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[Jan. 22, 1910. 
end and the dog was grabbing the knot. The 
boom swinging back and forth with the breeze 
was continually jerking the rope from him 
and he was having great fun. After a short 
rest my friend shouted, “Let her go” and jump¬ 
ing aboard as I swung the craft off we started 
away merrily, gaining speed rapidly. Suddenly 
I heard a yell from the rear, but having had 
so many breakdowns my thoughts were, “What 
has broken now,” and casting my eyes ahead 
and aloft, could find nothing wrong, so I 
squared away a little harder and we gained 
more speed. Then came another yell, and after 
another hasty inspection I glanced astern. 
There was the dog who had made a frantic 
grab at the knotted rope as we moved away, 
trailing on the end of the rope. The speed we 
were traveling raised him from the ice about 
two feet, and whirling him around like a pin- 
wheel. I luffed up sharply, and the sudden slack¬ 
ing dropped Mr. Dog flat upon his back with 
a thump. He seemed dazed at first, but soon 
he shook himself free of the rope, and with a 
sniff, as if gaining his breath, picked out the 
nearest spot on the shore and started for it 
madly. I have seen many dogs run from all 
causes and conditions, but never will I forget 
the sight of that frightened canine bounding 
for the shore, • his tail sticking out almost in 
front of him, simply in slang terms “touching 
the high places.” 
Rex and I laid down on the ice and laughed 
ourselves almost sick as we watched the beast 
until he reached the shore and disappeared. 
These and many more amusing incidents, such 
as a novice trying to sail the craft, were always 
at hand and added to the zest of the sport. Yet 
in all my experiences none of us have ever 
been injured or hurt in any degree whatever, 
except the feelings and pride of the novice who 
was much laughed at for the troubles he found 
himself coping with. 
The poor novice, who perhaps can sail or 
steer a sailboat in the summer, thinks himself 
quite capable even the first time to steer and 
take care of the iceboat. But soon his feel¬ 
ings get a rude knock, as in going about too 
suddenly or from some other cause he finds 
himself rolling and sliding over the ice like 
a ball. 
It is not difficult, however, for the good boat 
sailer to soon learn the ways and tricks of the 
iceboat. A little quickness of thought and some 
good common sense will take care of the craft 
and keep her out of all trouble. Then the en : 
joyment of the sport begins and keeps up, and 
one does not grow tired of it. At least those 
are my sentiments. H. D. Newton. 
Scooter Men Ready to Race. 
The scooter men of the Great South Bay had 
expected to race last Saturday afternoon off 
Patchogue, but the heavy fall of snow put a 
stop to their sport for a time. The races were 
to have been under the auspices of the 
Patchogue Scooter Club, of which F. C. 
Thurber is commodore. There was to have 
been a match race between scooters sailed by 
Commodore Thurber and Charles Breckenridg'e 
for a stake og $500. Breckenridge is of the Blue 
Point Scooter Club. 4 here had been arranged 
a free-for-all for a challenge cup in which 
twenty-five starters would have gone to the 
line. The Blue Point Scooter Club was to have 
gone to Patchogue in a body and three inter¬ 
club races were to have been sailed. Thomas 
F. Gibbons, the chairman of the race commit¬ 
tee. will select another day as soon as the ice 
is in shape again. 
Nat Roe has a motor scooter that has at¬ 
tracted considerable attention on account of the 
speed it has shown. The hull is that of a 
regulation scooter 30 feet long and 4 feet beam. 
It has two runers of brass, 15 feet long. The 
motor is a 35-horsepower Fiat that is" highly 
geared and works on a tooth wheel about 3 feet 
n diameter, which grips the ice and forces the 
ho-'t along at a tremendous rate. 
It has made 75 miles an hour under favorable 
conditions, and Mr. Roe is contemplating mak¬ 
ing some changes that will give a speed of 
more than 100 miles an hour. A larger wheel 
and higher gear are to be used. When this 
scooter comes to a break in the ice it will 
shoot of its own momentum about 100 feet, and 
then slide out on the ice again and get away 
like a flash. 
A match race has been made with this motor 
scooter and one of the sailing craft. They are 
to sail one mile, turn and come back. This 
turn will give some advantage to the sail craft 
as the power boats has to slow up. 
Southeastern Long Island Association. 
The Yacht Racing Association of Southeast¬ 
ern Long Island held its annual meeting re¬ 
cently and elected officers for the year. The 
clubs in this association are the Shinnecock, 
Quantuck, Moriches, Ponquogue yacht clubs 
and the Westhampton Country Club. The re¬ 
ports of last season’s racing showed that the 
sport at the southeastern end of Long Island 
is in good condition, and the Westhampton 
Country Club members won all the champion¬ 
ships. These were: Class A A—Charles De 
Hart Brower’s Oranje; Class BB—Eugene 
Reynolds’ Joy; Class A—Theodore B. Sayre’s 
Sibly; Class B—Robert Gair, Jr., Moonbeam. 
The officers elected were: President, George 
P. Sanborn, 29 Wall street, N. Y.; Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, F. A. M. Burrell. 30 Ferry street, N. Y.; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Edgar A. Lynn, 141 
West 11th street, N. Y. The executive com¬ 
mittee is composed of two' members from each 
club in the association. These are: ' Moriches 
Y. C., Harry Growtage and John L. Havens; 
Westhampton Country Club yacht squadron, 
Foster Crampton and George P. Sanborn; 
Quantuck Y. C., F. A. M. Burrell and G. H. 
Barrett, Shinnecock Y. C.. Charles De Hart 
Brower and Thomas A. Howell; Ponquogue 
Country Club yacht squadron, William B. 
Growtage and Edgar A. Lynn. 
1 he three days’ regatta at Shinnecock was so 
successful last season that it was arranged that 
in addition to this three da^^s’ racing there 
should be a similar three days’ meeting at 
Westhampton ’and Shinnecock.’ The schedule 
of events for the season follows: 
July 4.—Shinnecock Y. C., club race. 
July 9.—Quantuck Y. C., club race. 
July 16.——YY esthampto.n C. C., race to Smith’s 
Point. 
July 23.—Moriches Y. C., club race. 
July 30.—Quantuck Y. C., club race. 
Aug. 6.—Quantuck \ . C., association regatta. 
Aug. 11, 12 and 13.—Shinnecock Y. C., asso¬ 
ciation regatta. 
Aug. 18. 19 and 20.—Moriches Y. C.. asso¬ 
ciation regatta. 
Aug. 25, 26 and 27.—Westhampton Country 
Club, association regatta. 
Sept. 3.—Ponquogue Y. C., association re¬ 
gatta. 
Corinthian Y. C. of Marblehead. 
The Corinthian Y. C., of Marblehead, held its 
annual meeting at the house of the Boston 
.Athletic Association last week. These officers 
were elected: Commodore, Harry H. Walker; 
Vice-Commodore, William P. Wharton; Rear- 
Commodore, Harold S. Wheelock; Secretary, 
Herbert S. Goodwin; Treasurer, Fred W. 
Moore; Measurer, Samuel H. Browne, Jr.; 
Executive Committee—Arthur K. Simpson and 
Everett Pain; Membership Committee—Perci- 
val H. Pope, Merrill _ Hunt, Harold K. Wead 
and Samuel W. Lewis; Regatta Committee-— 
V illiam L. Carlton, Lawrence F. Percival, 
George Upton, Benjamin C. Tower and George 
H. Mayo; House Committee, William IT. Joyce 
and Pierce L. Fish. 
The regatta committee’s report showed that 
last year was the best season in the history of 
the club. The total number of starters in the 
year was 716, and in the four days of the mid¬ 
summer series the total was 424, of which 130 
started on the first day. The club has pur¬ 
chased the Wallace property situated at the 
turn of the road that leads to the club house 
from Marblehead Neck. It is the intention or 
the club to widen this road and so make a 
much better entrance for carriages and auto¬ 
mobiles. At present the road is only about 
fifteen feet wide. When the improvements are 
made it will be ten feet wider. The grounds at 
the side of the house are to be enlarged by 
taking part of the land from the lot formerly 
the Dearborn property, which was purchased by 
the club last year. The Corinthian Y. C., of 
Marblehead is one of the most progressive 
in the country, and has done a great deal for 
small boat racing in Massachusetts waters. 
Former Commodore Her.ry A. Morss, of the 
Corinthian Y. C., recently returned from a long 
trip around the world, and has purchased the 
schooner yacht Vision from John Phillips 
Reynolds. Commodore Morss sold the Dervish 
last spring to Robert Toland, with which he 
twice won the race to Bermuda. Vision is 64 
feet 5 inches over all, 43 feet on the waterline, 
14 feet 4 inches beam and 4 feet 3 inches draft. 
She was built by Lawley in 1905 from designs 
by Fred Lawley. 
Bensonhurst Y. C. Meeting. 
The annual meeting of the Bensonhurst Y. 
C. was held last week. Frederic Thompson was 
elected commodore to succeed Commodore W. 
H. Childs, who has held office and worked hard 
for the club for several years. Commodore 
Thompson told the members of a scheme he 
had for inter-club racing, and that he had the 
support of Commodore Leonard Richards of 
the Larchmont Y. C. and Commodore Plazen 
Hoyt of the Manhasset Bay Y. C. It is prob¬ 
able, he said, that the Atlantic and Indian 
Harbor clubs would also join. The plan was to 
take some popular class, probably the Q class, 
and let each club be represented by one boat, 
and one race was to be sailed during the season 
off each club in the combination. Such races 
as these will do much to boom yacht racing. 
Commodore Thompson announced that he 
would offer $500 in prizes for power boat races, 
and Vice-Commodore Cochrane announced that 
he w r ould give $300 for races for sailing craft. 
Prizes were also offered by J. H. Ives, for an 
ocean race, and for club cruises, and by H. 
Leggatt and W. L. Inslee for club cruises. The 
election of officers resulted as follows: Com¬ 
modore, Frederic Thompson; Vice-Commodore, 
Samuel Cochrane; Rear Commodore, R. G. Le 
Sauvage; Secretary, W. W. Roberts; Treasurer, 
A. H. Hawkins; Measurer, Alfred Mackay. Re¬ 
gatta Committee—G. L. Beston, chairman; F. 
L. Billingham, IT. T. Lane, G. B. Waters. L. 
V under. Nominating Committee—J. H. Ives, 
chairman; R. W. Rummell, W. L. Inslee, A. h! 
Hawkins, H. Leggatt. Auditing Committee— 
Charles H. MacKrell, W. R. Sainsbury, 
Bertrand Alyea. Executive Board—R. W. 
Rummel, D. B. Steckle, Max Feldhaus, J L 
Mitchell, C. L. Atkinson, C. H. Clayton, H. A. 
Robbins, M B. Hoffman, Elbridge Alfred. Di¬ 
rectors H. D. Scribner, E. Zimmerman, 
Richard B. Moore. Delegates to Y. R. A. G. 
G. L. Beston, G. R. Le Sauvage. Delegates 
to American Power Boat Association—Walter 
M. Bieling, Frederick R. Smyth. 
Capt. John Barr to Race. 
Capt. John Barr, a son of Capt. John Barr, 
who sailed the cup challenger Thistle, and a 
nephew of Capt. Charles Barr, is to have charge 
of the 55-foot sloop building at Herreshoff’s for 
ex-Commodore Morton F. Plant. This new 
yacht wiil be in the class with Avenger, now 
owned by Vice-Commodore Harry L. Maxwell, 
and it is said a third vessel is to be built. Capt! 
John Barr has had lots of experience and has 
shown himself a clever skipper. He served as 
mate on the schooner Atlantic when that yacht 
won the race across the Atlantic in 1905. 
Com. James’ Appointments. 
Commodore Arthur Curtiss James, of the 
New York Y. C., has appointed Franklin A. 
Plummer, fleet captain and George A. Dixon, 
M:D., fleet surgeon. 
