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revive interest in long distance racing. While 
he was flag officer, several events were sailed 
over long courses. It was through the efforts 
of Commodore Tod that the race of 1905 across 
the ocean was arranged. Sir Thomas Lipton 
was induced to offer a cup for such a race, and 
while arrangements were being made, the Ger¬ 
man Emperor offered a prize through the New 
York Y. C. Two prizes for two races caused 
some trouble, and after a great deal of corres¬ 
pondence, Sir Thomas Lipton withdrew his cup 
and the Emperor donated his jointly to the New 
York and Atlantic clubs, and the race was a big 
success. 
Yachtsmen then said about five or six years 
should elapse before another ocean race was 
arranged, and in view of the prominent part 
that the Atlantic club has played in ocean rac¬ 
ing, it is proper that that organization should 
manage the next event. Horace E. Boucher is 
chairman of the regatta committee, and it was 
his idea to hold the race. He interested the 
members of the club so that a cup worth $5,000 
is to go to the winner, and another $5,000 has 
been promised to defray the expenses and pro¬ 
vide other prizes. Mr. Boucher visited Wash¬ 
ington last. week, and accompanied by Senator 
Depew. visited the President. Mr. Boucher ex¬ 
plained to the President the plans for the big 
race and President Taft agreed to stand sponsor 
for the trophy. 
The Atlantic club will appoint a special ocean 
race committee and one member of that com¬ 
mittee will go to Europe this summer to try and 
interest yachtsmen in the race. The plan now 
is to start the contest at some time that will 
suit the convenience of many, and when the 
yachts reach this side, to try and arrange some 
racing off Sandy Hook, some over long courses 
if so desired in which all can take part. There 
are manv yachts eligible for this race on this 
side of the Atlantic. Two American yachts, the 
schooner Westward, owned by A. S. Cochran, 
and a new ioo-foot yawl, to be built by Charles 
Lembcke, will be in European waters next spring 
ready.to come back, and it is hoped that other 
American yachts and several from the other side 
will be entered and so make the race even more 
successful than was the race for the Emperor’s 
cup in 1905. 
German American Match. 
The Eastern Y. C. has accepted the invitation 
of the Kaiserlicher Y. C. to send a team of 
three American sonder class yachts to Kiel in 
1911 to engage in an international race against 
German boats in Kiel week. As Kiel week 
falls in June, work of preparing for the match 
will begin on this side at once, and trial races 
will be held and the American team selected be¬ 
fore the close of the coming yachting season. 
This decisi^i was. reached at a meeting of 
present and prospective owners of sonder class 
boats, held in Boston, at which New York, Bos¬ 
ton, Philadelphia and other places were repre¬ 
sented. 
When arrangements were made for the inter¬ 
national sonder class match at Kiel in 1907, the 
Americans felt themselves unable to agree to a 
race in Kiel week, as they would not have time 
to build and try out boats in that year prior to 
the races. The match, therefore, was sailed in 
August, when there is practically no yachting at 
Kiel. 
In the present case this difficulty of the early 
date disappears, as the whole of the season of 
1910 will serve as tuning up time. The trials 
will be held late in the season, probably in Octo¬ 
ber, and the boats selected will be ready for 
shipment to Germany early in 1911. 
Prior to the public announcement of the pro¬ 
posed arrangements for the international match, 
the Eastern club was assured that a large num¬ 
ber of boats will be entered for the trials, not¬ 
withstanding that a pledge is expected by the 
club from each owner before entering his boat 
that he will be prepared to go to Germany should 
his boat be chosen for the American team. 
Among those .who have already assured the 
committee of their desire to enter the trials are: 
William H. Childs, of New York, owner of 
Joyette, which won the Taft cup in the inter¬ 
national match against the Germans last year 
off Marblehead; George C. Thomas, Jr., of the 
Philadelphia Corinthian Y. C., who is commo¬ 
dore of a club on Buzzard’s Bay, and will build 
a sonder boat for racing in that bay this season; 
Robert W. Emmons, 2d, of Boston, whose sloop 
Avenger cleared the board for two seasons un¬ 
der his ownership in the New York Y. C. races, 
and who has ordered a sonder boat from Herre- 
shoff; J. Lewis Stackpole, of Boston, who sailed 
Spokane in Germany in 1907; F. Lewis Clark, 
of Spokane, who is commodore of the Eastern 
Y. C., and about a dozen others. 
Before the trials for the German match can 
be held, however, an international race is to be 
sailed off Marblehead against a team of three 
sonder class boats from Spain. These will rep¬ 
resent the royal yacht clubs of Santander, San 
Sebastian and Bilbao, respectively. 
The King of Spain is the promoter on the 
Spanish side of this match. The Spanish boats 
are expected to arrive at Marblehead in August 
and the match will be sailed the first week in 
September. 
Trials for the Spanish match will be held off 
Marblehead about the middle of August and a 
fleet of not less than twenty boats is expected, 
from which will be selected the three represen¬ 
tatives to uphold the credit of America. 
The Eastern club invites American yachtsmen 
in. all parts of the country to participate in the 
trials for both these international matches, and 
it is the club’s desire to make the representation 
of boats on the team as broadly national as pos¬ 
sible. 
To manage these races the club has appointed 
an international sonder class committee consist¬ 
ing of F. Lewis Clark. Commodore, Chairman; 
Robert Treat Paine, 2d. Vice-Commodore; Her¬ 
bert Sears, Rear Commodore; Louis M. Clark, 
Charles Francis Adams, 2d, T. Lewis Stackpole 
and Henry Howard. Secretaries. To manage the 
Spanish race a Spanish-American race commit¬ 
tee has been anpointed, consisting of Henrv 
Howard, Chairman. Louis M. Clark and J. 
Lewis Stackpole. 
This committee will send circulars and all 
other reciuired data to any American yachtsman 
who mav wish to build for the sonder class. 
The rules are the same as last vear, the limit 
of cost for an American boat with two suits of 
sails being fixed at $2,400. 
To Rebuild Club House. 
Lynchburg, Va., March 8 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: A called meeting of the members of 
the Lynchburg Boat Club was held last night at 
the Y. M. C. A. with Major A. B. Percy pre¬ 
siding. 
. The meeting discussed fully all the available 
sites on which they could erect a club house to 
take the place of the one destroyed by fire last 
fall. It was decided to rebuild the club house 
at once on the James River about one hundred 
yards above the old site. It was left to the board 
of directors to secure plans and begin building 
the boat house right away. Secretary. 
Defender for Seawanhaka Cup. 
The Manchester Y. C. is to have a defender 
for the Seawanhaka challenge' cup for small 
boats. The Royal St. Lawrence Y. C. has chal¬ 
lenged and the races are to be sailed during 
the week beginning July 25. The new boat is 
for a syndicate of members of the Manchester 
club and is designed by E. A. Boardman, who 
designed the Manchester winner of the cup in 
1905. The new boat is building at Fenton and 
will be ready by June 1. The new boat is 40 
feet over-all, 8 feet 6 inches beam and will 
spread 625 square feet of canvas. She will have 
double bilge boards and double rudders. It was 
the intention of the members of the club to pur¬ 
chase Manchester I. which is now owned by a 
member of the Southern Y. C. and known as 
Seawanhaka. This would have cost consider¬ 
able money and is not thought to be necessary. 
The owner of Seawanhaka may. however, send 
his boat to Marblehead where it will be used 
as a trial boat. 
The Canadians are building two challengers 
which will be tried out at Marblehead. The 
conditions this year are somewhat different 
from those of former races. The sail area al¬ 
lowed has been increased from 500 to 625 square 
feet and the weight of the crews raised from 
665 pounds to 750 pounds. 
Races for Taft Cup. 
The dates have been fixed for the races for 
the Taft cup held by the Toledo Y. C. They 
will be sailed off Toledo on July 2, 3 and 4 and 
yachts enrolled in any club of the Interlake As¬ 
sociation are eligible. Each club is allowed to 
enter three boats and the committee in charge 
of these races think that there will be fifty en-. 
tries. Twelve boats are expected from the De¬ 
troit clubs and others are to be made from the 
Maumee, Fort Clinton, Tawas-Beach, Sandusky 
and Columbus clubs. 
The committee is planning to make July 4 the 
big day. On that day there will be the race for 
16-footers for Commodore George L. Craig’s 
cup, a catboat race for Commodore Richardson’s 
cup, and at the conclusion of the Taft cup series 
yachts of classes A and B will start in long dis¬ 
tance races. Class A yachts will compete for 
the Merrill B. Mills punch bowl now held by 
Commodore Jennings, of Detroit. Class B 
yachts will race for Gov. Harmon’s cup. The 
course for the Class A. yachts has not been 
selected, but it will be longer than usual. The 
Class B. yachts will be sailed from Toledo to 
Detroit River lights, to Put-in-Bay and then 
back to Toledo. 
Yachts Change Hands. 
B. B. Crowninshield, of Boston, reports the 
following sales: 
The 21-foot knockabout Holly II., sold by 
Warren Child to Dr. E. H. Nichols, of Boston. 
The 25-foot keel sloop Flirt, sold by F. E. 
Bond, of Philadelphia, to J. J. Henwood, of 
Boston. 
The 27-foot auxiliary yawl Mahdeena, sold by 
A. C. Needham, of Boston, to E. H. Pentecost, 
of England. 
The 84-foot steam yacht Philomena, sold by 
George F. West, of Portland, Me., to Jeremiah 
Campbell, of Boston. 
Motor 'Boating . 
Motor Boating on the Lakes. 
The Lakewood Y. C., of Cleveland, has made 
its plans for the season’s motor boat racing, and 
the schedule has been announced by M. H. Mof- 
fatt, chairman of the motor boat committee. 
Seven races have been arranged as follows: 
June 18—Club series for all classes. 
June 25—Club series for all classes. 
July 2—Morning, thirty miles, open lake cruis¬ 
ing race for the Martin cup for club boats in 
the cruiser class. 
July 2—Afternoon, open regatta, all classes. 
This event is open to all boats on the Great 
Lakes. 
Aug. 13—Club series for all classes. 
Aug. 20—Club series for all classes. 
Aug. 27—Club series for all classes. 
In addition there will be a speed boat race for 
the Speare trophy, for which the date has not 
been decided. A club cruise to Vermillion on 
Labor Day, which has been an annual event of 
the Lakewood club for several years, is also 
contemplated. 
The classification of the power boats will be 
similar to that of previous years. Class A will 
consist of power dinghys under 15 feet; Class 
P> takes in all open launches measuring 15 feet 
or more over all length ; Class C is cruisers under 
35 feet in length and Class E cruisers 35 feet 
and over, top measurement. Class F is made 
up of speed boats, which means any boat in the 
club capable of a speed of fifteen miles an hour 
or better, regardless of size or tvpe. Cruiser? 
