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converted into an auxiliary, and will be im¬ 
mediately fitted out for a cruise to the West 
Indies. 
The 31-foot rater Mavourneen, sold by 
George Lee, of Boston, to E. M. Mills, of 
Chicago. The yacht will be shipped west short¬ 
ly and will be raced by Mr. Mills on Lake 
Michigan. 
The New York 30-footer Minx, sold by W. 
H. Childs to William F. Pell, of New York. 
The S Class boat Bensonhurst, sold by W. H. 
Childs to Rowland Smith, who will race her on 
the Sound next season. 
An order has also been placed by Mr. William 
H. Briggs, of Rochester, N. Y., for a 70-foot 
gasolene cruiser from the designs of Mr. 
Morgan Barney, to be built by the Eastern 
Shipyard Company, of Greenport, L. I. 
Transfers by Tams, Lemoine & Crane: 
The steam yacht Norman has been chartered 
to C. K. G. Billings, N. Y. Y. C., for Willis G. 
McCormick, of the same club. Mr. Billings 
will use the Norman at Tampico and in the 
Gulf of Mexico, where there is good fishing. 
Narragansett Bay Schedule. 
The schedule, committee of the Narragansett 
Bay Yacht Racing Association has adopted the 
following schedule for the coming season: 
Tuesday, May 30, off Fall River—Fall River 
Y. C., regatta for all classes. 
Saturday, June 3, off Edgewood—Edgewood 
Y. C., regatta for all classes. 
Saturday, June 10, off East Greenwich—East 
Greenwich Y. C., regatta for all classes. 
Saturday, June 17, off Pawtuxet—Rhode 
Island Y. C., regatta for all classes; ladies’ day. 
Saturday, June 24, off Bristol—Bristol Y. C., 
regatta for all classes. 
Saturday, July 1, off Washington Park— 
Washington Park Y. C., regatta for all classes. 
Tuesday, July 4, off Edgewood—Edgewood 
Y. C., special race for classes P-Q as one class; 
special race for classes D-E as one class; race 
for class I. 
Saturday, July 8, off Edgewood—Edgewood 
Y. C., special race for classes P-Q as one class; 
special race for classes D-E as one class; race 
for class I. 
Saturday, July 15—Open date. 
Saturday, July 22, off Fall River—Weetamoe 
Y. C., races for classes D, E, I, X and power 
boats. 
Saturday, July 29, about off Bristol—Bristol 
Y. C. ocean race. 
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 
July 31, Aug. 1, 2 and 3, off Conanicut gas buoy 
—Series of races between representatives of 
Massachusetts Bay 18-Foot Knockabout Asso¬ 
ciation and Narragansett Bay 18-Foot Knock¬ 
about Association; races to be handled by Edge- 
wood Y. C. 
RACE WEEK. 
The association offers a prize plaque for the 
yacht in each of the classes making the best 
showing during race week. “Rule XIX., 
Prizes and Percentages,” will govern the award. 
A yacht starting in less than five races during 
the race week will not be entitled to one of 
these association plaques. 
Saturday, Aug. 5, off Edgewood—Edgewood 
Y. C., regatta for all classes. 
Monday, Aug. 7, off Jamestown—Conanicut 
Y. C., regatta for all classes. 
Tuesday, Aug. 8, off Potter’s Cove—Rhode 
Island Y. C., regatta for all classes. 
Wednesday, Aug. 9, off Fall River—King 
Philip Y. C., regatta for all classes. 
Thursday, Aug. 10, off Fall River—Fall River 
Y. C., regatta for all classes. 
Friday, Aug. ir, off Newport—Newport Y. 
C., regatta for all classes. 
Saturday, Aug. 12, off Bristol—Bristol Y. C., 
regatta for all classes (end of race week). 
1. Saturday, Aug. 19, off Edgewood—Edge- 
wood Y. C., special races for classes P-Q as 
one class, special races for classes D-E as one 
class, race for class I. 
2. Saturday, Aug. 19, off Dighton, Mass.— 
Taunton Y. C., races for classes S, X, Z, C, W 
and power boats. 
Saturday, Aug. 26—Open date. 
Saturday, Sept. 2, off Bristol—Bristol Y. C. 
regatta for all classes. 
Monday, Sept. 4, off Edgewood—Edgewood 
Y. C., races for classes Q and I. 
Saturday, Sept. 9, off East Greenwich—East 
Greenwich Y. C., races for classes D, E, I and 
W. 
Saturday, Sept. 16—Open date. 
The races counting for the championship in 
the respective classes will be announced later 
by the executive committee. 
Yachting out West. 
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 27.—Editor Forest 
and, Stream: While no yachting is now being 
enjoyed on San Francisco Bay, except by a few 
enthusiasts who refuse to lay up their craft for 
the winter months, some of the clubs are hav¬ 
ing an enjoyable season of entertainments, and 
meetings are being held as regularly as in the 
summer time. The Indoor Y. C., an associa¬ 
tion of San Francisco sportsmen which has 
adopted the name, manners and customs of a 
yacht club, attracted considerable attention re¬ 
cently by taking an extended cruise, but this, 
instead of being around the bay, was to the 
high sierras, where the indoor yachtmen had 
the time of their lives reveling in the snow. In 
former years trips have been made to Yosemite 
Valley and Truckee, but this season it was de¬ 
cided to visit Portola, on the line of the West¬ 
ern Pacific Railroad recently completed. How¬ 
ever, the party was unable to reach the new 
Plumas county town, for a big landslide was 
encountered at Belden and the festivities were 
held there. The night was spent in the sierras 
and the return to San Francisco made next day, 
after a stop at Oroville. The possibilities of 
the country, however, were apparent to many 
who had never entered the Feather River coun¬ 
try before, and next season many will make the 
trip there again at a time when game and fish 
can be secured. 
J. D. Thomas, of Seattle, is having built for 
him, after the designs of Ted Geary, a fine new 
racing craft to be known as Spirit III., and it 
is anticipated that this yacht will prove to be 
one of the fastest on the coast. The yacht will 
be used in the International race off Victoria 
next July, and if she is successful in this race, 
as is thought likely, she will be brought south 
and raced against tbe crack craft of San Fran¬ 
cisco and San Pedro clubs. The new boat will 
be of staunch construction for sailing under 
the universal rules, and when completed will be 
seaworthy enough to be able to engage in the 
California to Hawaii race. While efforts will 
be made to get the best speed possible out of 
Spirit III., the elements of comfort and utility 
have not been overlooked, features that are fast 
becoming paramount to the builders of new 
boats on the coast. A. P. B. 
Motor Boating. 
Echoes from the Motor Boat 1 Show. 
A motor boat enthusiast visited the recent 
show intent on buying the best marine motor 
in the market for his new craft. He spent sev¬ 
eral days at the exhibition and then announced 
to a friend, “I have bought the second best 
motor in the country.” 
“What on earth do you mean by that?” asked 
the friend. 
“Just what I say, and I have the backing of 
five big manufacturers that I am right. When 
I visited the show I had in my mind the five 
best motors made. I visited each exhibit, and 
announcing that I wished to buy a motor, I 
always found the head man ready to pay me 
some attention. He carefully explained to me 
the attractive features of his own motor and 
proved conclusively that his motor was the best 
in the country. After telling him that I would 
not decide without some deliberation, I inno¬ 
cently asked what he considered the second 
best. 
“ ‘Why, there is quite a gap between ours and 
the next best, but I should say the Black, Blank 
Motor comes next.’ 
“This operation I repeated at the five dif¬ 
ferent exhibits. I found they all agreed on the 
second best, and so I purchased one of that 
make.” 
It is sometimes dangerous to make exag¬ 
gerated statements as the following incident, 
which occurred at the motor boat exhibit, 
shows. Among the many boats exhibited by 
one concern was one on which a sign read “28 
feet long; 4 feet beam; 12 H.P.; 20 miles an 
hour.” Another sign also told that with a 30- 
horsepower motor 35 miles could be had. Two 
men were leaning against the boat, discussing 
things generally, and one remarked, “Now that 
statement of speed is -absolutely false.” 
“That statement is absolutely true,” said a 
third man who had not been noticed, and who 
happened to be connected with the building 
firm. 
“All right,” replied the accuser, “we’ll admit 
it is true. Then you have a world beater and 
don’t know it. Several boats are being built 
for the British International race. They are 
40 feet long, have 600 to 900 horsepower motors 
and their builders will be delighted with 35 to 
40 miles an hour speed. If you can get 35 
miles with a 30-horsepower, in a 28-foot boat 
you have every other builder and designer in 
the world beaten and you don’t know it.” 
The builder admitted he was beaten. Does 
such advertising pay? 
The claims of two builders caused quite some 
fun during the show, and there is every likeli¬ 
hood of a fine race being arranged. Peter Pan 
111., is a runabout 28 feet long fitted with a 40- 
horsepower A. B. motor. Edith II. is a yacht 
tender of the express type equipped with a 
motor of the same type and power as that of 
Peter Pan. James Simpson, of the Reliance 
Company, owns Peter Pan III. and A. E. Smith 
owns Edith II., which was built by the Electric 
Launch Co. Under the old rule of measure¬ 
ment Peter Pan III. had to allow time to Edith 
11., and although Peter Pan III, made faster 
time, Edith II. won the cups. The Edith people 
asserted that their boat held the record in the 
race to Poughkeepsie and back, which caused 
Mr. Simpson to get out what was called “a 
red pepper” circular in reply. This showed that 
Peter Pan III., boat for boat, was faster than 
Edith II., but he conceded that Edith had the 
cups. This year the rule has been changed. 
Boats are to be measured and weighed, and 
there will be less opportunities of builders turn¬ 
ing out craft designed to get in under extremely 
favorable conditions, and the meeting of these 
two will be watched with much interest. Mr. 
Simpson^ says he is willing to race Peter Pan 
III. against Edith II. over a course from 25 
to 100 miles in length. If the course is 25 miles 
he will allow Edith 3 minutes and if over that 
distance Peter Pan will allow Edith II. a mile 
in every 25 raced. 
The four-cycle is growing more popular each 
season. It has many advantages over a two- 
cycle motor, but of course is much more ex¬ 
pensive and much heavier. One manufacturer 
said, “If we find that a prospective customer 
has used a four-cycle we won’t talk two-cycle 
to him at all.” Another said, “We make a two- 
cycle motor, but only sell it when we have to. 
We don’t advertise it, and we don’t show it.” 
The four-cycle motor will last longer than one 
of the two-cycle type. It will do more work 
and do it with more economy. A good two- 
cycle motor uses at least a pint of gasolene per 
horsepower hour. The Ralaco motor, one 
shown at the exhibition, is guaranteed by the 
builders not to use more than a tenth of a 
gallon per horsepower hour. There is a sav¬ 
ing in cost of running and weight carrying, as a 
smaller tank can be fitted. 
James Young, the treasurer of Madison 
Square Garden, said that the Motor Boat Show 
