FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Aug. 14, 1909. 
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First: The cup shall be known as the Presi¬ 
dent’s Cup. » 
Second: The title to the cup shall forthwith 
vest and remain in the Toledo Yacht Club. In 
case that club shall, for any reason, be dis¬ 
solved, the title to the cup shall then revert 
to me. Should the club holding the cup at any 
time be dissolved, it shall forthwith be returned 
to the Toledo Yacht Club. 
It is clearly to be understood that the cup 
is the property of the Toledo Yacht Club and 
not that of the owner or owners of the yacht 
winning it at any time. The yacht club in 
which the yacht winning the cup is enrolled 
shall, however, have the right to hold the cut) 
for the time and under the conditions herein¬ 
after mentioned. 
Third: There shall be three (3) days’ racing 
each year in July or August, under the sailing 
rules adopted and promulgated from time to 
time by the Toledo Yacht Club, over the 
courses selected by the Toledo Yacht Club, off 
the harbor of Tcledo. 
The first race shall be over an equilateral tri¬ 
angle, two (2) nautical miles to the leg, once 
around, making a total of six (6) nautical miles. 
The second race shall be to windward or lee¬ 
ward and return, three (3) nautical miles to the 
leg, once around, making a total of six (6) 
nautical miles. 
The third race shall be over a quadrangu!a r 
course of two (2) nautical miles to the leg, once 
around, making a total of eight (8) nautical 
miles. 
In case of the postponement of any race, the 
date for such race shall be fixed by the Race 
Committee of the Toledo Yacht Club. 
The yacht making the best record in the three 
(3) races, in accordance with the rules adopted 
and promulgated by the Race Committee of the 
Toledo Yacht Club, shall be declared the win¬ 
ner of the cup, and the club in which said yacht 
is enrolled shall have the right to hold the cup 
until the first day of June of the next following 
year, at which time it shall be delivered in good 
condition to the Toledo Yacht Club, the com¬ 
modore of the club holding the cup being re¬ 
sponsible for such delivery. 
In the event of two or more yachts making 
the same record in the three days’ races, the 
judges shall arrange for an additional race or 
races until the winner shall be selected, the 
course for such additional race or races to be 
fixed by the judges. 
Fourth: The commodore of the Toledo Yacht 
Club shall cause to be engraved in a suitable 
manner upon the cup each year, the name oi 
the winning yacht, the date of the race, and the 
name of the club in which said yacht is enrolled. 
Fifth: Any catboat built to conform to the 
catboat rules and restrictions adopted from 
time to time by the Interlake Yachting Associa¬ 
tion. regularly enrolled in any yacht club, be¬ 
longing to an association, which association is 
a member in good standing of the Yacht Rac 
ing Union of the Great Lakes, shall be entitled 
to compete for the cup, without time allowance; 
provided, notice of entry by filed with the Sec¬ 
retary of the Toledo Yacht Club not less than 
ten (10) days before the date fixed for the first 
race; and provided, further, that not more than 
three (3) entries shall be received from any one 
yacht club. 
Sixth: The Toledo Yacht Club shall, at its 
regular meeting in February in each year, fix 
the dates on which the next cup races shall be 
sailed, and the secretary of the club shall 
promptly notify the secretary of all yacht clubs, 
members of the associations comprising the 
Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes, of the 
dates so fixed. 
Seventh: The committee having in charge the 
President’s Cup Race shall furnish the club 
historian of the Toledo Yacht. Club a full ac¬ 
count in writing of each race._ the number and 
name of entries, velocity of wind, weather con¬ 
ditions, _ etc., which shall be recorded in the 
club’s history. 
In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set 
my hand at the White House, Washington, D. 
C., this 23d day of March, 1909. 
("Signed) Wm. H. Taft. 
The rules and restrictions adopted by the as¬ 
sociation to govern this class of yachts are: 
Boats of this class are intended to be of 
ordinary type, and any evasion in the shape 
of catamaran, double hulls, square or snub¬ 
nosed bow or other unusual type, or any boat 
fitted with bilge fins, bilge boards, double rud¬ 
ders, double center boards or other similar 
contrivances shall not be allowed. 
Rudders must be hung on a skeg or dead- 
wood which shall fill in the space on a straight 
line between the forward end of centerboard 
slot and the lower end of rudder post. The 
skeg must have a minimum width of four inches 
at forward end of centerboard slot and may be 
tapered to 1% inches at rudder post. No part 
of the rudder blade shall extend more than three 
inches below the skeg line. 
No point in hull shall be lower than the keel 
on the same cross section. 
II. . Rating Measurement. 
Boats shall not exceed 15 feet rating meas¬ 
urement, which shall be obtained as follows: 
Length Over All—)— Extreme Breadth=Rating 
2 Length. 
Provided that the length over all shall not 
exceed 22 feet, a minimum beam of 7 feet, and 
that the sail area shall not exceed 18 square 
feet for each foot of rating measurement. 
III. Freeboard. 
The minimum freeboard shall be 15 inches 
and the freeboard at the bow shall be at least 
25 inches. Freeboard shall be measured from 
the top side of covering board without crew 
aboard. 
IV. Breadth. 
Breadth shall be measured at the widest part, 
from outside to outside exclusive of rails or 
fender streaks. 
V. Centerboards. 
No metal centerboards over one-quarter inch 
thick shall be allowed and wooden boards shall 
not be ballasted more than enough to overcome 
flotation. 
VI. Sails and Running Rigging. 
Boats in this class shall be single cat rigged 
and there shall be no other sail allowed. Cot¬ 
ton sails and manilla or cotton halyards shall 
be used. 
VII. The measurer shall have a corrected sail 
plan of any boat to be measured, and shall cause 
distinguishing marks to be placed on the spars 
as follows: On the mast at the tack and at the 
throat of the mainsail; on the boom at the clew 
of the mainsail; on the .gaff at the peak of the 
mainsail. No part of the mainsail shall be al¬ 
lowed to extend beyond these marks. The 
marks shall be black bands painted around the 
spar. The inner edge of the band shall be the 
limit of the sail. 
VIII. Spars and Standing Rigging. 
The spars shall be solid, having one fixed 
shroud of cable on each side, and one fixed 
forestay of cable, and no other fixed or movable 
shroud or stay. 
IX. Equipment. 
Equipment to include anchor of not less than 
20 pounds, not less than 100 feet of five-eighths 
inch diameter rope. Also bucket, pump and 
two life preservers or life preserver cushions. 
X. Conditions. 
There shall be no time allowance between 
boats of this class, and no pot lead allowed on 
the hull. 
XI. Crew. 
The number of persons in the crew of each 
boat shall be two, who must be members of the 
entering club. 
XII. Existing Boats. 
Boats built under and conforming to the re¬ 
strictions of the I. L. Y. A. adopted December 
29, 1906, or any boats that have raced in the 
regatta of the Detroit Boat Club Yachtsmen, 
or in the I. L. Y. A. regatta in this class pre¬ 
vious to the adoption of these rules; provided 
they meet the sail restrictions, over all length 
figured at 22 feet (in case the boat exceeds this 
length in figuring the rating), shall be admitted 
in this class. 
XIII. Scantling. 
Stem, oak, sided at head. 2 in. 
Stern board, oak. 11/) j n 
Keel, oak, sectional area.10 in. 
Keel, oak, minimum thickness. v/ A j n 
Frames, oak, sectional area, sharpie.... 2]^ in. 
Frames, oak, sectional area, round bilge \ l / 2 in. 
Centerboard logs, minimum thickness.. i)4 j n . 
Frame spacing, centers.12 in. or equiv! 
Bilge stringer or chimepiece, oak, sec¬ 
tional area of each.2 sq. in. 
Floors, oak, sectional area. 2 sq. in. 
Deck beams, oak, sectional area.... 1 y 2 sq. in. 
Deck beams, spacing, centers..12 in. or equiv. 
Planking, single to finish full. 54 in. 
Decking full (}£ in. allowed for canvas) in. 
Rudder posts, metal, minimum diameter in. 
Coaming, minimum height.3 j n . 
Shelf or clamps, oak, sectional area.... 1 y 2 in. 
Deck around cockpit, minimum width 
20 in. on each side. 
Cockpit, maximum length.10 ft. 
Centerboard logs shall extend forward to over¬ 
lap the stem at least 24 inches and the ex¬ 
tension shall be at least 3 inches high. 
These rules not to be changed for five years. 
Canoeing. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Central Division.—Ross L. Thayer, 421 Fifth 
avenue; John F. Rainforth, care of Merchants 
Bank; Geo. Weaver, 908 Summit street; James 
A. Logan, Faucett place; William Knight, 1350 
Walnut street; Lewis W. Dravo and H. S. 
Dravo, both of 214 Ninth avenue; W. B. Patter¬ 
son, Jacob Helmstadter, Jr., 321 Fifth avenue; 
H. F. Snee, H. S. Arthur, Edward F. Joyce, 138 
Seventh avenue, all of McKeesport, Pa., and all 
by H. D. James. 
Eastern Division.—William E. Collins, 478 
Pine street. Providence, R. I., by S. B. 
Burnham. 
Northern Division.—Alex P. Read, 51 
Huntley street, Toronto, Ont., Canada, by J. 
W. Sparrow. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—5866, Joseph M. Reeder, 
Bordentown, N. J.; 5867, Herbert D. Betts, 819 
West street, Wilmington, Del.; 5868, William 
C. F. Cregin, 101 West 31st street, New York . 
city; 5869, Wm. M. Kester, Bordentown, N. J.; 
5870; Edwin M. Haas, Bordentown, N. J.; 
5872, Frank N. Thompson, Bordentown, N. J. 
Central Division.—5865, Wm. W. Wilson, 
New Brighton, Pa. 
Northern Division.—5871, J. Roaf Evans, 207 
Palmerston avenue, Toronto, Ont., Can. 
MEMBER DECEASED. 
Atlantic Division.—5256, James G. Simpson, 
1299 Shakespeare avenue, The Bronx, New 
York city. Samuel B. Burnham. 
Treasurer A. C. A. 
PLAGUE OF GYPSY MOTHS. 
A dispatch from Bourne, Mass., says the 
discovery of the largest colony of gypsy 
moths that has ever infested southeastern 
Massachusetts is reported by the Gypsy Moth 
Commission agents, near the main highway 
from Bourne to Falmouth, on the Buzzard’s 
Bay shore. Twenty-five acres of oak woods 
will have to be burned over to prevent a 
spread of the pest, which, it is said, already 
ruined a three-acre tract of fine trees. The 
work of burning the infested trees will be 
done on Monday, under the direction of For¬ 
ester Brad Wright. 
The moth workers report that in the in¬ 
fested section almost every twig and branch 
showed traces, and nests were found at the 
base of every decayed stump. Even the un¬ 
dergrowth looked as if it had been blighted by 
frost. 
