s stateroom, the 
full width of the yacht. Forward of the saloon 
will be the galley. Then further forward will 
be the engine space, and the crew’s quarters 
will be in the bow. There will be. bulkheads 
between the crew’s quarters and the engine 
space, between the galley and the saloon and 
between the saloon and the quarters aft. There 
will be 7 feet headroom in the cabin. Three 
tanks for gasolene are to be part of the yacht’s 
equipment, and the capacity of fuel will give 
the yacht a cruising radius of 1,000 miles at 
three-quarters speed. Mr. Charlton expects to 
cruise in eastern waters as far as Nova Scotia 
in the summer and in southern waters in the 
winter. 
New Rochelle Y. C. Prosperous. 
The membership of the New Rochelle Y. C. 
has increased from 155 last April to 235 at the 
present time. After it has reached 250 by a 
provision of the constitution only yacht owners 
will be admitted to membership. The club now 
has a fleet of ninety-nine yachts, which is a very 
good proportion to the membership. The an¬ 
nual meeting and dinner of the club will be held 
at the Hotel Manhattan on Feb. 5. The treas-i 
urer’s report at that meeting will show that 
about $4,000 has been spent during the year in 
improving the club property, for repairs and in 
the settlement of all debts against the club. 
There is still a surplus of more than $500. On 
the present basis of membership the club next 
year will have an income which will leave 
about $3,000 over all the estimated expenses. 
Yonkers Y. C. Election. 
The annual meeting of the Yonkers Y. C. 
was held last week. The election of officers 
resulted as follows: Commodore, Louis C. 
Marran; Vice-Commodore, Charles E. Wigley; 
Fleet Captain, Ronald V. Cutts; Financial Sec¬ 
retary—John Stahl, Jr.; Corresponding Secre¬ 
tary, Henry A. Shafer; Recording Secretary, 
William A. Bright; Treasurer, Edward J. 
Linch; Measurer, Arthur C. Mason, Fleet 
Surgeon, George B. Holden, M.D.; Steward, 
Frank L. Conklin; Trustees—John M. B. Voss, 
Albert J. McLaughlin, Joseph E. Schafer, Geo. 
S. Thompson, and Thomas J. O’Shaughnessy. 
Old Mill Y. C. Officers. 
The newly elected officers of the Old Mill Y. 
C. are as follows: Commodore, William E. 
Powers; Vice-Commodore, Thomas King; Rear- 
Commodore, Albert Otto; Recording Secre¬ 
tary, Joseph Buehler; Corresponding Secretary, 
Arthur Baker; Financial Secretary, Hugo Byer; 
Measurer. Peter Nuhn; Trustees—Dr. G. A. 
Cooper, Harry Walker, David S. Van Wicklen, 
John Otto and William Hessler. 
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