Corinthian Race, Philadelphia. 
The Corinthian Y. C., of Philadelphia, opened 
the racing season last Saturday with the first of 
a series of eight weekly raceabout contests. Five 
yachts started and the winner was W. S. Runk’s 
Typee II., a new yacht recently built from de¬ 
signs by Charles D. Mower. The course was 
from off the club’s pier, down the river to Buoy 
No. 2, off Eddystone, thence up the river to 
Buoy No. 6, off Bramell Point and return to 
starting point. The weather was clear with a 
strong southwest wind, which caused a lumpy 
sea. The tide was at ebb. The boats were sent 
off to a nearly perfect start, all crossing the line 
together. Typee shot across to the New Jersey 
side of the river, closeLy followed by Quakeress, 
while the other three yachts, close behind, sailed 
on the Tinicum side. Mr. Bancroft went aground 
off Schooner Ledge Light, after covering about 
a mile of the course. 
Typee II., W. S. Runk. 
8 uakeress II., W. F. Harrison 
rilse III., R. Toland . 
Tomboy, P. H. Barnes. 
Eleanor, A. F. Bancroft. 
Finish. Elapsed. 
4 10 20 1 40 20 
4 11 31 1 41 31 
4 13 20 1 43 29 
4 20 02 1 50 02 
Went aground. 
The other races, open to 21-foot raceabouts 
belonging to all organized yacht clubs, will be 
sailed as follows: Saturday, May 14; Saturday, 
May 21; Saturday, May 28; Saturday, June 4; 
Saturday, June 11; Saturday, June 18; Saturday, 
June 25. _ .... 
A prize will be awarded in each race in which 
two boats start with full intention of completing 
the course. A second prize, in which four or 
more start with like intention, and a third prize, 
in which seven or more start with like intention. 
A series prize, presented by Commodore E. W. 
Clark, is offered for the winner of the greatest 
number of points. Points to count as follows: 
In each race each boat competing will be credited 
with as many points as the number of boats she 
defeats, with one point added as a premium for 
sailing the race. A boat that starts and does not 
finish will receive no point, but will be counted 
as a defeated boat in crediting points to boats 
that complete the race. The award of points will 
be made each day on the basis of the largest 
■ number of boats starting on any day, it being 
assumed for the purpose of this competition that 
the number of boats starting is the same each 
day. 
The opening day of the club has been set for 
Saturday, May 28* when the organization’s fleet 
will go into commission. Commodore E. W. 
Clark will have charge of the ceremonies from 
his flagship, the schooner Irolita, assisted by 
Vice-Commodore C. H. Clark, Jr., in the 
schooner Savarona, and Rear-Commodore Rob¬ 
ert Toland in the Dervish. There are about 
forty yachts of various kinds at the anchorage 
at the present time. 
Crescent A. C. Dinner. 
The yachting members of the Crescent A. C., 
of Brooklyn, always dine together at this season 
of the year. They think that meeting just before 
the opening of the season enables them to be¬ 
come better acquainted, and they enter into the 
sport with much more kindly feelings toward 
each other than if fhey met as strangers. To 
further carry out this idea they invite members 
of any of the clubs in the Gravesend Bay Asso¬ 
ciation to take part in the dinner, and this year 
about thirty ardent yachtsmen gathered in the 
Crescent house last Saturday night. Among 
them were: President Charles J. McDermott, 
Commodore Francis M. Wilson, Rear-Commo¬ 
dore H. L. Langhaar, Fleet Captain Walter H. 
Sykes, Ainslev Oakley. Oakley Wood, Benjamin 
A. Keiley, E. J. Williams, Judge R. F. Wilkin, 
E Lownes Rhett, George T. Stebbins, Charles 
A. Kelly, of the Crescent Club, Vice-Commodore 
Samuel Cochrane, Richard Rummell, George 
Beston, J. L. Mitchell, H. Leggett, of the Ben- 
sonhurst Y. C., Louis S. Tiemann and C. Piatt, 
of the New York C. C.; C. M. Camp, of the 
Marine & Field Club; President G. R. Le Sau- 
vage, of the Gravesend Bay Association, and 
Horace E. Boucher and Kenneth Lord, of the 
Atlantic Y. C. 
During the evening prizes won in the last races 
of the Crescent Club were distributed and there 
was a pleasing interchange of views and some 
talk of the sport of the coming season. The 
chairman of the regatta committee announced 
that the Marblehead race would this year be 
started by the Corinthian Club at Marblehead 
on July 16, and the finish would be off the Bay 
Ridge house. The first prize has been presented 
by Commodore Wilson. The commodore has 
also offered a cup for the championship of 
Gravesend Bay which is open to yachts of all 
classes and will be sailed for in September. Sir 
Thomas Lipton has presented the Crescent Club 
with a valuable cup which is offered as a chal¬ 
lenge trophy for sloops of Class S. Three races 
will be sailed this year on Aug. 31, Sept. 1 and 2. 
Pacific Coast Yachting. 
San Francisco, Cal., May 4. —Fulton G. Berry, 
one of the most widely known men of Cali¬ 
fornia, and an enthusiastic and true sportsman, 
died at his home in Fresno at the age of 79 
years, from heart disease. For the past two 
years Mr. Berry has been ill with heart trouble 
and had been forced against his wishes to give 
up his favorite sport. Berry was a native of 
Bangor, Me., and came to California at the 
age of seventeen to work in the mines. Later 
he came to San Francisco and assisted in ex¬ 
cavating for the Palace Hotel. He then be¬ 
came a real estate dealer and stock broker and 
later a hotel man. For many years past he has 
been an enthusiastic yachtsman and was a mem¬ 
ber of the Corinthian Club. His yacht, Nixie, 
was a well known craft on San Francisco Bay 
and was kept in commission winter and sum¬ 
mer. For the past six years yachting has been 
Mr. Berry’s chief recreation, and up to the time 
his doctors advised him to give it up, he spent 
much of his time on the water. When he sold 
his yacht, he offered to make a reduction in 
price if it would be purchased by a member of 
the Corinthian Y. C., showing his loyalty to 
that organization. Among the local yachtsmen 
he was usually referred to as “Commodore 
Berry, of the Fresno Y. C.” This title was 
acquired when he was in the East witnessing 
the launching of the Reliance. An Eastern re¬ 
porter asked him where he was from, and he 
gave, Fresno as his home. The paper next 
morning included among the guests at the 
launching the name of Fulton G. Berry, of the 
Fresno Y. C., a title which has stuck ever since. 
The California Y. C. has made public its pro¬ 
gram for the season as follows: Opening day, 
May 8, with a clam dinner at the club house; 
annual class flag regatta, May 15; cruise to 
Marin Islands, May 21; port captains’ day, 
June 11; annual high jinks, July 3; race for 25- 
foot boats, followed by a clam bake, July 17; 
race for the Wallace trophy, July 31; cruise to 
San Quentin, Aug. 6; the boats will assemble at 
California Cove in squadrons. Sept. 3, and a 
week’s cruise on the Sacramento River will 
follow. The closing day will be Oct. 29. 
The South Bay Y. C., which makes its head¬ 
quarters at Alviso, has prepared the following 
schedule for the coming season: Opening day, 
May 8, with entertainment and clam bake; 
cruise to drawbridge. May 22; overnight cruise 
to Redwood, May 28, 29 and 30; handicap launch 
race, June 19; ladies’ day, July 17; regatta for 
launches, July 31; night in Venice, Aug. 19; 
cruise to Redwood City Creek, to meet Cor¬ 
inthian Club, Aug. 27 and 28; cruise to San 
Francisco, Sept. 4-11; ladies’ day, Sept. 25; 
closing day, Oct. 9. 
Although it has not been decided, it is con¬ 
sidered probable that the trans-Pacific race will 
start again from San Pedro instead of from San 
Francisco, as many sportsmen would like to 
see it. The Hawaiians consider that they are 
more or less bound to the southerners, on ac¬ 
count of their having stepped in and taken up 
the race in 1906, when the great fire made it 
impossible to start the event from San Fran¬ 
cisco as was planned. A special commitee of 
Hawaiian yachtsmen has been appointed by the 
Hawaii Y. C. to manage the event from that 
end, this committee consisting of L. M. Vettle- 
sen,’ H. D. Bowen and George Smithies, and it 
will rest with these as to where the race shall 
commence. Word has been received from Lloyd 
Johnson, of Seattle stating that the Gwendolyn 
II. would be ready to start on the appointed 
date. This yacht has a waterline of less than 
40 feet, but made a great record for herself by 
coming in second in the race of 1908 and was 
beaten by a few hours only by the schooner 
yacht Lurline, which has won the race both 
times. Under the new rules that have been 
adopted the little yawl has an excellent chance 
of winning the race, as she will receive an 
added handicap. 
The yawl which is being built by Stone and 
Van Bergen at the Harbor View Yard for F. 
B. Smith, has been named Mollilou. This boat 
is to be taken to the Hawaiian Islands when 
completed. 
Truant, belonging to John W. Pew, is being 
thoroughly overhauled at Harbor View, and a 
new jiggermast placed in position. Many other 
boats are now on the ways, and if weather con¬ 
ditions are satisfactory, some fast racing should 
take place on the bay this season. 
Commends Ocean Race. 
It is gratifying to those who are promoting 
the ocean race for the President Taft cup to find 
that they have one champion among the yacht¬ 
ing publications across the water. 1 he Yachts¬ 
man just to hand says: ' 
■ “If the Atlantic Y. C. should succeed (as we 
hope it will) in its attempt to arrange an ocean 
race from the Lizard to Sandy Hook lightship, 
the result will assuredly be -of great interest. 
The proposal has, however, met with a some¬ 
what chilly press response in this country on 
sundry grounds, and it is interesting to recall 
some of them: Admiral the Hon. Victor 
Montagu says (and the Field agrees with him) 
that our 23-metre yachts are unfit to race in an 
ocean match of this description, (1) because 
members of the crew are liable to be washed 
overboard, (2) because these yachts are so 
shaped that they cannot lay-to in an Atlantic 
gale, and (3) they are so greatly over-sparred 
as to be unfit for ocean racing. . „ 
“This is all very true, but the Atlantic Y. L. 
has not yet asked that any 23-metre yacht 
should compete in its projected ocean race. If 
the owner of one of the 23-metre yachts has 
sufficient faith in his vessel he will do well to 
enter in this race—not of necessity under the 
huge cutter rig in which she is wont to sail in 
home waters. We see no reason why a 23- 
metre yacht should fail to negotiate the wild 
Atlantic from east to west in better form (and 
in perfect safety) than most of the yachts en¬ 
gaged in the last trans-Atlantic race from west 
to east. No sailor would ‘sign on’ for a race of 
this description unless he felt assured that, 
though he might lose the race, he would not 
lose his life. He need not ‘sign on’ but. once 
he does, he may be depended upon to take all 
